Hey, guys! Welcome to the new chapter of Alien Force Unite! I hope that you guys will enjoy the new chapter...anyway, I don't own anything except for my OCs, and the OCs Rook Shadow, Rook Knight, and Rook Luna belong entirely to 9655 as the OC Predator and Ultimate Aliens Scorsefly and Ultimate Lodestar belong entirely to RZGmon200, who gave me permission to use them.
NOW LET'S GET ON WITH THE STORY!
{Episode 8: The Gauntlet}
Early in the morning, at an abandoned warehouse, we see an armored-up Kevin dodging various laser blasts from a Techadon Robot as Ben stood beside him and was trying to get his Omnitrix to work as Shadow flew around them while transformed into a new Alien Form, which consisted of him being a 5-feet-tall Scorsefly as he resembles a giant fly with large red eyes, a small dark red head with a black mandible that has a long light red tongue, a dark red exoskeleton with black fur and a silver front, two large silver wings, six pairs of dark red hands, and has the Nemetrix Symbol planted on his forehead. His name is Scorsefly.
"Look out!" Scorsefly ordered while flying around to dodge five incoming laser blasts from the Techadon Robot as Kevin gritted the same and turned to the right to dodge two laser blasts coming his way, but he wasn't as lucky with the third one as it manages to hit his shoulder and caused him to scream in pain as the Osmosian Teenager gripped his shoulder.
"Are you okay?" Ben asked worriedly as Kevin looked over his shoulder and saw that, although there was a crack in his armor, it still protected him from the blast.
"I've been better," Kevin said as he looked around the warehouse and noticed a special someone missing from their group as he frowned. "Hey, Romeo, where is Juliet?"
"Yeah, I was wondering where Vanessa was." Scorsefly says with an annoyed glare as Ben turned to explain to them what's going on.
"Vanessa called and said that she was running late because she needed to drop off Sabrina and Ship at a friend's place, but she did say that she should be here at any minute now."
"I'm here! I'm here! I'm here!" Vanessa screamed while running into the warehouse as she stood beside the boys and rested her hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath.
"You are late," Scorsefly said sternly while flying down to hover beside his friends as Vanessa turned to glare at him in annoyance.
"Hey, you try getting around the city without a car! I had to take like two buses to get here!"
"Why didn't you just fly here with the Zennatrix?" Ben asked curiously as Vanessa stared at him for a few seconds before facepalming as she groaned.
"God, I'm such an idiot," Vanessa said solemnly as Ben patted her back comfortably.
"Guys, we could really use some help here!" Gwen screamed loudly from the other side of the warehouse with Knight as Vanessa looked up, and her jaw dropped at the sight before her.
"No way…is that…a real-life giant alien robot!?" Vanessa asked in shock while squealing in excitement as she saw the Techadon Robot firing multiple laser blasts from his fingers at Gwen and Knight, who were dodging them by leaping between their respective mana platforms as the Techadon Robot ran over to Gwen and shot at her between her legs as the Teenage Anodite gasped in shock due to the blast managing to hit her platform and caused her to go free-falling into the ground as the gang gasped worriedly before sighing in relief as Knight flew over to catch Gwen with the help of her mana platform as she landed them near their team.
"I'm so happy that Grandma Luna had started teaching me on how to use Mana," Knight says with Gwen nodding in agreement as she and the others then winced when they spotted the Techadon Robot rearing up to attack them.
"Guys, I think we're in trouble."
"You think?" Kevin asked sarcastically while holding onto his cracked shoulder as Gwen ignored him and turned to her Cousin and Best Friend.
"Think you two can join in?"
"Still need a few seconds," Ben says while fiddling with his Omnitrix as Vanessa grins slyly.
"Don't worry, I got this," Vanessa says while glancing down at the Zennatrix as she tried to activate it...but failed as it let out a loud powered-down beep. "...Uh...time out? Think you guys can give us some time until we get our devices together?" Vanessa asked with a sheepish smile as Gwen and the others rolled their eyes but nodded.
"Fine, I'll see what we can do! Girls, help me trap this pest!" Scorsefly yelled while flying over to the Techadon Robot as Gwen and Knight nodded as they raised their glowing pink hands and fired a combined beam of pure mana as they flew over to collide against Shadow and the Techadon Robot, trapping them both inside a giant mana cage as Scorsefly was quick to start flapping his wings rapidly, emitting a special type of frequency that should've disabled the robot's circuits, but failed to do so as the Techadon Robot merely raised his fist and threw a powerful punch at Shadow, sending him crashing through the mana cage as he falls down onto the ground and moaned in pain.
"Ugh! Guys!" Gwen screamed while she and Knight raised their arms and managed to conjure up another cage around the mechanical enemy, who kept breaking the cage, over and over again, as the Teenage Anodites gritted their teeth in concentration.
"We're running out of time here! Hurry up!"
"Almost done!" Ben and Vanessa exclaimed in unison while fiddling with their Alien Watches as the Techadon Robot slammed both his hands against the cage, causing it to explode as the backlash from the punch hit Gwen and Knight at full force as it caused them to nearly lose their balance, but luckily Kevin stepped in and caught them before they fell as Shadow sat up from the ground.
"That's it, Guys!" Gwen screamed as, after Kevin helped the girls up to their feet, he glared over at the Techadon Robot, and he then bends down to absorb the concrete below as, with enough concentration, the Osmosian Teenager was able to fix up his armor and stood up as he then leaped over to the giant robot and punched the Techadon Robot square in its face, causing it to stumble backwards as Kevin landed on the ground and rushed over to the Techadon Robot while joining his hands together as he tried to execute a killer uppercut, but the giant robot saw this and grabbed him his hands as he hoisted him up in the air and Kevin grunted in pain as the Techadon Robot used his free hand to grab his waist and started squeezing the life out of him.
"Oh, no, you don't!" Scorsefly shouted while lifting up one of his hands as he slammed it down on his Animatrix Symbol and Quick Changed back into his Normal Form with a flash of red light as Shadow then activated his Xennotrix and slammed his hand down on it as a flash of purple light rang out and, once it dies down, we see that Shadow has now transformed into a 12-foot-tall Male Talpaedan with a dark purple armored robotic-like body as his head resembled a Greek Corinthian Helmet and has a metal circle planted on top of his head, small pupilless light purple eyes, long gray ears, gray bolts with black markings on his shoulders, his shoulders/forearms are quite bulky, huge jackhammer-like elbows/wrists/hands with long silver fingers that have small horizontal line design, the black parts of his limbs/arms/upper arms/thighs are chain-like, a long silver tail with small horizontal line design and black/yellow three silver-clawed feet with his toes having small horizontal line design and wears the Xennotrix Symbol planted on his chest. His name is-
"Armodrillo!" The Now-Named Armodrillo exclaimed while a glaring Gwen swung her glowing pink hand around and sends out a small yet sharp Mana Wave that easily slice the arm that was holding Kevin off its body as they both crashed down onto the ground and Armodrillo rushed over to deliver a powerful piston punch at Techadon Robot's chest, sending him flying backwards as he crashed against the wall, hard enough that it cracked as it slowly recovered from Shadow's attack and glared up at our faithful heroes stoically as its antennae glowed red.
"Uh-oh..." Gwen says with a wince as Ben turned to give her a reassuring look.
"It's okay. I'm back in business." Ben says while finally being able to activate his Omnitrix as he began scrolling through his playlist of aliens. "You know who would be perfect for this?"
"The suspense is killing me," Kevin said sarcastically just as Ben was able to find the alien that he wanted to use as he raised his arm and slammed his hand down at the Omnitrix, causing a green glow to appear and, once it dismisses, we see that Ben had transformed into a new alien form.
Once the flash of green light died down, we see that Ben had transformed into a Male Polymorph as he was a 200-pound mucus green single celled-organism that is neither liquid nor solid but a colloidal suspension as he was currently in the shape of a humanoid amoeba with bright green pupilless eyes that have thick black outlines around them, long slim mucus green three-clawed arms, long slim mucus green thick stumpy legs, and has an Anti-Gravity Projector floating above him that will allow him to be mobile in Earth's gravity while also projecting his voice as the Omnitrix Symbol was planted on top of it. His name is-
"Goop!" The now-named Goop exclaimed with a high-pitch squeaky voice while striking a heroic pose as the Gang stared at him quietly and had one single response to Ben's latest transformation.
"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Vanessa, Kevin, and Gwen said in unison while Shadow and Knight didn't find the Polymorph disgusting since this is how the species is supposed to look.
"Oh, you know this is cool!" Goop said with an invisible grin on his face as he flew over to the Techadon Robot, who glares at him as he tries to kick him away…which obviously didn't work since his body was made up of goop as his foot went through his body.
"Hey!" Goop protested in annoyance as the Techadon Robot thought for a second before slamming his foot down on top of him as the Group gasped in shock but then sighs in relief as Goop easily slipped through the robot's toes with the help of his Anti-Gravity Projector as he levitated off the ground and the Techadon Robot decided to change his tactics as he charged up his arm blaster and started shooting at the single cell organism relentlessly, only for Goop to easily dodge the attack by letting the laser blasts go through him as pieces of his body splattered on the ground before the Polymorph used his Anti-Gravity Projector to have the pieces of goop fly back over to phase into his body.
"Nice try, big guy!" Goop yelled with a laugh as the Techadon Robot paused a bit to figure out how to handle his new enemy before getting a brilliant plan in his head as he charged up his arm blaster to the full max and, when it was fully charged, the Techadon Robot let loose an energy blast that was so powerful that it blew Ben and his team out of the warehouse as they crashed down onto the parking lot.
"Ow, everything hurts," Vanessa said while lying face first on the ground as Goop landed near her while Gwen and Kevin landed near Kevin's car. "Is everybody okay?"
"I have a few bruises, but I should be okay," Gwen said as Knight nodded.
"Ditto," Knight says as she and the others were thankfully shielded from the majority of the explosion thanks to Armodrillo protecting them with his massive armored bulk.
"I'll live," Kevin said blankly while sitting up from the ground and noticed that the Robot's dismembered arm had finally let go of his waist as it was now lying lifeless on the ground.
"Yeah, I'm okay too. I just need a second to compose myself." Goop says jokingly as his Anti-Gravity Projector gathered up all of his body, and he gave Vanessa a thumbs up.
"Okay, maybe this alien isn't all bad," Vanessa said while giggling at Ben's joke as the Techadon Robot jumped out of the warehouse and landed on the ground as he swiftly kicked Goop's Anti Projector away, causing the Polymorph's body to become undone and splashed down onto the ground as Goop's projector landed near Gwen and Kevin. "…Or maybe not," Vannesa said with a nervous wince as she and the others looked over at the Techadon Robot and noticed that it was trying to rebuild his hand.
"Shit, guys, the robot is trying to rebuild itself!" Armodrillo says with a glare as Goop shakes his Anti-Gravity around in protest.
"Oh, that's not gonna happen!" Goop said while flying over to Vanessa and gathering up his gooey body again as he formed himself. "Vanessa, I have a plan, but I need your help."
"Sure, what you need?" Vanessa asked while getting up from the floor.
"I need you to transform yourself into Mindquake and put an energy bubble around me and the robot. Think you can do it?" Goop asked as Vanessa grinned at him and raised her Zennatrix Arm.
"Piece of cake," Vanessa says with a smirk as she glanced down at her Zeenatrix and activated it as the blue-haired girl slammed her hand down onto her device, and a purple glow occurred as, once it dies down, we see that Vanessa had transformed into-
"Mindquake!" Mindquake exclaimed heroically as she briefly glanced up at Goop and gave him a thumbs-up before composing herself as she raised her glowing red hands and was able to protect a big red energy bubble around her Boyfriend and Techadon Robot.
"Thanks, babe, I'll take it from here," Goop says with an invisible smile, not noticing Vanessa's face going red as he slithered over to the giant robot and oozed himself inside of the Techadon Robot's body through its exposed hand as, after a couple of tense seconds, Techadon Robot's body started making creaking noises with traces of Goop's body oozing out of the small cracks in the robot's body as, before anyone could react, the Techadon Robot blow up, and Goop's body splattered across Vanessa's energy field as Gwen and Kevin blinked in surprise by this while Mindquake causes the energy field to dissipate as Goop's body splattered down onto the ground before being picked up by his Anti-Gravity Projector as Mindquake walked over to him and slammed her hand down onto her Zennatrix Symbol as she Quick-Changed back into her human form with a flash of purple light.
"Good call on telling me to put an energy field around you guys. If I didn't do that, we would have been covered in…well you..." Vanessa said awkwardly with a laugh as Goop nodded.
"Honestly, I thought you would be happy to be covered in Ben's essence," Kevin says with a sleazy grin as Vannessa and Ben blushed heavily.
"Ha, ha, nice one, Kevin," Armodrillo says while giving his friend a thumbs up as he then slammed his fist onto his Xennotrix Symbol and Quick Changed back into his Normal Form with a flash of purple light.
"Ugh, real immature, Kevin." Gwen says while rolling her eyes in annoyance as Knight nodded in agreement, and Goop huffs a bit before reaching up to slam his hand against his Omnitrix Symbol as he Quick-Changed back into his normal form with a flash of green light.
"With what Kevin said aside, that was pretty cool, though. It felt like the old days when I was Upgrade. Gotta admit I miss transforming into him."
"If that's the case, then why don't you scan Ship? In fact, why don't both of you scan him so that you can both have Galvanic Mechamorph Forms?" A curious Knight asked with crossed arms as Ben and Vanessa blinked a couple of times slowly before facepalming as they groaned, and the others laughed a bit as Kevin then went over to pick up the Techadon Robot's dismembered arm.
"Uh, Kevin? I suggest that you put that Techadon Arm in a very secure place." A worried Shadow says, knowing how dangerous Techadons are due to him and Knight fighting them plenty of times in Dimension X as one even came very close to killing them.
"Don't worry, I know of a perfect place to hide this sucker. I will do it tomorrow." Kevin says while throwing the Techadon Arm into the trunk of his car as he closed it up.
"Okay," Shadow says with a tense nod.
"Ugh, going back to that later, now that we took care of the bad guy and saved the day, what do you guys want to do now?" Vanessa asked as she and the others entered Kevin's car and drove off.
"I don't know about you guys, but I am thirsty. Anyone up for a Mr. Smoothy?" Ben asked as Gwen, Kevin, Shadow, and Knight nodded.
"I'm in."
"Sure, why not."
"I want mine to be pineapple flavored."
"Make mine grape-flavored."
"What is a Mr. Smoothy?" Vanessa asked innocently, causing Ben to give her a double take as he grabbed her shoulders and give her a disbelief look.
"Wait a minute, are you telling me you never had a Mr. Smoothy before?!"
"Yeah. Why? Is it good?" Vanessa asked, not knowing why her boyfriend was so serious about this, as Ben turned to Kevin and gave him a grave look.
"Kevin, drive us to Mr. Smoothy immediately," Ben says as we fast forward in time and see him and Vanessa buying their drinks at Mr. Smoothy while Gwen, Kevin, Shadow, and Knight waited for them at the parking lot.
To blend in better with society, the Rook Siblings can be seen wearing ID Masks and were disguised as humans as Rook Shadow resembled a 6'2-feet-tall, 21-year-old Male Human with blue eyes, long brown hair that reaches down to his shoulders, a big nose, a sharp chin, Cacuasian Skin, a tall muscularly slim build, and his outfit consists of a long-sleeved black leather jacket with a purple shirt underneath, long black pants, and black shoes.
With Rook Knight, she resembled a 6'2-feet-tall, 20-year-old Female Human with blue eyes, long blonde hair that was tied up into a high ponytail, a small nose, a sharp chin, D-Cup Breasts, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscularly slim hourglass figure, and her outfit consists of a purple shirt with a long black skirt, and purple high heel shoes.
"So, do you like it?" Ben asked Vanessa, who finished her smoothy as she thought for a moment and then gave Ben a neutral look.
"I don't like it," Vanessa said with a plain voice, causing Ben to frown disappointedly as the cashier lady gave him his order.
"You don't?"
"No...I love it!" Vanessa squealed happily while hugging her drink close to her chest as Ben sighed in relief and smiled at her.
"You do? That's great. I knew you would like them." Ben said while grabbing the tray filled with smoothies and started making his way towards Kevin and Gwen with Vanessa following behind him. "Nectarine smoothies for everybody!" Ben exclaimed cheerfully before letting a surprise shout as a hand appeared out of nowhere and flipped up his tray, causing the contents of the smoothies to spill on his shirt as Ben let go of the tray and looked down at his ruined shirt. "Ohh, I should have said on everybody."
"Oh my god, Ben, are you okay? What happened?" Vanessa asked as two teenagers came out of the corner and laughed at Ben like a couple of middle school kids.
One of the teenagers is a 5'8-feet-tall, 15-year-old Male with a football-shaped head as he has brown eyes that have a thick black outline, large ears, short slick black hair, thick black eyebrows, a big stumpy nose, a sharp chin, Light Brown Skin, a tall slim build, and his outfit consists of a short-sleeved red shirt with dark gray accents, long black pants, and black shoes. His name is Cash Murray, J.T.'s Best Friend and one of Ben's Childhood School Bullies.
The second teenager is a 5'4-feet-tall, 15-year-old Male with black eyes, unkempt shoulder-length brown hair, thick black eyebrows, a big pointed nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a slim build, and his outfit consists of a pair of round-shape black-framed glasses with light blue lenses, a short-sleeved olive shirt, long baggy beige pants, and dark blue sneakers with white accents. His name is J.T., Cash's Best Friend and one of Ben's Childhood School bullies.
"Whoops. Hey, J.T, looks like somebody had an accident."
"Yeah. Look at that mess, Cash. Need me to get you a sippy cup, Ben? Or maybe a diaper?" J.T. said mockingly as he and Cash started laughing at him again, causing the crowd of people around them to roll their eyes at their immaturity as they scoffed.
"Really? Causing him to spill his drink and childishly insult him? What are you five?" Vanessa asked with a scoff and an unimpressed tone as Cash stopped laughing and looks down at her as he smirked arrogantly.
"Well, what do we have here? It seems that Tennyson has a blue-haired midget for a girlfriend."
"Yeah, blue haired midget. Good one, Cash!" J.T. said while snorting as he adjusted his glasses.
"... Blue-haired midget? Seriously? Is that the best you can come up with? Wow, I am very disappointed. At least the bullies from my old school were creative with their name calling. I mean, insulting my hair and height? Come on, if you're going to be stereotyping Disney school bullies, at least come up with more original names." Vanessa said while frowning in disgust as the crowd of people around her laughed at what she said, causing Cash to grit his teeth in anger and embarrassment as he paused for a bit, trying to use his small size brain to come up with a clever insult as he then perked up.
"Oh, yeah! Well, your boobs are small!" Cash yelled while laughing at her as J.T. joined in as well as a thick mark appeared on Vanessa's head, and she took a deep breath to calm herself down as she was about to say something but was suddenly stopped by Ben as he put his hand on her shoulder and gave her a calm smile.
"Don't worry, Vanessa. Let me handle this," Ben said as Vanessa huffed but nodded as he turned over to Cash and glared at him. "Okay, you can spill my drinks all you want. You can even call me names, but if you insult my girl, then we are going to have a problem. Now walk away or else." Ben threatened as Cash looked at him in surprise before grinning as he walked over to him and glared down at him.
"Ooh, look at the tough guy. Protecting his women. Well, if you're angry about it, then what are you going to do about it, huh?" Cash said while shoving him off as he was about to say something else when, suddenly, the Immature School Bully felt something cold on his hand, and he looks down to see that his hand was covered with sticky juice.
"Egggh!" Cash cringes in disgust as he wiped his sticky hand on his pants before stopping as he realized what he did and looked down at his stained clothes as everybody in the parking lot laughed at his misfortune, including Gwen and Kevin, who walked over to see what was going, as Cash glanced back at Ben with his eyes blazing in anger. "Now, look what you made me do!" Cash exclaimed while screaming into a calm Ben's face as Vanessa tilted her head at him and cocked an eyebrow.
"What he made you do? You did that to yourself, dude."
"Stay out of this, A-cup!" Cash screamed while pointing at her as Ben narrowed his eyes at him stoically and slowly reached his hand over to his Omnitrix as he was about to transform into Humungousaur and pummel Cash's scrawny ass...but then stopped as Ben lowered his arm.
"You know what? You two aren't worth it." Ben said with an annoyed tone while reaching over the counter to grab a couple of napkins, ignoring the confused looks that he was getting from the bullies.
"Huh?!"
"It's ridiculous! Like Vanessa said, couldn't you at least try to be original?!" Ben asked incredulously while wiping himself with the napkins as everybody, including his friends, stared at him in surprise at what he was saying. "You have been doing the same old bully routine since the second grade, Cash. It's tiring. Spilling my drink, name calling, insulting girls, seriously? I can't believe I used to be afraid of you. Look around, Cash. We've all grown up." Ben said while waving his arms around as the crowd murmured in agreement. "But you're still the same pathetic loser who has to torment others just to feel good about themselves. You're just sad," Ben said with a disgusted expression on his face while shaking his head at him in disappointment as he walked over to Vanessa and grabbed her hand. "Come on, Babe, let's get out of here."
"Uh, yeah, sure," Vanessa said, still in awe by what he has done, as they walked over to Gwen and Kevin while ignoring the crowd of people who were cheering at Ben's epic speech.
"I'm proud of you, Ben," Gwen said as she and the others entered Kevin's car and drove off. "You could have gone alien on that creep."
"I would have decked him," Kevin said cockily as Shadow laughed amusedly.
"Same, but I have to admit, you did the right thing in showing restraint, Ben. Sometimes, the pen is mightier than the sword."
"He's right. You handled that situation perfectly, Ben. Like Kevin, I would have punched his face, but you kept your cool and told him off." Vanessa says with a warm expression on her face.
"Yeah, well, believe me I almost went Humungousaur on him, but then I realized that would have made things worse, so I went with the sensible route and stood up to him," Ben said with a smile as Vanessa smiled back, proud of her boyfriend as she reached over to kiss him passionately on the mouth.
"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Hey! No! Stop that! No making out in the car!" Kevin ordered with a stern glare as Shadow, Gwen, and Knight rolled their eyes but laughed a bit as, fast forwarding to nighttime, we see a seriously pissed-off and embarrassed Cash walking through the streets of Bellwood, still angry for being publicly humiliated by his favorite victim as he continued kicking a stray can that was lying on the sidewalk while growling curses under his breath as J.T. followed after him.
"Man, he got you good, Cash," J.T. said while excitedly summarizing everything that had happened earlier on as he was completely oblivious to the dark aura that was surrounding his friend. "You should have seen your face when he said-,"
"NOBODY DOES THAT TO ME, J.T., EVER!" Cash exclaimed while screaming at his face as he looked up to the sky and clenched his fists. "Tennyson is going to pay, and so is that blue haired bitch! I'll get them back, and then everybody is going to be laughing at them!" Cash shouted as J.T. frowned nervously and tried to figure out a way to calm down his friend when, suddenly, he spotted a familiar vehicle parked nearby.
"Hey! It's Kevin's car!" J.T. yelled while pointing over at Kevin's car as it was parked in front of a dinner.
"Yeah? So?" Cash asked with a confused raised eyebrow, not seeing his friend's point as he glanced over at the diner and saw Ben sitting at a table with his friends as Kevin sticks two straws into his nose and pretended to be a walrus as Gwen laughed amusedly while an embarrassed Ben looked away and covered his face as Vanessa, Shadow, and Knight chuckled as they find his bit a bit funny and gross.
"So, if it was me, I'd go thrash it! Leave Ben and his girlfriend for later! You fuck up Kevin's car, and everybody will know you're baddest in the town! They'll be talking about it for years!" J.T. said with a grin as Cash looked over at Kevin's car and smirked like the devil as he nodded to his Best Friend before the Duo rushed over to Kevin's car as they groaned, and the School Bullies slowly began pushing Kevin's car over to an incomplete road, being careful on not being spotted by Ben and the others as Cash and J.T. pushed the car pass the 'Dead End' sign and threw it off, causing Kevin's car to slide down the hill uncontrollably as it zipped pass many trees before crashing against a tree stump as the trunk accidentally opened up, and all of the pieces of alien technology that Kevin stole from their missions fell out and landed on the ground as the car's alarm instantly turned on, and it started blaring loudly as the boys could only stare in amazement at what they did.
"Dude, that's hard-core." A stunned J.T. says while adjusting his glasses as Cash nods before growing serious as he turned to him.
"Come on!" Cash yelled while sliding down the hill as J.T. followed after him, and they both ran over to Kevin's car as Cash kicked the car to stop the annoying alarm, and J.T. ran over to the back of Kevin's car as he drooled at the sight of the stolen alien tech lying on the ground.
"Look at all of this weird stuff. You think we could sell it?" J.T. asked, and before Cash can respond, they heard an angry yell from up the hill as the School Bullies looked up to see a seriously pissed-off Kevin glaring down at them as the rest of the gang caught up to him and went wide-eyed at what they saw in shock and fury.
"HEY! WHAT DID YOU DOUCHEBAGS DO TO MY FREAKING CAR!"
"Grab something!" Cash screamed as he bolted to the forest, leaving behind his friend as J.T. looked at the ground and saw the alien robot's dismembered arm from earlier laying across the ground as he picked it up and ran after his friend as the gang finally arrived at the nearly destroyed car, and Kevin took one look at his car and quickly looked away at the sight of his nearly destroyed car as he shed manly somber tears.
"Kevin," Gwen said while putting her hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry, they won't get far," Ben said reassuringly with a glare while activating his Omnitrix as it showed a hologram of Jetray.
"Yeah, we got them. They will pay for what they did." Vanessa said with a sharp glare while activating her Zennatrix as it showed a hologram of Hyper-Bolt.
"We are so going to beat them up." Shadow says as he activated his Xennotrix, and it showed the hologram of Fasttrack.
"Guys, don't!" Gwen screamed while stopping them as the Lovebirds and Shadow turned to her in surprise.
"But we can go after them." Ben pointed out as Shadow nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, we'll find them."
"Then what? Reveal your secret identities?" Gwen asked incredulously as Knight nodded while giving them a scolding look.
"Yeah, like you said earlier, Ben, they are not worth it. Besides, they can't hide forever." Knight said firmly as Ben and Shadow glared at the forest before sighing as he nodded to Gwen and deactivated their alien devices as Vanessa reluctantly did the same and then turned around to walk towards Kevin as she reached up to put her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm so sorry, Kev. We will avenge your car, I swear." A determined Vanessa said firmly as Kevin looked down at her and smiled in appreciation before frowning softly as he stared at his car solemnly.
"...Seriously? All that cool stuff, and you grab an arm!?" Cash asked with a really annoyed tone as we cue over to an abandoned mannequin factory, and we see Cash glaring at J.T. while holding the Techadon Robot's Arm that his friend had stolen earlier from Kevin's stash of stolen alien technology.
"Well, I think it's pretty cool. Kind of like a glove." J.T. said while reaching over to grab the robotic arm and puts it on. "Look. Behold the awesomeness of my mighty robot arm." J.T. says while raising the robot arm as he started making laser noises before screaming in fright as the Techadon Arm lets loose an actual laser blast and blew a hole in the ceiling and the boys stared at the ceiling in awe as they looked down at the robot arm and smirked at each other eagerly as Cash quickly placed a couple of empty beer cans on the table and step aside as J.T. grinned and shot all of the beer cans with perfect precision with his Techadon Arm's laser fingers.
"Alright! Give it!" Cash said while reaching over to grab the Techadon Arm, but J.T. refused to give it to him as he steps back.
"But I found it!"
"So?!"
"So, it's my turn!" J.T. screamed childishly, but Cash ignored him as he forcefully ripped the robot arm from his hand and put it on his hand.
"It's not finders keepers, J.T.!" Cash yelled while aiming his robot arm at a busted-up mannequin. "It's mine!" Cash shouted with a grin as he pressed the trigger on the Techadon Arm, and a laser blast flew out of his arm that not only destroyed the mannequin but also the wall behind it as Cash laughed maniacally and started blowing up all the mannequins around him as J.T. stared at his friend cautiously and Cash stopped his firing as he looks down at the alien robot arm with an evil expression that could rival the Joker.
"C-Cash, you okay?"
"Oh, yeah. This will scare the juice out of Tennyson and his stupid flat-chested girlfriend! Last time they'll smack talk to me!"
"That'd be hilarious," J.T. said with a nervous chuckle as Cash looked down at the Techadon Arm with a sinister glint in his eyes as he flexed his fingers.
"...You're not joking, are you?" J.T. asked anxiously as Cash didn't respond to him and walked out of the room, causing J.T. to look at him warily as he realized that his friend was not only planning on getting revenge on Ben and Vanessa but was also planning on killing them as well as he gulped. A few hours later, we see J.T. cautiously making his way over to his friend, who was for some reason taking a short nap on a chair as the glasses-wearing teen bit his lip nervously and reaches out his hand to try and grab the Techadon Arm from out of his friend's hand, but before he could, Cash suddenly opened his now glowing red eyes and glared at him through the darkness as J.T. let out a girlish scream and hastily backed away from his friend and fell on his butt as Cash slowly stood up from his chair, and he turned to his frightened friend.
"I said it's mine." Cash said with a dark tone and his eyes glowing red as J.T. looked up at his friend and wondered what has happened to him as Cash scoffed at him and rolled his eyes as he turned around to walk away.
"Hey, Kev, how's the car doing?" Vanessa asked as we cue to the next day, and we see our favorite couple walking into Kevin's Garage as Ben held a tray full of smoothies in his hands and placed it on a table next to Gwen, who was sleeping in her chair as Vanessa eagerly skipped over to Kevin to greet him, but he didn't answer as Kevin and Shadow were working underneath Kevin's car as Knight stood beside her while holding Kevin's Toolbox and the Rook Siblings can be seen wearing their ID Masks. "Kev?" Vanessa asked again as Kevin lets out an annoyed sigh and rolled out of his car.
"What do you think? Those idiots really did a number on my car." Kevin said as Ben bends down and gave him his drink.
"Have you been here all night?" Ben asked as Kevin nodded to him and took a sip from his drink before placing it on the ground as he rolled back under his car.
"Yes. And I'm not leaving until my ride is cheery." Kevin says as Shadow turned to him.
"I still can't believe that those assholes wrecked your car," Shadow said as Knight nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, me neither, it just doesn't make any sense, why would they go after Kevin instead of Ben?"
"Hmmm, it could be for any number of reasons, Knight." Vanessa said as she sat on the ground and took a sip from her drink that was handed to her by her boyfriend. "Either they thought that if they messed with your friends, you would get angry and fight them…or it could be for something stupid like getting some street cred or something."
"Yeah, that could be it," Ben said with a nod before looking over to Kevin. "Want some help?" Ben asked as Kevin rolled out of his car and glared at him.
"You wanna help me? Then go away." Kevin says rather rudely as Ben raised an eyebrow at him and shrugged.
"Fine by me," Ben says as he started making his way out of Kevin's garage before walking back as the Omnitrix Wielder bends down and took Kevin's drink from the ground. "No juice for you!" Ben screamed while accidentally waking Gwen up as he turned around and walked away.
"Did Ben just make a Seinfeld Reference?" A bewildered Knight asked as Kevin raised an eyebrow at the brunette's outburst before yelping in pain as Vanessa leaned over and pinches his left arm.
"Ow! What was that for!?" Kevin asked while rubbing his left arm as Vanessa scoffs at him.
"You know what you did. Why were you so mean to Ben? He just wanted to help."
"Yeah, Kevin. We know how angry you are about what happened to your car, but that doesn't mean that you should lash out at others." Shadow said with a stern glare while rolling out from the car as Kevin sighed and ran his hand through his hair.
"Yeah. Okay, I'll go get him." Kevin said while standing up from the ground as he was about to head out to find Ben when, suddenly, J.T. appeared out of nowhere and entered his garage as the gang stared at him confusedly, and a panting J.T. rested his hands on his knees as he tries to catch his breath from the long run.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here. You have a lot of guts showing your face around here after what you and your friend pulled." Vanessa says while sneering at the sight of him as she stood up from the ground and walks over to him as J.T. looked up at her with a panicked look on his face and reached over to grab Vanessa by her shoulders.
"Oh, flat chest, you're here. That's good, I need to warn you about something." J.T. said before looking around as he noticed that Ben wasn't around them. "Where's Ben? I need to warn him too. Something's wrong with Cash and-," J.T. says hurriedly before letting out a painful shout as Vanessa unexpectedly decked him across his face and sent him falling to the ground as J.T. groaned in pain while Vanessa pulled back her arm and glared down at the cowering teen fiercely as she cracked her knuckles menacingly.
"First off, my name is Vanessa Cunningham, not flat chest. So, stop calling me that, you got it?!" Vanessa screams as J.T. whimpered in fear and nodded. "Two, what the hell are you talking about?" A confused Vanessa asked with a much softer tone as J.T. stood up from the ground and put a hand on his bruised cheek.
"W-Well, like I said b-before, something is wrong w-with Cash," J.T. said while stuttering nervously as Kevin looked him over and finally recognized who he was.
"Are you talking about the guy who messed with my car? And weren't you with him?" Kevin asked while pointing an accusing finger at him as J.T. step back in fear, not wanting to be punched again as he raised his hands in surrender.
"I-I-It was his idea, really!"
"Uh-huh," Knight said dryly, not really believing what he said, as Vanessa lets out a sigh and puts her hand on her hips.
"Okay, why don't you just stop your stuttering already and tell us why you came here?"
"Look, flat che-," J.T. said before stopping in mid-sentence at the sight of Vanessa raising her fist. "...I mean Vanessa, Cash has been looking for you and Ben. He says he is going to teach you guys a lesson for humiliating him."
"So, you came here to warn us that your angry short-tempered friend is hunting us down, so that he can start a fight with us? Yeah, I think that we can manage." Vanessa says with a blank tone as Gwen nodded in agreement.
"Vanessa's right. I wouldn't worry about them. I'd worry more about your friend. Where is he?"
"A-At the old mannequin factory downtown. We hang there sometimes…okay, all of the time." J.T. says lamely as Kevin nodded.
"Got it," Kevin said as he shoved past J.T. and ran out of the garage.
"KEVIN, DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID!" Gwen screamed as she tries to stop Kevin from leaving, but it was too late as he was too far away to hear her. "Waste of breath..." Gwen says with a deadpan tone as Vanessa took a deep breath and cups her hands together around her mouth.
"KEVIN! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, THEN PLEASE PROMISE ME THAT YOU WILL THROW IN A GOOD PUNCH FOR ME!" Vanessa screamed before yelping in pain as Gwen slaps her on the back of her head.
"YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" Gwen screamed with a glare as Vanessa rubs her head and grins at her nervously as Gwen sighs at her friend's immaturity.
"Don't worry, I will prevent Kevin from doing something stupid or reckless," Knight says to Gwen reassuringly as Shadow turned to her.
"Want me to come with you?" Shadow asked as Knight shakes her head.
"Don't worry, I got this," Knight says before turning around to run after Kevin as Gwen glanced over at J.T. and cocked an eyebrow at him in disbelief and disappointment.
"Hey, what happened to you, J.T.? Back in first grade, you and Ben used to eat paste together."
"That's gross," Vanessa says while wrinkling her nose as Shadow nodded in agreement.
"It is, but that's beside the point. You were a nice person, but then you started hanging out with Cash, and you changed." Gwen says as J.T. shrugged.
"Cash isn't so bad, I make him laugh, and he always has my back." J.T. says as Gwen stared at him incredulously.
"Both of you act like total jerks!"
"Cash is Cash. What do you want from me?"
"We want you to tell him to cut the shit with the bullying already," Shadow says with a glare and crossed her arms.
"Shadow is right. You seem to have a lot of influence over him." Vanessa pointed out as J.T. glanced down and sighed somberly.
"Yeah, but only enough so that I can get to watch him beat up other people instead of getting beat up myself," J.T. says weakly as Gwen rolled her eyes and scoffed.
"Sounds like the basis of a great friendship," Gwen said sarcastically.
"Dude, what you and Cash have is obviously not friendship. It's slavery. Cash tells you what to do, and you obey him like a good little lap dog." Vanessa says as J.T. tenses and glares at her.
"That's not true!"
"Oh, really? Then tell me, when was the last time that Cash did you a favor or helped you out when you really needed his help." She asked as J.T. tries to recall the last time that Cash helped him, but he came up empty-handed. "My point exactly."
"Okay, wait, hold up. Cash maybe...unreliable sometimes...okay, maybe all the time, but he is still my friend!"
"Then why are you still here, anyway?" Gwen asked, wondering why the boy hasn't left yet. "If you say that Cash is such a good guy, then why don't you go hang out with him?"
"Look, I just wanted to warn Ben and Vanessa."
"Don't. It's not like when we were little. Ben can take care of himself. Vanessa as well." Gwen stated matter-of-factly as Vanessa nodded curtly. "So, don't worry about them. They can handle Cash."
"Well, what about me? Cash is seriously bent. I mean, something's wrong and if he finds out that I told-,"
"Nothing will happen to you, J.T." Gwen says reassuringly as J.T. bit his lip nervously but nodded as we then cue over to the old abandoned mannequin factory, and we see a furious Kevin marching up the stairs of the building with a glaring Knight following after him as they walked over to the nearest door and broke it down with dual, mighty kicks.
"Knock, knock. Don't bother hiding. Your weasel friend already told me you were here." Kevin said with a growl as Knight nodded with narrowed, angry eyes.
"Yeah, come on out and face us like a man!"
"Levin? The New Chick in Town? I don't have any beef with either of you." Cash's voice echoed across the building as Kevin gritted his teeth and clenched his fist.
"That's where we differ. You trashed my ride," Kevin said with a glare as he and Knight looked around and gasped in shock when they noticed Cash walking out of the shadows with most of his body now fused with Techadon Robot Armor.
"Okay, that's admittedly a surprise," Knight says while slowly blinking in disbelief and wary.
"Pretty cool, huh? I can also do this!" Cash screams as he shoots an energy blast that narrowly flew past Kevin and Knight's heads and blew a hole in the wall. "You two dorks were just about to leave, right? I just made a door for you." Cash quipped as Kevin slowly glanced over at the hole in the wall before looking back at Cash, who had an evil grin plastered on his face.
"No. This is good. This is really good." Kevin says with an ominous tone as he reached over to place his hand on a support beam and absorbed its material into his body.
"What are you talking about?" Cash asked, seemingly not fazed by Kevin's powers, nor by the fact that Knight took off her ID Mask to reveal her real form and pulled out her Proto-Tool.
"You see, dumbass, now that Kevin and I know that you have superpowers, we don't have to worry about holding back!" Knight screamed as Kevin nodded while flashing a feral grin as he raised his arms and slammed them down onto the floor, causing a mini shockwave to appear as it hit Cash directly and send him flying into the air as he then crashed down to the ground and groaned a bit as Crash sits up from the floor just as Knight raised her weapon and fired an energy blast at the half-cyborg teenager, who raised his arm and was able to tank the attack like it was nothing as he laughed mockingly.
"That didn't even hurt!"
"Yeah? Then how about this?" Kevin says as he charges at him and throws multiple fast punches, all of which Cash dodge with ease as he grabs the last one and punches him back as the Osmosian Teenager let out a surprised grunt and was sent flying back as he crashed against a wall while Cash looked down at his robotic glove in awe as he saw the damage that he did with just one punch.
"No way!" Cash says with an evil grin before getting a confused look on his face as a glaring Knight flew over to him with the help of her mana platform and fired multiple mana disks down at Cash, who fired back with his own energy blasts that shattered apart her mana constructs, but this left him distracted for a recovered Kevin to rush over and delivered a wicked uppercut up to his chin, sending him flying up to Knight as she raised her arms and created a large mana hammer as she slammed it down on top of his head and sends a grunting Cash crashing down onto the ground.
"I got him!" Kevin exclaimed while crouching down as he then leaped up into the air and joined his hands together as he was about to deliver a powerful downward double punch but was stopped by Cash as he raised his arm and fired a big red energy blast that impacted against a grunting Kevin, sending him flying up to crash against a yelping Knight as they then fell down and crashed through several floors as the Duo landed painfully on the last floor.
"Ha, ha, ha!" Cash laughed mockingly while glancing down at the groaning Kevin and Knight as he grinned sadistically and charged up his Techadon Arm as Cash started shooting down numerous energy blasts with the majority of them being able to hit directly onto Kevin's back while a few hit Knight, who tried to protect herself with a mana shield but it broke apart as the Duo screamed in pain before rolling out of the way as Cash grinned sinisterly and looked down the hole to see an injured Kevin trying to reach for the nearest thing to absorb since his armor was majorly cracked while an equally injured Knight was trying to get up from the floor.
"Uh uh, nice try, dorks!" Cash exclaimed while leaping down from the hole as he shot at Kevin and Knight in mid-air, causing the Alien Beings to let out several painful, agonizing screams as they then fell down onto the ground and panted heavily as Kevin glanced down and saw that he had only managed to absorb only 37% of metal into his body, that may seem like a lot but it wasn't enough to completely fix his armor.
"Ugh..." Knight moaned while spitting blood out of her mouth as she and Kevin then glanced up at Cash's grinning face as they glared at him defiantly.
"I-Is that all you got?! Give us your best shot!" Kevin screamed while giving him a challenging look as Cash smirked cockily.
"Really? You two aren't going to beg for mercy?" Cash asked as Knight scoffed and spit out some blood.
"I ain't gonna beg. I ain't begging you."
"No." Cash stated blankly while swiftly blasting the Duo relentlessly as Knight screamed in pain, and Kevin gritted his teeth in pain as the blast was so powerful that it managed to destroy at least 15% percent of his body armor and send him and Knight crashing through the other room. "Heh, guess this means you're no longer the coolest kid in town anymore, Levin." Cash asked as Kevin glared at him in disbelief and anger.
"Ugh. And you are? Not on your best day!"
"You don't have to worry, Levin. This isn't about you nor this Alien Chick." Cash said as his Techadon Robot vibrates rapidly, and Kevin and Knight lets out a loud gasp as Cash's robotic body started expanding across his human body. "Ben Tennyson and his stupid blue haired girlfriend, they are what this is about. You tell them, 3:00 o'clock, Mr. Smoothy parking lot. If they don't show up, I'll be coming for them." Cash says as he glares down at the Duo before turning around to walk away as both Kevin and Knight shared a worried look.
"Mmm mmmmm mmmm mmmm mmmmmm." Ben hummed to himself with a smile on his face as we see him purchasing two new smoothies at Mr. Smoothy, and he gulped them down in one go as the Omnitrix Wielder belches loudly.
"There you are!" A familiar voice says, causing Ben to turn around as he saw Gwen, Vanessa, Shadow, and J.T. running toward him with looks of distress on their faces. "We have been looking everywhere for you-Wait, how many of those things you had today?" Gwen asked, after noticing that her cousin had two more smoothies in his hands as Ben gave her a proud look.
"Let me put it this way, enough to know that carrots and chocolates aren't two great tastes that taste great toge-HEY!" Ben said before letting out a scream of protest as Vanessa grabbed the smoothies from out of his hands and throws them into the trash. "Vanessa, I was drinking those!"
"Sorry, babe, but as your girlfriend, I have to look after your health, and I think you have had enough smoothies for one day. Besides, we got bigger problems to deal with."
"What do you mean?" Ben asked before noticing J.T. standing beside his cousin as he glared at him. "Oh..."
"Hey." J.T. greeted lamely as an annoyed Ben turned toward his friends.
"Why is he here?"
"He came here to warn you and Vanessa." Shadow says as J.T. nodded shakily.
"It's about Cash."
"Cash?" Ben asked with an odd look as his girlfriend nodded.
"Yeah, apparently the punk put out a hit on us," Vanessa says as Ben blinks a couple of times before snorting loudly as he gives his friends an incredulous look.
"Are you serious?"
"I know, I know, I wasn't worried at first, but Kevin and Knight went after him hours ago." A worried Gwen says as Ben threw his head back and laughs.
"You're worried about them? Kevin and Knight are going to destroy him!"
"Kevin is not like that anymore, Ben! He's changed!"
"Hmmm...nope. Kevin is going to kill him." Vanessa said bluntly as Gwen turned to her and glared at her friend. "Aw, don't worry, Gwenny. I'm just kidding...with Knight around, she won't allow him to kill Cash.
"YOU ARE NOT HELPING!" An angry Gwen screamed with flaming eyes as Vanessa giggled mischievously.
"Okay, okay, if you guys are that freaked out about this, why don't we just check up on Kevin and Knight and see if they are alright...and to see if Cash is not dead," Ben says with a big sweatdrop on his head as J.T. perked up.
"I'll show you where they are! Follow me!" J.T. screams as he and the others turned around to run away, and after twenty minutes of running, the gang was able to arrive at the old mannequin factory as they stopped near the gates and cringe at the sight of the nearly destroyed factory.
"It's all messed up, like there was a fight." Shadow pointed out as Ben turned to him.
"It's abandoned. It probably always looks like this," Ben says as J.T. looked up at the abandoned building and straightens out his glasses.
"These holes in the wall are new, but the garbage has been there forever. And there, by the loading dock-," J.T. says before stopping as he realized that Ben, Vanessa, Gwen, and Shadow weren't paying attention as they headed into the building and, after seconds of searching, the gang were shocked and horrified to see a near-unconscious and heavily injured Kevin and Knight lying on the floor.
"Ugh...bet you're loving this, huh?"
"Kevin! What happened?!" A worried Gwen asked as she and Shadow ran over to check on them.
"Are you hurt?!" Shadow asked as Knight winced and shakily raised her glowing pink hand as she began trying to heal herself and Kevin.
"W-We're okay, bro. Is nothing but a scratch." Knight says with a tired and pained smile as Kevin nodded with a moan.
"Y-Yeah, it's not as bad as it looks."
"Hold on a minute. Cash did this to you?" Ben asked before letting out a laugh as Shadow and the girls gave him a dirty look. "Right. Stopping now."
"He must have gotten a hold of that Techadon Arm. That robot that we fought yesterday." Knight says as Ben and the others slowly turn over to J.T., who was sweating bullets at their menacing gaze.
"J.T., is there anything you forgot to tell us?" Gwen asked as an aura of anger radiated off her body.
"Don't lie to us, boy." Vanessa said as she cracks her knuckles and gave him a 'You better not lie or else we will hurt you really badly' look.
"Uh...maaayybe," J.T. said with a nervous smile as Shadow fumed at him.
"Stop joking around, dipshit! My sister and friend are hurt! You better started telling the truth, or else I will-,"
"Okay, okay, I will tell you the truth! You see, when Cash and I trashed your car, and all of that stuff fell out, we grabbed something! A big metal glove! It can shoots lasers! I tried to get it back, but he wouldn't give it up. It's like it possessed him! I'm telling you, he's not himself!"
"He also called you guys out," Kevin said to Vanessa and Ben as they turned to him and Knight.
"3 o'clock., The Mr. Smoothy parking lot," Knight said while still healing her and Kevin's injuries.
"Okay. This is gonna end now." Ben says with a serious glare as an equally serious Vanessa and Shadow nod in agreement.
"More like in 15 minutes," Kevin said while coughing out blood as Ben glanced down at the Omnitrix and sighs.
"Sorry, doesn't tell time." Ben said as he then turned over to Kevin and gave him an unsure look, not knowing if he should either help out his friend or go fight Cash.
"Go. I'll be okay." Kevin said, reading Ben's expression as Knight nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, avenge us, guys," Knight says as Ben and Shadow nod as Vanessa leans over to Kevin and kisses his forehead.
"Be safe, and, don't worry, Kev. I'll give him a good punch for you." Vanessa says reassuringly as Kevin blushed, but nodded nonetheless as Vanessa runs off with Ben running close behind her as Shadow followed after him.
"We'll come back for you after the fight," Gwen said to Kevin before running off as J.T. followed her.
"Did you really have to kiss him, Vanessa?" Ben asked, slightly miffed to see his girlfriend kiss someone else.
"What? It was just a friendly kiss. Aww, don't tell me that you are jealous~" Vanessa said while winking at him as Ben blushed and looks down.
"I'm not jealous!" Ben screams as Vanessa giggles at his blushing face, and the gang continued running toward Mr. Smoothy.
Fifteen minutes later, we cue over at Mr. Smoothy as everyone was hanging out and having a good time when, suddenly, an explosion was heard as they all turned to the source of the explosion and saw Cash, who was now wearing the alien robot's body minus the head, emerging from the smoke as he looks over the frightened crowd and glares at them threateningly as the crowd of customers screamed in fear and ran for their lives, but unluckily two customers were clumsy in their steps and fell on the ground as Cash leaped over to the two frightened customers and landed a few feet away from them as he snarled at them and one of them looked at his face as he gasped in realization.
"Holy crap! You're that kid from yesterday!"
"Yes, I am! You guys thought I was so funny! Well, who's laughing now!?" Cash asked aggressively while raising his hand as he started charging up his energy.
"Wait a minute. Just because we laughed at you, you're going to kill us!? How is that fair!?" The Civilian asked, but Cash ignored him as he was about to blow a hole in his chest when suddenly someone called him out.
"Hey!" Three familiar voices said as Cash turned around and saw Ben, Vanessa, and Shadow standing before him as they glared at him with anger and disgust as the Alien Shapeshifters stepped forward. "What is your problem?"
"You are my problem, Tennyson! You and your stupid flat-chested girlfriend! But now, I got power, and no one can stop me! Not even your friends, Kevin and that weird Alien Chick!" Cash screamed before turning over to the traumatized crowd and smirking arrogantly. "That's right, I kick Kevin Levin's ass!"
"Oh, trust me, I will make you pay dearly for hurting my sister," Shadow says while reaching up to grab his ID Mask as he took it off, revealing his alien form as Vanessa huffed loudly and crossed her arms.
"Okay, seriously. Can you stop calling me flat chest?! I know my breasts are small! You don't have to rub it in!" Vanessa yelled with an annoyed tone as Ben patted her back comfortingly before turning to glare at Cash.
"Cash, we're giving you this one warning. Stand down, or we will make you." Ben says threateningly as Cash couldn't help but laugh.
"Ha, ha, ha, don't you get it, Tennyson?! With this suit, I have power that you could only dream of! I could kill you, your stupid girlfriend, and your freak of a friend right now if I wanted to...in fact, I will!" Cash screamed as he raises his arms and was about to blast Ben, Vanessa, and Shadow out of existence, but then-
"CASH!" J.T. screamed as he and Gwen ran onto the scene as Cash turned to glare at them. "Look, this is fucked up, man! We were supposed to be having fun, but you are trying to kill innocent people! That's not the friend that I know! Even at your worst, you would never do something like this! Please give us back the glove before someone gets hurt!" J.T. pleaded as Cash narrowed his eyes at him and raises his arm.
"Screw off! You ratted me out!" Cash shouted while raising his arm as he fired a red energy blast that flew over to J.T., who whimpered in fear and winced as he waited to be vaporized in half when, suddenly, a stoic Gwen raised her arm and projected a mana shield around J.T., protecting him from the blast as she turned to give him an irritated look.
"Nice friend, you got there," Gwen says sarcastically just as a screaming Cash rushed over to try and attack the Duo, only to grunt in pain as a shockwave impacted against him and sends him flying back as he crashed down onto the ground and groaned as Cash sat up from the ground and gasped softly as he and the others realized that Ben, Vanessa, and Shadow had transformed into their respective alien forms.
Once the flash of green light dies down, we see that Ben has now transformed into a 7-feet-tall male Crystalsapien as he resembled a silicon-based alien lifeform with a crystal magenta face that has a singular large light green eye and a small mouth, a large magenta crystal planted on the top of his head that resembled a horn, dark gray rock four-fingered magenta crystal hands, two magenta crystals attached to his chest with six other magenta crystals planted on his back, a tall humanoid top-heavy muscularly slender build as his body was made out of extremely durable dark gray rocks and has dark lines/spots on it, a slim dark gray rock-based waist, dark gray rock-based legs that resemble shoes and wears no clothes as he has the Omnitrix Symbol planted on his chest. His name is Chromastone.
Once the purple light dies down, we see that Vanessa has now transformed into a 13-feet-tall Female Tetramand with two pairs of thin purple pupilless eyes as one of the eyes had a large scar on it, long curly blue hair that was tied up into a high ponytail, no nose, black thick lips, a sharp chin, two pairs of four-fingered arms, D-Cup Breasts, light blue skin, a tall humanoid slender hourglass yet muscular figure, a big heart-shaped ass, two-toed feet, and her outfit consists of a golden gladiator helmet, golden shoulderpads with a blue cape that is fastened onto them by golden buckles, a golden armored chest, golden gauntlets, golden pants, and long golden boots. Her name is Tetragirl.
Once the purple light dies down we see that Shadow had now transformed into the Evolved Version of a male Biot-Savartian with a floating face that were radiating a glowing white aura and consisted of him having two silver pupilless purple eyes, a black/purple eyebrow-like crest, a silver mouth, a humanoid black/purple humanoid body made out of living alien mental with his shoulders being in claw shape with two large silver balls in-between them, a large black/red hood planted on his body as it extends up to his face, long slim large crab-like hands with silver balls in-between them, long slim crab-like legs with silver balls in-between them and has the Ultimate Xennotrix Symbol on his chest. His name is Ultimate Lodestar.
"Hey, tiny! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!" Tetragirl asked with a glare while placing her four hands on her hips as Chromastone nodded with a scowl.
"Cash, listen to us. You DON'T want to do this!" Ultimate Lodestar warned with a glare, but of course, Cash ignores him as he lets out a frustrated yell and blasted at the trio, which obviously didn't work as Chromastone stepped forward and crossed his arms as he simply absorbs the blast and shoots it up to the sky harmlessly.
"You can't beat us, Cash."
"You think just because you and your girlfriend are freaks, I'm gonna stop? I'M NEVER GONNA STOP! EVER!" Cash screams as he leaps up and throws a punch at Chromastone, but thankfully, Tetragirl zooms in and grabbed his fist as she lifted him up into the air and started twirling him around for a bit like a toy as she then smashed him onto a car. "Ugh..." Cash groaned in pain as Tetragirl smirked cockily and lifts him up into the air as she twirls him around again before throwing him to a truck as a screaming Cash collided head-first into the truck. "Argh, shit!" Cash cursed while wincing in pain as he sat up from the ground and, much to his shock, Ultimate Lodestar raised his arms as he latched onto all of the cars around him with his magnetism and lifted them all up into the air as Shadow then crushed them together into a ball and started firing multiple beams of steel at Cash, causing him to turn around and run away in fear.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Cash shouted while running forward and avoiding Shadow's attack as he then composed himself and raised his arm as he tried to fire multiple red energy blasts at Ultimate Lodestar but failed miserably as he was able to repel the energy blasts by creating a magnetic shield around him and the Evolved Biot-Savartian then morphed the metallic ball into a giant metal fist and sends it flying down towards Cash, crushing him down onto the ground with a big shockwave ranging out as Shadow repeated this multiple times before raising his metallic hand as a heavily injured and cracked Cash moaned in pain as he shakily got up from the floor and spotted the Trio glaring at him sternly as Chromastone waved his finger at him.
"GRRRRRRRRRRR, TENNYSON!" Cash exclaimed while snarling like an animal as he charged towards Chromastone, who likewise charged at him as well as they both collided against each other, and a small shockwave appeared as it blew up a few cars near them, and the boys grunted loudly as they tried to overpower each other with their alien strength, but they seemed to be evenly matched for now.
"Why are you doing this? Why me? Why Vanessa, Shadow, Kevin, and Knight?!"
"Why not!?"
"I'll show you why not!" Chromastone screamed fiercely as he added a little bit more strength into his arms and managed to bring Cash down to his knees as he glared down at him furiously. "It doesn't have to be this way, Cash! Neither of us wins anything by fighting! Just stop!"
"I-I can't!" Cash yelled, finally coming to his senses as he tried to stop, but the suit won't let him.
"Yeah, you can!" J.T. shouted as he and Gwen ran up to them.
"No. The machine wants to fight! Look, the suit is fixing itself already!" Cash screamed panickedly as the suit started fixing the cracks in the armor.
"The Cash that I know isn't going to let a pile of scrap metal tell him what to do! You're the toughest kid in school! Fight it!"
"How!?"
"That thing doesn't control you! You control it!"
"M-Maybe!" Cash screamed as he closed his eyes and concentrated as he lets go of Chromastone and took a couple of steps back as his body started glowing bright red. "GET. OFF. ME!" Cash exclaimed angrily as he raised his arms, and the gang could only stare in shock as Cash's armor slowly disappears, and Ultimate Lodestar narrowed his eyes as he raised his arms and fired waves of magnetic force into Cash's body and started ripping out the nanobots that were inside of his body to make sure that the Techadon Robot was fully expelled from the Teenaged School Bully's body as the only thing that was left behind was the Techadon's Arm and J.T. quickly ran in as he grabbed the glove from Cash's outstretched hand and he grunted loudly as J.T. pulled the glove out of Cash's hand and then threw the Techadon Arm onto the ground as Tetra-Girl walks over to crush it into a billion pieces with her foot.
"Won't be seeing that thing anytime soon." Tetra Girl says with a cocky smirk before slamming her hand against her Zennatrix Symbol as she Quick Changed back into her Human Form and Ben and Shadow did the same with their respective alien devices as the Trio then slowly walked over to Cash, who was breathing heavily on the ground as he looked up to them and gave them an apologetic look.
"Look, I just want to say thank you all for what you did."
"Yeah, and I hope we can get together and hang out sometime," J.T. said as he then reached over to grab Cash's hand and gave him a smile. "Come on, Cash. Let's go home!" J.T. said as Cash nodded, and they walked away.
"Huh? Cash actually listened to him. Maybe he has changed or at least matured a little bit. You think we will be seeing them again." Ben asked Vanessa, who shrugged as she looks up to the sky and smiles.
"Hmmm, no, I don't think we will be seeing them for a long time...or at least, until Ultimate Alien."
"Mm? What are you talking about?"
"Nothing, let's go home," Vanessa says with a grin as she grabs his hand and started making their way out of The Mr. Smoothy parking lot as Shadow followed after them.
"Man, it has been a crazy day. I can't wait to go home, but I can't help but feel that we are forgetting something." Ben says as Vanessa shrugged.
"Eh, it's probably nothing. Right, Kev?"
"..."
"Kev? What about you, Knight?"
"..."
"...Oh, fuck." Vanessa curses as she and the others finally realized what they forgot and quickly ran off to the abandoned mannequin factory to pick up Kevin and Knight, but then stopped as Shadow held out his hand.
"Wait, hold on. Before we go." Shadow says while glancing down at his Xennotrix as he then activated it and slammed his hand down on it as a flash of purple light covered his body, and once it dies down, we see that Shadow has transformed into a 6-feet-tall, semi-armored, Male Kineceleran as he resembles a velociraptor-like alien with small purple eyes, black lips, three long clawed fingers on each of his hands, his elbows/legs are sharply pointed, dark purple skin, an upright slim yet muscular toned built, a long dark purple tail that has four black stripes, large black orbs on his feet, and his outfit consists of a black cone-like helmet with a sliding light purple protective visor, a light purple turtle neck sweater with a black stripe on the center, black pants, and has the Xennotrix symbol placed on his chest. His name is-
"XLR8!" The Now-Named XLR8 exclaimed while running forward as he used his Superhuman Speed to grab Cash and CJ as the Xennotrix Wielder then zoomed ahead and proceeds to hang both School Bullies onto a nearby lamppost by their underwear, giving them atomic wedgies as they groaned in pain.
"Ah, not again!" Cash shouted with an embarrassed moan as J.T. flinched and blushed in embarrassment.
"Ha, ha, classic," Ben says with an amused laugh as Vanessa and Gwen laugh as well as XLR8 zoomed towards them with a cocky smirk on his face.
"Heh, yeah, thought they deserved some payback for what they did. Now, come on. Let's go get my Sister and our friend." XLR8 says while reaching over to grab Ben, Vanessa, and Gwen as he then zoomed them away.
And done! I hope you guys enjoy the chapter, and I can't wait to write the next one! Also, when Kevin put straws up his nose in the diner, Ben was enjoying it, despite looking embarrassed. Oh, and also, the reason why no one is freaking out by the fact that Shadow and Knight are aliens is that I'm following along with the logic of the episode since Ben, Kevin, and Gwen all showed off their alien powers in front of normal civilians and yet no one reacted to it.
Like, seriously, I cannot believe that I haven't noticed this until now, but there is legit no reaction whatsoever from the public to the very fact that these seemingly normal teenagers have real-life superpowers. Kevin absorbing materials in front of Cash? No reaction from him. Gwen projecting a mana shield in front of J.T.? No reaction from him or the other civilians. Ben transforming into Chromastone and de-transforming shortly after in public, in front of other people? No reaction from them. Honestly, I don't know how Ben still kept his Secret Identity after this episode.
Anyway, as always, I will catch you all later.