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Jenny looked around. The carpet-once molded over and barely clinging to the floor-had been taken out and metal also replaced the wooden floors. The two crystal columns replacing the wooden support column were still there, but usable wood salvaged from the breaking was put on extended part to make makeshift shelves. The remains of all the robots had been reused to make furniture and deal with replacing the rotten parts of the floors. It wasn't as good as it was before, but...it was still better than what she had awoken to.
"If I had time and not had a certain someone near me at the time, I could go Clockwork to try to reverse the time this place went through," Ben noted, glancing at Makoto.
"Aw come on. Ya learn that a clock alien robot can puke and you're suddenly blamed for everything," Makoto snorted.
"Says the squirrel girl who jinxed it earlier."
"Because you made me!"
"I…!"
"Enough, you two," Tsubaki ordered, lightly chopping them on their heads, as Jenny sat on one of the chairs.
"Indeed," Kajun agreed, "What is important at the moment is asking this: Jenny, what can you tell us about Vexus? What she's capable of aside from technopathy."
"...Aside from that, she can shapeshift to hide herself in public, she can make portals th-" Jenny began.
"Eh? She...can make portals?" Mai blinked.
"Yeah...It was how she was able to move between here and Cluster Prime or get away just as she's losing. She's also as strong as me..if not stronger. After I revealed what she did on Cluster Prime, she...she nearly ended me had mom and Sheldon-one of my friends-not come to help me."
"I see...technopathy, superhuman strength, flight, shapeshifting, teleportation, and energy beams…" Tsubaki noted.
"Yeah. Not the berries when it comes to her," Jenny sighed.
"We may need to put out a high alert for her then," Rook spoke, "Her technopathy alone is a dangerous thing, especially given how reliant people are on technology now a days."
"Like those weird phones without dials?" Jenny asked.
"Not just those. Anything that's technological, she could manipulate to do whatever she needs," Kajun answered, looking through her laptop as she began contacting Plumbers HQ, "Or if she wanted to, she could cause a global shutdown of every piece of technology on Earth, both human...and alien made."
"She couldn't hack the Omnitrix from a distance or she would have turned me back from JuryRigg. I think with the more advanced tech like Galvan, she does need to touch it." Ben spoke, "So that's ...a positive...negative how do we rate that?"
"Maybe 50/50 or something," Makoto shrugged, "Still...compared to the bad guys we've fought up until now-minus Khyber, of course-Vexus is good...terrifyingly good."
"Guess we had to have a hard battle some day…" Tsubaki sighed.
"Can we track her?" Mai asked.
"The Plumbers are trying, but it's not easy, given her abilities…" Kajun sighed, "They will keep us up to date just in case, but no promises."
"So...what would she do?" Ben asked.
"She'd probably look for a lab to make new soldiers…" Kajun offered, "Or any place that has competent robots…"
"Or any place that has high tech," Makoto shrugged.
"Like Plumbers HQ?" Noel asked.
"If she shows up, Grandpa will tell us and we'll rush there." Ben spoke.
"In what!?" Rook argued as he held up several parts of his truck, "My truck has been reduced to the custom ordered parts I purchased just to make it!"
"Ooh...I knew we forgot something!" Makoto cringed.
"Oh...eh heh…" Ben nervously chuckled, "Sorry. I..really can't control myself as Jury Rigg at times."
"Can he...un-break?" Makoto asked.
"No worries I can fix it," Ben smiled before slapping the Omnitrix as he turned into Upgrade.
He stretched his hand and absorbed the parts Rook had before he walked out and began sliding across the ground, gaining mass and sucking up parts until he transformed into the shape of the ProtoTRUK in flight mode. After a while, he jumped off...leaving it back in one piece.
=There we go...and I added more comfortable back cabin seats to boot= he dusted his hands before he began spasming and belched out the truck's steering wheel =Okay...almost done…= he chuckled.
"How many times have you had to do this?" Tsubaki asked as Jenny gawked.
=As a kid...Oho a lot!= Upgrade laughed =Everyone would blow up the Rustbucket...from Forever Knights to crazy motor head criminals. Ah...one time Vilgax sent a robot after us and it tore the thing apart for more armor...ahaha...I bet Grandpa would have been way more angry...but he had a lady friend visiting, so...eh it all evened out=
"Wait...a what now?" Makoto blinked.
=I know, right? Who thought Grandpa had that kind of space adventure!= Upgrade held his hands up =Uuuhhh…= he shivered, making his body literally shimmer like water =No child should have to picture a dearly beloved parental figure having those kind of space adventures…=
"...Oh my…" Noel whispered, blushing upon realization.
"Well...that...paints Magister Tennyson...differently," Tsubaki muttered.
"Dang…" Makoto whistled, "And he still has it going on…?"
"Ehem...to...be fair, he was the greatest Plumber in the Milky Way Galaxy...and was revered as a living legend of a war hero," Rook spoke up, "And yes...quite the...Ladies man as one would say. But I do agree with Ben's sentimentality...no child should ever even picture that…"
"Your parents do something that mentally scarring once?" Makoto asked.
"Earth calls it...The Talk…" Rook shivered.
"Well...even across the galaxy, Parents are still the same," Jenny shrugged.
=Okay! Horrible tangent aside…= Upgrade held his hand up before he coughed and held up a gadget for the Truck to Rook =Vexus. Where would she go to find all the tech a mad evil dictator with technopathic powers needs to enact evil schemes of petty revenge?=
"You're the ones who can even say they have a nemesis unironically…" Makoto pointed out, motioning to Upgrade and Jenny.
=Yeah but my guys are all in jail…=
"And I'm still learning about the present," Jenny shrugged.
"Well in terms of labs that could produce such...machinery…" Kajun spoke, holding up her laptop, "There are very few...ones for sure are super secure hidden labs...but I think I know of one, and it's back in Bellwood."
=Billions Tower...where's that?= he asked, reshaping his upper body into a question mark.
"...It should be obvious," Kajun deadpanned as she typed something on the screen, "It's one of the largest buildings in Bellwood. Right near Nemesis Tower."
=Oh hey, I know that building...I crashed an alien invading space ship into it!= he laughed reforming himself =Ahhaha...oh...good times!=
"Ben!" Tsubaki complained.
=I left a note saying 'sorry!' ...It was before my identity was made public=
"Wait, what did you use to do back then to hide your identity?" Mai asked.
=It was not easy. I'd have to do all sorts of excuses or fake cowardly acts to run off and hide so I could transform...and then once my Omnitrix went red, I'd scramble for cover to hide from people. While I like freely transforming whenever...I miss my secret Identity. Being famous kinda blows…I mean, I use to be able to goof up or curse without being judged=
"Ah ha! I knew you hated the limelight!" Makoto declared, "Wait...why don't you just go into space or something then?"
=Meh. Someone has to be here on Earth to take care of doofus' like Steam Smith…= he shrugged before flashing back to normal.
"That's Smythe!" Smythe's voice snapped.
"Oh right. We still have him tied up in the garage…" Mai remembered.
"We couldn't leave him in the street…" Noel argued, "What if he was picked up with all the rubble and debris from the fight?"
"Would that be so bad?" the rest of the girls asked.
"Especially given what he did?" Rook added.
"W-well...no, no. I...see your point…" Noel sighed.
"Ah, it's okay...we need someone to be the nice cop...cause it ain't gonna be me…" Makoto muttered, wrapping her tail around Noel's shoulder as if it was her arm, "Or Tsubaki...or Kaijun...well maybe Mai...if she's not annoyed with the bad guy like normally...and Ben and Rook stink at interrogation."
"Hey!" both boys complained.
"What? It's true...with you two, it's like good cop...greenhorn-ish cop."
"Is this an insult to masculine pride?" Rook asked Ben.
"Yep..." Ben sighed.
"Ahh, I'm just joshin' ya," Makoto laughed
"You guys really get along," Jenny smiled, "Like best friends."
"I guess after all the stuff we've been through...yeah," Ben smiled as Rook smiled in agreement.
"Yup!" Makoto added as she pulled her friends into a group hug, "We're all one big happy group! ...Oh! I nominate Jenny being an honorary member of Team Remix Heart!"
"Hmm?" Jenny blinked at that.
"Seconded!" Noel beamed.
"I believe they mean their group of female mystery investigators," Rook explained.
"Oh...I like it!" Jenny smiled.
"Yatta!" Makoto and Noel cheered.
"Makoto…"
"Aw come on, Tsubaki! It's not everyday you get to be friends with a robot girl!" Makoto argued, "Especially one as cool as Jen-chan!"
"Hai! Watashi wa sugoi!" Jenny cheered in Japanese, earning looks from the girls, "I have something that can let me speak different languages. May need to update that if any new ones have come into existence since the twenties."
"...Oh, that is so cool~" Makoto whispered in awe. She then suddenly hugged and lifted her up, "CAN WE KEEP HER!?" she cheered loudly.
"N-"
"Please~?" Noel begged.
"Noel's really gotten attached to her," Mai noted.
"But in spite of being a robot...Jenny is fully sentient. We can't just keep her…" Tsubaki sighed.
"Oh you know they didn't mean that...If it was Kajun, well...yeah, she would have meant it like that…" Mai sighed, "But...maybe this will ge good. Jenny is in a sort of new world like us...maybe friends exploring it with her is what she needs most right now."
"Plus come on. She's a perfect middle ground between Noel and Makoto...they need her for balance," Ben argued, joining in on their conversation, "She's a hero...she can adapt to a new world easy. But...everyone needs friends. They help more than anyone knows."
"He does make a point," Kajun spoke, "Plus given her age...well despite how long she was in her cryo-pod, she's technically 16 still and not allowed to live by herself without some form of adult supervision."
"...Well…" Tsubaki muttered before noticing the begging looks Makoto and Noel were giving her, "..."
"Oh, also I outrank you and I say it's alright," Ben snapped his fingers with a smirk.
"...Ugh. I'll have to talk to Magister Tennyson about it, but...I suppose it wouldn't hurt anyone," Tsubaki sighed as she caved in, "So Jenny...Welcome to the team."
"Yay!" Jenny, Makoto and Noel cheered.
"Knew you'd agree to it," Ben smirked before whispering to Tsubaki, "Also..next person we possibly recruit for your little project better be a guy. You gals seriously outnumber me and Rook."
"I think after today, I'm going to focus on just staying in the lab…" Kajun admitted, "Unless you take me to another lab to plu-I mean study…"
"She was gonna say 'plunder' just now…" Mai sweatdropped.
"Ignore it...for now, let's just rest," Tsubaki sighed, "Tomorrow, we head back to Bellwood and try to locate Vexus."
"Let's rest up and think of a plan on how to take Vexus down," Ben spoke, "And Rook can one over the truck…"
"..." Rook ran out and to the ProtoTRUK at that.
"I thought you were able to do this?" Makoto blinked.
"That was with an RV tricked out with advanced tech...not an alien space truck," Ben argued, "Totally different things."
"So just to be safe," Makoto nodded.
"Sides, can't be sure I put every piece back. Upgrade permanently absorbs some tech at times." Ben added.
"So wait...you can turn Upgrade into a super robot?"
"No, I'd need a good amount of tech first," he shook his head, "Upgrade's kind can only enhance and control tech, making it better."
"..."
"...Don't even think about it, Kajun." Makoto frowned as she and Noel instantly hugged Jenny defensively.
"I mean...I've done it before," Ben spoke, making them blink, "Yeah. I merged with the nanobots in my friend Rex's body and made myself into an Upgrade suit that made all his tech constructs even better and more powerful." he explained, earning more stares, "Well we did have to fight a sentient super android Nanobot hivemind that was strong enough to threaten the very stability of his world and could even copy my Omnitrix and my aliens."
"...Man. What kind of things HAVEN'T you dealt with?" Makoto asked.
"You'd be surprised."
"I'm almost inclined to let you brag just to see what you've accomplished...Provided I can get through it without the overwhelming urge to hit you…" Makoto muttered.
"Octagon?"
"Yes Boid?"
"How is it just as wes was approaching Earth…" Boid began, both him and his brother tied up inside their own ship while Vexus stood on top of it, "And we encounter someone who only exist in them old scary campfire stories?"
"Frankly I am just as surprised as you are…"
"Well. it seems the universe has forgotten me quite a bit if I'm reduced to nothing more than a simple myth," Vexus noted, overhearing that as she overlooked Earth, "Perhapes once I conquer this little mudball of a planet, I'll have to fix that."
"Ma'am ifn' you could do that...you'd be the biggest name in the cosmos…" Octagon spoke, "But ain't nobody been able to do it on account of Ben Tennyson…"
"Hmm?..Oh. You must mean that Flesh-wearer that was with XJ-9," Vexus noted, "Yes...was a bit surprised he had Galvan technology on him, but nothing I could not handle."
"Ifn' you encountered him, then why are you in space?" Boid asked
"...Be thankful you're alive, you insufferable Vreedle," Vexus frowned a bit, "But nevermind that. For now…" she paused as she stepped forward and leaned down, looking at the two from the front window of their ship, "Tell me. What is the most advanced piece of technology on Earth?"
"Do we count the Anihilargg?" Boid asked.
"No...that was a dud...no point in bringing that up. The greatest tech in these parts is the Omnitrix, the very thing on Ben Tennyson's wrist, the ultimate invention of that their big brain falla from Galvan, Azmuth."
"Wait...Azmuth...he still lives?" she asked shocked.
"Eh…" they shrugged unsure.
"To think Azmuth would go and outdo himself after the incident with the sword…" Vexus muttered, "And knowing him...he most likely put a failsafe in case anyone tried to forcefully remove that watch from the boy's wrist...still, it is technology, and I was able to hack into it...provided I can get close to him...I just need to right equipment to fix that little problem."
"You'd need an ultra high-tech lab ifn y'all want to do that," Boid spoke, "Only place ah can think of fer that on Earth is that there Billions Tower place a-"
"Boid...shut it," Octagon quickly hushed, noticing the dark gleam forming in Vexus' eye.
"Thank you, boys. You've given me just the idea," Vexus smirked as she floated off their ship, "So guess what? You get to live…"
"...Ah sense a boom is about t' ha-" Octagon began before Vexus fired a pair of beams at the ships engine, blowing it and the Vreedles up.
"For a few mere seconds," Vexus finished with a wicked smile.
"How's it look now?" XLR8 asked, bits of him covered in paint as his tail had a paintbrush tied to the end with one in his right hand and a paint bucket in his left.
"...It looks perfect," Jenny smiled, seeing the chipped paint that was on her house replaced with a new fresh coat, the hole in the roof repaired, and even the broken windows replaced with new glass.
"If the superhero business didn't work, you could've gone into fixing houses," Makoto noted.
"Eh, it wasn't much. Just XLR8 to go out into the desert after having Brainstorm do measurements by having Jenny stand beside the house, go Heatblast to turn the sand there into glass the right size and shape, XLR8 again to get them back here in one piece, Diamondhead to fix them into place with his crystals replacing normally used glue, Swampfire to grow some trees to harvest for wood with Jenny's help in cutting them into boards and beams, and XLR8 for nailing everything in place that you and Jenny held up with your strength," XLR8 noted quickly in a single breath.
"Ahh…" Makoto noted once she managed to fully understand what XLR8 had said, "Heh...man, my dad would've LOVED to have you around."
"And you guys just keep showing me how much the future is the bee's knees," Jenny noted, "Jumping jimminies, if more extraterrestrials were like Rook and Ben when he uses the Omnitrix, things might've been a lot more like now back in the twenties."
"Oh that sounds nice," Noel noted.
"Yes...though most likely there would be one factor that would've stayed to today if that happened…" Kajun sighed, looking at her tablet, "Will Harangue…"
"Who?" Jenny blinked.
"Someone who really...and I mean really hates Ben, seeing him more as a menace than hero," Makoto explained...before sighing as she looked at Kajun, "Let me guess...someone recorded what happened yesterday and he altered the footage."
"Yes," Kajun replied, "Though a few elders across the country are suing Harangue for libel."
"Huh?" Ben raised a brow.
"Apparently, they went to preschool with Jenny, at least for a single day," Kajun noted.
Everyone looked at Jenny, who blushed, "It was an error of sorts. The principal at the high school overheard me telling Brad that I was built five years ago at that time and thought I was a five year old kid. Mom had to come to school with my blueprints and explain to them that I was a teenager both in physical appearance and mental state."
"...Wow," Makoto slowly blinked at that.
"And I thought our school life was a bit odd," Mai admitted.
"I don't know...nothing can beat the time Noellie grew a watermelon from her belly button," Makoto noted.
"She grew a what from where?" Jenny asked.
"It's true," Tsubaki sighed, "Noel ended up eating a watermelon seed, it began to grow in her stomach-we'll explain how later-, and the next thing we knew? We were caught in its vines. It was thanks to Mai things didn't get too out of hand."
"It's...a long story," Mai sheepishly stated.
"And I haven't eaten watermelon since…" Noel shuddered, putting her hands on her stomach.
"Ahem. Moving back to the original topic," Kajun cleared her throat, "But yes...it seems a few elders are suing Will Harangue for libel in what he 'reported.' ...Honestly, that chopped up footage he calls news..."
"How can you show footage chopped up without showing that you obvious cut it?" Jenny asked.
"Okay, while we're out looking for Vexus, we're gonna have to show her the new things like videos with color and sound," Ben noted.
"They have those now?" Jenny asked.
"Yup. ...Oh shoot! She hasn't even seen the original Star Wars trilogy, has she?"
"Okay, we find Vexus, kick her beetle behind, then get Jenny to sit down for several hours to binge the entire movie series...minus the prequel trilogy!" Makoto declared.
"Why? What's wrong with…" Jenny began.
"You don't wanna know."
"It's best you don't ask," Mai whispered to the robot girl.
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"Alright, Jenny, while we did go to the library, you didn't really pay attention to much else, did you?" Tsubaki asked.
"Not really. Was more focused on what happened in the last century," Jenny replied.
"Okay. So from your own memories, what would you call Tremorton?" Tsubaki asked.
"Oh, just a small town," Jenny replied.
"Try 'small city,'" Tsubaki corrected.
"Oh…"
"Yes. So don't be too surprised to see how big it's become," Tsubaki warned.
"There could also be a chance for an Undertown being here as well," Rook noted.
"Mole people?" Jenny guessed.
"More like aliens who've decided to live on Earth but hide from humans by living underground," Ben explained.
"Really?"
"Yup," Makoto added, "We got one underneath Bellwood. Well, technically two if you count the Kaka VIllage as a second one."
"Ka...ka?"
"Cat women."
"Ahh...are the kittens cute?"
"Adorable!" Noel replied, "Just...don't try to expose their faces. You'll get engaged to them."
"I have to start wearing a blindfold everytime I'm down near the village," Ben sighed.
"Why?"
"He used his Omnitrix to repair their DNA more or less," Makoto shrugged, earning a confused look from the robot girl, "...Oh yeah. They originally couldn't go over 100 because of something in their genetic DNA or something...sciency stuff."
"Ahh, I see," Jenny noted, "...Oh hey! Is the highschool the same?"
"Not sure," Ben replied, "Do you want to check that first?"
"Of course! ...Jumpin' jimminies, I haven't been to class in ninety years! Oh, I'm in for a lot of make-up work, huh?"
"...You never graduated?" Tsubaki guessed.
"It's fine if ya didn't," Makoto spoke, "Ben didn't either, so he had Tsubaki as a tutor and he had to take online classes."
"Only for a few hours," Ben defended.
"Should never have agreed to that bet," Tsubaki scowled.
"Bet?"
"She made the mistake of betting Ben to pass all his online classes with perfect grades in an hour for as many smoothies as he could drink," Makoto explained, "She forgot he had two genius aliens a ton smarter than humans."
"Grr…"
"Shutting up."
"Oh, I know just where it is!" Jenny noted, "It wasn't all that big aside from the football field behind it…"
"This...is a lot bigger," Jenny gawked, looking at the two story building in the shape of a diamond if viewed from above with several smaller buildings in the back and a small stadium behind all of them.
"More people meant more rooms were needed. More rooms means the need for a bigger place," Tsubaki noted.
"Oh...still, wow…" Jenny awed..before giving a light annoyed frown, "I wonder if there's a version of the Crust Cousins in this time."
"The who?"
"A pair of cousins that were more into fashion and themselves than anything else," Jenny explained.
"Let me guess, they were also the typical spoiled rich girl types that looked down on others because they weren't rich?" Makoto guessed with a frown.
"Big time," Jenny replied.
"Picked on you because you weren't like everyone else?"
"Yup."
"I can relate…" Makoto sighed, "First year...three really nasty girls decided to pick on me because I was a Beastkin, and just as one of them tried to slap me...Noel jumped in front to defend me, which resulted in me grabbing her and causing that rich spoiled girl to miss. Oh ho...and guess what? She tried to claim I attacked her! And when Noel tried to defend me...she and her two cronies talked down to her because her family wasn't rich...thank god Tsubaki put them in their place."
"Member of the student council," Tsubaki explained.
"Student council? Never heard of that," Jenny noted.
"A group of students that help organize events and abide by the rules around the school."
"Ah."
"School has changed a lot...now there are an insane amount of school activities to keep the students occupied." Ben spoke, "Teachers are still evil half the time."
"Oh definitely," Makoto nodded in agreement, "Especially the ones that favor certain students over others."
"I see school has only changed a little…" Jenny muttered.
"True, but one thing hasn't changed at least," Mai spoke as she looked at a group of students talking and laughing, "Friends being able to hang out during and after school."
"Yeah. That'll never change." Makoto smirked, putting her arms around her friends.
"I believe this Earth high school is an odd place for youth. It is seen as a detainment facility but is filled with dear friends." Rook spoke, "On Revonnah, we just take classes off the externet and spend most of the day tending the fields."
"Really?"
"Yes...you see why I wanted to get a post off world." Rook smiled.
"Oh...To you, this is like going to college; as far away from your parents as possible," Makoto guessed.
"Comparably…" he sighed.
"...Given how anti fun your dad looked, can't say I blame ya," Makoto admitted, patting his shoulder a bit.
"He does mean well...but…"
"Totally stuck in his ways, loving but super strict?" Jenny guessed, "Yeah...parents can be like that. But I'm sure he just loves and misses ya."
"Now I wish to return home to reconcile with him…" Rook sighed.
"Road trip?" Ben smiled.
"I know I will regret it...but yes...road trip." Rook smirked.
"Sweet! Outerspace r-" Makoto began before Kajun's badge began to beep, "...dang it."
"I got it," Kajun spoke as she answered, "Yes?...I see...thank you," she looked at the others, "There's suspicious activity at Billions Tower over in Bellwood."
"Well...we know where to head." Ben smirked, "Let's go save the world."
"And this time...Vexus isn't getting away," Jenny added.
"The hell is all the noise up here…?" Ragna muttered, using a secret Undertown entrance that let him reach Bellwood through the subway, "Seriously I swear if pencil neck is starting again, I…"
Ragna stopped when he saw the ship, which belonged to the Vreedle brothers crash through several buildings and into the giant gaudy tower with a solid gold B made to look like a dollar sign.
"...Well...that's not a red flag…" Ragna muttered sarcastically before he noticed the ProtoTRUK flying overhead, "And cue the kid and his team…"
"Hey, Raggy! Want to help us take down an evil robo queen!?" Makoto shouted as they flew ahead.
"...Eh sure. Got nothing better to do," Ragna shrugged as he followed after them, "...Wait. What was that about an evil robot queen?!"
"We'll explain in the truck! Jenny, a hand please," Makoto smiled.
"Who the hell's Jenny?" he asked before a robotic arm grabbed his jacked and yanked him up into the truck, "AH!" he panicked.
"This is Jenny," Ben answered.
"H-" Jenny began before tensing when Ragna pulled his sword out and aimed it at her, "?!"
"Ahh! The heck, dude?!" Ben exclaimed.
"...Sorry. Reflex…" Ragna muttered as he put his sword away.
"He's from a rather apocalyptic future…" Ben explained.
"Putting it mildly…" Ragna grumbled, "Sorry again...sorry just...ugh...Let me guess: good android girl and we're fighting an evil robot bitch that's what...her prototype, or alien in origin?"
"The latter," Mai answered.
"Also heads up...she has Technopathy," Makoto added.
"Meh…" Ragna shrugged.
"...That was a weird response," Jenny noted.
"Meh. Dealt with weirder before," Ragna shrugged, "Yesterday invo…"
"Let's pile on that weird!" Ben spoke as they reached the tower, "Now...if I was a betting man...oof!" he cried as the truck stalled, "Yep...she's hacking the truck…"
"Wait wh-" Ragna began before the truck began to rock back and forth, as if trying to shake them out, "Gah!"
"Ben...do it again!" Makoto panicked.
"NO!" Rook panicked.
"Do what!?" Ragna asked.
"Ben is the vehicle destroyer!" Makoto laughed.
"I never agreed to that title…!" Ben grunted falling on his face as several of the girls landed on him, "My back…"
"Do something greenhorn! Don't this thing have an emergency off button or ejector seats!?" Ragna snapped.
"What...no! Who would put those things in a vehicle!?"
"Anybody!" Ragna snapped.
"Oh! Ejection I can do!" Ben grunted, slapping the Omnitrix to the floor.
"Oh no…" Ragna groaned as he braced himself.
Fourarms stood up as he began picking everyone up, one of his arms punched the top hatch open...before everyone was shot out one by one through it. Ragna and Rook cried in surprise as they were the last to be ejected. Rook realizing he dragged the steering wheel with him. Fourarms jumped it with such force he sent the ProtoTRUK crashing into the ground below. Fourarms landed as Jenny floated down, having grabbed the girls to keep them from a rough landing.
"A little warning next time!" Makoto barked in rage.
"Sorry…" Fourarms muttered before Ragna began to shake him.
"You…!" Ragna growled before the front doors of the tower were kicked down, a large legion of scarb-like robots walking out, "...survive another day, kid. I got something to vent."
"We'll clear a path. Jenny...wanna go settle a score with an old enemy?" Fourarms asked, cracking his knuckles.
"You bet I do," Jenny nodded, a serious expression on her face.
"Then let's make some room gang!" Fourarms shouted as he clapped his arms, sending out a sonic blast which cleared a line through the robots.
"Ha!" Ragna roared, slashing down several robots with his sword.
"Lay down covering fire!" Rook spoke to Noel as they began shooting them down.
"Mai, you and Kajun help any nearby civilians get to a safe distance!" Tsubaki ordered, using her shield to block a robot's attack before kicking it back.
"On it!" Mai saluted as she and Kajun ran off, 'And me without my spear…'
"Hya!" Makoto shouted as she slugged a robot hard in the face, ducking another ones grab from behind before doing a backwards dropkick on it, "Now's your chance, Jenny! Go!"
"Got it!" Jenny nodded as she dashed right through the group, knocking a rogue robot aside as she burst through the front doors.
"We'll catch up! Kick her butt!" Fourarms grunted, punching multiple robots as they seemed to prioritize him as a major threat.
"Can do!"
"Save some for us!" Makoto shouted, jumping over a pair of robots that tried to attack her from both sides, only to end up crashing into each other.
"Vexus!" Jenny shouted, flying forward and into the lab of the tower.
"Oh Jenny!" Vexus spoke, sitting before a monitor as she watched her robots be made, "Amazing how easy it is to build some troops...humans made something...impressive. I'm almost at a loss for words!" she laughed, spinning her chair around as she stopped to face Jenny.
"This ends now, Vexus," Jenny frowned, landing as she stepped forward.
"Oh? Is that so?" Vexus said as she stood up, "Well, what if you're not the only person I'm expecting right now?"
"Huh?"
"Yes. I am also waiting on...what was his name again? ...Ah yes. Ben Tennyson," Vexus recalled as she smirked a bit, "You see, Benjamin has a little something I want."
"You want Ben's watch…" Jenny realized, "What good does his Omnitrix do you? You don't even have DNA to rewrite!"
"True. But what if I were to use it to create an army?" Vexus retorted, "You see, I've learned quite a bit about the future while waiting on you, and it truly is fascinating. You see..while it is true that machines do not have DNA…" she paused as she motioned to a semi-large machine, "Data can somewhat be copied."
"Data…" Jenny asked.
"This Omnitrix as I learned from touching it...can turn DNA...into Data...oho. What a wonderful invention. Truly, the masterpiece of the great genius of three...arguably five galaxies, Azmuth...an eternal thorn in my side...before you that is..." she grumbled the last part, "But regardless...using a machine as simple as this, I can transfer the data within the Omnitrix into some of my new troops, giving them the powers of every single alien species within. Imagine a whole group of your friend Benjamin...but at my every beck and call."
"...Wait...Ben said his nemesis Vilgax did that already…" Jenny spoke.
"Hmm?"
"You're just copying someone else's plan."
"What?"
"Yeah! You're just doing what someone else succeeded in and still lost at!" Jenny declared.
"...Blast. Should've looked into that," Vexus whispered to herself, "...Oh wait. Did this 'Vilgax' ever think of having his machines as extensions of himself? Or rather…" she paused as the robots already made and still being made all turned towards Jenny.
=Like me?= they all asked in unison.
"Uh-oh…" Jenny realized, "One was bad enough...but an army of you…"
"Is a nightmare…= Vexus and the robots smirked.
"I won't let you win!" Jenny declared as she transformed her fists into giant spikes boxing gloves.
"Then come on, Jennifer…" Vexus paused as she held her arms open at her sides, "Show me what you've got, because I certainly won't hold back."
At that, the two flew at one another. Jenny punched Vexus, knocking her higher into the air only for her to flip around and swing her legs to kick the android girl back into the ground. Jenny growled as she flew back up and tackled Vexus through the roof and into the sky above Billions tower. The two pushed one another back before tilting their heads forward. Jenny fired lasers from her ponytails as Vexus blasted beams from her eyes. The two blasts met in mid air, causing sparks of energy to fly through the air as the energy began to gather and fight for dominance before exploding, sending them both flying away from one another.
The two flew around the tower and curved around it before slashing at the back of the tower. The two grunted as they began punching and kicking each other back and forth. Jenny grabbed Vexus's next punch before swinging her around and slamming her into the tower. Vexus growled before an extending punch struck her and she was sent through multiple walls and floors before being punched back outside. Vexus corrected herself as she turned to see Jenny flying at her.
Vexus smirked as she ducked back in time to dodge a punch. The evil former queen of the Cluster connected her legs together and kicked them forward, sending Jenny slamming into a wall. Vexus flew around and then U turned back before slamming a punch into Jenny, sending her flying through the wall and inside. Jenny skidded to a halt crashing through a couple walls. Jenny raised her arms as they opened and unfolded twin bunker shields as she used them to block a powerful blast fired from Vexus. The resulting explosion created a large hole as Jenny lowered her shields to take in the damage caused.
"Ahahaha...we are evenly matched, my dear...what you can do...I...can do," Vexus laughed, floating down and walking closer, "The only difference...is that I don't need to run home to mommy when I'm feeling a little low...oh...wait...I forgot...your Mommy's gone~" she laughed.
Jenny glared as her eyes shone. She held her hand out as it opened and unfolded to reveal a large plasma cannon. Vexus paused for a second only to be blasted as she was forced back outside by the explosion. Vexus growled as she regained her stability in the air only to be grabbed by Jenny's arm and swung back into the walls of the tower. Vexus freed herself only to grunt as Jenny reformed her right leg into a giant variation of her boots with spikes along it and kicked with it, slamming Vexus back inside again. Jenny aimed and fired multiple beams from her hands and ponytails, each one pelting and slamming Vexus deeper into the ground before blasting her through it.
Vexus roared, erupting from the pile of rubble only to stop as Jenny leaned back and balanced on her hands. Her legs and ponytails reformed into megaphones, the legs megaphones more blaster shaped compared to the ones on her head as they lined up. A microphone formed from her chest as she took a deep breath before screaming as loud as possible into it. The sound wave amplified by the first Megaphones as they were fed into the sonic cannons. Vexus crossed her arms as powerful sonic blasts slammed into her and sent her crashing down lower and lower before slamming into the lobby.
"Ugh...well...this...I am impressed…" Vexus' voice chuckled as she rushed down the hallway and grabbed Jenny, slamming her into the wall ,"You've never shown abilities such as this before…"
"Let's say...I learned some new tricks from my friends…" Jenny grunted as she struggled to get out of Vexus' grip.
"Oh...and where are these friends now?" she taunted.
"Turn around!" Fourarms spoke as he smacked a pillar into Vexus, sending her flying away and splintering the concrete pillar to dust, "Ya know the sonic cannon trick blew out all our eardrums…" he complained, dropping the remains of his makeshift club.
"What?!" Makoto shouted outside.
"...Oops. Sorry…" Jenny whispered as he helped her up.
"It's fine. J-" Fourarms began before he was suddenly blown back by a pair of lasers," Gah!"
"Ahh Benjamin…" Vexus' spoke as she hovered out of the dust cloud, "Just the person I wanted to see."
"I hate when the crazy evil person uses my full name...Reminds me of that evil teacher who hated me," Fourarms grunted, shaking off the stinging pain.
"Hmph. Cute…" Vexus smirked as she moved up to him, putting a foot on his chest before tapping the Omnitrix symbol, causing him to revert back to Ben, "There...easier to get what I want from you."
"Never since Vilgax have I hated such a simple thing so much…" he grunted, "So you know what the Omnitrix is by now, huh...greatest invention in ever…"
"Yes. To think Azmuth would entrust something as valuable as it to you," Vexus stated as she moved off him before picking him up by the scruff of his shirt, "Too bad you'll have to relinquish it."
"Tough luck...you try and forcefully remove it, failsafe activates."
"Ahh true, but you forget one of my powers, young flesh-wearer…" Vexus smirked, flexing her hand a bit as she reached for the Omnitrix.
"I wouldn't do that…" he grunted trying to move, "Trust me, you really don't do that...It's gonna hurt us both in equal amounts…"
"Silence...as if Azmuth could make a machine I can not manipulate…" she laughed tapping it, suddenly the Omnitrix began glowing brightly, "Oh but he sure did try…" she smirked.
"Ben!" Jenny panicked.
"Might...might wanna step back…" Ben chuckled weakly, "Oh this is gonna hurt again…"
"?!" Vexus tensed as she quickly threw Ben away just in time as a large green shockwave came off of the Omnitrix.
"Ooh right on time…" Ben grunted, "See Azmuth hated how I tried hacking it last time...he...ain't gonna let that happen again." he coughed, "Ooh he made it stronger so it stings with the stupid...wait for it...holgram call in three, two...one."
=Ben Tennyson, I can not believe you would...Is that Vexus? She's still alive? Oh boy...and here I thought the last century was kind of nice...ugh...talk about bitter disappointments= a voice spoke as a giant hologram of an aging Galvan with whiskers sighed; looking around, he then paused on Jenny =Oh now that is impressive…=
"Wasn't me...her…"
=I should have known, you greedy little brat…= Azmuth sighed =And here I thought I was rid of you when your child took your throne=
"Gh?!" an annoyed expression appeared on Vexus' face for a moment at that
=Honestly...here you are once again trying to take my work like a greedy little child… Act your age, Vexus! You're well over two thousand years old! You tried the same with Ascalon once...ah...and look what you did! You uploaded a virus into the Omnitrix...I'll have to reboot it from here to get rid of it=
"Wait, what?" Ben blinked at that, "Wait...AW~ MAN!" he complained, "Azmuth, I'm kinda up a creek here!"
=What? You're a hero. You can save the world without your gadget. Ask your highly advanced beyond her time friend over there. She seems powerful= Azmuth pointed to Jenny =Mmm...The scientist who made you was truly beyond this world's potential=
"Wait, but I…" Ben began as his hologram vanished, "Rude!"
"Wait...What did he just do?!" Jenny asked.
"Uh…" Ben tapped the Omnitrix as he lit up now and again, "Yeah, I'm powered down…"
"Hmm...could be a good chance to take if off you," Vexus smirked.
"Azmuth, you're the dumbest smart guy in the universe!" Ben panicked before Jenny grabbed him, "Woah!"
"Oh I don't…" Vexus began before Jenny flew off, "...Very well. Might as well play this little game of cat and mouse. You'll be the mice..." her wings grew as a feral look appeared in her eyes, "And I'll be the cat..."
"AH!" Makoto gasped as her ears popped and she could hear again, "Ah...oh finally...ah...thank god."
"Ahh...damn robot girl…" Ragna muttered, hitting the side of his head as he kicked a dismantled robot's head to the side, "She's just as bad as the kid…"
"You like she has so many weapons though," Makoto smirked.
"I have a liking for carnage and destruction with skilled hands and tools..." Ragna muttered.
"We should begin dismantling this assembly line," Rook began as he moved to a console, only to stop when another robot, this one designed to look as close to Vexus as possible, grabbed his arm.
=Oh my dear...you don't want to do that=
"EEK! It's Age of Ultron in reality!" Makoto panicked.
=Boo~!= a Vexus drone shouted from behind her, making her jump into Tsubaki's arms.
"Well...I'm not sleeping tonight...again…" Ragna grunted as they all backed away from the second wave of robots.
"Age of what?" Rook blinked.
"Movie that doesn't come out for three more years," Tsubaki explained.
"Shut up and kill them with fire!" Ragna shouted, swinging his sword and cutting down one of the Vexus drones, only for one to strike him, sending him flying away, "I hate robots…" he groaned.
=Oh? And why's that?= a Vexus drone asked.
"Well now that's my business." he countered while holding up his sword, "Also because I don't like you, lady…"
=Oh you hurt my feelings...now let me hurt the rest of you!= she laughed as the Vexus drones arms transformed into laser weapons and began to open fire.
"Grah! Lousy no good pieces of scrap!" Ragna growled, dodging the shots and reflecting them away with the flat of his blade, "This is why I hate robots, particularly those of the female variety!"
"You're so lucky Jenny's not here to hear you say that," Makoto frowned, hiding behind some cover with the others.
"She can be a really rare exception! But for the most part, I stand firm on this!"
"I feel this is a story you never plan to share!" Rook spoke, shooting down several drones before ducking for cover.
"No I will not!" Ragna barked.
"Magister, we have an emergency at the Billions Tower," Tsubaki informed on her badge's communications system, "Robot army controlled by Vexus through a hive mind."
=A Code Validus?= Max asked before sighing =ETA five minutes=
"We'll...try and keep from dying!" Makoto panicked, punching one Vexus drone that tried to attack them.
"Ahh! I h-eek!" Noel yelped, dodging a swipe from a Vexus drone before shooting a shot point blank in its face, "I hope Ben and Jenny are doing okay!"
"We are not doing okay!" Ben yelped.
"She's very determined to get your watch!" Jenny grunted as she avoided laser fire while flying through the air.
"I hate this thing is so powerfulyet useless at times!" Ben complained.
"Jennifer, Benjamin, no need to run…" Vexus began as her claws sharpend, "I just want what's mine!"
"All of the nope!" Ben panicked, "You can't fight back by carrying me…"
"I can't drop you; you can't transform!" Jenny grunted, dodging another attack.
"Just fly me as close to the tower as possible!" he offered, "I can take a rough landing, and you need to be able to fight back!"
"Right!" she grunted while flying down towards the tower, she then shot down before turning up.
Jenny flew up along the side of the tower before tossing Ben up as soon as they cleared the edge of the roof. Ben grunted, rolling across the ground. He landed on his back with a grunt of discomfort; he then looked up and screamed as Vexus flew at him only to be kicked out of her path by Jenny.
"This game is getting tired, dear…" Vexus growled, "I'm going to put an end to this!" she growled, blasting at Jenny who dodged out of the way.
"Sorry, but you got that in reverse. You're not the one ending this…" Jenny replied, "I am!"
"How so? All those years ago, you barely survived after fighting the Armagedroid I had rebuilt, and look what happened. Put into cryostasis for 90 years with no one you knew alive in this day and age," Vexus countered, "What use are you in this day and age?"
"...It's true. Everyone I knew 90 years ago is gone…" Jenny said as she looked at her hands, "I'm in a time where everything is vastly different and unfamiliar...I'm really not sure how I can be of some help in this time. But…"
"Hm?"
"I do know this…" Jenny paused as she looked up at Vexus, a serious expression on her face, "There are good people in this time; people who do the right thing. People who care about each other. As long as people like you exist Vexus., they'll be there to stop them...and I'll make sure I'll be there to help."
"Hm...cute speech. I'd applaud if it wasn't so sickeningly sweet," Vexus huffed, "Still Jennifer, it'll be a shame to see you go offline once I'm finished with you."
"One thing wrong with that, Vexus…" Jenny paused as she crossed her arms, a smirk growing on her face, "You're not fighting just me, remember?"
"Hmm?" Vexus raised a brow at that before a beeping sound was heard, "?!"
"Finally!" Ben exclaimed as the Omnitrix lit up, he then looked as the roster select began spinning out of control, "Whoa...what the heck?"
"Ah yes that…" Azmuth spoke, appearing on his shoulder.
"Bwah!" Ben jumped in surprise, "When did…"
"Oh please, Benjamin...I'm not even that busy...if you call, I could help. Thankfully your friend Noel sent me a message about Psychobos, so I put a safeguard against that in the future. Stop being cocky!" he shouted, thwacking his head with a walking stick.
"Ow!"
"Now...it would seem Vexus's Cluster abilities and the virus she made merged with the DNA stream in the Omnitrix...creating something...new and...possibly wonderful," he explained, "I believe you would call this...a New Guy."
"A new alien...made from a digital virus?" Ben blinked.
"Electrical life forms are completely hypothetical...but...something I hope to see one day...a race born of the infinite expanse of technology like that...sadly I have to settle for you being the first...yipee…"
"Hey…"
"Miss Wakeman, would you please stop Vexus from blasting us!" he pointed his staff as Jenny punched Vexus away, "Thank you, my dear, now please keep her off us while Ben...ruins what should be a wonderful moment for me."
"You're a confidence booster…" Ben groaned as the dial stopped on a new symbol, "Here goes nothing." he spoke, raising his hand.
"Hold...is this how you use my Omnitrix? Ugh...you are a buffoon. This is a finely tuned device; not a rock!"
"It's how I always do it!" Ben argued.
"Gently!" Azmuth ordered, slapping his head.
"Wow...deja vu…" Jenny muttered at seeing them interact, "It's like me and Mom all over again...perspective is so weird."
"Okay, fine. I'll do it gently, It's hero time!" he cheered, tapping the dial.
Ben's body was covered in black and green like material as it totally covered his body. The Omnitrix formed in his stomach as green lines formed a grid pattern across his entire body. His fingers flexed as white pieces of armor formed on the back of his hands and over each joint of his fingers. A white chest plate with green piping formed over his chest with large armored pauldrons of the same color pattern jutting outward, green orbs forming in the center of the shoulder armor. His forearms were covered in white gauntlets with the same green piping pattern along it, the same green orbs forming at the of the armor. Greaves covered his legs with black armor covering his feet. Finally, a helmet of sorts formed. It was angular and streamlined, extending forward slightly. The top of the helmet was black with green circuit patterns forming along it. Green piping formed ornate spikes along the back and sides of the helmet as a white mouthplate formed. Green eyes flashed open as the new form opened his palms, circles in the center glowing with green energy.
=Whoa…= he spoke as the energy in his hands sparked and took the appearance of flashing light forming images, the energy coursing along his arms as he floated up =What does it even do?=
"You are a being of sentient data and hard light...figure it out!" Azmuth stated.
=Wait. So if I think of a sword, I can...= he began before a sword made of light appeared in his hand, =...Oh that's so cool~=
"What even are you…?" Vexus asked.
=Not sure...but I think I like it!= the new alien cheered =Gonna need a name though…mayb-woah!= he yelped as he dodged a pair of lasers from Vexus =Uh...rude much?=
"Best pay attention boy!" she shouted blasting at him again only for the beams to go through nothing, "What?"
=Holograms...nice= the new alien cheered standing atop the highest point of the tower, =And I could go invisible! Aha...oh I love invisible aliens!= he cheered as he aimed and began shooting a rapid fire barrage of energy blasts from his hands, =I got it...I'll name this guy...ReBoot! Since I'm more or less a walking video game character who can download anything from a video game!=
"Cute…" Vexus frowned, about to shoot another pair of lasers at him before Jenny tackled her from the side.
=I think you forgot I'm not your major concern! I'm gonna go kick you out of this towers system, no M'kay?= he laughed as he flashed away in a blur of data like light.
"What!?" Vexus asked shocked only to be struck by a giant mace from Jenny, "Gah! Jennifer, you are trying my patience!"
"And you have long since lost mine!" Jenny declared as she formed twin energy cannons from her arms and began shooting.
"This...is...getting...exhausting!" Ragna grunted cutting down another drone, in the process stabbing his sword in the ground to keep him from falling over. He then grunted when two of the Vexus drones tackled him over and sent him skidding across the ground, "E….ah...even...if I powered up...I'd just be extending this stupid game till I ran out of energy again…"
"The machine...it is recycling all the drones we destroy...we are trapped in an endless loop!" Rook grunted shooting several down.
"And we can't get close enough!" Tsubaki shouted, blocking a strike from a drone before deflecting another's laser with her sword, "We just need an opening to get to it!"
=Whoa! It is nasty up in here…= at that everyone turned to see all the screens display Ben's newest form ReBoot on them =Man, she really did a number on these computers…=
"A new form?" Makoto blinked.
=Yup! And guess what? I'm more or less a walking video game character!=
"...Oh, that is so cool~!" Makoto squealed as her tail was swishing like crazy at that, said tail ending up smacking a few drones in the process
=I'm gonna burn her control out of the computer= he explained =You guys hang on 'till I'm done=
"How long will that take!?" Ragna barked
=Huh, what? I'm sorry, I finished so long ago I got bored= he yawned.
"You're messing with me, aren't ya kid?"
=Well, I could shut the drones down, too...but ya gotta say it!= he laughed.
"Grr…"
=Come on...say it~=
"Never!" he barked, stabbing another drone.
=Oh come on. Just say my name and I'll stop the drones for you…=
"Oh you just suck, kid, you know that!?"
=I'm waiting~=
"...Ugh! Fucking fine! Just stop these damn things, Ben!"
=Now that wasn't so hard was it?= he laughed as the drones all shut down, =Well...aside from the pain to your pride= he laughed walking out of the computer =But hey what are friends for!=
"Grr…"
"So...you can hack anything now?" Tsubaki asked.
=Yep…= he nodded =Oh BTW, next time Makoto wants your secrets, I'll just jump into your computer and find them!=
"Yes!/You wouldn't…" Makoto cheered while Tsubaki frowned.
=It's what you get for dragging us into this nonsense without telling us…= ReBoot countered as he leaned back and floated into the air =Come on. I was able to lock Vexus out of the computers, but we still gotta stop her. Plus...I think she's starting to notice=
"Notice what?" Ragna asked as the wall exploded.
"You little human meat sacks…" Vexus growled as she floated through the newly formed hole in the wall.
"Eek!" Noel yelped as she hid behind Makoto.
"Never in my entire life have I met such an insufferable group of flesh-bags!" Vexus snapped before taking a deep breath, "I apologize. I'm usually far more composed. It's just...well, I'm a little bit…" her eyes narrowed as her claws grew, "Absolutely livid."
"Ahahaha...She's actually really...scary…" Makoto laughed awkwardly, backing up.
"Given the killing intent that she is giving off, agreed," Rook added.
"Now before Jennifer and Benjamin get here…" Vexus began as she looked at each member of the group, "Which of you shall I make an example of first? The white-haired young man, the Revonnahgander...or perhaps one of the girls?"
"Yeah right, bitch! Like we'd let you take us down!" Ragna snapped, "Damn it! Where'd he go…"
=What? Had to be sure I locked her out!= ReBoot spoke, appearing behind Vexus as he formed a giant sword and swung it, the impact sending her flying into the machine=And she's outta here!=
"Gah! You…!" Vexus began with a growl before Jenny appeared before her, "?!"
"Looks like to me your plans are failing you...again," Jenny smiled.
"..."
"What's wrong? At a loss for words?"
"Yeah! We beat ya now!" Makoto added.
"Beat me? Oh no no no…" Vexus spoke as she gave a low chuckle, "I may have lost today, but I haven't truly been beaten."
"Hmm?"
"You know I'll try this again and again, Jennifer. I won't rest until this mudball of a planet is underneath my heel," Vexus continued as she focused on Jenny, "And no matter what you do to me, I'll just survive...a planet sized explosion couldn't end me. The Armagedroid couldn't end me when it turned on me...The only way you can truly stop me XJ-9...is to end me."
"We could just lock her up in the same super prison we're building for Vilgax…" Tsubaki offered.
=I'm sure old Vilgy would love someone as crazy as him to hang out with...ew...I just pictured them falling in love...Hrrkk…oh my virtual realistic tummy...I'm gonna throw up pixels...=
"Do it on me, and you get punted off this tower, kid," Ragna growled.
"Would they even stain…" Makoto pointed out.
"It's the principle!"
"That's your answer? Lock me up~?" Vexus laughed.
"You know...it would make sense. Out of sight...out of mind," Jenny smiled, making one of Vexus's eyes twitch, "Plus maybe you can finally get the help you need, Vexus. You haven't been looking so good even since before this whole thing started."
"...What are you implying?" Vexus asked with a scowl.
"She's saying you're looking more like an old hag," Ragna bluntly stated.
"Also she's been losing it up there…" Jenny added, spinning a finger around while pointed her head.
"Ahh! How..how dare you!" Vexus snapped.
"Sh...she also does sound kind of old," Noel added.
"SILENCE!"
"Ahh!" Noel yelped as she hid further behind Makoto.
"How dare you all talk to me like this?! I will crush each and every single one of you!" she growled.
=Not today= Ben's voice spoke as she saw Upgrade jump and phase into Jenny's back.
"Whoa…" she muttered as a body suit in the same black and green pattern as Upgrade molded around her, "This is freaky…"
=Yeah I know, but build something= Upgrade spoke, his head forming from her shoulder.
"Ah...Don't do that please!" she begged, forming her giant punching fist...only for it to double in size as the knuckle spikes became drills with drills on it, "Wow~"
"...Oh you think you're clever?" Vexus growled as she shot out of the machine.
=Lady, we're adorable= Upgrade quipped =Also, guys, stand back...me and Jen got this=
Ragna was about to protest before Tsubaki held a hand up, "...You're lucky those robots tired me out a bit."
"Ha!" Vexus roared as she rushed at Jenny, only to be struck by the new fist as it let out a shockwave that sent her flying though the very machine which built her drones and tore it apart.
"...Wow," Jenny whispered as she looked at her fist.
=Awesome, right?= Upgrade asked =Whatever you make, I'll give it a boost like you've never felt before=
"So all my weapons are upgraded...Oh, that's right...that's what he does...Ok. This is gonna be fun!" Jenny smirked as her hand morphed into a giant beam cannon.
"Ugh...That…" Vexus began as she crawled out of the remains..only to see what was waiting for her, "...Oh scr..." the beam cannon fired a massive green laser that smashed her through the remains and then the wall behind her...and then the several behind that wall.
"Maybe we shouldn't make this a regular trick of ours…" Jenny realized, seeing how far the blast went out past the building.
=No, yeah, I got that…= Upgraded nodded, forming from her shoulder again.
"Sir, Code Ben," Tsubaki deadpanned into her comm.
=Already had the repair team sent out before us= Max replied in the same tone.
"There's a code named after you involving destruction caused by a fight? I feel for you," Jenny cringed.
=I'd like to just arrest the spooky alien robot lady so I can go home and forget the bad things of these last two days ever happened= Upgrade spoke as he poked his head out and blasted Vexus as she tried to sneak attack them =Also, watch your back, Jenny=
"Noted!" Jenny nodded before ducking under a swipe from Vexus and kicked her back.
"Insufferable brats!" Vexus snarled, her claws extending and producing chainsaw blades.
=Maybe it's time to cut her down to size= Upgrade noted.
"You said it," Jenny smirked.
Her arms twitched before opening up at her elbows to split into three arms, each wielding a sword. Upgrade went to work and reshaped them into six different arms wielding chainsaw scimitar-hybrids with the chains made of green plasma. Her arms became blurs as the two shot by one another. Jenny smirked as Vexus tensed when her claws were shredded to pieces.
"This...is the greatest day in my life…" Makoto whispered in awe.
"Down, girl," Tsubaki deadpanned, keeping a hand on the Beastkin's shoulder.
"Should we be lucky Kajun is not here and aiding Mai in keeping civilians away?" Rook asked.
"Massively…"
At that, Jenny extended her arm as she punched Vexus through the roof. She followed up by combining her ponytails as they turned into a giant drill which was further upgraded by glowing green energy forming around the spiral of the drill, giving it the image of an energy drill.
=References!= Upgrade shouted as they tore through the roof after her.
"Gah!" Vexus gasped as she quickly recovered in the air, some cuts and dents on her body as she glared down, "This is getting ridiculous! How could I be pushed back this far?!"
=Uh duh! Because we're a team!= Upgrade shouted before Jenny tackled into Vexus hard, shooting them further into the air.
'How is this possible?! I'm losing once more?!' Vexus thought.
"What say we end this, Vexus?!" Jenny shouted as she threw Vexus away from her, "I'm sure you're getting tired for someone your age."
"GRR!" Vexus snarled at that, her eyes and hands glowing fiercely.
"Ben, any ideas on how we can end this quickly?" Jenny whispered to Upgrade.
=Wait, wait! I know this answer...oh right! Giant laser cannon!= he laughed as he formed his head and focused a large amount of Upgrade into Jenny's cannon, making it double in size as several smaller beam ports formed along its side, his eye formed inside the barrel as it began charging up, =How's this?=
"Ooh~! I like this," Jenny smirked.
=Light it up!= he cheered.
Jenny aimed as she fired and unleashed a powerful and bright beam of green light, which hit and swallowed up Vexus. The beam was so bright, it overpowered the sun for a few seconds. The beam died down after a moment as Vexus floated there for a moment, her body damaged greatly. She let out a very tired groan of pain before...dropping from the sky and landing on a news van, pancaking it.
=That was Harrangue's van, wasn't it?= Upgrade deadpanned as he returned to just being a head on Jenny's shoulder, his eye rotating as he formed a telescope to get a better view below.
"TENNYSON!"
=Yep. It was his van=
"Should...should we run?"
=Yes, before he uses this as an opportunity to make us the bad guys in the news!= he groaned, his eye angling down in rage =Oh I am so gonna hack his laptop with so many popups later…=
"I don't know what those are, but they sound annoying…" Jenny noted as she flew off back to the tower.
"Ahahaha! This is the best day ever…" Makoto whispered once they landed.
=Not the time…= Upgrade deadpanned, side jumping off Jenny as he flashed back to Ben, "For now...let's hurry and get Vexus locked up before one of my bad guys ends up finding her and attempts to repair her.'
"Don't jinx it!" Ragna shouted, running for the elevator before he skid to a halt, "Wait...how do we get down from here? You fried the greenhorn's car...and swisscheesed this building to freakin' kingdom come!"
"He/she did it…" both heroes pointed at each other.
"I don't give a damn who did it; who's gonna get us down?" Ragna demanded.
"Whew…" a voice whistled as they turned to see a Plumber ship stopping just outside for them to jump in, "Whoa...and I thought the damage to Rushmore was bad. So this is what happens when two super powered teenagers let loose together." Max sighed, "You know you kids aren't gonna get off with just a slap on the wrist for this one…"
"Eh heh heh…"
"Hey, can I get some support beams over here?!" Kickin' Hawk demanded.
"Yeah, yeah," FourArms grumbled, carrying several beams over his head before nearly falling over when a blur shot by, "Easy there, XLR8!"
"Sorry-but-I-can't! Gotta-deliver-these-nails-to-Swampfire!" the blur replied in an instant.
"It's times like these that I hate that Gwen told Grandpa about me doing this with Echo-Echo," Humungousaur grumbled at his full size while keeping the tower standing as a few of his other Aliens were fixing the base of it.
"LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN', HUMUNGOUSAUR! WE'D BE WORSE IF KAJUN FAYCOTT DIDN'T READ THE MANUAL AND FIND THE LIFE FORM LOCK!" Rath snapped, wearing a worker's helmet before a hammer clanged on it, "...Rrrrr!"
"Sorry," Wildvine replied from above as a vine reached down to grab it only for Rath to grab the vine and start climbing up.
"LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN', WILDVINE, THE TWELFTH UNLOCKED TRANSFORMATION FROM WHEN WE WERE TEN! RATH'S TURNING YOU INTO MULCH!"
"Big Chill, he's doing it again!" Swampfire called.
"I am not a team mom," Big Chill deadpanned.
"Yet you're the only one of our forms that has kids," Heatblast chuckled, melting another robot into a mold.
"I guess I shouldn't have told him what you did for my house, huh?" Jenny asked, flying up a beam to where Spidermonkey was hanging upside down on a web with an electric drill in each hand.
"Yup, but eh...what's done is done," Spidermonkey shrugged.
"How did we get wrapped up in this when it was your fault?!" Ragna demanded, helping Makoto with some drywall.
"Because you're getting paid and the girls are my apprentices and I ordered them to stay and help," FourArms replied as he walked by.
"Plus...well, do we need to bring up the piles of robots?" Makoto added.
"And let those things roam around town terrorizing people? Tch! No thanks..." Ragna snorted, "Especially if they were like that hag Vexus…"
"And don't forget that we've been banned from ordering any food or drinks until the work's done," Tsubaki noted, looking at some blueprints before shuddering, "Magister Tennyson had to say that until we were done, the only food we'd get is if Noel makes it and only two of us can stomach it."
"More like several," Diamondhead noted, making another mold for Heatblast to pour another melted robot into while chewing on something, "Huh...The parfait's not that bad in this form."
"Thanks!" Noel beamed, wearing an apron as she stood on the side, "Hmm...what to make next? ...Oh I know! 10 Alarm Curry Chili!"
"...We should worry...right?" Ragna asked the others.
"It depends," Big Chill replied, carrying down a Rath frozen in a block of ice, "Aside from Mai, which form do you think would be able to stomach it?"
"...Nevermind. Forget I asked…" Ragna groaned.
"Ooh chili!" Heatblast spoke sniffing it, before looking at the stares from...well himself, "What? ...It smells nice to my flaming nose. Wait, how does an alien of fire smell?"
"Let's just focus on getting the task done," Tsubaki sighed, "Last thing we need right now is being sued by a member of the Billions' family."
"Why does that name sounds so familiar…?" Wildvine whispered.
"Hmm...yeah...now that I think about it…" Diamondhead muttered, "I get the weirdest feeling of deja vu...whenever I hear that name now."
"Mmm-mmmm-mmmm?" Heatblast asked with a mouth full of literal flaming chili.
"Maybe you once knew someone with that last name in school?" Mai suggested.
"Eh, maybe," Swampfire shrugged before XLR8 zipped by, "XLR8, these are screws, not nails!"
"Oopsie-daisy! Sorry-Swampfire!" XLR8 apologized as he went by once more, "These-are-supposed-to-go-to-Spidermonkey!" he tripped on a toolbox, sending him screaming into Diamondhead, who barely moved.
"Easy there," Diamondhead scolded as XLR8 groaned and slid down his back to fall flat on his face.
"Grr…."
"...Some of those nails hit Ragna, didn't they?"
"Kid…" XLR8 looked up to see a glaring Ragna, screws in his jacket, "I'm giving you a five second headstart...all of you."
"Um...I'm holding up the building, so can I can be excused from the beatdown so we don't get in bigger trouble?" Humungousaur asked.
"Yes. The rest of you…" Ragna began as he slipped out of his jacket, cracking his knuckles as he grabbed his sword, "Run...now."
"OH GEEZ!" XLR8 freaked as he zoomed off.
"Is he always that angry and…'colorful' in his language?" Jenny asked the girls as Ragna began to chase some of the Aliens around, blushing a bit from his choice of words.
"Eh sometimes he worse…" Makoto muttered.
"AH! He freed Rath!"
"RATH'S GONNA BEAT HIMSELF WITH HIMSELF!"
"...But he's got his good points...at times..." the squirrel girl added, saying the last part in a deadpanned tone.
"Ragna or Ben?" Rook asked with a smirk.
"Yes," Makoto deadpanned.
"...That…"
"It was a trick question, and I am not falling for it."
"There there, Rook...one day you'll get her," Noel assured.
"Not likely…" Makoto shrugged her shoulders.
"I was on your side, you dumbass Tiger!" Ragna snapped as Rath somehow stole his sword.
"Come back here, Ragna the Bloodedge!" Rath roared, swinging it around randomly and wildly.
"This time is going to take time to get used to," Jenny sighed, earning a laugh from Makoto, "What? What did I say?"
"You punned," Tsubaki deadpanned as Kajun whacked Makoto with a paper folding fan.
"Ow!"
"No...two of you is bad enough. We don't need you pulling Jennifer into it," Kajun simply scolded.
"HEY, KAKA LADIES! HE'S UP HERE!" Ragna shouted into an open manhole.
"Uh-oh," Rath gulped before running away, dropping the sword.
"Hey-get-back-here!" XLR8 shouted.
"LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN', XLR8 OF THE ORIGINAL TEN! RATH IS A LOT OF THINGS, BUT HE'S NOT DUMB WHEN IT COMES TO NOT WANTING TO BE MARRIED TO A LOT OF CAT LADIES! RATH IS OUTTA HERE!"
"This is gonna be a long night," Humungousaur sighed as the sun finished setting.
GT: Well...We show you the downside to causing too much damage and not being able to repair it all at once or have a secret identity.
SZ: Indeed...but that's what happens when you're battling evil
GT: Well...battling evil without a secret identity or the power to repair everything that was damaged from the moment the villain first appeared at least.
Z0: The unfortunate truth is that the simple fact of awesomeness means uncontrolled destruction.
SZ: *nods* Anyways, where are done for now, and I think we will take a small break from this story for a bit to get back to our toku stuff.
GT: Eeyup. So until we come back to this, please read and review!
Z0: We done...good, cause I have to give my destruction god doggo a bath. Come here boy! *giant demon hound runs around destroying the place to escape his cleaning even stomping on my co-writers in the process*