Chapter Two: Saturdays w/ Secrets, Part One.

A spaceship hovered over the planet Earth,

A figure Sat in a ship, watching as Ben, Lucy, and Verdona stood before the conglomerate, "Well well," he said leaning forward, "A Lenopan, fighting alongside a human and an Anodite?" he asked with a chuckle, "Against it's own Monarch?"

He watched as the human played with an odd watch before he turned into a Pyronite causing the watcher's eyes to widen, "The Omnitrix?" he asked, "This will take some... investigating,"

Behind the man the sound of grinding chains could be heard, "Graaaahhahh!" a woman cried, causing the man to turn,

In a cell behind him was a winged creature struggling against chains, The man rubbed his chin as he watched her struggle,

"I'd hate to lose such an interesting specimen," he said turning to the screen, he pressed some buttons and a reticule scanned the rust bucket, "But it'll be worth it to see the whether the Omnitrix is everything I hoped for,"

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile during the battle-OCTOPUS

A creature skulked through the tree line almost seeming to ''watch'' the ongoing battle intently, as the Conglomerate surrendered the creature skulked back into the trees,

OCTOPUS-Much later-OCTOPUS

A large screen focused on the image of a seemingly quadrupedal creature cloaked in a thick layer of shadow,

"What do you think about this?" a white haired lady in an orange and black suit asked an African man with two toned hair and a scar over one of his eyes,

The man with one working eye rubbed his chin, "Seems to fit the image of a Vulpimancer," he said before approaching the computer, he typed away and brought up another image, this one of a certain ten year old transformed into a Vulpimancer, placing it by side of the shadow in the woods,

But when side by side, it was obvious that while two creatures shared a strong resemblance, but there was too much different about them,

"See that's what I thought too," The woman said,

"Seems to have four arms?" the male said, "Perhaps some type of Alien Cryptid?" he asked,

"Are alien cryptids still in our jurisdiction?" A youthful voice asked,

Both adults turned to a younger kid behind them, and both crossed their arms,

"Zak It's 10:30," the woman stated, "shouldn't you be in bed?"

"W-well I-,"

The man rubbed his eyes, "No excuses, go to bed and we'll scold you in the morning,"

"But I-,"

"Actually..." the lady said as she slipped around the child putting her hands on his shoulders, "Maybe he should come investigate with us?" she suggested, "See if his powers work on aliens?"

The man looked between the two, then he turned back to the screen, "Actually... that could make for great data," he said, "Possibly even help further certain theories about Crypids,"

The lady rolled her eyes, "Not the 'they're ancient aliens theory' again?" she groaned, "Why can't they just be magical in nature?"

"I don't like the theory either," the man stated, "It's just something to consider while we're investigating," he started typing on his keyboard, "And since we're going to investigate we might as well check in with an old friend first,"

"You do that, I'll get us to a place we can land," the lady said,

"What can I do?" the kid asked,

"Go wake the others," the lady said, "Might need some back up,"

OCTOPUS-At the Rustbucket-OCTOPUS

The interior of the RV was quiet as it drove to Florida, it's occupants were Ben, Gwen, Lucy, Camille, Joel, And Max, Verdona had decided to come along with them, but vanished somewhere along the way,

And none of them were talking, Ben and Gwen were by the beds, the former was searching through his box of souvenirs, the latter was using her laptop for something,

Joel and Max were at the front, barely speaking, Joel took a lot of glances back,

The two at the table Lucy and Camille, just mostly sat in silence, with Camille not knowing what to say to Lucy,

The normally bright and cheerful alien took to staring out of a window, her body all looked like she'd lost some air in her body and seemed to be melting into herself, her colours bled into one another and she seemed more viscous then usual,

"Lucy" Camille said, "Are you alright?"

"Mmm" She responded, her voice becoming less stable due to her sadness, Max frowned hearing her,

Then he turned into a camping site, "Well here we are," Max said, "A nice place to hunker down for the night,"

"Thanks for the ride Uncle Max," Joel said, "We already had one booked but..." he trailed off and turned to Lucy and Camille, "I think this'll do those two some good,"

"We're in no rush, to get anywhere," Max stated, "Lucy and Camille have as long as they need,"

"No we don't," Lucy stated sadly drawing attention to her, "we only have until you drop them off," Lucy looked down, "Cause I was trusted to you Max,"

Max nodded, "I know, but they can call you and talk and you'll never be far apar-,"

He stopped as he realised Lucy seemed to collapse into herself, literally and metaphorically,

Joel gave a look to Max, "She really respects you as a plumber, maybe you can help?" he asked with a whisper,

Max nodded,

And Joel mouthed a thank you, "Can everyone come help me and Camille with our tent?" he asked, "And setting up the Campsite?"

Gwen folded up her laptop, "Sure,"

"Found it," Ben called and pulled a small diamond shaped semidisk out of his box, "Can't believe I hadn't used this yet,"

"Come on doofus," Gwen said messing with his hair, "We're helping Camille and Joel set up camp,"

"But I wanted to show Lucy-,"

"You can show her later bud," Joel said, "Sometimes it's good to leave people to process for a little while,"

"Okay," Ben said, and everyone but Max and Lucy disembarked and started unloading,

Max unbuckled his belt and turned his chair to look at Lucy, as he looked he wondered what to even say to her,

As he opened his mouth to speak his dashboard started to ring, He turned back and pressed some buttons opening the board and a large screen pushed out of it, the feed turned on showing a man with a mix of both black and white hair, and one eye with a scar over it, "Ah hello Max," he said casually,

And in response Max gave a warm smile, "Well if it isn't Doc Saturday," he said, "Great to see you, though I expect it's not exactly that you just wanted to see me,"

The man named Doc seemed to nod, "Sorry Max I just-, ALIEN SIX O'CLOCK!" he called,

Max turned slightly in his chair, Lucy had walked over to see what was going on, Max just smiled at her, "You alright Lucy?" he asked,

Lucy sniffed and nodded, "Who's this?" she asked,

Max smiled and turned back to the screen, "This Is Doc Saturday, he's an... old friend of mine, we worked together back when I was on duty in the Plumbers,"

"Max... who is that?" Doc asked suspiciously,

"This is Lucy, she's the daughter of a Monarch from deep space," He explained, "She's kinda under my care right now,"

"Hi," Lucy waved sadly,

"... Yes... Hi," Doc said waving back, "I thought you Plumbers fought aliens,"

Max shook his head, "Not always, recently there've been aliens who wanted to become Plumbers themselves,"

"Ah... good," Doc nodded, before clearing his throat, "Anyway, I'm calling because of the wedding,"

Max raised an Eyebrow, "You heard about that?"

"Everyone heard Max, Plumbers had us ready in case something happened,"

"Where were you then?" Lucy asked, surprising the two and drawing attention back to her, "When my mum grew I mean," she said,

"That..." Doc frowned, "We weren't on site when it happened, everyone was scared we'd be mistaken for Plumbers so we held back, way back, and then earthquakes,"

"Earthquakes?" Lucy asked,

"When the ground starts shaking Lucy," Max explained, "your mum caused some after she grew, how bad was it?" he asked turning to Doc,

"We weren't hit bad, but from what I hear some old Plumbers bases were," Doc said, "But we couldn't land and couldn't go from the sky, we mostly just assisted, and then when it was done the big one had shrunk and surrendered,"

'Plumber bases were hit?' Max thought, he kept the thought in his mind as It'd be better to ask Doc in person,

"Afterwards," Doc continued, "We tried to figure out the disturbance by using some recordings we'd taken and found an odd creature by the wedding venue we wanted to run by you,"

"Alien in nature?" Max asked,

"Seems to have some resemblance to a Vulpimancer, figured you'd be the expert to ask,"

"Vulpimancer?" Lucy asked,

"Big alien dog," Max said, "No eyes and a big mouth,"

"We'll be bringing the airship to you so you can look over the footage in person," Doc said, "Where should we meet?"

"Rushmore would be the best bet on the plumber's side though It'll take us a while to get there from Florida," Max said,

"Florida?" Doc asked, "If you activate your beacon we can locate you and plan a bit better where to meet,"

"Activate?" Max asked, "It should be on already," he hit a few buttons, "That should turn it on for you,"

Doc smiled, "Yep, I see you now, there's a secret scientist base we can meet at not far from you, I'll tell them you have company,"

"Don't mention the alien bit, I don't want people to look at Lucy weirdly,"

"I assumed as much," Doc said, "See you on the groun-,"

Then Doc watched in horror as a large orange Vulpimancer tore through the RV Max as in before the feed cut off, "Max?" he asked, "Lucy?" he narrowed his eyes, and changed the comms to the bridge, "Drew base sixty seven quick, our creature may have just pounced on Max,"

"What?" she asked, before she nodded, "flooring it,"

OCTOPUS-Meanwhile-OCTOPUS,

"Ben!" Max cried as he ran over to the downed Ben, his back was pretty deep in the wall, Max glared outside, a large winged growling woman was seen, saliva leaked from between her gritted teeth, her wings were large and imposing, she stood over the fallen bodies of Joel and Gwen,

"A Thanagarian?" Max gasped, quickly he pressed opened a secret compartment and pulled a rifle out of it, quickly he took aim and blasted her in the eyes,

"RAHGGH!" She roared as she covered her eyes and fell back, Camille took her muddy form and slid past the falling Thanagarian slicing her waist, before she kicked her back, yet the winged woman seemed only concerned with her eyes,

"Nothing I do even phases her," Camille said, "advice?"

Max was about to say something but Ben was pushed out of the wall by Lucy and then leapt out of the Rustbucket, "GWOOOOOOAR!" he leapt forward as a stone pillar of earth rose from underneath her making her shoot quickly back to her feet, just in time to try and catch the leaping Vulpimancer, one of her arms grabbed under his right shoulder, the other seized his pauldron, as she caught him Ben swung round and kicked her away from him, causing her hand to slide over the Omnitrix as she was forced back making it glow yellow,

"Mutated Thanagarian DNA collected," Came from the Omnitrix,

Lucy leapt out of the Rustbucket with Max, she quickly mimicked Ben's alien form and ran over swiping at the winged woman with her large claw pushing her further back while Ben recovered,

Camille leapt over the Thanagarian mutant and grabbed her arms as Ben and Lucy Both charged at her,

When Lucy leapt forward with a spikey headbutt, Ben gave a dropkick, and Camille pulled the mutant into the attacks while she slipped between them,

As the woman hit the ground beneath her it turned to mud and swallowed her up while she growled back before she vanished into the ground,

Camille ran forward and tried to grab her, but her hand only touched solid ground, "Winged aliens that manipulate earth?" Camille asked, "Thanagarian's must be terrifying warriors to combat,"

"The manipulating earth is new," Max said as he checked on Joel and Gwen, sighing with relief as they were only unconscious, "Let's get these two on beds and you can tell me what happened,"

OCTOPUS-The End-OCTOPUS

Chapter two baby, but it's technically the second muddy princess story with this cannon, go check out the Crossover Collab I did with Angry9Guy, though I'm unsure whether that story is cannon in this story, I'll flip a coin later, but It's probably a good idea to check that out as I'm planning on asking Angry9Guy if I can use the villain of that chapter Shadow Cloak in this story sometimes too, might need a little stat sheet for him,

In fact the reason a Mutated Thanagarian attacked was because of something I wrote into that collab, it's just a small piece at the end,

Now this chapter wasn't actually supposed to show that the Secret Saturdays themselves were in the story, it was supposed to be hinted at and then at the end I'd reveal that it was actually them, but the story took a different direction,

Now Ben has a Mutated Thanagarian transformation, why? well I wanted a few more transformations and I figured that since I obviously don't want Ben unlocking a Kryptonian for fear that it'll become the base transformation and the last time Ben unlocked a Tamaranean in a fanfic it devolved into... point is I chose a Thanagarian, and a mutated one so I could give it new powers,

She wasn't originally a Mutated Thanagarian due to helping set up plot point for later in the story, and in the stories sequels if I ever get to them, but for reasons I decided to just mutate her instead,

Though now I feel I have to say whether Ben will get a Lenopan or Anodite transformation, my direct answer is probably not, and if he does he's probably not going to use them very often,

Review corner: VVV

HFY_VirtusHumana: Thanks pal, I tried to make it seem big and epic for the first chapter, but it's gonna be a bit more relaxed around here until we get to a big event, like if Vilgax or Kevin ever show up,

Alright see you next time for part 2,