AN: I don't own anything
Chapter 6: "Sparks"
Jason was making faces out the window to a douchey kid that made faces at him first, so he retaliated.
"I'd warn you that your face might freeze like that, but in your case, it would be an improvement", Gwen comments with a smug smile.
"Actually, it doesn't. It only happens to those that have a previous medical condition. Otherwise, it makes your face more malleable, like Jim Carrey", Jason responds to her comments while the kid in the car driving next to the Rustbucket was trying to show him his chewn food.
Having enough of the games, Jason ducks down and turns into Stinkfly before getting up and growling at the kid. The kid screams in fear and Jason ducks down again before the kid's father looks over to see nothing and admonishes the kid.
"There is such a thing as taking a joke to far, you know", Gwen complains as Stinkfly laughs on the ground. She goes to sit at the table, but Stinky shoots some goo under her.
"Ugh", she growls in anger.
"Oh, believe me, I know when one goes to far", Stinkfly laughs.
"Jason, you better get up here", Max says before hitting the brakes, causing Stinkfly to slide up to the front and Max to see he's transformed, "Oh good, you're all ready to go. We got trouble ahead".
Stinkfly looks out the front window to see a tanker was crashed into a cargo truck.
"Help!", the driver calls out.
"The door's stuck! He can't get out!", the other driver yells from afar, as he had gotten out.
"If that propane he's hauling catches fire, that truck will become a rocket to the moon", Max tells Stinkfly.
Stinkfly immediately gets out of the Rustbucket and flies into action.
"Come on folks, give the... bug a chance to work, give him space", Max instructs to the watching civilians.
"Fires to intense as Stinkfly. I wish I was Heatblast", Stinkfly comments on his poor transformation, "Though, I got an idea", he then flies up and shoots his slime lobs onto the fire, putting it out around the area he's working. He then lands on top of the truck's driver seat and uses the point of his tail to pierce into it and cut it down the middle. Stinkfly then pries it open with his hands before grabbing the scared trucker and flies them away from the crash before the others on the road.
"Aah! That's the monster that ate that kid", the kid Jason prank yells out.
"Look at the time. Gotta fly!", Stinkfly deflects and flies away.
A little later, the Rustbucket trio are driving down the road again.
""You'll have a ball with it... Next Exit"", Gwen reads a billboard they soon passby.
"Come on, Max. At least give us a hint at what IT is", Jason begs, fearing it might be the most boring thing.
"Uh uh, no hints.", Max responds, "I've been planning this stop all summer".
Not long after, they arrive at their destination, with Max keeping the two teens in the back to avoid seeing what it is. Max got off first to introduce them to it in some grandiose fashion.
"Now both of you, close your eyes", Max tells them. The duo do so and carefully get off the Rustbucket. "Ok, open them up", Ma instructs, and they do so, only to see a sign.
"Tada!", Max cheers, "Welcome to Sparksville".
The younger duo look around the town to see it had no one walking about, like it was a modern ghost town
"Is this place great or what?", Max asks them.
"I'll go with "Or what"", Jason tells the old man.
"Come on", Max says with a smile, "What's more exciting than the World's Biggest Fish Bowl?"
"Anything", Jason replies, "And I'm sure Aquaman would disagree with that statement".
A skinny middle age man in a blue suit with a black ribbon bow tie approach them, "As the mayor of Sparksville, I welcome you seekers of wonder", he greets in a bored and disinterested tone.
"I know you guys are probably excited to see IT, so I'll go check us in", Max enthusiastically says before going to move the Rustbucket.
Jason and Gwen shack with jackalope signs all over.
Jason taps the bell at the stand and the mayor appears before them wearing a trucker hat, "Tickets please".
"I thought you were the mayor, not a ticket booth worker", Jason comments while Gwen hands over the two tickets Max gave them.
He takes the tickets to tear them, "He who wears the crown is burdened by many hats, son".
'I don't think that's the saying', Jason thought as the two teens push pass the turn dial into the displaying room.
"Mind the signs", the mayor warns in his dead tone.
This lead to a montage of the teens being bored out of there minds and goofing off to entertain themselves while getting their pictures taken. Eventually, the two end up in front of a wooden barn with the mayor.
"Through these doors lies the weirdest, wildest thing ever to fin its way to Sparksville", the mayor introduces with his same monotone voice and opens the door.
"Please tell me we can leave after this?", Jason begs, nearly bored to death.
""Do Not Tough It", "Do Not Photograph It", "Do Not Use Batteries or Electrical Equipment Anywhere Near It"", Gwen reads the signs with a raised eyebrow as they walk around.
Their was another sign saying, 'THIS IS IT', with vegas lights before the sign raises to reveal a giant rubber band ball. Not even a colorful one, but just all the same light brown in color.
"This is it?", Jason asks, unimpressed.
"It's a big ball of rubber bands", Gwen states the obvious, in a similar state of uninterest.
"And who knows what secrets lie within", the mayor says cryptically.
"More rubber bands", Jason jokes.
"Stay as long as you like", the mayor says, "mind the signs", before then leaving the barn.
"Damn this place, a giant tourist trap and these guys are full of it", Jason mutters with a facepalm.
"It is pretty lame", Gwen agrees, "I can't believe grandpa was so excited about this place".
Jaso then shows a smile as he got an idea.
"I know that look, Jason", Gwen notices, "What are you thinking?".
Jason walks to the other side of the ball and transforms. The giant rubber ball as then picked up over his head by Four Arms with his great strength.
"One good prank deserves another", Four Arms tells her.
"For once, I agree with you", Gwen smiles, as she too feels cheated, "Got something special in mind?"
"I don't know", Four Arms thinks a bit, "Maybe the World's Biggest Pain in my Ass".
Gwen snorts to cover a laugh while Four Arms then tossed the ball between his upper left and right arms.
"Careful not to drop it", Gwen insists as he plays with it.
"Don't worry", Four Arms brushes off, "I could lift this thing with three hands tied behind my--", but he was prepared for it to shake, causing it to fall from his upper right hand. Gwen jumps out of the way as it lands then bounces high and out through the roof, breaking said roof.
"Oops", he mutters.
The rubber band ball squishes a hotdog stand as it bounces. It bounces all over the desolate town as the duo came outside. Gwen ducks as it come at them and Four Arms tries to catch it.
However, he hadn't planted his feet in time and the bal had picked up quite a force while jumping that it sent him back into a wall and bounces away. It soon knocks over a house of giant cards before finally stopping.
Four Arms takes a sigh of relief before Gwen smacks his arm, "Hey, what was that for?".
"For turning me into a criminal", Gwen complains.
"Don't get your panties in a twist", Four Arms tells, "I can just put everything back to the way it was. No problem", the Omnitrix then began to time out, "oh come on", and he changes back to Jason.
"Ok, it might be a problem", Jason deflects while resting his left hand onto the rubber band ball. A static charge from the Omnitrix surges into the ball.
"What are we going to tell grandpa?', Gwen says as they arrive at the motel.
"Nothing. Just play dumb", Jason tells her.
"Easy for you", Gwen insults, "You're a lot better at it than I am", she backhand compliments.
The duo then enter the room through a door that was built in side ways.
"Hey, there you are", Max greets from inside a room that looked like it was turned 90 degrees clockwise, "Isn't this place a riot?"
"Why? What did you see? We don't know anything about it", Gwen says in a panic, to Jason's shame.
"She means it's great, Max", Jason says with a smile, "I can't wait to check out the bathroom".
Back in the street, the giant rubber band ball was crackling with electricity. An electrical bolt flew around the town, from the power lines to around the deer statue, all the way to the town sign, punching a hole through it.
The electricity lands on the ground revealing a creature standing on pointed legs with three fingered hands at about a foot tall. They were black and cylindrical, with yellow accents; the most prominent of which is a large lightning bolt-shape across their chest. They have plus and minus symbols on their backs ( on the upper back and - on the lower back), similar to a battery.
The creature cackles like a child before bolting away.
Later the next morning, Jason and Gwen were laying in the beds, with the blankets acting like a hanging sleeping bag to keep them on the wall.
"What the hell happened here?", the duo hear Max question, abruptly waking them from their slumber.
"Uh, he knows everything!", Gwen cries out, "We are so busted", as Jason falls from his bed, "We have to come clean and tell grandpa everything."
"Easy, let's see what's going on first before you fold like a lawn chair", Jason tells her.
"Jason, Gwendolyn, get out here", Max calls for them
"Gwendolyn?", Gwen dispairs at her full name, "We're doomed".
The duo went outside to see it trashed.
"Whoa, what happened?", Jason asks, this place wasn't this messy when he went to bed.
"I don't know", Max replies, "Looks like a tornado tore through here overnight.", ass the trio look over the destruction of the town. All the buildings were still standing, but windows were broken, cars were flipped over, power lines knocked down. There were also more people than yesterday out in the street.
"Damn", Jason comments, "I didn't hear anything. Hope no one was hurt", to which Gwen nods in agreement.
The mayor walks up to the trio, "I think it's pretty clear who's responsible for these juvenile acts".
"Juvenile acts?", Max questions while briefly looking at the teens, knowing how the two can get up to, especially when Jason's more childish behavior infects Gwen, "Huh, if I didn't know better, that sounds like--"
"Oh, I'm not talking about these youngsters", the mayor tells him.
"Really? Then who did this?", Max asks before a flash a electricity passes before him wrapping around the trio.
The little lightning man peaks from behind Jason's leg before sipping to behind the Omnitrix to then behind Gwen's behind. Before then goes to Jason's right shoulder and waves a Max with a smile on its face, before going onto Gwen's head and seemingly saluting or scoping out the area, then going to Jason's left shoulder with a wink.
It then went back to Gwen and raspberries her, "Pbbbt", before pulling the back of her shirt over her head exposing her navel as it laughs. Gwen fixes her shirt as it cackles.
It goes to behind Jason and taps hion his right shoulder, Jason looks to see the smiling imp and follows as it flies to his other shoulder where it does another rasberry before flying away.
"What was that?", Jason questions.
"Megawatt is what we call 'em", The mayor says, "Normally wrapped up tight inside of IT-- that is, until last night.", causing the teens to briefly look at each other, "Some say it might be a ball of lightning come alive. Others think it's static cling run amok. Tough to say".
"Maybe it's an alien", Gwen suggests.
"Alien? That's just plain kooky talk", the mayor denies.
"Do you not watch the news or anything?", Jason asks him. There is a ton of aliens involved with Earth. Especially with The Reach right now.
The electric imp soon enters into a soda vending machine.
"What's it doing?", Jason questions the mayor.
"It eats electricity" the mayor explains, "The more it gobbles, the more powerful it gets."
The machine then glitches out and begins launching sodas
"It's also got a dangerous sense of humor", the mayor monotones as the trio duck. They then run for a nearby car as the danger escalated.
"You left that thing inside a rubber-band ball all this time?", Max questions, "Isn't that kind of dangerous?"
"Not so long as people minded the signs", the mayor replies before looking to the teens, who looked at each other.
"All right, we did it", Jason admits, "We're guilty. But in our defense, we didn't know about the hyperactive lightning demon."
So much for playing dumb", Gwen comments
"We'll talk about this later, you two", Max says to them, "but for now, how do we stop this thing, Mr. Mayor?"
"Whatcha mean "we"? You let it out. You catch it", as he then leans back on a park bench while something explodes.
Soon after, the trio were walking down the more calm street.
"Should we try to lure it out with some batteries or something?", Gwen asks them.
The Megawatt spies on them as it courses through the electrical wires from above. It goes to a streetlight right above them before racing down and then across to Max's left shoe and up under his pants.
"Yeow", Max yells out as the Megawatt laughs, "That's not funny. It's just painful", as the Megawatt wedgies him about a story off the ground.
"Don't worry, Max.", Jason says while activating the Omnitrix, "I know just the hero to deal with a troublemaker like this", before transforming into Upgrade.
"Why go Upgrade?", Gwen asks him about his choice.
"It's complicated", Upgrade replies while the Megawatt has let go of Max.
"the watch didn't turn you into what you wanted to, did it?", Gwen asks him with a brow raised.
"Shut up", Upgrade states. He wasn't confidant with Upgrade as he was most likely mechanical, thus running on electricity, which the Megawatt fed on.
The Megawatt rushes the hotdog stand and enters the fake giant ketchup bottle, causing the red ketchup substitute to burst out from the top, the lid crashing into a giant stuffed chicken, taking its head off. it laughs before noticing something coming down the road.
"Ok, Twinkletoes, time to go hoe", Upgrade calls out as he rolls the rubber-band ball towards the Megawatt. However, the rubber bands started to breka and were shot everywhere like a rubber band gun.
"Hey, cyber-douche, whose side are you on?", Gwen calls out as everyone ran from the high-powered rubber shots.
"Is it just me, or is there a lot of excitement today?", the mayor asks some kid he was sitting with as he ate popcorn.
The Megawatt was floating around Upgrade, just laughing at him like he was a big joke. Upgrade just looks at him as he gt more angry, before his eye/mouth/face/circle glows brighter before it then fires a powerful beam out of it at the creature. The Megawatt sees it and dodges by a hair before it stop and the creature looks at Upgrade, stunned.
"Woah, didn't know I could do that", Upgrade remarks, "Not so funny now, is it?"
But the Megawatt started cackling again as it then flew around Upgrade in circles. It keeps moving so Upgrade couldn't zero in on it's position. Up and down the street, flying among the power lines, laughing all the way. It because of cat and mouse as Upgrade tried to grab onto it while the Megawatt kept dodging his grasp.
Eventually though, the Megawatt got cocky and blew another rasberry, allowing Upgrade to grab it. But, the Megawatt releases a pulse that shocks Upgrade away.
"Alright, do not touch the electrical guy when you're made of living techno-metal", Upgrade notes while getting back up.
"How are we gonna ground that electric devil?", Max questions about the situation.
Gwen then gets an idea, "Grandpa, you're a genius!", before Gwen runs off.
"Thank you, Gwen.", Max thanks as he looks back at her, "uh, why?"
Upgrade was running and dodging some bolts before looking back to the Megawatt in annoyance.
"That's it. i'm pulling the pug on this guy's pranks.", he states before grabbing a sewer lid, "Hey, Sparky, catch!", he yells at the Megawatt before throwing the lid and it cuts the living battery in two. Then the two piece generate into two Megawatts. "What the...?", he questions.
The two Megawatts looked to each other in surprise before laughing while pointing at each other.
"Well, that turned out not to be the best idea", he critiques himself before the Omnitrix began to time out and he changed back into Jason.
The two Megawatts laugh as they shoot bolts at him that he jumps away from.
Soon, a truck horn honks as a truck comes in with a giant thermometer. Jason sees that Max and Gwen were the ones driving the truck and hops on board.
"So, you guys get an idea while I was playing with the gruesome twosome?", Jason asked the Tennyson duo
"Let's give these sparklers a science lesson they won't forget", Max says as the truck speeds up with the Megawatts giving chase.
"Come and get us, Megaweirds", Gwen taunts as she hits a lever. The thermometer slides down as the lift angles and the point of the termometer pierces the ground. The Megawatts are unable to stop in time and they hit the thermometer and they are forced into the ground.
"So, what happened?", Jason asked them as they get out of the truck to check on the Megawatts.
"We just used the biggest thermometer as a lightning rod.", Gwen explains, "Who need an alien superhero when you've got good old fashioned brainpower?"
"Batman and Lex Luthor would agree", Jason comments, "Though only one of them has more success."
The mayor comes in to say, "Of course, the ground is just one big conductor".
"Oh, no", Gwen dispairs.
"That means the Megawatts are just zipping around underground till they can get back to the surface, right?", Jason states.
Not long after, an old payphone rings and rings.
"They're in the underground phone lines", Max realizes, just before they escape.
They zip around the street. Melting the tires on cars, blowing up the power lines and messing with stores. Even popping the top off a fire hydrant.
Jason, the Tennysons, and the Sparksville citizens were standing near the mayor's office watching the chaos.
"Uh-oh Now they really did it", a diner waitress comments at the destruction.
"Jason Todd, don't say a word", Gwen commands as she can feel him smirking at her.
"Just glad that miss good two shoes can make mistakes", he says as a building had an explosion in the background.
The surges of electricity soon land on the giant hotdog display where it was revealed they have multiplied even more and they released a sonic cheer that rattle most of the people, except the mayor, and it shatters the glass jar for the giant toothpicks.
"Everybody move!", Max warns as everybody moves, again except for the mayor, who was just enjoying his popcorn. The fallen toothpicks land all around where he is sitting, leaving the mayor unharmed.
"There goes the World's Largest Toothpicks. Oh, the humanity", the mayor monotones as though he doesn't care while eating his popcorn and the Megawatts laugh.
"Those creeps' idea of good, clean fun is gonna have us all pushing up daisies", Max voices.
Gwen looks to Jason, "Don't just stand there, jackass. Dial up some help".
"It's not recharged yet", Jason replies, showing her that the Omnitrix hourglass was still red.
The duo hear a rumble and look to see all the Megawatts are shattering amongst themselves with their arms raised before they flash away.
"Uh", Jason sounds while scratching his head, 'Where'd they go?"
"I don't know, but I don't think it's good", Max tells him before an explosion happens in the distance.
Soon after, a robot made from the planets from the planetarium walks out onto the street before walking away.
"Well, there's something you don't see every day", the waitress comments to the trio, "they brought that planetarium exhibit to life".
"Come on", Max says to the teens, "We'll head them off in the-- Oh, my", Max then sees the Rustbucket on cinder blocks missing all of it's tires and graffitied with 'U am Lame' in green on the side.
""U am Lame?" That's weak", Jason critiques the Megawatts work.
"Don't even get me started on the grammar and the spelling", Gwen adds.
"I reckon they'll head for the big hydroelectric dam to power up", the mayor informs them as he walks next to them, since he has finished his popcorn, "After that they'll just wipe out the next town, and so on and so on. They think it's funny. Yup, Megawatt's got a real twisted sense of humor."
Gwen looks around the town before taking notice of the giant fishbowl her Grandpa Max talked about when they arrived. Jason notices and also looks to the fishbowl, soon gaining a smile.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?", Gwen asks Jason with a smile of her own.
"Yeah", Jason says, "Let's beat those pranksters at their own game", as the Omnitrix is green again.
Later, at the dam, the planetarium robot controlled by the Megawatts was punching into the dam to break it as a joke. Just before they could go for another hit, a massive stream of fire blasts into it, causing the robot to back up. It looks up to see Heatblast on top of the dam.
"This is your last warning", Heatblast states, "Knock off the funny business, or I'll fry your battery powered asses",
The robot angrily punches the dam again, causing it to crack as water burst forth. This caused Heatblast to lose his footing. Instead of just falling down the dam towards the Megawatt robot, he ends up running down the curved dam to the water leaking through.
Heatblast ends up sliding before he starts flying on a fire ball with a fire trial leading behind, allowing him to land outside of the water covered area. He laughs about a new power before looking to the hole in the dam.
"Better seal that up", Heatblast tells himself before rushing to the hole.
The planetarium robot climbs over a additional floor to then see the generators, ignoring the dome nearby covered by a blue tarp.
Before they could reach the generators, Heatblast flies back to them on his fireboard, but he has trouble controlling it and ends up crashing nearby. The planetarium comes in and clocks him in the jaw, sending him back and he collapses as though he's defeated.
"Hey, Mega-halfwits", Gwen calls out, "You want to see something really funny?", the planetarium looks at her to see she has a hose aimed at them, "You guys are all wet", a fires a stream of water onto the planetarium.
it surges in pain and goes to stomp on her but she ditches the hose and runs away. It then notices an increase in temperature behind them and look to see Heatblast with a massive fireball.
"What's the matter? Can't take a joke?", he quips before throwing the ball at the robot and it explodes into pieces. All the Megawatts zoom on out of it, upset. "You really got burned with that one", Heatblast jokes again, "You guys should really quit while you're behind".
They then charge him, but he disappears in a smoke screen.
"Missed me, doofus", Heatblast taunts as he is now standing by the blue covered dome, giving them air kisses as to further salt the wound.
The Megawatts angrily charge at him again, raging out while Heatblast went under the tarp. They soon charge on through it into the dome shape.
"Jason did it!", Max cheers as he and Gwen come out from behind it, "They took the bait", and he uncovers the dome to reveal all the Megawatts in the giant fishbowl.
Heatblast releases a firebreath, sealing the top of the fishbowl and trapping them inside. The Megawatts release a distressed sound.
"Suckers", Jason taunts from outside the dome before blowing his own raspberry in their faces.
"Nice touch, using the fish bowl", Max compliments the duo, "With nonconductive glas, sealed up tight, Sparky and his pals won't be going anywhere".
"Once again, science saves the day", Gwen asserts while the Omnitrix times out and Heatblast changes back to Jason.
"With help from science fiction", Jason adds as he leans against the glass dome of the imprisoned Megawatts.
Later on in Sparksville, construction was underway to fix the damages while the trio were preparing to leave, currently speaking to the mayor next to a covered item.
"You folks done right by us", the mayor tells them.
"Hope this adventure wasn't a big setback for Sparksville", Max says.
The mayor shrugs, "More like a giant step forward. What with our new attraction, woon we'll be raking them in", and he takes the tarp off the thing next to them, binding the trio a little as it's revealed to be a giant light bulb, "Biggest Light Bulb", the mayor introduces, "It'll be a humdinger...", if one looks closer, they could see the Megawatts glowing inside, though no one would want to blind themselves for that.
"So long as folks mind the signs", he says directly into the teens faces and moves out of the way to reveal a sign.
""In case of emergency DO NOT BREAK GLASS"", Jason reads before shrugging and heading back t the fixed up Rustbucket.
"I think I'm pranked out for a while", Jason gripes as he is tired from all the work.
"There is a time and a place for a practical joke", Max sternly says with his arms crossed. Jason then opens the rustbucket door, only for a bucket of water to fall on his head. "But funny is funny, hahaha, especially when it's not on you. Hahaha", Max laughs at Jason, with Gwen joining in while Jason sighs and heads on into the rustbucket to clean up.
Chapter End
AN: I wasn't really into this chapter since it w kind of boring to me, but whatever.
The Megawatts aka Nosedeenians will mostly look like they do in the Original series. Later on, Buzzshock may look different.
Next time is when they meet Kevin E. Levin and I'm not completely sure how to go with it. Jason might side with Kevin even more in the beginning since he was also a street kid, but that might be it.