As far as Buzz was concerned, being a Plumber was a great job traveling the galaxy, meeting interesting people helping them. But, of course, there were downsides, like the paperwork and stakeouts were the most boring part of fighting crime.

Buzz was sitting in the passenger seat of Ben's car with Ben, tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. The two were watching an open road leading out of Bellwood.

According to some of Kevin's contacts, people working for Dumas were smuggling Apokolips weapons through Bellwood Gwen, and Kevin was in Kevin's car on the only other road leading out of town.

Buzz tapped his badge "anything on your end" he asked.

"No, Buzz," his girlfriend Gwen answered, sounding a little frustrated either with him or how long the stakeout was taking.

"You sure Kevin's contacts were right about them leaving tonight," Ben asked.

"For the third time, Tennyson, yes," Kevin said, sounding frustrated. The four of them had been on a stakeout for nearly five hours now, and there hadn't been any sign yet.

"We should have grabbed some Mr. Smoothie or something," Ben said

Buzz was going a jab about Ben being addicted when he noticed a truck without its headlights coming up the road "hang on," Buzz said, watching the truck. It looked like a mover van. The license plate was missing.

"Heads up, they're here," Buzz said

"Follow them. We'll meet you, and we can cut them off," Gwen said. Ben nodded before driving off, following after them. Buzz transformed into going ghost. He phased out of the car and followed the car grabbing onto the roof. He looked down to see two menacing-looking guys with Apokolips weapons on their laps.

"Man, I gotta bad feeling about driving on Ben 10's turf," the guy in the passenger seat said, looking around paranoid "you never know which one of those alien freaks he's going to turn into

The driver scoffed "relax, he ain't the bat or anything guy might be able to turn into all those aliens, but the lights ain't on upstairs if ya catch my meaning" he laughed at his joke, "that doofus will be drinking smoothies while we're back on the highway to our guys in Chicago."

"You think the boss ain't spreading himself too thin we should be taking out the guys in Wisconsin before going after the Chicago families," the passenger seat guy said

"Didn't you listen to the plan? The boss is going to take those two out at the summit next week," the driver said

That sounded interesting

"Mind telling me more" Buzz asked

"Sure, see the Bo-" the driver stopped looking up to see Buzz lean over the top of the windshield. He gave the two gun runners a cheeky wave. They tried to blast them, and thanks to Henry, he knew those weapons were dangerous, so before they could pull the blaster, he phased into the truck. Turning his legs solid, he kicked them in the face knocking them back. Then, grabbing the blasters, he used his ghostly fire to melt them, blasters.

Slamming down on the brakes, he stopped just as Kevin's car pulled up. He waved at Gwen, who just raised rolled her emerald green eyes with a slight smile on her face.

The two mobsters were looking dazed and were starting to notice that they were surrounded "so you want to tell me about this summit" Buzz asked, "or do you want to risk taking your chance with Ben 10 and his friends."

The driver who had seemed so confident he could get away with getting out of town now seemed to be sweating nervously. "Lambeau stadium. It's taking place at Lambeau stadium during the Bears and Packers game," he said quickly.

'Of course, it is during a Packers game,' Buzz thought.

Buzz smiled "thanks," he said before putting cuffs on him and the other driver phasing out.

It was game day at Lambeau stadium, and everyone was excited, waiting for the action to get started, but Ben and his team were waiting for a different kind of action to get started.

Gwen, Ben, and Kevin incognito were sitting in the audience while Buzz was going to be in the private box that they believed the conference was going to be in since it was one previously owned by one of Vlad's shell companies if there was anywhere in the stadium that the meeting was going to be that's where

"Keep your comms on. If we know where the Apokolips weapons are stashed, we can get them all off the streets," Ben instructed. Buzz nodded "aye aye, captain," he said with a joking salute.

Gwen rolled her eyes, walking over to him and giving him a peck on the cheek "be careful," she asked
"Aren't I always?" Buzz asked with a hopefully reassuring smile

Buzz smiled at her before he turned invisible, heading into the stadium through a wall. He headed up towards the private box. Buzz noticed the swank-looking decorations: a round table with three chairs facing the game and a second table with expensive-looking food.

'Sheesh, between that count who kidnapped Luke and these guys, maybe Crime does pay,' Buzz thought.

The door opened, and an employee at the stadium let in two men. The first was an albino man, pure white, dressed in a pitch black suit with a silver tie clip. Everything about Buzz screamed danger to him as he, for a second, looked right at the corner where Buzz was. He grunted

"Something wrong, boss" the guy following was a short little man with a flat head, asked

"No, nothing," the man said, taking his seat.

Shortly after came a young woman with her red hair in a ponytail in a green dress with black stockings and heels. A big blonde guy who looked like he could be a pro football player followed after she took the seat

"Where's Dumas Tombstone," she asked the scary-looking guy Tombstone 'I don't want to know how he got that name,'

"He'll be here soon enough, Vid," Tombstone said, looking towards the door. An unassuming man in a gray and black suit came in, followed by a guard who could be his brother "gentleman lady, thank you for coming," he said, taking the third seat with a small condescending smile on his face.

"Take off that mask," the woman Vid snapped, annoyed, while Buzz raised an invisible eyebrow. What mask
"Indeed, Dumas, there's no need to hide behind a mask in the current company," Tombstone said he said seemingly annoyed

Dumas raised an eyebrow before he chuckled for a moment "we all wear masks, the ones we use to cover our faces for polite society" Dumas raised a hand to his face a hologram started to fade away, revealing an outfit that wouldn't be out of place at a renaissance fair metal mask covering his face "and the ones that are necessary."

Buzz bit back, growl not to snarl at who Dumas turned out to be, Michael Morningstar AKA Darkstar, a power-hungry sociopath who used girls from his class as food
The last anyone had seen Darkstar, and he'd tried to use some magical artifact to restore his good looks and, of course, gain power for himself

'Dumas' Buzz realized 'the guy who wrote the three musketeers and its sequel, the man in the iron mask, figures Michael would use something like that as his mobster name. But, of course, he probably didn't think anyone would make the connection to him.'

"And the other mask," the woman Vid asked.

"For the sake of your appetites, my lady, I'll keep that one on," Dumas, aka Michael, said

Vid shrugged "fine, whatever, let's get this over with" a waiter brought over glasses and a bottle of champagne "here's how it is Vlad Masters ran the crime around here with him gone. I've been the one keeping the organization he built from falling apart with certain exceptions."

"Your loyalty to Masters is understandable," Tombstone said, swirling the wine in his cup "he took you in trained, you taught you, and you rose in the ranks to where you are. It's understandable commendable even, but ultimately foolish."

Vid gripped her glass tightly. "Masters took everything too personally. His petty grudge with the Fenton family became his downfall; a criminal empire should be like a business."

"And like a business, it needs someone at the top unquestionable leader," Michael added, "someone with the ambition to take the business to the next level."

Vid scoffed "we know all about your 'ambition,'" she insulted, "moving in on the Chicago family's turf trafficking weapons from APOKOLIPS. Does that mask you wear keep the oxygen from going to your brain? It's a miracle we haven't had Superman and the rest of the league hounding us."

Michael laughed, actually laughed, and then he said what no doubt was the stupidest thing Buzz had probably ever heard anyone say "if Superman comes, I'll go down in history as the man who killed him"

That was the dumbest thing Buzz had ever heard. Anyone, did Michael seriously think he was going to kill Superman? Apparently, Vid and Tombstone thought the same thing judging by the wide-eyed incredulous look on their faces "that's why I called you here to give you one chance to join me or be exterminated."

Tombstone rose. "I'm leaving," he said

"So am I," Vid said. "I've got better things than waste my time dealing with lunatics thinking they can kill Superman."

"And here I was hoping things would go peacefully," Michael said, his hands glowing with mana. He fired beams at the other two guards knocking them into a wall.

Tombstone shrugged off the blast like it was nothing while Vid snarled, clenching her fist, a silver ring on her finger spreading out, becoming a red and black armor rushing at her.

Michaels's bodyguard ran up between Michael and Vid taking off an ID mask and revealing he was a Necrofriggan in a suit. He let out a blast of icy cold mist from his mouth. Vid flipped over the freezing breath, grabbing the Necrofriggan, throwing him face first into the window glass rained down.

Vid then flew at Michael throwing a punch. Michael blocked with a shield Tombstone ran him from the other end, throwing a punch and hitting him in the head, a wonderful sight that made Buzz smile 'maybe that's because he used my girlfriend like a battery.'

Michael recovered, firing an explosive wave that tore up the room. Buzz turned visible, making a shield pushing himself back, and crashing against the wall.

All three mob bosses looked at Buzz like a hungry predator 'oh crud,' he thought.

"Well, it looks like we've got a rat among us," Michael said.

"A Fenton, I'm going to enjoy this," Vid said with a savage grin.

Oh, double crud.
Buzz banked to the left, dodging a blast that nearly took his head off. He could feel the heat from the blast against his ear' figures, the chick who worked for Vlad has ghost weapons, ' Buzz thought before he got rushed by Tombstone and hit with a punch that knocked the wind out of him. Tombstone grabbed the back of his head, pulling his nose towards his knee]

Buzz turned intangible, passing through Tombstone's knee and through the floor Buzz came out behind Tombstone and tried to hit him. Instead, the Tombstone turned on his heels, moving surprisingly fast for a guy his size, and their fists collided.

Buzz grits his teeth but doesn't scream. He figured out why this guy was called Tombstone. It felt like his body was made of granite. Before Buzz could make another move, a whip out of Darkstar's corrupted mana grabbed him around the waist and pulled him through the window.

Vid took the chance to blast Michael sending him flying out of the room. He rolled down the bleachers landing with a satisfying crash against the railing. His mask cracked down the middle. He ripped it off, showing his disfigured face "you were right. Looking at your face does make me lose my appetite," Vid mocked before she turned her arms, opening fire at both Tombstone and Buzz.

Firing a barrage of ecto bullets, Buzz brought up a shield, the blasts exploding off them. Buzz pulled out his badge "guys, I could use some backup now," he called urgently.

While dodging a beam from an enraged Michael, "I'm going to drain every drop of mana from your body until you look like a mummy," he shouted at Vid, firing blasts at her.

Vid leaped out, flying with a jet pack built into the back of her armor Tombstone leaped out, punching Vid in the face and sending her flying through the air over the field.

Underneath Vid, tendrils of goop made from what looked like purple mud enveloped Vid the mob boss tried to break out, but her blasts did not affect the Lenopan. The purple sludge turned into a dome with a face and the Omnitrix symbol on one side "sorry we're late," Ben said

There was the sound of a metal baseball bat hitting a sidewalk Buzz looked to see Kevin standing over Tombstone, his body covered in a steel plating, "but Dumas had a small army of goons in case anyone with powers showed up."

"You beat my men," Michael exclaimed skeptically "no, that shouldn't be possible."

A blast of mana hit Michael trapping him in a dome. Michael tried to absorb it, but it shocked him "you can't absorb my mana, Michael, thanks to this, an Ectonurite talisman," Gwen explained. Around her neck was a purple necklace with a black circle inside of it on a leather cord.

"Very clever, Lovely Gwen. How did you know it was me" Michael asked

"I suspected it was you because of your alias Alexander Dumas wrote the man in the iron mask, Michael," Gwen explained, "now, where are you keeping your stash of weapons, Apokolips."

"Do you seriously expect me to talk" Michael asked

Buzz landed next to Ben "not really," Ben said, "but I don't need you to talk; I need you to think" tapping the Omnitrix, he transformed into a Martian wearing a white and black body suit covering below the neck everything, but his hands leg the Omnitrix symbol on his arm "thanks to Marstonaut."

"I still think that's a dumb name," Buzz muttered.
"Better than your suggestion," Kevin replied. Buzz ignored it. He thought Red Son had sounded cool.

Ben's eyes glowed "found it, and they're in a warehouse just outside Madison."

Gwen nodded. "I'll call the plumbers. Kevin tells the police the situation has been handled, and the people can be allowed back into the stadium."
Kevin nodded, having restrained Tombstone by leaving him wrapped up in the guardrails, and Vid was left on the field.

Buzz went to grab the unconscious mob boss and put her in cuffs. When she woke up and started to laugh, "thank," she told him.

"For what taking you to jail," Buzz asked, confused as he grabbed her, bringing her up to her feet.

"No, for helping my boss get rid of his competitors," Vid answered.

Before Buzz could ask what she meant, a current surged across her armor, forcing Buzz to let go of her Gwen and Kevin ran down on platforms of mana while Ben flew down.

Buzz and Gwen fired blasts at Gwen, trying to contain her, while Ben slammed down on the Omnitrix, transforming into Wildvine, who sent tendrils of vines to wrap around Vid.

The mobster grinned, tapping a button on her bracer. A small capsule shouted out down from the floor, shattering into red liquid 'that's impossible,' Buzz thought, shocked, watching as Vid vanished along, leaving no trace of her.

"That's impossible. It has to be," Buzz muttered "it just has to be," he muttered again.

Gwen walked up to him with a concerned look on her face. "Buzz, what's wrong."

"Gwen, you're the magic expert. How many ways are there to travel places with water," he asked. He wasn't sure what he saw but wanted to ensure that what he saw wasn't possible.

"Depending on the spell and the properties of the water, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands throughout the galaxy. So why do you need to know" Gwen asked again? Then, reaching out, she held his face between her hands. "Buzz, you're really beginning to scare me. What's wrong."

Buzz reached out, holding her hands with his own "it's nothing, just me seeing things," Buzz told her, not wanting her to worry.
"Okay, if you're sure."

He honestly wasn't, but right now, he'd say he was, but he would be

In the office of a high rise overlooking a city, Vid appeared out of a portal shaking water out of her hair "W back, my love. How did it go."
Vid smiled lovingly, tapping her ring finger. Her armor receded off her body, turning back into the ring "just like you hoped, Tombstone and Dumas are in custody."

She slowly walked over to the chair and its occupant. Draping her arm over the top of the chair, she sat down on the armrest. "I did have to use our emergency escape plan, though," she admitted, "the walking hairball Grizzly. I was expecting maybe those two goody two shoes from Chicago, but Ben Ten himself and his merry band of sidekicks showed up."

"Really, that's a surprise. I thought we were beneath the notice of someone so high up on the heroic food chain," the person said
"Blame Dumas. They were prepared for him. He must have done something to tip them to his operations."

A strong hand reached out, snaking around Vid's waist. It pulled her into the lap of the person in the chair. Vid smiled, looking up into the eyes of Ranger.

"It doesn't matter, my love," he said, "the heroes will win the Apokolips, weapons will be off the street, we'll lay low, absorb Tombstones and Dumas organizations into ours, and then it'll be business as usual, my Queen of crime."

Vid smiled, liking the sound of that "sounds good to me, my King," she said, reaching up and cradling Ranger's face with her hands. She kissed him. The resurrected clone of Danny Fenton kissed her back, holding her tight against him.

"Hi, just a thing before ending the chapter," Deadpool said, taking a sip of something called 'Chimichanga in a can' before doing a spit take on the screen. "WHAT"

Yep

"How is Ranger back," Deadpool asked. "I'd better get an explanation."

Remember that deal he made with Messogog? Do you know the established telepath and master geneticist who once beat Lothor in a fight and put him in a jar? Yeah, Ranger gave him his DNA and memories.

"What does that part about Lothor have to do with anything?

Nothing, it was just a cool fight anyways. So that's how Ranger is back. He's a clone in a brand new body, probably in exchange for some Senzu river-enhanced monsters for Messogog.

Deadpool nodded understandably "ok, got ya filling in a plot hole before anyone complains it's one."

Exactly

"And the Ranger/Vid thing," he asked.

Shock value and it made a good reveal.

"Will we see Ranger fight more against Danny and his friends?"

Probably not PF has other plots he wants to do

Deadpool shrugs "ok, carry on."

"Also, happy birthday to you, PFN," Deadpool said.

Anyway, this is PFN, Number Boy, and Deadpool signing out.