Heyyy! I'm back and here is a new chapter of Ben and Donald 10 series. I do hope you guys are enjoying it. Sorry this one took so long, college, work, and the holidays had me busy. I am in the process of making a new schedule, so stay tuned.
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A fire was raging uriously throughout the apartment complex on the corner of Casey and Rouleau. Firefighters were rushing in trying to quell the inferno while rescuers tried to force their way into the building. Unfortunately, the blaze had broken much of the building's support structures, collapsing entire floors and shattering any possibly means to the upper levels. This was even more troubling as a mother and her son were still trap on the fifth floor.
As the fires burned their home around them, both rushed for the door – the boy, for some reason, was hugging his backpack trying to shield it from the flames. The mother's hand was only inches away from the knob when a large chunk of the ceiling broke off and dropped down between them and the door.
The mother and child backed away and a flaming bookcase tipped over behind them, preventing them from moving back. They heard an ominous creak coming from above their heads and looked up to see a piece of the ceiling break off and start to fall on top of their heads. The mother instinctively pulled her son close and pulled her body around to shield him. The mother and child shut their eyes tight and waited for the end to come…
Only it never did.
They opened their eyes and looked to see Ben as the fire alien that he now called Heatblast holding up the debris.
"Who are you?" The son asked, looking star struck..
Heatblast let out a grunt noise before responding. "I'm here to help," He tossed the debris aside and rubbed his hands together and then started absorbing the flames in the room into his body. He then led the family out the door.
They went out into the hallway to a staircase.
"This way!" As soon as he said that, a chunk of the ceiling broke off and smashed through the wooden stairs. The mother and child looked to Heatblast for help; the molten man stared at the broken stairway with a look that clearly said: 'Are you freakin' kidding me?' "Uh, on second thought, that way."
He pointed to the hallway and they looked to see a dead end with a window. Heatblast then fired a heatray and blasted a hole into the wall and then punched it out of the wall.
After the hole is made, the three see Donald rises from the ground with a new alien. He seems to be a purple tall, humanoid alien. His body can switch between three states of matter, but his solid form is generally blocky and muscular. He wears a blue and red uniform that covers his neck and head. Donald calls this new form Statter as he seemed to have created a platform using his body.
"Climb aboard now." Statter told them as he held his out for them as it was safe to do so.
The mother looked nervous as she gestured her son forward to go first on the platform before the mother got on as well. Statter then moves his body as he glides them down safely before they get off.
That's when a tornado of fire came to the ground before vanishing leaving Heatblast in it's place. The civilians gasped at the sight of the two aliens as they have never seen one before.
The two heroes smiled at each other as they gave each other a fist bump.
"Nice work." Heatblast said to Statter.
"You didn't do so bad yourself." Statter said with a smirk.
The duo then looked to see some of the civilians took pictures of them as Heatblast decided to speak first. "I'm sure you all to thank us personally." Heatblast said haughtily. "But really, it's all in a day's work for – " He gasped, when he saw the boy pull out a set of golden colored trading cards from his backpack. "No way! A gold Sumo Slammer card! Where'd you get it?" He asked, practically crawled on top of the boy. "I've been searching all over for that!"
Sumo Slammers were Ben and Donald's favorite media. They had tons of video games, watched cartoons, and even collected trading cards religiously. They had every colored card except for Golden. They had tried every single card pack they could get their hands on and never got it.
"Dude, you're making us look bad!" Statter tells him but Heatblast didn't care one bit. Sure Statter cares about Sumo Slammers and what not, but at the moment not so much when there's civilians around.
"I don't care." Heatblast shot back before looking back at the boy.
"It was a prize inside a box of Sumo Smacks cereal," the boy answered, looking just as confused as the onlookers scratching their heads. Why would a molten man be interested in a trading card?
"It was a prize inside a box of Sumo Smacks cereal," the boy explained.
Then, the two heard a honk and saw the Rust Bucket pulled up and saw Gwen and Max in the front seat.
"Hey, Super Doofuses!" Gwen yelled impatiently. "The fire was just a diversion to cover up a jewelry store robbery! The bad guys are getting away!"
"What?!" Heatblast and Statter shouted in surprise.
Heatblast looked to the cards and then back to Gwen. "Uh, I knew that."
"Sure you did, now come on Heatblast!" Statter called out as they got into the Rust Bucket and took off.
It started when an alien device did what it did
And stuck itself upon their wrists with secrets that it hid
Now they got super powers, there no ordinary kids
They're Ben and Donald 10! (Ben and Donald 10!)
So if you see them, you might be in for a big surprise
They'll turn into an alien before your very eyes
They're slimy, freaky, fast and strong, he's every shape and size
They're Ben and Donald 10! (Ben and Donald 10!)
Armed with powers, they're on the case
Fighting off evil from Earth or space
They'll never stop 'till them makes them pay
'Cause they're the baddest kids to ever save the day
Ben and Donald 10! (Ben and Donald 10! B-B-B-Ben! Ben and Donald 10! D-D-D-Donald!)
Several blocks away from the building fire, a single car was racing through the streets of downtown Washington D.C., ignoring all traffic signals and nearly running over crossing pedestrians. Two men dressed in stereotypical bank robber clothes – including the ridiculous sock masks – were feeling mighty proud of themselves. They had pulled over an easy heist without any interference from the police, and all it took was destroying the livelihoods of a couple dozen people. They were gonna get away with it…or at least that's what they thought before they noticed the Rust Bucket chasing them. The driver raised a brow under his mask. Since when do the police chase down criminals in beat-up recreational vehicles?
As Max drove, he smelled something burning. He looked to see smoke coming from the seat Heatblast was in due to his molten skin.
"I knew I should've bought those asbestos seat covers when I had the chance." Max commented.
"Sorry, Grandpa, I can't help it." Heatblast apologizes before quipping. "I'm hot."
Soon, Gwen blasted him with the fire extinguisher to put out the fire he set to the seat. It put out the fire on his head that instantly reignited.
"Ten superheroes on that stupid watch and you pick the one with the flaming butt?" Gwen asked annoyed.
"It's not like these things came with powers, so deal with it." Statter told her as he didn't like her attitude towards it. Besides it's not like either of them have an ice alien for this situation.
Gwen didn't like that before she blasted him with the fire extinguisher. Statter, who was covered in foam, just glared at her.
"Was that necessary?" He questions the girl.
"No, but it made me feel better." Gwen said with a smirk.
"Jealous?" Heatblast asked as Gwen blasted his butt with the fire extinguisher again, before Statter grabbed with his stretch arms before tossing it in the back of the Rust bucket to stop Gwen from putting them out even more.
The jewel thieves' tires screech as they made a sharp turn around the corner, but Grandpa Max's superior driving skills got them around safely without losing speed. They were starting to catch up to the thieves as Heatblast and Statter, who squeezed next to his friend, leaned out the window.
"Ready?" Statter asked, readying his arms.
"Born ready." Heatblast confirmed as he put his hands together and formed a fireball in his hands, while Statter made a ball made of giant rock ball the size of a basketball before the two heroes tossed at the robbers' car that hit the back, sending it flying in the air. "Stee-rike!" Heatblast cries out in glee.
he car skidded across the ground and crashed into the concrete wall of the building. The criminals grunted in pain from the crash, and thankfully were unharmed. They weren't given time to escape, because Heatblast and Statter jumped out of the RV and ripped their door off.
"Unless you punks want a permanent sunburn, hands against the wall!" Heatblast emphasized his point by crushing the metal door in his hands.
Neither of them was stupid enough to argue with a freaky talking fire guy and some kind purple mud The jewel thieves quickly scrambled out of the car, stand by the walls, and placed their hands on it with their backs turned on the Heatblast and Statter.
The two heroes was unfortunately so caught up in their heroic acts that they failed to notice the beeping noises emitting from their OmniDoanlds logo.
"You punks picked the wrong day to be bad – " Statter and Heatblast returned to being Donald Poynter and Ben Tennyson in a flash of red light " – guys." Donald's light voice replaced Statter's deep one.
The jewel thieves couldn't help noticing the sudden change of voice from the purple mud guy. They both turned around and quickly realized that the fire guy and purple mud guy were missing and they were being held up by two runty little boys.
"Hey, it's just a couple of kids!" The first thief yelled angrily; he didn't like being humiliated. "Get the jewels!" He orders his friend.
Now Ben and Donald finally realized they had transformed back into a human when they looked down at their hands and saw that the watch had gone into recharge mode. The two small boys chuckled nervously and started backing away from the criminals.
"Wow, time sure flies when you're having fun." Ben said nervously.
"Would you look at that?" Donald said nervously. "We – We've decided to let you guys off with a warning this time."
Luckily, some police cruisers came riding up and the cops got out and pointed their guns at the robbers jsut as the two boys wanted to walk off.
"Freeze!" one cop ordered.
"They're all yours officers!" Ben smiled.
"Now I know you all want to thank us but-" Donald started.
"Step aside, kids, this isn't playtime." The cop said, handcuffing one of the robbers.
"Playtime?" Ben asked offended. "But we're the ones who captured them!" Ben told them.
The officer ignored them as he and his partner carried the robbers away.
"It's not fair!" Donald shouted in agreement. "We're the heroes!" He and Ben tells them, but the cops could care less.
"Aw man!" Ben said with disappointment just as Max and Gwen showed up.
"This stinks, I just wish we could reveal our secret so we could get some respect around here." Donald said.
"I know, kids. But it's not just for your own safety. It's for your families as well." Max said to them as Donald rolled his eyes as he could care less about his family..
The next morning elsewhere,Meanwhile, back in San Francisco, a man in a business suit with a balding head with some hair in the back stood in front of the door of an apartment complex and constantly knocked on the door. This was the landlord of this establishment, and right now he was angry as this particular resident has not paid rent in over six months, and now he was fed up of waiting.
"Yo, Animo! I know you're in there. Open up!" The landlord called out angrily. Not getting a response, the man pulled out a pass key from his coat pocket and used it to open the door.
The inside of the apartment was not the picture of cleanliness, with tons of papers and blueprints littering the floor. However, the most notable feature of this place was that it was filled with tons of glass tanks worth various animals living in them. The animals ranged from ferrets, rabbits, birds, to things like snakes, frogs and lizards.
The landlord took a sniff, before cringing in disgust. "Sheesh, it smells like a zoo in here." The landlord said, never noticing that there was a shadowy figure right behind him. When he finally took notice of someone behind him, he instantly turned around and gave a little scream, but calmed down when he realized that it was his tenant Animo.
Animo was a man that looked to be in his late fifties, with his hair being long and white with sideburns on his face. He wore a raggedy old brown jacket over a dark green shirt and dark brown pants, but the most distinguishable aspect of him was that his skin seemed to be a palely sick green.
"How did you get in?" Animo asked angrily.
"Pass key. I am still your landlord, remember?" The landlord said as he narrowed his eyes at Animo. "Maybe not, since your rent is six months past due."
"All my funds go into my research." Animo said dismissively before pointing to the door. "Now get out! You're disturbing!" Animo figured he made his pot to so he got back to work at his desk.
"Looks like you were disturbed long before I got here, pal." The landlord snarked as he glared at the scientist. "Listen, doc, you and your furry friends are out on the street, unless you pony up the green."
However, instead of feeling threatened by his landlord's words, Animo smirked at the remark. "Pony up? Interesting choice of phrases." Animo said as he reached into a tank and pulled out a frog, before placing it on the floor. "You must be an animal lover. Then you're going to love this." Animo then reached into a cabinet and pulled out a metal helmet with two antennas before putting it on his head.
The landlord was a little put off by this, before he started laughing at how ridiculous he looked. "Hahaha! What's that? You a member of the Moose Lodge, or something?"
"This is my Transmodulator." Animo replied as he pointed to a circular device attached to his chest. "Phase number 1: It creates and accelerates mutations at the genetic level. Observe." Animo turned the dial on his device on his chest, before he fired a red surge of energy from his helmet right at the frog.
The effects we're almost instantaneous, as the frog grew in size to the point that it towered over the landlord. Not only did it grow in size, but the mutant frog also grew a set of bull horns on it's head, an extra pair of eyes, and was covered in orange warts as well.
The landlord soon backed up in fear, before the mutant frog lowered its head and swallowed him whole. He was still alive in its mouth, as one could still hear him scream in fright and see parts of the frogs mouth move as he tried to find a way out.
Animo smirked condescendingly as he listened in to the man's screams. "I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Sounds like you have a frog in your throat, or is that the other way around?! Hahahaha!" Animo laughed maniacally.
The frog then proceeded to spit the landlord out, sending flying and crashing into the wall, which knocked him unconscious as he was covered in slime and frog drool. Despite that little sense of satisfaction, Animo still didn't seem happy as he pulled out a newspaper clipping and glared at it.
"So close to having what is rightfully mine. All I need is a few lousy components to finish my work." Animo talked to himself.
"So whatever you needs from hairspray to state-of-the-art electronics, you'll find under one roof at the grand opening of the district's newest Mega Mart!" An announcement on the television said with a picture of the shopping center.
This caused Animo to smirk triumphantly. "Ah, just what the doctor ordered."
Speaking of the Mega Mart, either by sheer coincidence or dumb luck, the Tennyson family and Donald Poynter just so happened to be shopping in that very same supermarket just on the other side of town.
Max led the children down the aisle with Gwen following behind bearing a sense of dread at the weird and disgusting things her grandpa liked to purchase even in convenient stores. Meanwhile Ben and Donald, who had his hands stuffed in his pockets, were merely walking behind when at that moment their eyes wandered toward the cereal aisle.
The two broke off from the rest of the group and made a beeline for the boxes of quick breakfast. They searched for one brand in particular as Ben pulled it off the shelf, and eyed the ad in the corner, there was a caption that said "Free: Inside Sumo Slammer Cards."
"Sumo Slammer cards! Cool" Ben exclaimed.
Wanting desperately to get the card inside, Ben hatched up a very devious plan. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" Ben asked Donald with a grin.
"That we buy the cereal and wait to open it?" Donald replied in an obvuous tone, causing Ben to groan.
"No dude. Let's open it now." Ben encouraged.
Seeing the other colors on the cover Donald blinked. "You do realize it's a one out of five chance that you'll get it right?" He asked making him frown.
"I know, that's what stinks-." Ben paused and looked at the Omnitrix, a smirk crossing hisface.
Donald sees the look on his face an knows what hsif rien is thinking. "Ben, maybe you shouldn't-." He stopped seeing he was too late when Benn slammed his hand on the watch becoming a small four-inch tall frog-like being, the black and white shirt now a jumpsuit that hugged his body. "Why do I even bother?" Donald said with a groan.
"Gold card here I come!" Ben cheered, jumping right into the boxes.
Meanwhile, Max and Gwen stopped at one of the nearby aisles as the elderly man scrutinized a can of octopus chunks. Gwen was horrified; what kind of a freaky supermarket sold pieces of sea creatures in cans on store shelves, especially next to the soup?
"Hmm, only canned octopus," Max said disappointedly. "I thought this store prided itself on wide selection."
"Uh, grandpa?" Gwen asked hesitantly. "No offense, but can we have a normal dinner for once? You know, one that doesn't involve stir-fried tentacles?"
"Heh, nonsense," Max chuckled amusingly. "Now where do you suppose they keep the sheep's bladder?"
Gwen groaned, already picturing the nightmare concoction those two would be creating tonight. But before she could, reluctantly, follow them, the redhead noticed a flash of green out of the corner of her eye, followed by the sound of reckless rummaging. Neither one was a very good sign.
"Ben? Donald?" Gwen called them suspiciously.
Gwen followed the source of the green light, only to nearly bump into Doanld who was walking backwards and not paying attention.
"What is he doing?" Gwen looked at Doanld who groaned.
"He's looking for a gold sumo card, I say we leave and deny plausibility." Doanld said not wanting to get busted for this as he is already in enough trouble from causing fights from school. Last thing he needs is his parents involved.
That's when they turned back to the aisle and their mouths dropped at the grizzling scene.
Nearly every box of cereal in the row had been knocked off the shelves and had their tops ripped off, which was very impressive considering it had only been a few seconds.
The two stepped carefully into the aisle and noticed a single box of Sumo Smacks rattling around with something small moving inside.
"Aw-man another red card." Ben's voice came from a cereal box that Gwen grabbed.
"Gotcha!" Gwen said victoriously. She pulled her hand out and glared at Ben. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Uh, looking for the gold Sumo Slammer card, duh," said Gray Matter sarcastically.
"Can it dweeb, you're supposed to be using your powers to help people, not look for cards."
"How did you-." Ben looked Doanld's way. "You ratted me out?!"
"Hey don't drag me into this-." Doanld tried to say before he heard someone coming. Not wanting his friends to be in trouble, he grabbed Gwen's hand and dragged her and Ben away from the aisle. "We gotta move!"
"Woah! Slow down!" Gwen tells him as he still held onto Ben.
"Don't drop me!" Ben tells her as they eventually hide away from the aisle just a store employee found the boxes of cereal opened.
"What happened here?!" The store employee shouted in surprise and anger at the mess that was made.
Meanwhile, the trio were luckily five rolls away from there as Donald let out a sigh of relief. "That was a close one."
"Good, do you think you can let go of my hand?" Gwen asked him as she held her hand indicating his hand is still wrapped around her.
"Oops, sorry." Donald apologized as he let go of her hand.
That's when the Omnitrix made a familiar beeping noise, and in a flash of red light, Ben has turned back to normal. But because Gwen was holding him, when he turned back, eh somehow transformed on top of ehr and the two cousin fell down.
"Ow!" The cousin said in pain.
A few minutes later they went back to max, who was looking for some weird food items, before he saw them.
"Hey guys." Max greeted them before he decided to question them. "What did you guys do?"
"We didn't do anything." Gwen immediately said as it was very obvious that she was lying.
Ben and Donald gave her a look as they wonder how she can keep their watches a secret but not a simple lie. "Nothing happened." Donald said calmly, as Max shrugged his shoulders.
"Can't believe you rat me out, dude." Ben said angrily to Donald.
"I didn't rat you out, it was obvious what you were doing." Doanld protested in disbelief. "I tried to tell you this wasn't a good idea."
"Yeah but I was close to finding the gold card." Ben said with a frown. "I almost had it."
"So you decided to trash the cereal aisle for a piece of cardboard?" Gwen rolled her eyes. "Nicely done doofus."
"Ben, I can appreciate how much this card means to you but don't you think you're getting a little obsessive?" Max asked with a frown as he doesn't know what exactly happen but he can piece something together.
Ben sighed. "Yeah you're right I don't deserve it, it's not like I-oh I don't know rescued people from a burning building and all that." He said with his arms crossed.
"Ben, you are not the only one who saved those people last night. We did it together as a duo, remember?" Doanld ask. "Besides, if we were famous, we could get something else besides those measly cards.
"Superhero guilt? Pretty low." Gwen deadpanned at her cousin who shrugged.
"Whatever it takes." Ben said without a care.
The group then moved on to the rest of the store. As they were walking by the electronics section, Ben noticed a standee and a display case for the Sumo Slammer's franchise. Ben paced over to the case gleefully, purposely ignoring Donald who rolled his eyes at his friend's obsession.
"Whoa." Ben said gleefully. "Sumo Slammer cards – a complete set."
Donald shook his head disapprovingly while Max and Gwen frowned at the display.
"Donald, you mind keeping an eye on him while Gwen and I head to the pet section?" Max asked earning a nod. "Just make sure he doesn't use the watch for anything else."
"Got it Mr. Tennyson." Doanld agreed running to catch up with Ben.
"Please tell me you aren't looking for our breakfast." Gwen begged.
Donald walked over to Ben who was staring at the cards. There were five different cards: two red in a different pose, two blue in a different pose, and the rarest of them all: the gold sumo slammer card.
"Someday, you will be mine." Ben said as the other cards faded from his view and the gold card shined brightly.
"Donald, look. I'm a fan of Sumo Slammers too, but I'm not obsessed with it like you. Don't you know it's wrong to destroy tons of unpaid cereal boxes just to get a card?" Doanld asked.
"It's not just a card. It's something that almost nobody has! I'll do what I can to get it and nobody is going to stop me." Ben tells him
Donald sighed and face-palmed. "Sometimes I wonder how we became friends."
"Me either." Ben replied back as they had known each other since they were like two or three.
Then, there was a sudden rumbling and the television showed static and shook before some fell off the shelves. Sensing what was about to happen, Doanld tackled Ben out of the way as the wall caved in and Dr. Animo appeared, riding on his mutant frog. He was now wearing red goggles and had discarded his vest.
"Whoa," Ben said in amazement.
Dr. Animo had driven him way through the display of televisions riding atop his mutated frog like a bull. The sickly-looking scientist gazed around for what he wanted. He jumped down from his seat on his froggy steed, pulled out a dirty pillowcase, and started stuffing it with packaged machine parts. That was the moment when Ben and Donald decided to be the hero and jump out into the ope. Dr. Animo noticed the spry boy and leered through her red-lensed goggles.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Donald questioned .
Rather than answer the boy's question, Dr. Animo snapped his fingers and his mutant frog lashed its tongue at Donald and Ben. The boys ducked his head out of the way in time, but the mutant's tongue whipped the display of boxes behind them and brought the whole thing tumbling down on top of them. Luckily, the display was only for empty boxes, so there was no harm done. Ben and Donald crawled out of the cardboard avalanche and looked up as Dr. Animo loomed over them threateningly.
"Don't be a hero, kids," Dr. Animo warned. "Just run along and play."
Ben glanced down at the Omnitrix – it was still in rest mode from his stunt in the cereal aisle.
"You are so lucky I can't go hero." Ben muttered in annoyance.
"Luckily I can." Donald said as he glanced at his watch, which is still blue and ready to use.
Dr. Animo chuckled at the amusing threat and hoisted himself back aboard his mutated amphibian just as the store security started to show up. While that was happening, DOnald manages to slip away and hide from the commotions so he can transform.
"Freeze." The security worker said weakly, only just realizing there was a gigantic, four-eyed horned frog in the middle of the electronics section. "Get down off that giant…frog…thing and put your hands up."
Dr. Animo scoffed and silently commanded his pet forward, leaping over the security guards and bouncing off to another section of the store. The security guard pulled out his walkie talkie, watching the pair go in disbelief. "Uh…we have a grab and dash in electronics. Male, five-foot-six, riding on a giant frog or-or toad – trust me, you can't miss him."
Then, there was a flash of blue light out of the pile of boxes and then, Donald's tiger/dragon from called Gremlynx came bounding out with a snarl.
"Get back here!" Gremlynx yells as he runs after the mad doctor.
Ben then looked at the guards and shrugged. "Strange day, isn't it." He then ran after his friend.
The other Tennysons were on the other end of the store in the pet section. Grandpa Max was looking over his handmade list scratching his head while Gwen played with a hamster in its cage. But the quiet moment was quickly ruined when Dr. Animo and his mutated monster hopped over the shelves and landed in the middle of the pet section with a heavy thud. She didn't know why, but Gwen was almost sure Ben had something to do with it – he always seemed to attract the biggest weirdos.
Dr. Animo turned the dial on his harness and his strainer bowl helmet blasted its red lightning energy towards the cages where Gwen was standing. Grandpa Max quickly dived and pushed Gwen out of the way before the energy could hit, instead zapping the little hamster inside. Only that little hamster busted out of its cage and grew to be eight feet tall with three smaller eyes surrounding its bigger eyes.
Dr. Animo then did the same thing with the cockatiel in the hanging cage next to it, growing the small bird twelve feet in height with a large wingspan and razor-sharp talons.
"Arise to your full potential, my pets!" Dr. Animo shouted dramatically.
Ben and Gremlynx arrive moments later and came to a screeching halt when they saw the mad doctor had expanded his ranks from one frog to a group of mutated monstrosities. The mutant cockatiel paced around the mad doctor while the mutant hamster climbed over the shelves, chasing after Max and Gwen, roaring hungrily.
Gremlynx pounced up onto one of the shelves, seeing the giant pigeon and hamster, which were normally food for him.
"This is going to be fun." He said with a smirk and licked his lips in anticipation.
Ben went running after them and saw the new mutants and Gwen and Max went running for their lives, screaming.
The mutant hamster pursued them before being tackled off of the shelf by Gremlynx as he then kicked him off of him with both legs, into a stack of boxes.
"Oh man, what kind of pet food are they selling around here?" Ben gapped in surprise.
Gremlynx then stood in front of his friend, Gwen, and Max protectively as Animo and his three mutants stood in front of him. "You are not going near them." He warns them with a growl.
"Behold the genius of Dr. Animo." Dr. Animo said self-importantly, joined by his posse of mutants. "Nothing can stop me from getting what I deserve. Mark my words! Today, I will make history, or should I say, pre-history."
Gwen glared at Ben. "If you didn't go cereal diving, one of those heroes could seriously help your friend stop us from becoming hamster chow!"
The mutant hamster in question took a thunderous step closer to the Tennysons and roared, splattering their shoes with slimly green mucus; Gwen would have been disgusted if she wasn't so terrified.
The Tennysons screamed in a panic, spun around on their heels, and took off in the opposite direction. The mutant hamster leaped, already catching up with its human prey in only two pounces. The mutant monster crashed into Gremlynx and knocked him down, but Dr. Animo's pet seemed to care very little about him and went after the Tennysons instead. The mutated monstrosity didn't have very far to go; Ben and his family somehow ended up walking into a dead end literally only ten feet away.
Max pushed Ben and Gwen behind him and threw his arms protectively, staring down the eight-eyed hamster. The mutant pet roared and crouched low to pounce them when Gremlynx suddenly came up from behind and threw himself onto the hamster's back. The mutant hamster roared and tried bucking the tiger/dragon hybrid, but Gremlynx was holding onto clumps of the animal's fur with his claws.
"Gremlynx, get down from there!" Max shouted worriedly.
"Don't worry, I got this!" Gremlynx assured him. "Hope this works." He mutters to himself.
Gremlynx opened his mouth as he showed his fangs, indicating what he's about to do. The mutant hamster kept trying to get Gremlynx off its back, even slamming itself into store shelves and knocking over the products, Gremlynx pulled himself up until he was staring directly at the monster's neck. Gremlynx leered and bit on to the hamster's neck. The massive mutant squealed when its limbs suddenly seized up and it fell over sideways; Gremlynx got thrown off and landed on a pile of flour – lucky him.
"Donald!" Max, Gwen, and Ben cried out, running and helping him up.
"What did you do to that thing?" Gwen asked curiously.
"It bit him with poisonous, that way he can stop moving for awhile." Gremlynx explained.
"Uh-huh, that's right," Ben boasted, doing a little dance. "Even without aliens, not even giant hamsters can mess with Ben Tennyson!"
"Except Donald did all the work while you were crying behind grandpa like a little girl." Gwen said tauntingly.
"Was not!" Ben yelled, Gremlynx sighed exasperatedly just as he timed out in a purple flash of light.
The all-too familiar ground shaking returned as Dr. Animo hopped around from behind the shelves riding his mutant frog. The mad scientist spotted his motionless pet mutant lying in a bed of dented cans then looked at the Tennysons and Donald standing around the beast.
"Young fools, you cannot stop me!" Dr. Animo yelled dramatically. "I will turn Washington D.C. into Washington B.C."
The mad scientist jumped off of his toad onto the back of the swooping cockatiel that flew by and flapped towards the ceiling, smashing through the skylight. Max threw himself over the children to protect them from the falling glass. The mutant frog didn't want to be left behind and bounced out through the broken skylight following its creator. Dr. Animo was gone and he left behind a trashed convenience store with a limp mutant hamster in the canned goods section, but Regis the store employee looked surprisingly cheerful when he approached the Tennysons and Donald with the security team.
"You saved the store!" Regis said to Donald in sweet relief. "If there's anything I can do to repay you, anything you want!"
"Well, now that you mention it – " Ben said wickedly, butting in front of Donald. Thankfully, Grandpa Max pulled up Ben and walked away with Gwen following him. "Grandpa! I was finally gonna score the gold Sumo Slammer card!"
"No time for that now, Ben," Max said, setting him back on his feet. "We have a giant parrot to follow."
Gwen laughed in his face as she passed him. Ben groaned and hanged his head, following his family back to the Rust Bucket.
"Was he seriously going to ask for the gold card after that?" Donald muttered in disbelief, his question overheard by the owner.
"Gold card?" Regis asked.
"Yeah we are pretty much obsessed with collecting them… well more so then him." Donald explain."I should probably go before they leave me behind-."
Donald went to run only for the store owner to place a hand on his shoulder. "Wait, here is one for you and him" He said picking up two gold card that fell out of the display case. "We have a few in storage to put on display, if you guys want it it's the least we can do."
"Uh thanks." Donald said a bit surprised by that before pocketing the card, making a note to give it to Ben after this whole mess.
Catching up to Dr. Animo wasn't too difficult – I mean, how hard could it be to find a giant mutated cockatiel in the middle of Washington D.C.? Max's expert driving skills got them around the corner without losing speed and continued down the road while keeping Dr. Animo trained on their sights. While Gwen was sitting in the back typing on her computer and Doanld waiting patiently for her to finish, Ben was, of course, pouting in the passenger's seat.
"Ah, just like the good old days before I retired." Max said reminiscently.
"So exactly what kind of plumber were you, Grandpa?" asked Gwen, raising a suspicious brow.
"I – uh – a darn good one," Max sputtered evasively.
Donald then got a suspicious look on his face. "Yeah, how can us chasing after a crazed scientist riding on a giant parrot remind you of fixing toilets?"
"Uh – hey, Ben, what's the matter?" Max asked his grandson almost too quickly, like he was purposely trying to change the subject.
"We saved an entire Mega Mart from being a giant hamster's chew toy, and what do I get? Nothing!" Ben complained. "It's not fair."
"Being a hero isn't about others knowing you did something good, it's about you knowing you did something good." Max inquired. "Being a hero is its own reward."
"That's actually good advice, Mr. Tennyson." Donald told the old man as the boy was impressed with his words
"What? Were you reading greeting cards at the Mega Mart?" Ben asked as he found it weird his grandfather would say that.
"Well, yes." Max reluctantly confirms.
Gwen then gasped as her laptop beeped. "Bingo!"
"Bingo?" Donald asks as he turns to her. "What's Bingo?"
"Five years ago, Dr. Animo was a promising researcher in veterinary science, but it turned out he was doing all kinds of twisted genetic experiments where he was mutating animals. And when he didn't win this big prize called the Verities Award, he flipped out." Gwen explains as she then turned to her cousin with a smirk on her face. "Anything about this sound familiar, Ben?" He didn't answer her, shifting his attention back to the window.
Unfortunately, in the middle of their conversation, Dr. Animo had decided to cut time and went over the rooftops, effectively losing the Rust Bucket.
"We've lost him." Max tells them. "He could be going anywhere in Washington D.C."
"Or Washington B.C. as he put it." Donald stated.
Ben then perked up at the 'B.C.' part. "That's it! I know where he's going!"
The Rust Bucket parked outside the Natural History Museum and rushed up the stairway. The front doors had been busted open and the feathers littering the ground made it all the more apparent who was responsible.
"The Natural History Museum." Ben said as the four were standing in front of said monument. Ben then leaned down and picked up a giant feather, obviously from the mutant parrot.
"Something tells me we're on the right track." Donald said. "Good thinking, Ben."
"Guess even a doofus can surprise you once in a while," Gwen complimented.
"You should know." Ben retorted as they walked inside.
Ben, Donald, Gwen, and Max walked into the museum without running into any trouble and headed toward the dinosaur section without even spotting a single mutant or guard – the museum's security was severely lacking. They walked by the mammoth skeleton display when Ben notices a box sitting on the raised platform and picked it up. It was one of the stolen parts from the mega mart. And not much farther away, they spotted Dr. Animo tinkering with his harness. None of them said a word as they tried to sneak up on him, but the lunatic scientist somehow knew they were there anyway. Did this guy also have animal senses too?
"You are very persistent – I hate persistent." Dr. Animo said as he rounded on them.
"We all know about you and your freakazoid experiments, Dr. Animo." Ben said. "It's over."
"Oh, but it's only just begun." Dr. Animo said self-assuredly. "See, I only needed a few components to push my work into phase two: the reanimation of dormant cells."
"Uh…does this guy come with subtitles?" Ben asked ; the science went completely over his head.
"He's talking about bringing dead creatures back to life, dude." Donald explains, before he smiles at the thought of it. "Which is actually kinda cool. Kinda like Jurassic Park."
"Precisely." Dr. Animo said proudly. "Breathing life into that which has long since lifeless. Observe."
Dr. Animo turned the dial on his harness once more and electric beams of red energy shot from his strainer bowl helmet into the woolly mammoth display. The lifeless mammoth's eyes glowered red, its trunk honking like an elephant, and took its first step off the platform. With each earth-trembling step, it moved closer to the Tennysons looking very angry.
"Behold the genius that is Dr. Animo." Dr. Animo said jubilantly before running away.
"Now would be a really good time to go hero." Gwen told the boys.
"No duh!" Ben said.
Donald and Ben push the buttons on their watches to raise its core. "You guys go after Animo. We'll take care of Manny." Donald said as he and Ben slammed their watch cores down. The screen split in two as the transformations occurred.
The watch sank into Ben's watch and his blood vessels expanded rapidly before spreading across his entire body, which eventually reached his eyes, which he clutched shut and when he shot them open again, they were fully orange. A second pair of arms shot out just below his primary pair and his muscle mass grew exponentially. His feet morphed themselves to only have two toes and his skin turned red with a few black crests on his face and he grew a second pair of eyes beneath the original ones. He wore a white T-shirt with a black line going down it, black pants, and fingerless gloves. He wore the watch symbol on his upper left shoulder before he shot a pose. This transformation was known as Four Arms.
Donald's watch sank into his wrist, causing his veins to pulse and expand rapidly, until they reached his eye, which he clenched shut. He opens them again revealing yellow eyes with no pupils. Afterwards, dark brown fur sprouted all over his body. Soon his head extended and formed yellow antlers on his head. Then his whole body changed into a humanoid moose with hooves on his arms and legs. His watch symbol appears on his left pec before he struck a pose ending the transformation. This transformation was known as Moosetracks.
As the lights faded, Four Arms cracked all four of his knuckles while Moosetrack just glared at the mammoth. Gwen and Max gasped at the new aliens, mostly because of its size and muscular mass.
"Let's wrestle." Four Arms said.
"This is going to be fun." Moosetrack says in a Minnesotan accent before the heroes both charged at the Mammoth.
Four Arms made it first before he grabbed the mammoth's tusks, and spun the creature in a circle before throwing it at Moosetracks. The Elkin was ready for it as he pulled back his left arm and punched the creature that was going to land on him. This sent the mammoth flying and through a couple of walls before it fell.
Gwen and Max knew they had other business to take care of as they chased after Dr. Animo entered the next room, quickly stopping when the mutated Cockatiel blocked their path.
The mutant cockatiel howled and took one monstrous step closer to them, making Gwen and Max take a couple steps back. At the time, Gwen just happened to notice the display of a caveman directly to their right and took the spear out of the model's hand.
The redheaded Tennyson confidently approached the mutated avian as she twirled the spear in her hands with great coordination, making the Cockatiel twitch uncomfortably. Once she had reached a good enough distance, Gwen gripped the spear's end and slammed it down on the bird's head. The mutated avian squawked and stumbled deliriously, then Gwen went in with the finish blow by spinning around and breaking the spear across the cockatiel's face. Now in a panic, the mutated bird turned around and ran away with its tail feathers literally between its legs.
"The boys aren't the only ones with skills," said Gwen proudly; Max stared openmouthed at his granddaughter.
Max then followed Gwen into the next room. However, they arrived too late as Dr. Animo noticed them coming in and smirked before turning his makeshift machine on the gigantic dinosaur display in front of him. The red lightning struck the prehistoric skeleton, materializing flesh and sinew to fill in the empty space. Soon enough, the Tennysons were staring up and the hulking monster known as the Tyrannoaurus Rex, though several chunks of its flesh were missing, but that did nothing to take away its deadliness.
"Donald just had to say Jurassic Park!" Gwen shouted, angry that Donald accidentally suggested a T-Rex.
"Not the time, Gwen!" Max said as the T-Rex stepped down and roared hungrily.
Back in the other room, Four Arms was thrown clear across the chamber and smashed into a wall between a stegosaurus display and, for some odd reason, a wooden statue of a brown bear. The Tetramand fell forward on his hands and knees, tired at being tossed by a reanimated mammoth.
The reanimated mammoth blew its trunk, alerting Four Arms as it charged for the Tetramand again.
Moosetracks saw this and grew his antlers bigger before he charged towards the Mammoth. They then clash together as they try to over power each other but proving to be equal match.
"Take this!" Moosetracks yells before he use all of his strength to lift the Mamoth upo before flipping the creature over hios head. Causing the ground to shake from the impact as the mammoth yells in pain.
Four Arms ran in and punched it in its trunk. Unfortunately, it wrapped it around him and tossed him into another dinosaur skeleton, leaivng him dazed. "You are going down, Peanuts!"
Moosetracks then runs to Four Arms as he helps him up. "You thinking what I'm thinking dude?"
Four Arms grins, knowing what his best friend was thinking. "Always dude."
The reanimated mammoth charged at Four Arms and Moosetracks again, but this time the alien duos waited for the beast to come to them instead of jumping straight into the fight. When they were close to one another, Four Arms and Moosetracks reached out and grappled the mammoth's trunk and forced it down to the ground sideways. The Tetramand and Elkins turned, carrying the weight of the massive mammoth behind them, and spun around in circles until the furry beast was no longer touching the floor. After ten full rotations, the heroes released their grip and flung the mammoth across the room. The massive furball slammed into the upper edge of the doorway, breaking off large pieces of stone that fell on the mammoth when it hit the ground.
But back with Four Arms and Moosetracks, the duo was hobbling around dizzily and holding their hand over their mouth.
"Oooh…I think…I'm gonna hurl." Moosetracks groaned, before he felt the bile rise up to his throat.
"Me….too." Four Arms ground as well before he actually threw up onto the floor.
Moosetracks was still trying to keep it in as he looked at Four Arms's throw ups as he commented. "Gross."
Gwen and Max ducked underneath the T-Rex's tail before it slammed into the wall next to them. Dr. Animo climbed on the back of the dinosaur's neck and the two of them made their way to the exit with every earth-shaking stomp.
"I'd love to stay but I need to claim the award I so richly deserve." Dr. Animo told them.
The T-Rex lowered its head under the entryway, but the rest of its body was too massive to fit through, so the walls crumbled around them as they made their exit. Max and Gwen could only stand and watch through the hole in the wall until they heard a familiar avian screech and spun around.
The mutant cockatiel was back and it was not too happy to see Gwen again. The massive bird swooped down, closed its talons around the redhead's shoulders, and flew out of the museum with its prey screaming in its claws. Max wanted to chase after his granddaughter, but what could he do? He wasn't fast or strong enough to help. So he went with the next best thing:
"Ben! Donald!" Max called.
The instant they heard their human names, Four Arms and Moosetracks came around the corner.
"Were on it!" Moosetracks told him as they dashed out of the hole, and leaped as high into the air as far as his legs could push him.
Max watched them go with a worried expression until he noticed something that stood out among the rubble on the floor. It was an old newspaper clip; Max hummed in thought.
Back outside, Moosetracks and Four Arms' excellent jumping skills allowed them to reach the mutant cockatiel and grab onto a bundle of its feathers, making the avian squawk in surprise.
"No, bye bye for you!" Four Arms said.
"Now land, birdie or else." Moosetracks threatens.
The mutant cockatiel didn't like the threat and began to flapped in place trying to shake off the alien duo, but they weren't letting go any time soon. But when the avian dive-bombed toward the ground that's when sadly enough the watch began to time out just as the Moosetracks and Four Arms grip ripped up the clumps of feathers they were holding onto and fell off, plummeting thirty feet to the ground.
Four Arms and Moosetracks crashed in the middle of the street, making a huge crater from the impact. It was very fortunate timing that the watches lost its charge only a few second after and not before, leaving Donald and Ben lying in the middle of the hole they created in their human form rather than as a smear on the ground. Ben and Donald climbed out of the crater with some effort and watched helplessly as Ben's cousin/Donald's friendish was dragged off by the monster bird.
"GWEN!" Ben and Donald cried to her as they were feeling helpless.
Grandpa Max arrived in the Rust Bucket almost immediately.
"Somebody call for a taxi?" Max jokes even though the situation was serious.
Ben and Donald wasted no time jumping into the Rust Bucket before Max slammed his foot on the accelerator.
Meanwhile, Gwen had finally gotten over the sheer terror of being carried off by a giant, possibly flesh-eating bird and looked extremely peeved, cross her arms and glaring into nothingness.
"Spend a summer with your grandpa, honey," said Gwen is a sarcastic imitation of her mother's voice. "It'll be an adventure."
While Ben, Max, and Donald were scrambling to rescue Gwen from the clutches of the monster bird, Dr. Animo and his new pet Tyrannosaur Rex were stampeding down Independence Avenue, crushing cars into flat sheets of metal and smashing their way through every building that came in their path. Dr. Animo laughed as they crushed their way through the mega mart where this whole journey began and made the whole building come crashing down
"Ah, I do love my work." Dr. Animo said.
Neither the mad scientist nor the T-Rex noticed that the object of Ben and Donald's obsession, the golden Sumo Slammer card, had been lodged underneath the skin of the T-Rex's toe before they continued on their way.
The mutant cockatiel had moved Gwen from his talons to is beak and perched itself at the very tip of the Washington Monument. The way she was dangling so precariously from the monster's beak, and the way she was fifty feet from any solid ground, Gwen did everything in her power not to just wet herself right there. Just when – thought she would never say it out loud – she really wished Ben was around, an idea suddenly struck her. She remembered that she had packed a cell phone before leaving on their country wide trip, which she thankfully had the foresight to keep in her pocket.
"Well, my mom said only use it in an emergency," said Gwen, whipping out her phone and hitting the speed dial. "I guess this qualifies."
Max took a hard left down Pennsylvania Avenue, as they were in such a rush to find Gwen that Max wasn't paying attention to the road. Ben was biting his bottom lip nervously, while Donald kept looking over at the windows in the back as they all kept an eye towards the sky for any signs of Dr. Animo's pet monster.
"No sign of beak breath." Ben reported.
"There can't be that many places for a parrot the size of an elephant to roost." Max said.
"But the question still remains. Where is she? And where would the parrot take her?" Donald asked them.
Max reached over the dashboard and pulled out the newspaper clip he found at the museum. "Here, look at what Dr. Animo left behind."
Doanld reached past Ben, snatching up the paper, and looking it over. It was an old article about an award that had been given to some veterinary scientist and showed the winner shaking hands with the clinic president. Standing in the background was another man glaring at the award winner with suppressed contempt. Though he had brown hair tied into a ponytail and his skin was a normal tone, Donald recognized this man to be Dr. Animo. Knowing that this might be a clue at what he was planning next, Donald read the article aloud:
"'Doctor Kelly accepts Verities Award' –" Donald read to them. "Dr. Animo said he was going to claim the award 'he so richly deserves'. Animo must be going after Dr. Kelly to take the award by force. We have to stop him." Donald said.
"First thing's first." Max reminded them. "We have to find Gwen."
And as luck would have it, the phone of Max's dashboard rang and the caller ID showed that the number belonged to Gwen's cellphone.
"Gwen!" All three shouted before Max performed a risky U-Turn that nearly caused them to run into oncoming traffic and as he accepted the call.
They made a beeline to the Washington monument, which was thankfully close to where they were.
"Hold on, Gwen. We're coming!" Max shouted over the call.
"I can't hold on much longer!" Gwen told him, panicking when the bird deposited her on the top of the building and flew off. Gwen scrambled for the cellphone as it slipped out of her hands.
The Rust Bucket stopped in the shadow of the monument and Ben, Doanld, and Max rushed outside just as Gwen's phone smashed to pieces at their feet.
"Oh no. Gwen will be next." Max said worriedly.
Ben was trying to keep back the image of his cousin lying broken on the floor like her phone when he and Donald heard a sharp beep from the watches. They looked down at the watch and felt relief wash over them when the device's faceplate glowed green and blue instead of red and pruple. Ben and Donald wasted no time raising the core and cycled through the aliens until they found the right one.
"Not if we can help it!" Ben declared.
"It's hero time!" Donald declared before the duo slammed down on the watches core and exploded into the regular blue and green light whenever they transformed.
Ben's watch sank into his arm as the skin hardened and turned into a green exoskeleton with the hand becoming black with three clawed fingers similar to a glove. His head morphed, growing four yellowish-orange insectoid eyes that blinked vertically and his face turned black. His body reshaped, becoming insectoid, as six green insect legs grew out of his sides, two green silk wings grew from his back, and his abdomen grew a large black stinger. Ben wore a white sleeveless jumpsuit with black lining which covered most of his body including his head and tail, his hands had a black coloration. The watch symbol appeared on his forehead as he flapped his wings in a pose. This transformation was Stinkfly.
Donald's watch sank into his wrist, causing his veins to pulse and expand rapidly, until they reached his eye, which he clenched shut. He opens them again revealing blue eyes with no pupils. Afterwards, purple fur sprouted all over his body like a humanoid bird-like alien. Then two huge feathered wings grew on his back as they spreaded out freely. His hands morphed and turned into three claws on each hand just as his two talons formed on his feet. He wears a black and red uniform with blue details and a mask over his eyes with his beak exposed. The watch then was formed on his lower stomach in the middle between the blue line design just as the transformation ended with his pose. Donald calls this transformation Ravenstorm.
"Hang tight, we'll grab Gwen." Raventorm told max before he and Stinkfly used their wings and blasted into the air at high velocity and after Gwen.
Stinkfly and Ravenstorm moved faster than a speeding bullet, reaching the top of the Washington Monument. Gwen was trying all her might not to let go, but the gravity pulling her down was too much as her hands finally let go. The redheaded Tennyson screamed at the sudden rush of motion until she realized that she wasn't falling anymore, but that the ground was moving underneath her. Gwen craned her head over her shoulder and recognized the Corvian carrying her.
"Birdie Bird." Gwen gasped.
"That's Ravenstorm" Ravenstorm retorted.
Stinkfly flew by them. "And I'm Stinkfly.
Gwen sniffed and barfed in her mouth. "Ew! This thing is grosser than you are normally!"
"I can't help how I smell in this form." Stinfkly tells her.
"Yeah. Whatever." Gwen said, really not wanting to argue names while flying fifty feet at mach-1. "Anyway, thanks for the save." She then turns around and saw the Cockatiel coming towards them. "Ohh. INCOMING!" She warns them.
The duo heroes turn to see that the Cockatiel was indeed coming at them fast.
"Hold on!" Ravenstorm tells her as he and Stinfly dodges the incoming attack.
The mutant cockatiel curved around the air, flying in a direct course for Ravenstorm and Stinkfly. The duo pulled up sharply at a vertical angle, which scared the living daylights out of Gwen, and looped back around behind the Washington Monument with Animo's flying pet chasing close behind. Ravenstorm did a quick barrel roll, let go of Gwen, which she panic, and stopped spinning to let Gwen land safely on his shoulders so that he could focus on flying instead of trying to hold her up. The mutated flying monster glided in from the side and snapped its talon at the Gwen, Ravenstorm, and Stinkfly, only just missing when the heroes did a quick dive out of its reach.
"Watch the nose there, polly!" Ravenstorm yelled as he blasted the bird with a few wind attack, but the Cockatiel just barely manged to avoid it.
Stinkfly saw this and came up with his own plan. "Now you see me." He then blasted green goos from his four eyes at the Coceil. "Now you don't." He actually manages to get one eyes of the Cockatiel, blinding the bird.
The flying monster screeched and flapped harder to increase its speed as it ignore the attack on him; Ravenstorm and Stinkfly returned the favor in kind and folded his wings down until he was flying at a hundred miles per hour. But unfortunately for Gwen, the human body wasn't accustomed to going at such speeds without some protective covering, making her stomach feel very uncomfortable.
"Ooh, I think I'm gonna be sick." Gwen said queasily.
"Spew on me and you better learn how to fly quick." Ravenstorm threatened before pulling a sharp turn and headed back to the monument.
Meanwhile, Max finally made it to the top floor next to the windows of the monument after climbing the long flight of stairs as he began to wheezing hard and sweating profusely.
"Would it…would it have killed…the founding fathers…to put in an elevator?" Max ask tiredly to no one.
That's when he heard the screech of the mutant cockatiel through the open viewing window. He then rushed over, waving down Stinkfly, Raventstorm, and Gwen as they flew by the monument with Animo's pet chasing them dangerously close. Stinkfly, Raventstorm, and Gwen saw them out the side of the monument, but Ravenstorm looked back at the flying monster that was closing the distance between them every second.
"We can't shake cracker breath." Ravenstorm told Gwen. "You're gonna have to trust us."
"Trust you two?" Gwen repeated incredulously.
"Get ready, Ben." Ravenstorm told his friend.
"I'm ready when you are." Stinkfly confirms.
"Ready for what?" Gwne asked in a scared tone.
The duo heroes didn't answer her as without warning, Ravenstorm stopped in the air and let Gwen fall forward off his shoulder. That's when Stinkfly swooped in and snatched her up by her shoulders before she could fall too far, trying to block out the shrill screams from his cousin as he looped up into the air and went into a sharp dive on the side of the monument.
"Come to Grandpa." Max said as he had his arms out for his granddaughter.
Stinkfly saw his grandfather holding out his arms waiting to catch them and dropped off Gwen in the split second when they crossed each other. Grandpa Max held on to his granddaughter with all his strength and Gwen felt relieved for the first time since the museum incident…until the mutant bird started flying towards them.
Dr. Animo's pet opened its beak to devour them, but that's when green goo hit the other eye blinding the bird. It was then followed by a powerful wind blast that sent the bird slam face first into the monument wall. The giant bird plummeted to the ground with a loud crash as Grandpa Max pulled Gwen inside.
"You guys okay?" Ravenstorm asked.
"We're alright." Max tells them. "Go stop Animo."
"Speak for yourself." Gwen said weakly as she felt nauseous.
Ravenstorm and Stinkfly silently nodded in agreement and zoomed off into the night sky.
Kelly Industries was a small research company on the northeastern part of Washington D.C. near Ivy City. Despite it being late at night, the company still offered tours of the facility and the one in charge of the tour was the owner of the company himself, Dr. Kelly (mostly because he didn't have the money to pay for tour guides after he bought the building). The next stop on their little tour was the small trophy shelf Kelly kept in his company lobby, which he was very proud of.
"And here is my Verities Award," Dr. Kelly said, gesturing to the golden beaker trophy. "Of course, it was an honor just to be nominated with a distinguished group of scientists."
All of a sudden, the tour group struggled to keep their balance when the ground started to quake beneath their feet. They could feel that the tremors were originating from the outside and looked out the window to see a massive shadow growing closer toward them. The wall burst open and in came the mutated Tyrannosaurs stomping into the main lobby, crushing the receptionist's desk with its massive feet.
The tour group ran like the wind after they caught sight of the living dinosaur and Dr. Kelly would have joined them if the T-Rex hadn't slammed its tail in the middle of his path, blocking him off from the group. The T-Rex snarled softly at the scientists, and then turned its head to present its creator.
"Kelly!" Dr. Animo yelled. "I believe you have something of mine!" He leapt off the T-Rex and snatched the golden beaker off the shelf with a deliriously happy grin. "I'd like to thank the committee for this honor!"
The mad doctor bounded back up to his pet dinosaur's neck with a delighted cackle. The mutated T-Rex stepped closer to Doctor Kelly and roared in his face, looking ready to eat him whole, when a wind blast suddenly shot the monster's head from the side, making the beast flinch, but not fall.
Ravenstorm and Stinkfly swooped in through the hole in the wall a moment later, only to fly directly into the T-Rex's sweeping tail. The duo bounced off the ground, hit the back wall, and fell forward on his front with a painful groan. Ravenstorm and Stinkfly held their heads and shook it free of the brief dizziness when Stinky noticed something shimmering in the rubble nearby. It was the golden Sumo Slammer card – it must have fallen off the T-Rex's foot when it smashed through the wall.
"Whoa! I struck Sumo Slammer gold!" Stinfkly said excitedly.
"Somebody help me!" kelly shouted in fear before he screamed again.
Stinkfly and Ravenstorm looked back at the scene with a gasp. Dr. Animo was holding his sworn rival by the teeth of his mutated monstrosity just moments away from ending his life.
Ravenstorm immediately went after the scientist as Stinkfly looked between the endangered scientist and the golden Sumo Slammers card, and found himself faced with a moral dilemma. Letting the scientist die would be bad, but he really wanted the Sumo Slammer card too. If he went after either one, he knew the other would be lost. Stinky took another look back and forth between the two, deciding which was worth saving: a human life or a super rare card…. The answer was so obvious that Ben actually felt ashamed he even had to think about it.
"Oh man, this hero stuff ain't easy." Stinkfly complained before he shot across the lobby; the force behind him caused the rubble to move and bury the card.
The Tyrannosaurus flicked the veterinary scientist in the air and opened its mouth wide as Dr. Kelly started falling. But Ravenstorm zoomed in and snatched Dr. Kelly out of the air before the dinosaur could snap its teeth. The mutated dinosaur roared for denied a meal before it's face was covered in green goo from Stinkfly. Dr. Animo gritted his already damaged teeth as he appears to hate these two heroes.
"What are you, you little pests?" Dr. Animo sneered.
"I'm Ravenstorm!" Ravenstorm introduced hismelf, dropping off Dr. Kelly near the entrance.
"And I'm Stinkfly." Stinkfly introduced himself. "And we're here to kick some tail!"
Dr. Animo turned the dial on his harness and blasted the Corvian and Lepidopterran with his transmodulator beam. The duo zoomed out of the way, but the mad scientist followed the flying alien with his red beams, growling in frustration as the Ravenstorm and Stinkfly always managed to keep one step ahead of him. They then flew behind one of the pillars to block the transmodulator's beam while they both blasted wind and good that struck the mutated tyrannosaurus in its eye again, making the monster reel back, howling in pain. Dr. Animo struggled to stay on his flailing beast that he lost his grip on his prized Verities Award. The golden beaker smashed on the ground into many pieces; Dr. Animo jaw dropped in horror. And while the doctor was distracted by his great loss, Stinkfly swooped around the pillar, swept past Animo, and ripped his strainer bowl helmet right off his head.
"My transmodulator!" Dr. Animo cried.
Stinkfly smashed the helmet on the ground and Ravenstorm blasted it with his wind powers for good measure. With the strainer bowl helmet now a broken on the floor, a red pulse went out and Dr. Animo's mutations all over the city returned to their normal state. The hamster, and frog were reduced back to their normal size, the mammoth became lifeless once more, and the T-Rex's dissolved until it was plaster cast. And unfortunately for Dr. Animo, who was sitting on the dinosaur when it returned to its normal state, fell through the fake bones when the entire thing collapsed. Ravenstorm and Stinkfly swooped in close to inspect the wreckage; Dr. Animo groaned in his unconscious state, buried under heavy piles of plaster.
"Looks like your history, Animo." Ravenstorm said; heroes always needed one-liners.
Back at the Washington Monument, Max and Gwen backed up helplessly as the mutant parrot cornered them. Suddenly, the wave struck it and it was reverted back into a regular parrot that perched on Gwen's arm.
"Don't even try to kiss up to me now."
The next morning, the police came to pull Dr. Animo out of the rubble before slapping the cuffs on him and the Tennysons were there to watch with smiles on their faces.
"Let me go!" Dr. Animo screamed, still trying to put up a fight even after he lost. "I deserve that award! I've got it coming to me! I WANT IT!"
The police officer rolled his eyes as he pushed the mad scientist into the back of his car; why did he always have to get the crazy ones. When the officer walked away, Dr. Animo glared through the window at Ben and Donald. He knew they were responsible – they had always been there to ruin his plans. And that symbol on their watches looked it exactly the same as the one those aliens were wearing. Dr. Animo may have been crazy, but he was smart enough to put two and two together. Dr. Animo knew he what he needed to do next, and he would have his revenge on the Ben and Donald.
"For some reason, that sounds kind of familiar." Ben said, recalling how he was as the squad car drove away.
As the Rust Bucket rode away, the kids were discussing their adventure in Washington DC.
"Well, I didn't get that Gold Sumo Slammer card, but at least we snagged a trophy from Animo." Ben said as he placed the Transmodulator into a cardboard box, which the twins were now going to use as their Trophy Box for anything they can use as trophies against the villains they faced. "Plus I guess us saving the city from Dr. Wacko is it's own reward. Who needs the gold card when you have the watches." Ben said he held his watch
Donald grinned and reached into his pocket. "That's too bad," He responded, pulling out the golden card, surprising Ben. "I was going to give you this but if you don't want it I can always keep two of the-."
"I didn't say that," Ben said, looking at him with wide-eyes. "How did you?"
"Remember the hamster?" Donald asked, earning a nod. "Well when Mr. Tennyson carried you off I made a mention of what you were looking for and the store owner asked for me to give it to us."
With that said, he slid it across the table to Ben. "And because you just learned a valuable lesson you earned this reward." Donald said with a smile.
"Awesome," Ben had a huge grin while holding the card. "Thanks dude." Ben and Donald then did a fist bump with each other.
"Besides, maybe we should start collecting souvenirs from future villains." Donald suggested.
"Don't forget, you two saved me too," Gwen said, showing a little softer expression than she normally would with Ben. "Thanks."
"Yeah, well, that's what we heroes do best, rescue dweebs." Ben boasted as he leaned back with his feet on the table.
Gwen push his feet off of it. "You are such a major doofus!"
"I know you, but what am I?" Ben retorted.
"Can you two just get along for five minutes please!" Donald pleaded to them.
"No!" The cousins answered.
Sooooo how was that chapter? I hope I did a good job with the dialogues. And yes, the trio did not get in trouble with the store manager/clerk because Donald was fast enough to pull them away. I also hope Donald calling the mammoth Manny was a great idea because it's a refernce to Manny from Ice Age.