Episode 7-Kevin 11
In New York City, the Tennysons were checking into a hotel as Gwen was looking over the brochure that detailed all of the attractions in the hotel.
"Wow, this hotel has everything! Indoor pool, full day spa."
"All-you-can-eat buffet," Jen added in as Ben looked bored.
"No don't get too excited, you two. It's only for one night," Max said before turning to the door.
Ben then glanced over and gasped as he saw what was in front of him: a sneak preview of the newest Sumo Slammers game which was being guarded by a bouncer.
"No way! A new Sumo Slammer video game is in there!" he shouted as he ran over, only to have his path blocked by the bouncer.
"Pass?" he asked.
Ben felt at his pockets only to find nothing. "I must have left it inside," he lied. "I'm one of the game pros testing out the new system."
"VIPs only."
Ben glanced disappointedly as he walked over to his family and Angel sighed.
"I know what you're thinking, dud. No sneaking back in there. I am not missing out on a buffet because you got us kicked out."
"I won't," Ben said as his family walked to their room while hauling their luggage.
Ben then got a sly look and activated his Omnitrix, ducked into a corner, and transformed into Ghostfreak before floating to the bouncer.
"But he will," he said as he floated into the room and glanced at the video game with a sly smile (if he had a mouth.) "The ultimate sneak peek for the ghost with the most freak." He turned on the game and started playing it.
Jen, Gwen and Max were at the elevator about to head up to their room as they noticed someone missing.
"Ben?" Max said as Jen sighed.
"Oh no," Jen sighed as she shook her head. "I think I have a good idea where he is."
"Yes! New high score!" Ben cheered after he transformed back and scored 500,000 points before he felt something on his shoulder and turned around to see the bouncer with an angry look on his face.
"What do you have to say for yourself, kid?" he asked.
"Uh, game over?" Ben said.
The bouncer angrily tossed the last of the Tennyson's luggage at their feet. "And never come back!" he shouted as he went back inside.
Angel's eye twitched angrily as she went to him. "I told you specifically not to go in there."
"Well, if you want to get technical about it," Ben said as Gwen agreed with her cousin.
"I never even got the chance to take a shower! A real shower for the first time all summer!" she shouted. "Plus, they had a spa. A spa! Nice going, doofus!"
Ben then sighed and walked away towards the Rust Bucket as they all entered and had a very stern talk to him.
"How am I supposed to trust you if you keep misusing the Omnitrix?" Max asked.
"Excuse me, Angel and I have used them 100 times for good at this point. Why can't we use it just once for us?" Ben asked.
"It's not how many times we use them, dude. It's how we use them," Angel said. "We're superheroes. What part of never using them for personal gain did you not get?"
"It was no big deal," Ben sighed.
"To you," Max stated. "And that's all you care about. Now what you have done cannot and will not go unpunished. From now on, no Sumo Slammer's stuff for two weeks. No comics, no trading cards, no-"
"Fair!" Ben interrupted.
"Neither is getting us kicked out of a four-star hotel I already paid for!" Max said.
"Fine! Take it out of my allowance!" Ben said.
"You don't get an allowance," Gwen said.
"Stay out of this!" Ben and Max shouted.
Gwen then slumped down in her seat, sorry for butting in.
"This is my vacation too. You can't always tell me what to do," Ben said as he narrowed his eyes at his grandfather. "You're not my dad."
Max then stumbled back as he witnessed his grandson compare him to his son. "Well if I was I..." he stopped short, unable to think up a comeback. "I'm going to go back to the hotel to see if I can get at least some of my money back. I'll be back in a few minutes."
Ben then angrily walked to his room as he glared at his family. "Don't hurry!" he then slammed the door with an angry glance.
The girls looked at their grandfather as Gwen sighed. "He'll be fine."
Max then headed back to the hotel as Angel sighed before counting down.
"And in three, two, one…" she then gestured with her fingers as Ben started shouting and throwing things from behind the door.
"Not fair! Not fair! Unfair," Ben shouted.
"I'm Glad to see you're handling things so well," Gwen said as Ben opened his door and walked over to his sister and friend before scoffing and walking out.
"Ben, where are you going!?" Angel shouted as Ben glanced back at her.
"Where does it look like? Out," Ben said to her as he continued walking away.
"Get back here!" Gwen shouted.
"Sorry, I don't speak dweeb," Ben said as he walked away with the girls following him.
"Grandpa's going to kill you! And then us!" Angel realized as she and Gwen ran towards him.
Ben then walked into the Total Zone Arcade as the girls stopped in front of the door.
"Next summer, I'm going to sleepaway camp," Gwen said.
"Good luck. I hear they're notorious for having serial killers," Angel said as they walked inside.
Ben then glanced at the games and glanced around in wonder before stopping at a baseball game and set up to play, only to get a Game Over almost as soon as he started.
"Game over!? But I just started!" he then turned to a passing teenager. "This thing ate my tokens!'
"Read the sign, kid. It says 'Play at your own risk,'" he said before walking away.
"This place is a ripoff, you know that?" Ben shouted as a kid behind him smiled.
"You're right. The games here stink," he said as Ben looked at him.
He was a thin and scrawny boy with shoulder-length black hair, pale skin, and dark brown eyes with black-discolored marks around them and wore a torn black T-shirt, black studded arm bands, brown cargo pants, black knee-length shoes, and a padlock necklace.
"Yeah, but not as bad as his breath," Ben joked. "Major case of sewer mouth."
The boy then laughed at that as he looked at Ben. "You're funny. You owe me one."
He then placed his hand against one of the games. Then, much to Ben's shock, it sparked as soon as his hand made contact and all of the tokens the machine gathered came spitting out of it as Ben looked in wonder at his trick (little did he know his sister and cousin walked over.)
"We can't take those!" Angel shouted.
"They're not ours!" Gwen agreed.
"They are now," Ben said before looking at the kid. "I'm Ben."
"Kevin," he said.
"Wanna play some air hockey?" Ben asked as Kevin looked over and spotted two older kids looking to him and he got a nervous look on his face.
"Naw. Gotta bail," he said before walking away.
"He's major trouble," Angel said.
"He seemed okay to me," Ben said as the two older kids shoved past them and walked towards Kevin.
A third kid blocked Kevin's path as the other two kids surrounded him.
"Long time no see, Levin," the leader said. "Where you going, freak. Home to recharge your batteries? Or to go crying to the other loser?"
The two lackeys then grabbed Kevin's arms as Ben stepped behind them with a glare at the bullies.
"Need some help?" Ben asked.
"He's going to need a lot more than you, kid," the bald kid said before pushing him back toward his sister and cousin. "Now beat it!"
"I've got skills too," Ben said before running for cover and activating the Omnitrix.
"Ben, don't!" Angel shouted, but it was too late. Ben slammed down the core in a flash of green light.
His hands then lost two fingers and morphed into black scissor-like claws before his entire structure started to take on a more velociraptor-like state and his skin grew blue with black armor-like plating with pink on the center as well as her feet morphed into a ball-like structure-and his eyes turned fully green and he grew a long blue and black striped tail and his head into a more triangular shape before his face was covered with a black visor with green lighting as he struck a pose, finishing his transformation into XLR8.
"So, how's the hangout?" Kevin asked. "Still trashed like I left it for you?"
"Yeah and you're gonna pay," the leader of the bullies said. "You can't take us all alone, freak."
"Bett I can!" XLR8 shouted as the bullies looked at him and laughed.
"Little early for Halloween, dude, isn't it?" the bully with the blue mohawk asked. That was a big mistake.
XLR8 zipped off and ran around their leader at high speeds, creating a blue and black cyclone that lifted him off of his feet and sent him screaming in the air before stopping, causing him to fall. XLR8 then whacked him with his tail and sent him sprawling against the wall. He then ran off again.
"Where'd he go?" the bully with the blue mohawk asked as he suddenly disappeared followed by the African American bully. They reappeared sprawled against their leader on the wall.
The remaining bully with the green hair tried to run away in fear but was stopped by XLR8, who stopped by him and lifted up his visor, revealing his face.
"Trick or treat."
The bully then ran off screaming as XLR8 waved to Kevin before running off as well, leaving behind a smiling Kevin and an unapproving Angel and Gwen.
"I so don't trust this kid," Gwen said.
"That makes two of us," Angel scoffed.
"I can't believe you went alien, bro," Angel said with her arms crossed as the kids stood outside the arcade.
"He helped me, so I helped him," Ben said. "You wouldn't get it. And neither would Grandpa. That's the problem."
"Excuse me!?" Angel shouted. "I do know what it's like. I've helped you plenty of times after you helped me. I helped you with the times Cash and JT messed with you! I helped you with your homework after you helped me get over my stage fright in the fourth-grade talent show! I snuck you that Gold Sumo Slammer's Card after you helped me defeat Animo! We're BFFs! That's what we do!"
"Did you see what that speed guy did to those losers?" Kevin asked as he walked over to them.
"Yeah," Ben said. "Dude's name is XLR8. We're pretty tight."
"Cool. Hey, want a tour of New York?"
"You keep Grandpa waiting any longer, he's going to pop another gasket!" Gwen said. "We gotta go."
"As in now, Ben," Angel said.
"Don't you two mean you have to go?" Ben asked as Kevin smirked.
Gwen gave up and turned away from him. "You're on your own."
"Good, that's the way I want it!"
She walked away as Angel stayed behind confronting her best friend. "I can't let you do this, dude."
"You mean you can't stop me from doing this," Ben said as he and Kevin walked away as Angel was left shouting at him.
"Get back here, Ben! If you don't come back here, Grandpa's going to kill you! ...and then me!" she then got a worried look on her face as she gulped. "Oh man, how am I going to explain to Ben's folks that their son, went AWOL in the Big Apple!"
She then worriedly ran off before she took out her phone and dialed her Max's number as she worriedly called him.
"Hi, this is Maxwell Tennyson," the answering machine said as Angel groaned. "I'm sorry to say I'm not available at the moment. Please leave a message after the beep and I'll be sure to call you back as soon as possible. *beep*"
"Mr. Max, this is Angel!" She shouted. "Ben ran off! Call me!"
"So how'd you get your power?" Ben asked Kevin as they walked down the street.
"I was born with it," Kevin said. "I'm like an energy spire. Motors, air conditioners, lights, batteries, whatever. Soak it up and dish it out when I have to... or want to."
"Cool."
"Come on. I'll show you I live."
Back at the Rust Bucket, Gwen walked in only to see her grandfather waiting for her with a stern look on her face.
"Where's Ben?" Max asked.
"Yeah, it's kind of a funny story," Gwen stated as Max held up his phone and played Angel's voicemail for her.
" , this is Angel! Ben ran off! Call me!"
Underground in an abandoned subway station, Ben and Kevin walked into a room. There were a few TV's, a vending machine, a Sumo Slammer's poster, a fridge, two beds, a kitchen area, and a few mirrors. There were some areas and stuff that looked like they belonged to a girl as Ben smiled and looked confused at the girl's stuff.
"You live here?" Ben asked.
"Not me, I have plus one," Kevin said.
"You do?" Ben asked as Kevin nodded.
"She's 2 years older than me. She's been like my mother to me?"
"What about your parents?"
"Long gone," Kevin said. "They weren't too thrilled having a freak for a kid."
"Your friend has powers too?" Ben asked as Kevin nodded.
"Yeah Somewhat, she has some type of pony wings. Of course, she only use them when it necessary "
"Same with me," Ben said. "Been best friends since we were four and she has to be the little goody-two-shoes of us."
"I feel you. She's not old enough to be my legal guardian, so I don't answer to anybody."
"Sounds good to me," Ben said. "So why was that gang after you?"
"I kind of maybe trashed their hangout under the 39th Street Bridge," Kevin said. "What about you? It seems like your family's pretty steamed at you at the moment."
"Like usual. And all I did was sneak in and play the new Sumo Slammer video game."
"The one that doesn't come out until Christmas?"
"Yeah." Kevin smiled.
Angel sighed as she put a hand to her head sat down against a wall and started crying to herself as she continually tried Ben's number before she leaned against the wall of the building she was leaning against before sighing.
"This is great! I've lost my closest friend! And to add salt to the wound, in freaking Big Apple!" she shouted as she sat down, leaning her head against her knees as she started crying.
"Looking for someone?" said a voice as a figure walked out of the shadows of the alley with a smile as Jen looked at her.
She was a 13-year-old girl who had long, magenta raven hair tied and purple eyes. She wears a black zip-up hoodie, olive-green cargo shorts, and black boots. She also wore a gold necklace around her neck as she sat down beside Angel.
"Yes," Angel said. "Can I help you?"
"I think we can help each other. You're looking for your friend," she said with a smile at her as she smiled.
"How'd you know?" Angel asked as the girl sighed.
"Because I know what it's like. I'm looking for my mine friend too," she said as Jen gasped.
"Does he have black hair and a padlock necklace?" Angel asked.
"You've seen Kevin?".
"He was with Ben last I saw him."
"I say we help each other look for them. If we find your brother we find mine."
"Sounds like a plan," Angel said with a smile as she wiped her eyes and got up before shaking hands with the girl.
"I'm Sarah by the way," she said with a smile.
"Angel. Angel Harper," Angel said as the two then started running down the alleyways looking for their brothers.
"If I know Kevin, he's probably going to show Ben our place. Come on!"
Ben and Kevin ran to the storage area at the shipyard Kevin smirked.
"A little bird told me that a new shipment just came in," he said as he ran to the security console and absorbed its energy causing it to short out. "Help me kick in the door."
The two kicked the door in and Kevin smiled.
The sensor started beeping and the lights came on, revealing several crates that presumably held the new Sumo Slammer's game.
"Check it out," Kevin said as he tossed Ben the game. "Wait's over, dude."
"Yeah!" Ben said.
Suddenly, some smoke grenades burst through the windows and started smoking up the joint the two stood there shocked as the spotlights from helicopters shone through the windows and they realized that the cops surrounded the building.
The two started coughing as the smoke filled the building.
"What do we do?" Ben asked.
"Get out of here!" Kevin shouted as the two dropped the games and ran to try to find an exit as Kevin spotted an electrical outlet before he grabbed it absorbed its energy and smiled at his smoking hand.
Then, two S.W.A.T. soldiers burst through the door as Ben spotted him. "Freeze, punks."
Kevin ran to a forklift and smiled before he used his energy on it. "Time to rev things up." He then pressed his hand to the engine, activating it and sending it on it's way to one of the soldiers. He jumped out of it just before it struck its target and sent him sprawling into a crate, breaking it and knocking him unconscious.
"Let's go!" Kevin shouted as they ran out the door, only to be met by a cop car that was blaring its siren and they ran off to be found by a helicopter's spotlight.
"Great, no way out," Ben said as he looked at his Omnitrix.
"Any ideas?" Kevin asked.
"Only one, but can you keep a secret?"
"Sure," Kevin said as Ben activated the Omnitrix as the S.W.A.T. team ran into the storage area. He then dialed it past Grey Matter and Heatblast before finally stopping on Stinkfly. "What are you doing with your watch?"
Ben then slammed the core, activating the watch. The Omnitrix sank into his arm as the skin hardened and turned into a green exoskeleton with the hand becoming black with three clawed fingers. His head morphed, growing four golden insectoid eyes that blinked vertically and his face turned black. His body reshaped, becoming an 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. The watch symbol appeared on his forehead as he flapped his wings in a pose.
In Kevin and Sarah's secret home, Angel's Omnitrix started beeping as it sensed its partner's activation. She then smiled.
"That's new. The Omnitrixes seem to be linked to each other. When one is activated and the two are apart, it sends out a signal to the other showing us its location."
"What's up with your watch?" Sarah asked as Angel got up.
"I know where they are. Let's go!" Angel shouted as Sarah smiled at her.
"Wait up," Sarah said as she opened one of the desks of her drawer and took out a bunch of small stuff as she smiled. "Okay, I'm ready."
"What are you going to do with those?"
"You'll find out very soon," they then ran out, following the signal on Angel's Deltatrix.
Back at the warehouse, Kevin noticed Stinkfly and smiled before grimacing at his smell.
"Ugh, you reek!"
"I know," Stinkfly said before he grabbed Kevin and flew out of the door only to be followed by the helicopters.
"Oh yeah!" Kevin said, kicking his feet against the waters of Lake Placid as he smiled to Stinkfly. "And people call me the freak. How'd you do that?"
"Talk later," Stinkfly said as he noticed the helicopters flying after them and the S.W.A.T. team started firing their guns at the pair of them. Stinkfly dodged them before flying off to Liberty Island and Kevin kicked his feet against the Statue of Liberty before they ducked under the spikes of its crown as he smiled.
The helicopter pilots lost sight of the two of them as they circled the statue.
"Where'd they go?"
Little did he know they were hiding on the underside of the helicopter, out of their vision.
"We're running out of time," Stinkfly said. "I'll lose them in the city."
He then flew off of the helicopter as the soldiers fired their guns at them rapidly he flew off to New York City again before flying down the streets, trying his hardest to shake the helicopters before they crashed on the windshield of a tour trolley that ran over a hot dog stand.
The chase had taken them in sight of the Rust Bucket and past Angel and Sarah as they passed them and Angel smiled.
"Bingo," Angel said as they passed in front of a camera and Stinkfly was shown on the big screen in Times Square just above the Coca-Cola sign Angel smiled and Sarah glared.
"He's dead meat," she said as Kevin showed a peace sign and the cops shot the TV screen as Angel glared before activating her watch.
"What are you doing?" Sarah asked as she looked to her
"Getting a lift," She said as she ducked behind an alleyway and slammed the core down in a flash of pink light and transformed into Solar Flare
"Come on. I can keep up with them."
Solar Flare then grabbed Sarah as she flew after them as fast as her wings could carry her but she was careful to be behind the helicopters to not catch as much attention.
"I can't shake them!" Stinkfly shouted as he continued to be chased by the helicopters and spotted a truck carrying cars on a flatbed as he smirked.
"I've got an idea," he said as he flew into the flatbed and hid in it as the helicopters flew after him and into a tunnel as she smiled.
"We'll get him on the other side," the helicopter pilot said as they flew to the other side of the tunnel. But to their shock when the flatbed came out, Stinkfly wasn't there anymore.
Ben and Kevin stuck their heads up from the car seats after the Omnitrix timed out while in the tunnel as they smiled.
"Yeah!"
Solar Flare then flew overhead and glared at the flatbed as the helicopters left.
"I'm not as stupid as the cops are, Ben. Come on!" She then continued to follow the flatbed overhead before landing on it and she and Alison stopped in one of the cars on the lower level of the truck as they glared.
"Still trying to wrap my head around this," Sarah said as they kept an eye on the boys from down below.
After they escaped, Ben and Kevin ran into an alleyway as they stopped to catch their breath.
"So that watch lets you turn into that dragonfly thing whenever you want?" Kevin asked as Ben nodded.
"And not just that one. It sends out this special energy that lets me turn into 10 different aliens."
"10? So the speed guy at the arcade was you," Kevin asked as Ben nodded. "I spotted ginger hair-lass had another watch like yours. So she can do the same thing?"
Ben nodded. "But some of her aliens are different than mine."
"You two are the bomb! Show me whatever aliens you can morph into."
"It's not that simple. It has a mind of its own."
"Give me it. Maybe I can make it work?" Kevin suggested as he reached for the Omnitrix as Ben held him off.
"I can't. It's stuck on my wrist," Ben said as Kevin got an idea and a mischievous look went to his face.
"We should be partners," Kevin said. "And between the two of us with our powers, we could do whatever we want whenever we want. We'd cash in. What do you say? Friends?"
He stuck his hand out to Ben and he hesitated.
"My friend, grandfather, and cousin think I should only use my powers for good. Jen rarely ever uses her powers for her gain," Ben said. "Maybe they're right."
"We are right, Ben," said Angel as she and Sarah walked up with a glare at the guys and Sarah shook her head.
"Sarah," Kevin said as his sister crossed her arms with a glare.
"Hello, Levin. I go out shopping with whatever money I can get at my two-bit job as a waitress and here I find you sneaking out and hobnobbing with some kid who you just met," She scolded.
"How did you find us anyway?" Ben asked as Angel showed her now blue Omnitrix up with a glare.
"You're not as smart as you think you are, Benjamin," Angel said. "When you morphed into Stinkfly, your Omnitrix sent out a signal to mine showing me where you were. Now we caught you red-handed."
"You have your way of getting what you want, sis. I have mine. I was doing just fine back there," Kevin said.
"Oh, and this qualifies as 'just fine?!' Almost getting yourself arrested?! Endangering the safety of our family?" Sarah shouted as Kevin glared.
"Ben, please don't tell me that you're seriously thinking about teaming up with this jerk," Angel said as Kevin glared.
"Who are you calling jerk, Miss Rulebook?" Kevin asked as Angel raised her eyebrows in shock.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! I follow the rules because not following them would cause me to end up like you," Angel glared as Ben stared.
"Come home with us," Sarah said. "Our way is the right way and it keeps you out of trouble."
"But it's no fun," Kevin said to Ben as he hesitated before he shook his hand.
"Friends," Ben said as the girls looked like they were going to blow a fuse at that.
"I can't believe this! We only want what's best for you!" Angel said as Kevin glared.
"Sorry. Not sorry," Kevin said as he then grabbed a garbage can and threw it at them before Sarah held the emerald in her pocket in her hand and fingered it before closing her eyes and suddenly, the emerald material started taking over her hand as she glared and took her hand out of her pocket and slice the garbage right in half as Angel gasped as the two halves fell over and her hand returned back to normal.
When Angel looked up, their brothers were gone.
"How did you do that?" Angel asked as Alison smiled to her.
"You know how Kevin can absorb energy? I can do it as well, but I can also absorb any kind of material and use it as a kind of armor," She said as she smiled to her. "I think it has something to do with my age. I'm two years older than he is and thus I have better control over my powers than he does."
"Cool!"
"I told you that I needed that stuff from my desk," she said. "I can also morph my limbs into various forms when I absorb materials."
"So awesome!" Angel said admiringly as she got her game face back on. "Let's go get 'em. They couldn't have gotten far from us."
Back in the Rust Bucket, it was racing all across the streets of New York City as Max glared at the road as Gwen looked concerned.
"Of all the stunts Ben's pulled, this is the worst," Max stated angrily. "When I find him..."
"I should really be enjoying this. So why aren't I?" Gwen stated as her phone started ringing and she answered it. "Hello?"
"Gwen, it's Angel. We've got Ben and Kevin and we're hot on their tail. Meet us at the subway station near the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway," Angel said over the phone as Gwen sighed.
"We're on it," Gwen said.
Meanwhile in the underground subway station, Ben and Kevin ran to the tracks as Kevin smiled.
"Check it out," Kevin said as he spotted a green light. "Give me a boost. I need to recharge."
Ben then cupped his hands and Kevin got on them as Ben lifted him up and Kevin absorbed the energy from the light as it went dark. Kevin then got onto the tracks and ran to the lever as he then used the energy he absorbed to switch the subway tracks.
"What are we doing?" Ben asked as Kevin turned to him.
"A money train loaded with cash comes running down these tracks," Kevin said. "So when it crashes into this oncoming passenger train, BOOM! Instant jackpot! You turn into that XLR8 guy and we're out of here."
Ben then looked horrified at that explanation. "But hundreds of innocent people will be killed!"
"Hey, no pain no gain."
"You can't do this!"
"Sure I can," Kevin said. "I just switched the tracks."
"No. I mean I'm not going to let you do this!"
"We shook. We're partners," Kevin said.
"Not anymore. This is going way too far!"
"Then try and stop me, Watch Boy!"
"'You don't care about anyone else but yourself,'" Ben realized, remembering what Angel and Gwen said and realizing they were right.
"You talking about me?!"
"No, I'm talking about me!" Ben shouted as he stomped towards Kevin, but his motives were futile as Kevin grabbed him and tossed him towards the barrier of the tracks as Ben groaned as both Angel and Sarah ran down the steps as Angel ran to Kevin and Sarah grabbed him.
"So not okay to do that, Kevin!"
Sarah stared at the tracks and gasped at that.
"Innocent civilians?! Are you kidding me?" She shouted as the three of them glared at him.
"Oh come on, sis. You're not really thinking about fighting me would you?" Kevin asked.
"I had put up with most of your stunts. This is the last straw," Sarah said as Kevin's hand sparked with energy as he chuckled.
"Oh, you do not want to make me mad."
"You don't know the meaning of the word 'mad!'" Angel said as Ben glared.
"We're switching the tracks back!" Ben said as the Omnitrixes finally recharged. "Time to go Four Arms!" He dialed the Omnitrix to the strength alien and slammed the core Instead of Four Arms, Ben was Heablast and Angel was Jewel Queen.
Kevin glared as the three got ready as Heatblast looked himself over, not happy.
"Stupid watch," Heatblast said as Kevin grinned.
"Kevin stand down, you don't want to do this," Sarah said one last time as Kevin glared at her.
"I'm done following your word," Kevin said as Jewel Queen stuck her hands out and Heatblast set his hand on fire.
"Get back."
"Or what? You're gonna burn my dinner?"
"If you fight me, you're the one who's going to be burned."
Kevin then smirked and ran to the transformer by the lever and discharged his energy into it as they all looked around shocked as all the lights in the area of the station blew up from the overcharge and they could only see because of Heatblast's flames.
"Where'd he go?" Jewel Queen asked as they all looked around.
Kevin then stepped out from the darkness and grabbed Heatblast from the back as he stumbled around and his hand wandered close to the Omnitrix symbol and he started absorbing energy and he flew back from an explosion as Jewel Queen looked to Sarah and the lever.
"Sarah, switch the tracks back!"
She nodded and ran for the lever, only to be met with a blast of flame as she looked back at the burn on her arm as she looked and gasped when she saw her as he
His right arm and head had transformed into a near replica of Heatblast while the rest of his body was still human.
"Psych! I absorb energy, remember?"
"You don't have to do this," Heatblast said as he started to run towards him only for Kevin to dodge and he blasted him with a fire blast as he crouched on the ground.
"It's time I got what's coming to me," Kevin said. "Nobody's calling freak anymore!"
"You're only a freak if you believe you are, Kevin!" Sarah shouted.
They then heard a train whistle blowing and they looked to see the headlights of the train coming and looked to the other side to see the other train as Kevin smirked.
"Payday," Kevin said as the screen split into three as they got horrified looks on their faces.
"What do we do?" Jewel Queen shouted as Heatblast fired a heat ray at the lever and melted it, switching the tracks back as one of the trains switched tracks and traveled on its way with no trouble Sarah sighed before she glanced at the train by her as she pocketed the bullet in her pocket and absorbed the lead as she saw the train approaching them as she braced herself and Heatblast grabbed both of them and went on top of the train in a flaming tornado as the driver shielded his eyes from the light as they vanished.
Kevin ran by them and glared. "Forget the money. Time to get some priceless revenge!"
Heatblast, Jewel Queen, and Sarah were hanging onto the edge of the train for dear life as Heatblast's grip began to give as he groaned.
"Incoming!" She shouted as Jewel Queen raised her arm and grew a giant crystal from the top of the train behind them.
When Heatblast let go and crashed into the girls, they all stopped on the crystal as they groaned in slight pain.
"Thanks," Heatblast said as Jewel Queen sighed.
"Don't mention it," Jewel Queen said as the train continued on it's path.
"...and expect delays on the subway line near 34th street," said the radio announcer over the Rust Bucket's radio as Max and Gwen drove on looking for the twins. "...there have been reports of fires all throughout the tunnels."
"Grandpa?" Gwen asked, concerned.
"I know," Max said as he made a U-Turn towards the subway line.
The Omnitrixes started beeping as the twins gulped.
"Oh man! I hate that sound!" Heatblast shouted as they trnasformed back into their human forms and were hanging onto the train for dear life as Angel groaned.
"Come on! Hang on!" she shouted as Sarah gulped.
"I'm too young to die!"
Then, they heard a familiar honking noise and saw the Rust Bucket pull up beside the train's bridge and avoiding the other cars as Max saw the kids holding onto the train for dear life as he gasped and flipped a switch, rolling out the awning for the Rust Bucket before he saw a train supporter on top, which the kids were about to crash into. He then went under the bridge to the other side and honked the horn, catching the kids' attention.
They saw Gwen waving to them and they gasped as they saw the supporter.
"That's gonna hurt!" Angel shouted as they stood up.
"Jump!" Ben shouted as they all leapt off of the train and landed safely on the awning.
"Nice catch, Grandpa," Gwen said as he smiled.
"Are you ever planning on listening to me?" Max scolded Ben after Max parked the Rust Bucket and the three kids stood there with sheepish looks on their faces.
"Mr. Max, I know you're upset, but this is just as much my fault as it is his. I was a bad friend and I let him run away from me. I tried to get him back. I'm equally guilty of what he did."
"Can I introduce myself?" Sarah asked as Gwen nodded.
"Go ahead," Gwen said.
"I'm Sarah Jackson. I feel like this is partly my fault because I let him get like this because I was a bad friend and guardian. No matter how hard I tried to control him, he always ended up as a loose cannon," Alison said as Max glanced at her.
"Maybe I was a bad grandfather too," he said. "I should have been more firm to you and instead, I let you become as irresponsible as you've become, Benjamin. None of this would've happened if you'd just listened to me in the first place. It's all about trust."
"Then trust me when I say that Kevin's probably misusing Heatblast's power right now," Ben said.
"Grandpa, Ben's right," Gwen said. "There's no telling what he could do now."
"Okay, so where is he?" Max asked as Sarah sighed.
"I have a pretty good idea where is he."
At the hangout under the 39th Street Bridge where the bullies from earlier were, a massive explosion occurred and fire surrounded the bullies, preventing them from escaping.
"Kevin," the leader said. "We can work this out!"
"I don't think so," Kevin said, approaching them slowly.
The Rust Bucket had gotten caught up in traffic on their way to the Bridge as Max continually honked the horn.
"Come on! Move it!"
"Going Stinkfly!" Ben said as he and Jen activated the Omnitrixes. "See you at the 39th Street Bridge."
They slammed the cores down... transforming into Four Arms and Drake Fury.
"Great. Now I turn into Four Arms," Four Arms sighed as Drake Fury roared, annoyed as Four Arms grabbed the girls and walked out the door of the Rust Bucket, knocking a car aside, before leaping up onto the tops of the tour busses to cover more ground.
The bullies were pinned under a fallen beam as Kevin approached them.
"Ha! So much for your gang!" Kevin said... just before the Heatblast parts of him faded away and he gasped. "What's going on?"
Four Arms then landed behind him, letting go of the girls as Drake Fury snarled at him angrily and Alison crossed her arms.
"Your power's gone."
"Looks like you're about to give me some more, Ben!"
"No!" Four Arms shouted.
"You don't have a choice." He then lit his hands up in energy and approached the bullies as he smirked. "I've still got enough juice to fry these guys."
"You don't have to do this, little bro!" Alison shouted.
"But I want to!" Kevin said as he prepared to fire... only to be caught up by Four Arms, causing his energy blasts to miss. He then touched Four Arms and absorbed his energy, causing his skin to turn red his muscle mass to increase and his spiked bracelets to break he laughed maniacally and a muscular arm grew on his upper left side he punched Four Arms back and he landed on his feet and one hand. He laughed and his left side grew Four Arms' eyes and fangs and the three looked shocked.
"We're in for it now, girls!" Four Arms shouted as Sarah absorbed the material from Jewel Queen's jewels and Drake Fury prepared herself as Kevin approached another muscular arm grew from the opposite side and two normal arms grew below his normal pair as he ran towards them and punched her in the face as she backflipped and landed.
Kevin then landed another punch on Four Arms, causing him to land backward a few times as he cracked his upper two knuckles. "This is gonna be real fun!"
"Tell me about it," Ben sighed as he ran forward and the two clasped hands and started struggling with each other as they growled.
"I'm taking all of your alien powers! And your sister's!"
He then threw Four Arms into a building grabbed him by the shirt and hit him over his knee before tossing him aside.
Sarah then approached him she glared and punched him into a building as she cracked her knuckles.
"Let's see how you handle me!" she said as Sarah and Kevin started struggling as the Rust Bucket approached and Max and Gwen saw the fight between the three before they spotted the bullies under the beam.
Drake Fury pounded onto Kevin and started scratching and clawing at him, attempting to scratch his skin with little to no avail as she bit him on the shoulder, causing him to yelp in pain.
Max lifted the beam, allowing the bullies to escape. "Moving day. Get out!"
Four Arms was tossed into a wall, leaving a crater Kevin tossed Drake Fury into the wall on the opposite side as the Omnitrixes started beeping. "No!"
"Now!" Sarah shouted as the three then got out of their craters and started three-swaying Kevin with numerous punches from each of them as they grunted with each hit and Kevin was sent flying backward through the beams as Kevin landed in a heap and rubble fell on top of him as the Omnitrixes timed out and the three approached.
"Give up, bro. It's over.
"Hey come on! I give! I give! I'm sorry!" Kevin said.
"Yeah right, I've seen way too many movies to know that they never mean it when they say they're sorry after they've been beaten," Angel said.
"Just lighten up."
"I just did," Ben said. "By about 300 pounds."
"I guess I just went too wild with power," Kevin said, smiling.
"Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that," Sarah said. "If we absorb too much energy, it causes us to go insane. That's why I limit myself to absorbing solid materials, which are much safer."
"It's just been me and her for so long. We don't have anyone else like you to help us," Kevin said as Alison nodded.
"We can still be partners. We'd just be kicking butts for good instead of for ourselves.," Ben said. "And our sisters would make great partners for each other. You two could hang with us."
"What's in it for me?" Kevin asked.
"For starters, people will like you," Ben said as he reached out his hand and Kevin smirked as he grabbed the Omnitrix with one hand and lifted Ben with the other.
"Ben!" Max said as Angel scoffed.
"Called it."
"Oh, man! You are so dim! Did your mother drop you two on your heads when you were babies?" Kevin asked, laughing before he pushed Max back as he came running for him. "Now give me that watch!"
"You're the dim one! I told you, I can't!" Ben shouted.
Suddenly, his Omnitrix activated and sent out a green energy surge that enveloped all in the room and sent the two flying back. Luckily, Max caught Ben before any damage could be done. Kevin, on the other hand, was sent flying to the other side of the canal, destroying the rest of the beams and causing the entire bridge to collapse in on itself, pushing the Rust Bucket forward.
When Kevin recovered, he discovered that his powers were gone.
"No!" He then ran away into the distance as the rest sighed and Sarah recovered.
"I'd better be going to. I've got to make sure he doesn't get into any more trouble," she sighed before standing up.
"Will I ever see you again?" Angel asked as Alison smiled at her.
"You're the movie fan. You should know how this works by now. See you later," She said as she followed her brother with a sigh.
Back on the highway the next morning, the Tennysons sat there, exhausted from their latest adventure.
"I'm sorry, Grandpa. For everything," Ben said, sincerely.
"I know you are," Max said. "You're my grandson and nothing is ever going to change that. But my trust is something you're going to have to earn back."
Ben sighed as Angel sat up.
"Ben, can I talk to you? Alone?" Angel sighed as Ben got up as well.
"Okay," Ben said as they walked into their room and Angel closed the curtain so they could be alone.
"Never do that to me again," Angel said as the two were in their room as she scolded him. "You had me scared to death back there."
"I'm sorry, Angel," Ben said as she sighed. "I now realize that Kevin was bad news."
Angel sighed as she sat down to him. "Everything I've ever done has been for you. You mean more to me than anything, dude. I know we fight sometimes. All best friends do. But no matter what happens or how many times we fight, I'm always there for you. And I love you."
She then smiled as she hugged him. Ben smiled back as he hugged her. "I love you too, Ang."
They released the hug as Angel sat on her bed. "But more than anything I'm worried about Kevin and Alison. I know we'll see each other again, but I feel bad knowing they don't have any other family."
The twins sighed as Ben sat on his bed opposite her.
"Only time can tell," Ben said.
Back in Kevin and Sarah's hangout, Kevin sat on a rock smirking.
"If they thought I was a freak before, just wait!" Kevin said as he lit his hand on fire and started laughing maniacally Sarah hid in a corner as she gasped at him and her eyes widened.
"No," she said as she looked at her phone and thanked her lucky stars that she had Ange's contact info in her phone as she kissed it. "Ben, Angel, I'm gonna need you more than ever to handle this."