VILLAINS AND ALIENS VISITS


The embracing desert sun was at its peak, it was almost the middle of the day and the sky was without a trace of clouds.

Despite this, a group of people was working in the place, these people were mostly humans, but there were also monster-like beings present in the place. All of them were dressed in attire similar to futuristic black and white armor.

They were the Plumbers, an organization that was in charge of ensuring the safety of the entire galaxy, in other words, they were space cops.

All of them were mostly cadets, except for a few who held a higher rank and were shouting orders. The place was in chaos, some were running around, carrying boxes or moving tools, while others were doing surveillance rounds around a huge charred crater.

On a work table full of plans and with several glasses scattered around the place were two small frog-like beings, one of them had the same attire as the cadets, only, adapted to their size, while the other was wearing overalls, also adapted to their small size.

These little beings were Galvans, one of the most intelligent species in the galaxy, and perhaps in the universe. They were geniuses and were the creator race of the Mechamorhps some stellar cycles ago. In addition to this, the Galvans were well known for being incredible spies. Given their small size and total lack of physical strength, all species had the hubris to underestimate them, capturing them as pets and training them to be spies, sending them to steal information from the races with which their owners had conflicts. Being much more intelligent than their captors, the Galvans took the opportunity to steal many pieces of technology from different races and assimilate them, and little by little they formed their secret empire.

Actuality, they were revered as absolute geniuses and always tried to help other races to develop, as long as they were peaceful and non-warlike sciences.

But in every race of geniuses, some are not so smart.

"I told you we should reverse the polarity of the battery to avoid a slip-space rupture!" exclaimed the plumper, smaller Galvan. "Because of you, we disintegrated the greatest hero in the universe! And more importantly, the Omnitrix! Azmuth is going to kill us!"

His partner, the taller of the two, folded his arms and turned his back on his colleague, causing him to become even more upset.

"Don't blame me, I reverse those wires." He defended himself.

"No, you didn't!" replied his partner.

"Yes, I did!"

"No, you didn't!"

While they were arguing, some cadets standing nearby looked at them with an expression of complete disappointment.

Behind a group of reinforced steel boxes stood that man in the black suit who could manipulate time.

He arrived at that place following the trail of a space-time distortion, he had been hidden for a few minutes, listening, gathering as much information as possible before making his move.

"So, the frogs killed my counterpart?" he muttered. Although that was a possibility, the rift between dimensions he could see in the center of that crater told him otherwise, his counterpart had not been subatomically disintegrated, rather, he was thrown out of that reality.

His luck would never be so good that the pain in his side would go away so easily.

The man turned away from the boxes and began to walk away, he had heard enough, he could get an idea of what was going on, now he just had to think of a way to use the situation to his advantage.

An opportunity like this had to be seized while it existed, the rift in reality, though hidden from the eyes of those who were unable to detect them, remained there, but it was gradually closing, when it closed completely, he would no longer be able to open it again. Not without recreating the events that unleashed it in the first place, but such a singularity was too difficult to replicate.

The pros and cons of such a situation were too many. For example, there was the possibility that on the other side of that crack in the fabric of space-time there was a universe with laws very different from that one, it could all be composed of antimatter, or perhaps the universe was just in its first cycles. He had to be careful, especially if his counterpart was there.

"Goddamn, it's hot." A male voice was heard nearby, forcing the man to move and hide around the place.

Shortly thereafter, two humans appeared, a man and a woman, both Plumbers cadets who were doing perimeter patrols.

"This is the fifth time you've repeated it." Replied his companion. "Cut it out or I'll shoot you."

"I wouldn't complain if I were somewhere else, like at the base, at least there's air conditioning there."

"And a lot of paperwork." Added the woman. "Honestly I'd rather be here, at least I don't have to put up with Fistrick and his bad attempts at flirting."

"I remember that, you punched him through his cell last time, you were banned from returning to the containment area for that." Commented his partner with amusement.

The woman looked at him in annoyance and they both continued on their way, unaware that the traveler heard them.

"If I want to do anything, I need to wipe out some pests first." Clearing the area of all those cadets would make things a lot easier for him, and he knew a quick way to do it that would reduce the need for him to fight to a minimum.


The subway headquarters of the Plumbers was a place where only someone with the right skills could manage to Infiltrate, not many were capable of such a feat, attempting something like that would be suicide for a normal person.

Fortunately, the time traveler was no ordinary person.

The man walked the corridors calmly, his trench coat flapping with every step, giving him an aura of elegance, but at the same time a sinister look.

He did not bother to destroy the security cameras that were in place, he was strong, strong enough to advance calmly straight into the wolf's mouth.

Attention all Plumbers, an intruder has been detected heading towards the prisoner containment area. It has not been possible to identify this person, proceed with full caution.

Hearing those words over the loudspeakers signaled to the man that his plan was working, he wanted to get attention and he had succeeded.

It didn't take him long to reach the Prison area, the place possessed a tube-like shape that descended into the depths of the earth, perhaps another sixty meters. He stopped when he reached a security railing and scanned the place with his eyes. A few armed guards were scurrying to their fighting positions, nothing difficult to overcome, but if possible, he preferred to keep the fighting to a minimum. Not because he did not wish to stain his hands with blood, but because it was better to save his energies for what was to come.

"Let's see." The man headed towards a cell, this one had a reinforced glass mechanized door, getting through that thing with a gun or brute force was practically impossible, but he had some methods to get past security. "Just what the doctor prescribed." He said, joking about the person inside that cell.

A man in his sixties was there. His skin was pale yellow as if he was suffering from some kind of disease or something like that. The top of his head had been replaced by a crystalline dome that exposed the old man's brain. He recognized him, after all, a long time ago, he had met the alternate version of the man. A brilliant but quite deranged scientist.

And the perfect scapegoat for his plans.

That man had not noticed her presence yet, he was more focused on making strange chimera animal crafts, so he had to knock on the glass to get his attention.

"Greetings my dear Doctor." Being a person with a mind as brilliant as it was evil, he possessed the skills necessary to talk to people like that man and coerce them to be on his side. Just be respectful, polite, and flatter his ego a bit.

At the sound of the voice, the prisoner stopped what he was doing and turned his face, meeting the sinister man.

"Do I know you?" The villain asked from his cell, arching an eyebrow at the sinister figure speaking to him.

"No, but I know you. You are Aloysius James Animo, a brilliant geneticist who unfairly did not receive the merit he deserved." Those sweetened words surprised the prisoner. The sinister man smirked as he saw Animo fall for the bait and approached the entrance to the cell.

"I'm not against my admirers visiting me, but this is the first time someone has done so." Animo tried to analyze the man in the black suit, that face behind the crystalline visor was vaguely familiar, but he failed to recognize him. "Who are you?"

"Where are my manners?" With a smile and making use of exaggerated dramatics, the man in black bowed to the prisoner. "I am Eon, a humble time traveler."

Animo arched an eyebrow, it wasn't his first time dealing with eccentric freaks, but something about that guy was giving him the creeps.

"I guess you're the one who's made everyone so uptight." Eon didn't respond, he simply folded his hands behind his back and gave her a condescending smile. "It's obvious you're not here for a visit, what do you want?"

"As a scientist, I'm sure you've heard about alternate dimensions, right?" doctor Animo nodded, even though his field was not theoretical physics he was aware that such theories existed. "I won't go into unnecessary details, so I'll cut to the chase, follow me and I'll get you out of this cell."

"Excuse me?" Animo was puzzled for a few seconds and then began to laugh loudly. Eon was unaffected by this laughter, he remained impassive and waited for the man to regain his composure. "Geez, you are crazy."

"Do you doubt me?" asked Eon, pretending to be offended. "Please Doctor, couldn't you use some faith?"

Animo kept silent and went back to analyzing this strange fellow. Being a very intelligent man who had done many bad things, both alone and in the company of other villains, he had learned to spot lunatics who had a lot of power, these usually acted in a different way from him who was a B-class villain-according to the Plumbers' records. This man, Eon, everything around him was strange and a sense of constant danger seemed to radiate from him.

"Let's say I accept, how will you get me out of here? We're about thirty meters underground, in the most secure military base on this planet."

"I was hoping you would ask that question." Eon's answer confused Doctor Animo, he wasn't sure what he was trying to say, but before he could respond, a male voice was heard.

"You! Put your hands up and step away from the containment cell!" a reptilian-like humanoid had approached, this humanoid was wearing Plumbers armor and was carrying some sort of high-tech rifle in his hands.

"Just in time," Eon commented upon seeing the alien.

"This is Agent Kal, I have found the suspect of the security breach, he is on the third floor of the cells, he appears to be talking to Doctor Animo." He said through his communicator.

Eon cleared his throat, again catching the attention of the villainous geneticist, who looked at him, confused at the lack of any sign of concern for his situation.

"In two minutes this floor will be infested with these nuisances, make your decision, the clock is ticking." Doctor Animo was a little surprised at the ultimatum he was given. His mind evaluated all the possibilities, should he take a chance, was it wise to follow this stranger who claimed to be a time traveler? "Tick tock." Eon insisted, pointing to his left wrist as if he had a watch there.

"Step away from the cell and put your hands behind your head!" the reptilian alien began to advance cautiously towards Eon, at no time did he stop pointing the gun at him.

"Please, I'm trying to have a conversation here," Eon replied politely then returned his gaze to Animo. "And your answer is?"

Animo looked at the Plumber, then looked at Eon.

"You promise to rid me of these guys?" he asked pointing at the plumber, the time traveler nodded. "We have a deal."

A dark smile came across the face of the man with temporal powers. At the sight of that smile, a shiver ran down Ánimo's spine and the next thing that happened took him by surprise.

"I told you to stay away from..." The plumber couldn't finish speaking, his body slumped to the floor, completely mummified.

Animo watched that completely perplexed, it was only a fraction of a second, but that man who claimed to be a time traveler had raised his left hand and shot from there a violet ray. Watching that poor devil suffer accelerated aging in a second was a twisted spectacle and made the doctor tremble with terror.

The villain with time powers merely adjusted his left gauntlet and looked with disappointment at the alien mummified by the passage of time. His gaze then returned to Animo as he found himself under Eon's scrutiny he stepped back in fear.

"I'll give you the details later, for now, I'll release you." Eon brought his hand close to the electronic lock of the cell and small electric shocks emerged from his fingers, this caused a short circuit and the door opened, allowing Doctor Animo to leave. "I hope this proves that you can trust me."

Animo swallowed saliva, that man, whoever he was, was very dangerous and he couldn't help but feel dwarfed, but at the same time happy to have a powerful ally.

Swallowing his fear, Animo regained his composure and spoke politely.

"It's a pleasure working with you, Mr. Eon." Animo held out his hand, in a gesture that they were now partners, Eon for his part watched him for a few moments but eventually responded to the gesture. "If I may ask, what shall we do now, how shall we get out of here? This place will be filled with Plumbers any instant now."

"For that reason, let's match their numbers." Eon gestured with his hand towards the surrounding cells. "You will open the rest of the cells, good luck."

"What?" questioned the villainous geneticist in confusion. "How do you expect me to do that?" his answer came in the form of a rifle, Eon had thrown him the weapon belonging to the plumber he had incapacitated to his surprise and dismay.

"I would recommend you to hurry when you escape, go to La Soledad, I have some things to do, I wish you good luck Doctor." Before Animo could respond to that, Eon disappeared through a violet portal, leaving him speechless.

Attention all agents, containment breach detected, a security breach in progress, Doctor Animo has escaped, close all exits.

Frustrated at the disappearance of his supposed savior, Animo looked in all directions, unsure of what to do.

"Damn, I just hope this is worth it! " The scientist ran to the next cell and shot the electronic lock with the gun, causing the door to open and let the prisoners out.


In the desert, Eon was approaching walking towards the area guarded by no more than twenty plumbers, when they saw him approaching, they raised their weapons and warned him to leave the place. Being simple cadets, for the most part, they did not recognize who he was, as this was confidential information since he and the greatest hero in the universe had a too-close relationship.

"Time to take out the trash." The man's expression was sinister and with twisted amusement, above him two violet portals formed from which fell a group of six humanoid figures covered with a black suit clinging to their bodies and iron helmets with violet visors hiding their faces. "Go." He ordered.

The warriors each unsheathed a hilt of a sword, these projected blades of red light and lunged towards the Plumbers, who responded to the aggression by firing their weapons.

The battle broke out, it was an all-out fight, Eon's followers made use of movements similar to the acclaimed ninjas, they were fast and lethal when it came to eliminating their targets, even if they were outnumbered, they were not easy prey.

Eon smiled as he watched his followers enter the fray, the din of fighting was something he enjoyed, with powers like his, winning was too easy, there was no thrill or loss, that was one of the reasons he avoided fighting.

The temporal traveler unsheathed from his waist his weapon when he saw that some cadets focused their attention on him and activated it, projecting a purple-colored plasma blade. Unlike his lackeys who carried katana-like swords, his sword was shaped like a knife, a weapon that seemed as twisted as its wielder.

"I can play a little too." The time-powered villain dubbed a devious grin and started walking toward the Plumbers.

Giving his opponents hope that he could only use the sword and his body to attack was always fun for Eon, and the expressions of despair when he made use of his true powers was something he enjoyed and made him feel more alive, even though that emotion only lasted a few seconds before his final move.

"It's a matter of time Tennyson, I'll see you soon." He thought as he launched himself at the cadets, who opened fire.


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Several blocks away from Monster High, the car that was none other than Upgrade in disguise pulled up, the reason behind this was that Frankie wanted to make sure he wouldn't cause any trouble that could expose him. None of them wanted to be branded as an accomplice of an alien and get arrested or anything like that.

"Are you ready? Remember, you must look for the girl named Toralei." Upgrade's head was visible, from the back seats, Clawdeen was showing him on her ICoffin a picture of the monster he must have found while Frankie was talking to him. "She's due to deliver the photos in the middle of the day, so you don't have much time."

"I've done more with less time." He replied with some arrogance. "I've got everything covered."

As Frankie tried to convince her space friend to think carefully about what he was going to do, Draculaura had a thoughtful expression on her face. She and her friends were like the stars of the school, very popular girls, and now, with that car that popularity could increase.

"You know, arriving with a car to school in the last days of school, that will raise our popularity, won't it?" asked the vampire with some intrigue.

The young monsters and the alien upon hearing this looked at the vampire. Upgrade arched his eye and answered her.

"I'd appreciate if you wouldn't use me as a stepping stone to winning the prom queen crown." Said the alien with a sarcastic tone.

"Why not?" questioned Clawdeen. His expression turned into a big smile after saying that. "You're a cool car, I think it would be wrong not to show you off." Clawdeen's words inadvertently fed the alien's ego a little. "I already want to see my brother's expression when he sees me get off from this car!"

"Gaining some extra popularity is never a bad thing," Cleo commented as she gave her makeup a few touch-ups using the small mirror on the passenger side. "Even if it's with this jalopy car."

"Who are you calling a jalopy? At least I don't hide behind pounds of makeup to look good." Replied the alien. The girls were perplexed to hear him say that. Clawdeen burst out laughing, while Draculaura looked away to keep Cleo from seeing her smile and Frankie tried not to laugh.

The mummy for its part was quite annoyed by this, starting to hit with its right hand the front panel of the car trying to somehow hurt the alien while insulting it in some ancient language. In response to this, Upgrade began to shake the mummy's seat, causing the mummy to be forced to brace himself. The car seat had turned into something resembling a rampaging bull.

Something they discovered on their way to school was that Upgrade was not very respectful of others, he was teasing and sarcastic, Cleo was a haughty person with a lot of egos and was the alien's main target. It didn't help that she wasn't nice to him either.

"Please don't fight." Draculaura implored, but to almost no avail. "Cleo, Upgrade isn't a jalopy, it's a cool car." The mummy folded her arms and looked out the window, while the alien sneered at her as the vampire defended him.

"Can we get back to the important part?" asked Frankie.

The young Frankenstein's monster insisted once again on the alien's plan, he was already tired of talking about it. His plan was not very detailed either, he would improvise as he went along as he always did, of course, they didn't need to know this.

"We'd better keep going or we're going to be late," said Frankie. Upgrade nodded and was ready to hide his head, but before he could do so, the wolf woman insisted on her idea.

"Upgrade, please." Clawdeen interlocked his hands and looked at his space friend. "Let's make an entrance worthy of a movie."

The alien was ready to refuse, not wishing to be used for something like that, but the werewolf woman used a very low motion.

"Please." The alien felt a shiver as the young woman looked at him with puppy dog eyes.

Frankie seeing this, though it wouldn't work, was a desperate move, although getting to school by making a cool entrance sounded fun, they couldn't force Upgrade to do it if he didn't want to.

"Please! Let's make an entrance, with music and in slow motion! " Draculaura imitated her best friend, the young girl used puppy dog eyes, or bat eyes? to try to convince the alien.

A groan full of resignation came from the mechamorph. As tough as he was, the puppy eyes had a power that surpassed him. He would get revenge, he really would.

"Fine." Hearing that answer, werewolf and vampire raised their arms in excitement, while Frankie looked at them in surprise, she didn't expect that to work. "I need a phone."

They all looked at Cleo, who looked back at them in confusion, then opened her eyes in horror.

"No! Not again!"

"Just give him your Icoffin." Clawdeen insisted.


It was minutes before the bell for the first class period was to be heard, the students, monsters of different species walked with listless steps in the direction of the large gothic-looking building that served as their school, every one of them could not wait for the last three days of classes to be over so they could enjoy their summer vacation.

The last days of school were always the most hectic and annoying for various reasons, exams, preparation for the graduation ceremony, the school yearbook, chats between friends planning their vacations, or the parties they were going to.

But of course, so early in the morning, no one had the energy to even think about anything, the occasional student seemed to be about to fall asleep, perhaps from staying up late playing a new video game.

Among the students starting the day with less energy than usual was Lagoona Blue. The young saltwater monster walked with a sad expression on her face, this was because she and her current partner could not freely show themselves as such, all because she was saltwater and he was freshwater and the latter's parents did not accept that kind of relationship.

"Conservatives." Muttered the young woman with distaste.

Arriving at the school entrance, she looked around for some of her friends, she needed to talk to someone, maybe one of them could give her some advice on what to do, she would even take advice from teen magazines that Frankie read often.

"Where are these ghouls?" to her ears came a rather loud sound, it was similar to the roar of an approaching engine.

She wasn't the only one to hear it, all the students around the place heard it, the sound of the engine roaring like a wild animal was heard at the entrance gate to the school grounds.

Lagoona's eyes widened as she saw a vehicle enter the school grounds that was almost entirely black, except for the front bumper and small rear spoiler which were forest green in color. She didn't recognize the model of the car, but she was sure it was a classic, one that was modified in many parts, even lacking a logo that pointed to its brand, which made it difficult to identify.

The car moved forward cautiously, its wheels turning at a slow speed, as if on thin ice, while a music track played loudly over the loudspeakers. The strumming of an electric guitar, accompanied by drums in the background could be heard, it was only the instrumental part of the song, but it added to that scene an extra as far as style was concerned.

The monster wondered what she was witnessing. Where had that car come from? And why was it at the school? She remembered then that she knew someone with a car that had been given to her only two days before and taken to that place.

"Frankie brought her car?" Leaving those questions behind, she had to admit that she felt jealous seeing that car, whoever the person was that gifted that vehicle to her friend, they had to have a good amount of money to have a cool vehicle like that.

The car drove past the fountain in front of the entrance, which the road circled, and parked in front of the stairs.

Many students gathered at the site, intrigued to see the vehicle there, it was then that the doors opened.

The students watched with wide eyes as the young FearSquad members climbed out of the vehicle one by one. It was like watching a slow-motion show. First was Cleo, followed by Clawdeen and Frankie, who were in the back seats. The song gave an atmosphere similar to a fashion catwalk. The girls were known throughout the school as they were the most popular, Cleo being the local princess.

Draculaura for her part did not get out, as she was the driver, she had to take the car to the parking area, although the school did not have a place with those functions since most of the teachers arrived by other means, being the principal the only one who owned a "vehicle", it was a Nightmare, an exotic species of horse.

"That song did give it a good vibe, how do you know it?" questioned the vampire as she looked around, she had to find a place to park the car.

"I just wanted to refer to Transformers." Replied the alien quietly. "Although it's also in Kill Bill."

While his friends were indiscreetly calling for attention, Cleo mainly, Upgrade took advantage of those moments to observe the surroundings. The school was impressive, the first time he came to that place he hadn't paid too much attention, he was more focused on making sure the car really looked like a car and accidentally left some part unmodified. Now that he had another chance, he took a closer look at the place.

The school building could be defined in one word, huge. The overall aesthetics reminded him a lot of Friedkin's college building, where his cousin Gwen attended classes. The architecture had a gothic style, being similar to the castles described in horror books such as Dracula.

To Upgrade, the place in short was a castle or fortress of some sort and had a haunted house-like vibe that sent some chills down his spine and at the same time piqued his curiosity.

His attention then turned to the three girls standing nearby, Frankie and Clawdeen had stepped aside, leaving Cleo to be the focus of the students' attention.

"Thank you, thank you, I know I'm amazing, I deserve your compliments."

If Upgrade could be expressive while he was a car, his face would have reflected his utter disappointment in the mummy girl, it was official, that girl had more ego than he did, and saying that was a lot for someone who saved the universe several times over.

The alien noticed that a girl had approached Frankie, it was a young girl with light blue scales covering her body and blonde hair. It was Lagoona. Not knowing her, he simply deduced that she was another member of the group of friends, so he did not give it more importance.

"I think we made a mistake." Clawdeen's expression was flat, she despite lacking clairvoyance, could already see the near future, Cleo's ego was going to smother them all.

"So, is this the car you got?" asked Lagoona to Frankie, as she looked at the vehicle. "I envy you, now you can go anywhere you want by yourself, I still have to ask my aunt and uncle for a ride."

"Mom forbade me to use it until I get my license, so you won't see me driving it anytime soon." Replied the Frankenstein girl with some regret. Although she didn't need to know how to drive since that car drove itself.

"As long as Lala has her license we can use it," Clawdeen added. She was already looking forward to the vacation so she and her friends could use Upgrade to go for a ride, maybe to the beach.

"If you go to the beach, don't forget me here, it's not the same swimming in the river as in the sea." Frankie and Clawdeen agreed with their friend. "Besides, there are more boys at the beach." And once again, all three agreed on that, even though they were just little jokes.

As they continued talking, and Cleo bragging, the gathering of so many students in one place attracted the attention of the teachers. One woman in particular.

The sound of the high-heeled boots this teacher wore was heard from inside the school, followed by the sound of the main doors opening, revealing a beautiful middle-aged woman, perhaps in her thirties to forties. She had short black hair with some purple highlights, her skin was quite pale which highlighted her beauty a little more. If one had to describe her attire with one word, it would be antique, it consisted of a purple jacket, underneath she had a white shirt with ruffles and a red tie, she wore black pants with heeled boots that reached above her calves.

Seeing the woman, the students rushed to clear a path for her, allowing her to move forward until she reached where Cleo continued to pose for everyone.

"Looks like you've put on a bit of a show, Miss DeNile." At the sound of the woman's voice, Cleo stopped bluffing and put her foot down. She wasn't the only one, Frankie and Clawdeen got nervous when they saw that it was the headmistress of the school. Nora Bloodgood

The woman looked at the mummy, then turned her attention to the vampire who was still inside the car and appeared to be talking to someone.

"May I know, whose car is this?" she asked, her tone was kind. Kindness was this woman's main characteristic, but everyone knew that she was as strict as she was kind and caring.

Everyone's gazes were directed towards Frankie, who on seeing herself exposed became nervous and her bolts began to spark. Clawdeen noticed this and gave her a light jab with her elbow, it was not the time for her to get nervous, they just had to act and all would be well.

"Miss Stein, is this your car?" the woman asked politely.

"Ye-Yes Headmistress Bloodgood! It's my car, I got it as a gift!" the young woman stammered as she answered, even though they lie and the truth was too mixed up, she wasn't good at hiding this. "I wanted to bring it to... show off?"

Clawdeen slapped her face, Frankie still wasn't good at lying and that was clear.

Bloodgood on the other hand arched an eyebrow, which made Frankie fear the worst, but the woman merely laughed at her.

"YTeenagers of these days are crazy. I'm afraid you'll have to park it away from the entrance, won't there be a problem with that?" he asked.

"No! Not at all! Away from the entrance, I've got it! I'll tell Draculaura right now!" Frankie hurried toward her vampire friend, leaving Clawdeen behind with Lagoona and the headmistress of the school.

The werewolf woman let out a disguised sigh, Frankie was too obvious, if she didn't raise suspicions that something strange was going on, it would be a miracle.

Of course, that miracle didn't run. Lagoona noticed the strange way her friend was acting, it was as if she was nervous that attention would be drawn to the vehicle for some reason. Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the wolf woman who continued to stand next to her, she seemed to be looking with some disappointment at Frankie. She wondered what could have her friend so nervous, was it about the car?

The day before Frankie had already explained to her that the vehicle was a gift, but not from a "human boyfriend" she had, but from a friend, the explanation was vague and did not make clear many things or who that friend was. Maybe there was something else and Frankie was trying to hide it?

Lagoona's thoughts were interrupted when Headmistress Bloodgood spoke.

"Alright students, enough show, everyone gets inside the school, it won't be long before the class bell rings." The complaints from some were not long in coming, they wanted to keep looking at that amazing vehicle, but they knew better not to anger the principal so they did as they were told. "You kids should come in too and Miss DeNile, please don't cause such a stir."

"No promises Headmistress Bloodgood, greatness follows me wherever I go." She replied with a haughty tone, something that made the woman laugh.

Frankie on the other hand had told Draculaura what the director said, the vampire nodded and decided to ask Upgrade where he wished to be parked.

"Put me under that tree." He asked.

The vampire did as her friend asked, parking the vehicle under the shade of a nearby tree, and then got out. Upgrade made use of some tentacles created with his nanomachines to pass her purse, which she appreciated.

"Good luck helping Frankie." She said as she settled her purse on her right shoulder.

He just nodded, the distance separating him from Frankie was a lot, so he was out of the translation radius of the badge so he couldn't talk to Draculaura at that moment.

The young woman said goodbye and hurried to go with her friends, leaving Upgrade behind. The alien was patient, it was not the time to leave, the students continued to arrive, it would not be long before they entered classes, so for the moment it was not necessary to act, instead, he decided to do something else.

His head emerged inside the trunk of the car, where the box he had created was located. He had put it there himself the day before to prevent Frankie's parents or Frankie herself from accidentally seeing the contents. He trusted the monster girl, that was the reason he gave her his badge, even though this was a code violation since that device had access to the organization's database. Useless at the time, but still it was something he shouldn't do. Even though he had given her that device as a token of trust, it was not yet time to show her the contents of the box, explaining why he had magazines and comics from Earth, along with other things native to the planet, would be difficult.

Eventually, he would tell her the truth, but first, he had to think about what to say, he had lied, or, rather, he did not clarify that he was not an alien, this would perhaps make them distrust him or perhaps treat him as a madman, so he had to think carefully about what he was going to say.

He decided to put those thoughts aside and created some tentacles and used them to remove the lid of the box and took out a specific object from inside. It was a green digital cell phone, he tried to turn it on, but it had no battery, but this was not necessary for what he was going to do.

One of the abilities of the mechamorphs and one of the reasons the species was so dangerous was that it could "replicate". This wasn't a reproduction, which they were capable of doing only once in a lifetime and Upgrade wasn't sure how it happened. No, this was more like creating a drone that they could control within a certain range.

A small part of his nanomachines was attached to the phone. The device shook for a few moments, its structure was disassembled and then reassembled into another, much more advanced one.

The phone's casing now looked sleeker and slimmer, circuit-like green lines ran throughout the structure, which had a metallic black color.

Upgrade observed his creation. Creating the Drone was not a difficult process, but it did cause him a slight headache as he had to use his mind to control it.

His eye remained fixed on the modified device, waiting for it to receive the first mental commands.

From one moment to the next, the telephone lost its shape, eight small legs detached from it and it took on a circular shape with a small green eye on the front.

The drone looked around until its gaze met Upgrade's.

The alien nodded in satisfaction, he could see what the drone saw. A part of him was connected to the phone now so he could send his mind to the modified device and control it while the main body maintained the facade of a car.

With his little creation done now, he just had to wait, when the bell rang and the students entered, it would be time for him to perform.

For a few moments, the trunk of the car was silent. Upgrade looked at his drone, which looked back at him. Seeing himself being watched, the alien for some reason felt a chill before the small arachnid robot.

"Please tell me you're not a Ship." He implored. He still hadn't fully mastered the skills of all his transformations, creating Drones was still something he lacked practice at and he had only done it a few times. He hoped he had done it right and not accidentally split himself. He didn't want to go through parenthood.

Not again.

Upgrade's discomfort disappeared after the bell signaling the start of classes was heard, so it was time for the drone to begin its work.

Upgrade controlled it as if it were an extension of himself, which it was. He opened the trunk of the car and the mechanical arachnid jumped out and landed on the ground, then ran to hide behind a wheel. Even though no one should be there anymore, he, as a former student, was aware that not everyone respected the school's set start time, so it wouldn't be strange to see some straggler running because he was late for class.

After making sure that he was indeed alone, the little spider robot ran towards the building. Some bushes were located near the wall, so he headed towards these and looked for an entrance other than the main door.

He found a ventilation duct at ground level, a rather odd place for there to be one, but decided to pay no attention to such details and removed the grate that prevented anything larger than an insect from entering there.

He wasted no time in advancing through the ducts. It was as if he was walking through an endless labyrinth of metallic corridors, each second that passed, the alien moved deeper and deeper into the school. Its eight robotic legs caused a rattling sound as it walked, it echoed through the ducts, and students with better hearing could hear it.

Of course, he was unaware that he was disturbing these students, many of whom were currently taking their final exams in their respective subjects.

He moved forward with some speed, stopping only when he came across vents. He had to find a specific student, so being in a place he didn't know, that could take some time and he only had until noon, by which time the camera had to be delivered to print the yearbooks.

"This is a race against time." He commented to himself. For some reason, that comment made him uncomfortable, but he dismissed those thoughts.

After visiting three salons, the little arachnid robot concluded that at this rate he was not going to accomplish anything.

"The girls told me what she looked like." The alien began to reminisce, her friends, and Cleo, had given him a description so he could easily find the monster responsible for the school yearbook. "They said her name is Toralei Strife, cat girl, fur like a tiger." He paused his thoughts for a few moments and began to chuckle, the young girl's name was a great pun in another language. "Whoever gave her that name has a great sense of humor."

Having remembered whom, he was supposed to be looking for, he resumed his walk.

The minutes passed at great speed, the metallic labyrinth was more confusing than he first imagined. His journey was interrupted a few times, he had to stop whenever he found a grate and peep through it. He saw different students doing different things in different classrooms, none of them realized that they were being watched by him, although he could see some of them cheating during their exams.

Time passed in this manner until the bell rang to mark the end of the first class period. The alien hurried to a vent that allowed him to peek into one of the many hallways the school had. He waited patiently for the students to begin to leave their classrooms and go to their lockers to pick up the necessary supplies for their next subjects.

The number of young monsters exceeded his expectations, they were many and varied. The image presented to him was strange, but not for the reasons a person might think. It was strange, not because they were monsters, but because they were so normal.

For someone who came from a world where people with superpowers were commonplace, he was a bit confused at what he saw.

He had trained for a while with the Plumbers to get his official badge. During that time, he met other cadets, young and not so young who trained with him or were training to be like him.

Many different species converged at the Plumber's academies, all with their unique abilities and even more unique appearances. Many of these species had conflicts with each other and it was not uncommon for there to be some friction, fights, and the occasional injury.

Monster High was a place equal to a Plumber's academy in terms of the variety of its students, many monsters of different species went there to learn, but none seemed to be bothered by the presence of others. According to his search for information on the internet, many species were pitted against each other, Vampires and Werewolves, freshwater monsters and saltwater monsters, the different types of elemental monsters, the relationship of latter was almost like looking at a Pokemon weakness chart. Fire is weak to ice and water but is strong against plant-type elementals.

Jokes about this were present in the alien's mind, but something told him it was better to keep quiet and not say anything, he didn't need to offend anyone unnecessarily, no matter how funny it was.

The parade of monsters lasted a few minutes, but he failed to find the girl he was looking for, so he resumed his journey.

That metallic labyrinth seemed endless and the small Drone controlled by Upgrade began to have certain difficulties. The alien's mind detected that he was going out of the range in which he could control his fragment. His gaze was directed to the front, there was still an extensive stretch before he reached the end of that duct, at least two vents were still in the way, but if he continued, then the fragment would be deactivated, leaving his phone trapped in that place.

"I'll have to go another way." He muttered as he retraced his steps.

He then chose to go back to a crossroads and turn left, he was no longer sure where he would end up, the school was huge and he was able to walk a large part of it during that time, but he still had to reach the second floor, but he was not sure if the distance would be enough or not.

"I'm here, do you have what I asked for?" asked a male voice coming from somewhere, a few meters in front of the alien.

Upgrade saw that a few meters in front of him there was a ventilation grill, so he approached it and looked outside. Almost instantly he regretted it, it was a bathroom, possibly the girls' bathroom since there was a young woman with orange hair and wearing a black leather jacket. He recognized her as the girl he was supposed to find, so the camera where the pictures were must have been nearby. To his good fortune, the camera was on the sink counter, next to the cat woman.

"Would you stop with the whole dealer act? This is a trade, not a drug deal." Said the young woman as she held out her hand.

In front of her was a student, who seemed not to want to be recognized since he was wearing a sweatshirt with a hoodie and a mouth cover. This student took out of the backpack he was carrying a paper bag, when she saw this object the young woman was ready to take it and make sure that all the contents were there, but the boy stopped her.

"Not so fast kitty, I want my share first."

The girl arched an eyebrow at that demand but did as he asked. She pulled out her phone and began to do some things.

The boy's phone rang at that precise moment and he quickly pulled it out and then nodded in satisfaction at what he saw.

"Rotten gargoyle eggs, as promised, it was a pleasure doing business with you Toralei." The student held out the bag to her and she took it and checked the contents. "Be careful, if it breaks, you'll stink until you graduate from college." With that said, the mysterious delivery man hurried out of the place, leaving the cat woman alone.

All this was observed by the drone controlled by Upgrade, who could not avoid arching his eye at what he had just witnessed, that cat girl reminded him a bit of his best friend. Kevin always did things like that and he was present on several occasions, so he could easily recognize a slightly illicit transaction. This raised some red flags in his head, but at the same time confused him a bit, why were they trading rotten eggs? And more importantly, were gargoyles laying eggs?

He watched as the catgirl reached inside the bag and took out one of the eggs that were there and looked at it carefully. This was taken advantage of by Upgrade, while the young monster was concentrating on making sure her product was in perfect condition, he began to unscrew the grill, he had already found the girl and the camera, now he only had to steal the camera, delete the photos and return to the main body.

The mechanical arachnid was stealthy, carefully climbed down the wall, and then ran towards the sink, avoiding detection by the girl. He made sure she continued to be distracted by that bag, which was the case, so he tried to climb the sink and touch the camera to take it in, but the bathroom door opened, revealing two more catgirls. This forced the alien to hide again and wait.

The two new arrivals were twins, their outfits were identical and if one was not careful one could confuse them, but they could differentiate thanks to their hair color, even though they both had gray fur, one of them had black hair with a white-streaked strand and the other had white hair with a black-streaked strand.

"We got your message, have you got them yet?" asked the white-haired one, as the black-haired one leaned by the sink in the same spot where Upgrade was clinging. Seeing the girl's legs, the alien became slightly nervous, if he was careless they would find him, but if he wasn't quick then he would lose the chance to take the camera.

"I got them, but I had to put up with that fool with the dealer complex," Toralei replied. "Did you get the balloons?"

"Purrsephone bought them." The white-haired girl looked at the black-haired girl, who pulled a small package of purple balloons out of her bag.

"Perfect, now we just have to get everything ready for Mr. Rotter to have his look at the FearSquad and wait for graduation."

"Are you sure this isn't too much?" asked Purrsephone uncertainly, this received a disapproving look from the white-haired girl. "Getting them expelled is a bit much, don't you think?"

"Bloodgood would never expel those five, especially Ghoulia, she's the student prodigy, but she definitely won't let them stay on the fearleading squad," Toralei replied.

"That's right sis, don't tell me you're going to back out now?" questioned the white-haired werecat as she looked at her twin, who rubbed her arm a little unsure about it. "Purrsephone, come on, this is perfect! It's revenge on Cleo, she deserves it!"

"I know, and I agree that she deserves it, but the others have nothing to do with it, besides we went team." Purrsephone, unlike her sister and Toralei, wasn't completely evil, she enjoyed the pranks, but of the three, she was the most conscientious.

The conversation continued, but Upgrade stopped paying attention after learning that these three young women were up to something involving her friends, and Cleo. Although she didn't like her, she wasn't going to let her be unfairly accused of something these three girls were doing.

"I have to do something, a distraction to take the camera and also I have to ruin their plans." He thought. For a few moments he was frozen, was he about to help the girl with the most ego he had ever seen? Even though he doubted this, he was a hero, he had to do it. "I'm going to regret it, I know it."

Upgrade began to analyze all his options. He was locked in a bathroom with three monster girls, one of whom had rotten gargoyle eggs, and from what he heard, those things sucked.

"Okay, let's do this." One of his paws extended, this one possessed a sharp point, so being jabbed by this one would cause a fair amount of pain. His gaze shifted to the legs of the catgirl that had been propped up in front of him and mentally apologizing to the young woman, he launched his attack.

As Purrsephone tried to dissuade her sister and best friend, a sudden pain appeared in her backside, it was sharp as if a needle had pricked her, causing her to jump and crash into Toralei who was in front of her.

The orange-furred cat woman was taken by surprise by her friend, and in an oversight, she dropped the bag with the rotten eggs.

The last cat woman saw this, and thanks to her feline reflexes she was able to catch it, but to her misfortune, Upgrade was counting on this happening. The alien came out of its hiding place and headed towards the camera, launching from the top of the mechanical arachnid two tentacles made of nanomachines, which attached themselves to the camera and pulled it towards the drone.

The attachment of the second device caused the body of the drone to increase in size, the camera lens was now the eye with which it saw the world. He modified no more than necessary, as it was a considerable expenditure of energy for the fragment, so he hurriedly jumped up and ran for the bathroom exit.

"What the hell..." Toralei had seen everything that happened, her eyes were wide as saucers, but more importantly, she had just seen the camera that held that year's yearbook photos stolen from her. "That thing ate the camera!" she exclaimed. Her two friends turned their gaze to where Toralei was looking, seeing the little robot there, which was having difficulty opening the door.

"Why don't they make them mini size!" he complained loudly.

"Catch that thing!" at the sound of the orange-furred cat girl's voice, Upgrade had to move away from the door to avoid being caught by that girl named Purrsephone. "Meowlody put that bag down and help us!" ordered Toralei as she tried to surround the drone.

The allude nodded and placed the bag carefully on the floor and walked around the opposite side of the room from her friend.

The little Dron found himself surrounded, his exit was blocked by Purrspehone, while Toralei was on the right and Meowlody on the left.

"Will you let me go if I give you some tuna?" he asked, though his words were unintelligible to those girls. Meowlody lunged at him, trying to catch him, but he didn't count on the fact that the little mechanical being could jump several times his size, landing on one of the toilet cubbies. "I'll take that as a no."

Upgrade was forced to dodge once again, Toralei leaped to try to catch it but missed.

"What the hell is that thing?" questioned Purrsephone. She was confused, she wasn't sure what kind of creature that was since it didn't look like something alive, rather, it looked like some kind of small spider robot.

"Who cares, he stole the camera!" growled Toralei, she wasn't going to let that little thing get away, if she didn't turn in the pictures that day, she was going to be in trouble. "Get down from there little one, Mommy Toralei won't do anything to you."

Upgrade's eye turned into a straight line, he wasn't so much as to fall for it. His attention then turned to the grate through which he had entered that place, that was his escape ticket.

"Gotcha!" Meowlody tried to take advantage of him being distracted to grab it but received a jab from one of the drone's legs in response. "Ouch, that little pest knows how to fight back!"

Upgrade jumped towards the sink, falling next to one of the taps, and then his attention turned towards the three girls, he was in a bad situation, he needed to incapacitate them without hurting them. His attention went down to the faucet he was using as a foothold and a slightly wicked idea popped into his mind.

The three young women tried to get closer, but when they saw the little robot lift one of its legs they realized what it was about to do.

"No," Toralei spoke as he saw that the small drone intended to break that tap. Upgrade for his part nodded in response. "No, don't do that." he nodded once more, and his outstretched limb took on a slight green glow. "Don't you dare you a little piece of s-" The cat girl was interrupted by a splash of water.

The mechanical arachnid made use of one of its abilities, the projection of hard light, to create a small sword in one of its legs and cut that faucet, causing the water to shoot out due to the pressure, completely bathing that girl. Making use of his paws, he changed the course of the water, spraying Meowlody and Purrsephone, both cried with displeasure at being soaked and the alien took advantage of the moment to jump towards the grate and sneak away.

But he didn't count on the orange-furred cat woman being faster, she recovered from being doused with water and managed to catch him.

"Got you little scumbag!" she exclaimed wrathfully.

"Sorry, I'm too young for the commitment." He replied and jabbed the young woman in her hands, causing her to wince in pain and throw him towards one of the toilet cubbies, which due to everything that happened, ended up opening its door.

The alien hit the china and fell into the toilet bowl.

When he managed to regain his senses, he could see in front of him that orange furred cat girl, looking at him with an evil expression, a big toothy grin was on her face and her eyes seemed to glow sinisterly.

"Bon voyage little pest." The girl pressed the button that triggered the toilet flush and the water began to wash over the alien robot. It tried to get out of there, but the monster girl lifted her foot and stepped on him, forcing him to sink.

When the little robotic spawn disappeared down the pipes, the catgirl was satisfied, nobody wet her and got away with it.

"Uh, Toralei." Purrsephone's voice caught her attention and she turned to look at her friend. "That thing was still attached to the camera."

Hearing that, the girl's expression changed to one of complete horror and she looked back at the toilet. She was dead.


In the pipes, the little Dron was struggling against the water current, he was being dragged from left to right, he wasn't even sure anymore if he was in the drainage system or went somewhere else, at some point he even started to climb, before he could think of a plan to get out of that situation, his body hit against a filtering grate and went through it. He could see a light over his head and then everything went black.


Outside. Losing the connection Upgrade had with the nanomachines caused his mind to be forced back.

"Oh no." Her head formed over the passenger seat and her eye darted toward the school. "This is not good." The drone had moved far enough away to get out of control range, but it was still on the school grounds, he just had no idea where exactly.

As usual, when he made a plan, everything went down the drain. Literally in this case.


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I have several excuses as to why it took me so long. First, I was sick, my health is constantly getting better and worse, I think it's because where I live the weather seems to play roulette, one day it's cold, the next it's raining, then it's 40 degrees (Celsius) hot and the next it seems it's going to snow, strange weather for a city that should have a tropical climate. Then, they gave me a date for my Architecture exams, October 28 beautiful date, ruined my spooky plans. Venom 2 also got some of the blame, plus I got hooked on a Manwha called Lookism and finally, I had horrible writer's block.

I want to respond in a shallow way to the reviews, which, yes, I always read, because responding broadly means spoilers to what I want to do. I can only say, there will be things.

About the harem, I have a plan about it, I have talked about this with one of you and that person already knows what I am trying to do and thinks it is a good twist on the Harem idea, but I will not go deeper into that, you will see, it is something that so far I have not seen anyone do so I decided to risk it this way.

A Guest asked if I could continue the first version or if someone else could do it, if anyone is interested in that, go ahead, it would be an honor chapter 15 is written so it would save them that. Although they would have to correct all the mistakes that I didn't correct.

Another Guest asked me if I can write more stories about Ben 10, I don't like the idea, this story went through a long process of transformation, at first it was about RWBY, then High School DxD, then Skull Girls, and at some point, it ended up as it is now. Writing another story with Ben would be annoying for me, what I do have are 2 draft stories, one about Genshin Impact with Zero No Tsukaima with Zhongli as the main character, and another one about The Witcher and Monster Girl Encyclopedia, the latter, by the way, has M Rating since it not only touches adult themes but other things. Anyway, I won't talk about these two stories as I don't know what to do with them yet.

And speaking about the Ratings, I think I'm going to have to be careful with what I'm about to do, even though this story is T, for me, it's a +16 story because I've planned some things, not only about the villains but also with the character development.

This is one of the reasons why I changed a lot of what happened in the first version of when Upgrade goes to Monster High, I want there to be more interactions and as you saw here, a little bigger mess, the Drone is an ability of Upgrade as a mechamorph, it's like splitting and controlling it remotely, he did this once with Rook's gun, but never really delved into that ability so that's why I made Upgrade not sure what he did.

To the villains, I want to give them a human contrast and not simple "I'm bad, because I'm bad and I do bad things because I'm bad", the first test was this chapter with Eon and Animo, and it will advance by that "human" part to call it somehow that everyone has. Besides the fact that Eon is an alternate evil Ben and not an alien that possessed him, the idea of the alternate evil version was more appealing to me than the Chroner idea I have an origin planned that will eventually be seen. For this reason, is that Eon makes some puns, I want to make him look human, give him a personality that enjoys making fun of his enemies and be very sarcastic and with black humor, all this without taking away that psychotic part he has.

Before I forget, the song Upgrade plays is "Battle without honor or humanity" and it comes up in Kill Bill and Transformers 1 when Bumblebee scans the Camaro SS.

Thank you for reading, and please be patient, between my health, my exams, and other things, I don't have much time, I can promise a chapter every 2 or 3 weeks, I hope you understand that.