A dark skinned young man with thick dreadlocks wearing a brown turtleneck with the sleeves rolled up and blue jeans held what looked like two pairs of paper bags. He stopped at his apartment number and fiddled with his keys before realizing his door was... unlocked, somehow.

"I swore I locked it didnt I?", the young man cocked an eyebrow as he cautiously opened his door and places the bags on his counter with a set of heavy clanks. He perked up and listened closely... he heard footsteps, or at least he thought he did.

He quickly picked up a wrench from the bag and slowly approached his bedroom, quickly flicking the light on and letting out an incredibly relieved sigh... which was followed by a frown the moment he saw two diplomas laid out on his bed.

"Wait, when did I-", he quickly spun around only to bump into a wall of metal that caused him to fall to the floor.

There were two men dressed in nearly identical attire, they wore a dark metal armored suit with black shoulder pads possessing glowing infinity signs and a yellow gem located on their left gauntlets, draped over their breastplates was a red surcoat secured with a brown belt. The only difference was the masks on their faces, the left one wore the tragedy mask and the right wore the comedy mask.

His confusion with their attire was snuffed out by intense fear as he backed away. "I-I don't much! I just spent my last paycheck on equipment for my inventions, y-you can take those and sell them-"

"No need to be so frightened, Mr. Moore. That is your name, correct? Abraham Moore?", Abraham quickly turned around to see the Black Knight towering over him, he was easily twice Abraham's size.

"Y-Yeah, thats me.", Abraham stammered as he slowly stood up. He glanced at a semi finished keyboard that was under his bed. "Who are you?"

"If you were smart, you'd recognize any attempt at resistance will cost you your life.", The Black Knight quickly stomped on Abraham's hand with incredible force causing rhe young man to scream in pain. "I am Enoch, and The Organization has taken interest in you, Mr. Moore."

Enoch lifted his foot and kicked Abraham to a wall, the young man grabbed his still stinging hand surprised it hadn't fractured. "

"I must say, graduating at the top of your class with a bachlors in both music and engineering is rather fascinating fields. Whats more fascinating is your... colorful history.", the tone Enoch spoke with sounded like a mixture of curioisty and condescending.

"Why are you here.", Abraham exhaled as he avoided eye contact with Enoch and looked at the floor. "What do you-"

"Shut your mouth, dog! You dont want me to snap your neck, do you?", this immediately forced Abraham into silence. "We've taken an interest in you after you were discovered to put subliminal messaging in your mixtapes. Interesting... but we could take this to the next level. We have technology that should interest you."

Abraham looked up with wide eyes. "S-Seriously?"

"There is no purpose in withholding information needed for ascension, that is a coward's choice.", The Black Knight nodded as his amused expression was concealed by his golden mask. "The problem with those who stood before you prior is that they lacked true courage, when things get too hot it simply melts away. They were so infected by cowardice, they hindered your own growth to make themselves feel as if something was accomplished. Those such as myself have no such fear, it hinders ascension."

"... everyone in my life told me what I was doing was wrong, they said I have to be better..." Abraham looked up at Enoch, any ounce of fear or worry was immediately snuffed out by a burning passion that he had long since forgotten. "It makes me wanna puke!"

Abraham finally got up with a crazed look in his eyes. "What do you want me to do."

After another day or two of travelling through endless roads, Max was immediately face with heavy traffic once again a few minutes after rhey arrived into Portland, Oregon. Alex had the idea to just skip the traffic... but he turned into Pointdexter and was just eating a bag of grasshoppers Max kept in his glove compartment.

"Okay so, Pointdexter is like some super genius, right?", Ben asked as he was speed running a game of Sumo Slammers, glancing at him as he nodded. "Why don't you just mess with the watch just to transform into a guy that can get us out of this traffic?"

"I would, but I'd rather not risk my luck.", Pointdexter shot his tongue out again to grab onto a grasshopper he accidentally dropped and consumed it, earning a disgusted noise from both Ben and Gwen. "I mean, sure, I could definitely try and bypass some of the settings like the duration of the transformations by fiddling with the limiter to make the recharge processing speed act faster but I'm not very sure about doing it. I mean, what if I accidentally cross wires and cause a malfunction in the DNA Slicing Replicator?"

Ben looked at him with his eyes squinted. "Ya lost me..."

"Hmmm... makes sense, I don't know what I'm saying half the time either.", Pointdexter stuck his tongue out and shrugged as he rolled off the table.

"Yeah, but how does all that work anyways?", Gwen asked as its been bothering her since he first transformed into him.

"Hmmm... not really sure. I do have a few theories though.", Pointdexter paused for a bried second as the Omnitrix began beeping as he was enveloped in a red flash. "Eh, figures. Anyways, where we goin anyways?"

"There's an Earth Day Concert being held in Portland, apparently DJ Dust is gonna be attending too!", Gwen perked up as she quickly clicked around her computer before turning the screen to him showing the profile of DJ Dust.

"DJ Dust? Kinda... lame, don't you think? Like the name DJ Dust is kinda meh.", Alex shrugged as Ben moved his headphones and sat up.

"Eh the name is okay but his music totally rocks!", Ben piped in as Gwen nodded eagerly. "Wasn't he the DJ at your sisters prom?"

"Yeah, apparently she had a pretty good time.", Gwen hunched over at the mention of her sister.

"Wow, first time either of you guys are mutually agreeing on something. Maybe miracles do exist.", Alex remarked sarcastically.

Max glanced at them through the rear view mirror. "Was never too big of this kind of music, I was more into rock like Shag Carpeting.", he says as he let out the loudest sigh of relief the moment the cars started moving. "Finally..."

"Yeah I dont have much of a preference, my brother's apart of a band though.", Alex remarked casually. "They've been at a few major events out of Texas. My family usually goes to their concerts to support the guy."

"This is my first time actually seeing a live concert, my mom never takes me because she thinks I'll go deaf when I grow up.", Ben said with an annoyed expression, he loved his mother but she was a bit... much.

"Aren't you already deaf?", Gwen remarks snidely as Ben glared at her annoyed.

Before Ben could even form any retort, Alex quickly slapped him in the back of the head. "Don't start arguing, genuinely. I already get headaches at concerts, I dont want to go there with one."

The drive to the area the concert was being held at wasn't long, what did take longer than it should've taken was finding a decent spot for the RV to park. Max settled with it being further away but not any egregious distances, he reached into his glove compartment and began scowering through it.

"Before you leave, make sure you take these with you.", Max held out a ziplock bag to the three, it held six studs that were secured wirh a rubber band per set. "I'd rather not take you back home with damaged ears."

"You sure you're not coming, Grandpa?", Ben asked with a raised eyebrow as he threw a blue backpack over his shoulder as Alex and Gwen hopped out of the RV first and waited outside.

"Yeah, just a little exhausted with all this driving and not having any sleep the night before.", Max nodded with a smile as he placed a hand on his shoulder. "But if anything happens, just call me and I'll be right over."

"You got it, Grandpa.", Ben gave him a hug and took the bag earbuds from his hand and hopped out with the others. "Ive been waiting all summer for this concert! Its why I asked my dad if Grandpa could take me."

"What're those?", Gwen asked as Ben dug into the ziplock bag and handed her a pair of the earbuds.

"I think they're earbuds, Grandpa wanted us to wear it so we don't damage our ears or somethin.", Ben shrugged at the last part as he tapped Alex who seemed to be very fixated on something.

Alex shook his head and looked at Ben. "Oh, uh, my bad.", he took his pair of earbuds and inspected them. "Couldn't use anything else by fuckin corks huh?"

"Eh, he's old.", Ben shrugged as he surprisingly was the one to lead the way towards the main area the concert was being held at. Alex just staring at a van, the exact same van that alarmed him with a suspicious figure hopping out just to go into the back.

He shook this off as they were nearing the main stage, the crowd was already incredibly large with even more people slowly joining the crowd. The crowd consisted of a weird mix of young adults and parents with their children. The stage itself had spot lights that lit up the area, some staff members fixing up the equipment before quickly running off stage.

"Real packed, huh?", Alex looked around with his usual lack of care about where he was.

As Ben and Gwen slipped the small corks into their ears they looked up at him. "Aren't you gonna use yours?", Gwen asked with a raised eyebrow as Alex just shook his head furiously. "Suit yourself then."

"Whatever.", Alex shrugged as the lights began to dim before being replaced with bright blue and purple flashing lights.

The moment a young man with spikey dyed blue hair and an all blue outfit came out the crowd erupted into excited cheers as DJ Dust waved as he quickly pressed one of the buttons on his keyboard system before quickly pushing the volume faders, a slow droning sound spilled out from the speakers before it quickly switched into a quick, fastpaced beat.

Alex nodded along to the beat as he glanced at Ben and Gwen, actually enjoying themselves without any form of bickering or arguments. All he saw was two kids having fun. "Y'know, maybe this isnt all bad."

"I never told mom, dad or Peter this but even at his concerts I just... didn't feel it, maybe because of the big crowd made me anxious? Nah, I think it's because I never really understood what was so enjoyable about concerts.", Alex rubbed his temple as a slight migraine began to build up. "I've spent the whole summer so far just spaced out, it wouldn't hurt if I just get that stick outta my ass and relax right?"

Almost as if there was someone secretly reading his mind, a second after that train of thought had ended was the same moment this weird, mecahnical whirring began to build up around them. It was loud, so loud that it drew away attention from the music to the point that DJ Dust had to cut it.

"What's that sound?"

"Maybe some nearby construction?"

"Pfft, yeah right. Theres no construction site near here."

A small portion of the crowd tried to rationalize that sound, some began panicking, those with kids or siblings attempted to calm them down. Ben and Gwen removed their earbuds and looked around.

"Whats going on?", Ben asked concerned.

"Uh, maybe it's some feedback from the spe-", Gwen was going to finish her sentance before Alex tapped her shoulder and pointed at the now dead quiet speakers. "Oh... oh no."

DJ Dust looked around in concern before quickly being tackled from behind then swiftly knocked unconcious with a blunt object then quickly laid out on the floor, at the same time the whirring noise had finally stopped. Those in the crowd looked up and gasped as the cloak wearing man who had knocked DJ Dust out was standing there with his arms out.

"I regret to inform you that DJ Dust had decided that he wasn't feeling all too well. So for now, this is MY SHOW!", the man threw off his cloak to reveal himself. The man was lanky and wore a black jacket with its collar folded down which was further adorned with green and pink neon detailing, a dark blue shirt fastened with pink, red and blue straps around his chest, a black belt with bland dark grey jeans and black boots possessing similar highlights as his jacket.

What was most peculiar was his head and arms, his helmet had headphone like attachments and a black dome around his face showcasing two purple lines for eyes. His gauntlets were identical, being metal with a visible screen with a node on the back of his hand connected by white cables.

"Who the heck is that?!"

"What have you done to DJ Dust!"

"Hah, don't worry about that tacky loser!", the man had a relatively normal sounding voice except paired with heavy autotone, as well as when he spoke, blue music visualizers would appear in sync with his tone.

Gwen furrowed her brow. "Who do you think you are?!", she shouted at the man who let out a chuckle.

"I am Lord Decibel! Master DJ of Destructive Sound!", Lord Decibel exclaimed, those far off in the back attempted to walk away. "I never said you could leave yet.", he activated his left gauntlet which caused a pinkish colored energy to erupt and encase the crowd of fans in a dome.

"What in the hell?", Alex looked around.

"That's not good.", Ben muttered as he felt around in his backpack and nodded. "Well what do we do?"

"Such an archaic set up.", Lord Decibel clicked his tongue as he sweeped off DJ Dust's equipment with his own, gently placing a black and blue electronic keyboard and pressed the black screen which caused the speakers to roar to life with an ominous electronic beat. "Be good little guinea pigs and stay nice and still for me!"

He pressed a few buttons on his keyboard, which suddenly cause pink electricty to surge within the speakers before spitting out floating major and minor keys that drove themselves into the ground causing a massive, fiery explosion that knocked the crowd back. More of these notes sliced through the ground with heavy vibrations that cut through the solid rock ground.

"Sound is such a useful tool wouldn't you agree?", Lord Decibel's dome started to form what looked like a blue, pink and white skull marking. "It can be as soft as a voice, hard as a rock, or as sharp as a laser!", he let out a laugj pressed a different key on his keyboard which caused the ground to split open with the sound of a high pitched ringing.

A major key flew right towards two people that been caught in one of the blasts before a green flash erupted right in front of them. The major note erupted into an explosion as Deepcut stepped forward. "Neat little toys you got there, hope ya dont mind if I break em!"

Deepcut sharpened his hands into blades before sprinting at Lord Decibel, who just started laughing again as a swarm of minor notes rushed at him. The creature of crystal dodged a set before slicing right through one. "Jack ass!- huh", Alex found himself frozen solid as if something just held him there.

"Yo, Rockhead! What're you doing standing around?!", Ben exclaimed with a confused look.

"He hit that minor note and just... got stuck, that shouldn't be possible!", Gwen looked at Alex confused as he struggled to move despite the strength of his current alien.

"What part of DESTRUCTIVE sound did you not understand? Oh wait, little shits like you basically cant understand anything huh?", Lord Decibel seethed as he set a major note at Deepcut, the explosion rockets him back and into the sound barrier he held them in.

"Your music sucks dude!", Ben shouted at the destructive DJ, who suddenly let out a laugh as he pressed his keys again. A powerful bass erupted from the speakers and caused the ground to crack and rupture, forming deep chasms that expanded further. Some managed to jump across with others to a larger piece while some were stuck on a little chunk.

The purple bars that acted as eyes furrowed. "I didn't think I was gonna drop the bass so early, maybe you should've kept your mouth shut!", Lord Decibel looked up and saw Deepcut was standing up, the cracks in his body quickly sealing. "Wasn't enough to put you down huh? Thats fucking annoying!"

"Oh go cry about it, you loser.", Deepcut popped his neck as his battle mask formed on his face. He looked over to Ben and Gwen before quickly sprinting to them.

"Hurry!", Gwen exclaimed as she saw a rock slowly slip away from the pillar.

"Hah! Nice try.", Lord Decibel sneered as he used a major note to explode the section holding them up, causing the two ten year olds to let out a scream as they fell into the chasm.

"NO!", Deepcut launched himself forward with a crystal shard, he extended his legs and dug them into the solid ground as he extended his arms.

Deepcut was then blasted back by another explosive major note. "Awwwwwh, look at the pile of rocks playing hero!", the DJ cooed mockingly as he began laughing.

A blur sped out of the chasm made by the destructive sound. "Huh?", Lord Decibel and Deepcut looked up, the former snarling in anger. "Dirty cheaters!"

"Well that's too bad!", Ben shouted from above as he and Gwen were mounted on the Hoverboard which had expanded significantly for them.

"So THAT'S why you brought the backpack!", Gwen exclaimed with a smile on her face. "Nice one!"

"Oh, I brought something out too. I was thinkin on using it... but.", Ben handed Gwen the Charm of Luck and Levitation, alongside her Lucky Girl mask.

"Grandpa did say to use it in case of emergencies.", Gwen shrugged as she took the charms and slipped her mask on. "Lets do this!"

"A pile of rocks and two little runts, since you wanna be so stupid. Lets turn up the noise!", Lord Decibel announced, singing the last bits of his sentance as he pressed a few keys. Suddenly, a pair of small, floating speakers rose from the ground.

Within moments, Ben, Gwen and Alex found themselves in a beautiful green grass field, complimented with a clear blue sky. Deepcut stood up again, his cracks quickly healing as he looked around, his battle mask receding.

"Where's all the people? Wheres the stage?!", Ben looked around frantically as Gwen furrowed her brow.

"Maybe be teleported us?", Deepcut tapped his chin as he was finally given a second to breathe. "Nah, that doesn't make any sense now does it?"

"Yeah but his minor notes freeze you in place, who knows what that maniac can do?", Gwen felt her phone ringing and pulled it out, putting it on speaker the moment she answered. "Hello?"

["Gwen! Are you with Ben and Alex right now?"]

"Uh, yeah, they're here.", Gwen answered Max as he let out a relieved sigh.

["Good. Look, I'm not sure if I can help you right now, this sound barrier is blocking anyone from coming in."]

"Or getting out.", Ben nodded as he looked around again. "But how do we beat this guy? This guys stacked!"

["Hmmm, if he's using tech to do all of this. Maybe striking him directly could work, but you'd need to be quick enough to closethatdistance and-", suddenly, the call went to static.

"Grandpa? Hello?", Gwen attempted to call him back but her phone couldn't get anything.

"No more help. Its just you, me, and my Garden of Sound!", Lord Decibel finally appeared a few feet away from them. He let out a maniacal laugh as he spun around.

"Did he just... make a dramatic entrance?", Deepcut tilted his head.

"I think so.", Gwen shrugged.

"God hes so lame but he looks so cool...", Ben shook his head as Alex looked at him.

"DUDE!"

"Don't you fucking ignore me!", Lord Decibel exclaimed with a clear and sudden change in his posture as he sent a large barrage of major and minor notes at them, flying at high speeds. "I'll leave you all nice and MANGLED!"

The charm of luck glowed as Ben sped forward on his hoverboard, Deepcut quickly sprinted forward as his mask slid down. "Go high!", Deepcut exclaimed as Ben nodded, Lucky Girl held on as they rose into the sky with the notes rushing at Deepcut.

"Hmph!", Deepcut punched the ground and caused a massive cluster of crystals to erupt from the grassy plains and collide with the notes. These took the brunt of the attacks as the small shards were grabbed by Gwen telekinetically and launched at Lord Decibel.

"Nice try!", Lord Decibel erected a quick sound barrier which caused the crystals to shatter on impact. "Gonna have to try harder than that!",

"Oh don't worry-", Deepcut's eyes widened under his mask as the dreaded alarm sounded before erupting in a red flash, leaving just Alex. "SERIOUSLY??? Why give me an early time out now?!"

"Ooooooh, that was unexpected.", Lord Decibel mused as he just shrugged and sent his swarm of notes right after Alex.

"Stupid hunk of junk!", Alex hissed as he began running in the opposite direction of the notes but they quickly caught up to him. Ben zoomed right above Alex while Gwen, though strained, managed to pull Alex up with the Charm of Levitation. He hung onto the bottom for dear life as Ben shot up with the hoverboard.

"How are we supposed to beat this guy? Everytime Alex tries to get in close he just gets blasted away, and right now hes timed out.", Ben remarked as he kept the hoverboard moving with bizzare maneuvers to dodge the notes flying at them.

"Yeah! Keep runnin away! Only makes this more fun for me!", Lord Decibel laughed again as Gwen looked down with widening eyes.

"Maybe we just need to get past his sound barrier with a node.", Gwen muttered before perking up. "When two sounds overlap each other, they cancel out and make a dead space. Maybe we can do that!"

"Good idea, but how?", Alex managed to throw himself on there, gagging a little bit before standing up, the board widening even further. "Right now I'm timed out."

"That would be the case... but.", Gwen smirked as she pulled out the charm of luck and pressed it against Alex's chest, it quickly glowed teal and within moments, the Omnitrix turned green. "This time we actually have something for this.", the cat mask wearing child said as she pulled her arm away.

"Oh rad.", Alex activated the Omnitrix and scrolled through his arsenal.

"DUCK!"

Alex looked up to see a giant hand to his right, he and Gwen quickly ducked down as per Ben's instruction before being smacked away by another hand. Within a green flash, a black and blue tornado appeared in mid air as Ben and Gwen managed to grab onto the hoverboard and lower themselves onto the ground.

TopGear dropped down and looked at his new surroundings, rather than the open field, they were now in a massive opera house with four gigantic opera singers, two men, two women. "Symphony Number 7, Chorus from Hell!", Lord Decibel called out as he stood behind the gigantic opera singer.

"Did he just announce what this is called?"

"Thats pretty cool though..."

"Oh shut up you watch Sumo Slammers!", TopGear looked up as Ben held back a retort. "Need to make a dead space, maybe we can use those giant guards... you two get up there, I'll try something."

"Got it!", Ben and Gwen nodded before the hoverboard sped off above, with the shifting of his feet the board swerved out of the way of a left hook, getting in between two guards the female one attempted to back hand them but missed and smacked the other one back.

TopGear on the otherhand was easily dodging the notes Lord Decibel sent after him, even taunting him by letting them get just close enough only to move immediately before impact.

"Y'know if it werent for my charm, you'd be eating dirt right now.", Gwen remarked as her luck charm was very clearly glowing.

"This aint luck, its skill!", Ben exclaimed as the other two opera singers attempted to attack as well but he quickly dove in between them, the charm of levitation glowed as Gwen held her hand out and managed to push the other opera singer into the two others.

"Wait what?", Lord Decibel looked confused as the three fell, causing a slight shockwave that cut through his sound barrier. "Shit!", he quickly scrambled to reactivate it before being bombarded with a barrage of speedy punches, launching him backwards as he looked up at TopGear.

"Game over.", TopGear said as Lord Decibel's purple eyes turned into an exclamation mark.

"You dirty fucking cheaters! I'll-!", Lord Decibel noticed a small crack form, before the glass covering his face blew open. TopGear raced around and tagged him each time he ran by, he ran so quick it appeared that it appeared that he multiplied and attacked at every angle.

TopGear stopped finally, holding Lord Decibel's fauntlet before crushing it with his tail. Abraham let out a groan as he fell on the stage, the opera house fading away and showing the concert once again.

"You- dirty fucking cheater! YOU FUCKING CHEATER! ALL OF YOU!", Abraham crawled away as his eyes were opened wide and wild. "I'll FUCKING KILL YOU! I'LL KILL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!", with the swift kick from TopGear, the destructive DJ was promptly silence finally.

"Y'know, his music aint that bad.", TopGear looked up at Ben and Gwen with a thumbs up before racng off.

It took a specialized team of experts with the assisted help of TopGear for as long as he had left to transport all the concert goers to safety, the police closed off the area while paramedics carried a groaning DJ Dust into the ambulance.

Alex, Ben, and Gwen stood on a curb as the Rust Bucket drove up quickly before making an abrupt stop. Max exited the Rust Bucket with speed far beyond his years. "Are you three alright? What happened after I called you?"

Max knelt down and pulled his grandkids into a tight hug. "We're alright, Grandpa. I think we did pretty good too!", Ben exclaimed, lightly patting Max's back.

"I mean I gave a bit of ringing in my ears.", Alex scratched at his ears as Gwen nodded along as she had them too.

Max stood up and rubbed their heads before pulling Alex into a hug as well, he had wide eyes as he just stood there stiff. "Im glad you're all alright besides some ringing, after the call went out I was so worried I-"

"It's fine, Max. They're both fine.", Alex said with a smile as Max pulled away and patted his shoulder.

"And I'll always be thankful for that.", Max nodded as he turned to the Rust Bucket. "Now then, who wants smoked cows tongue?"

"Oh ew."

"Absolutely."

In the back if a police cruiser, Abraham had regained consciousness and had to face the reflection on the window. His black eye very apparent, his singular eye widened as he saw a pitch black cadalliac slowly drive past as the police crusier drove off.

"Fascinating.", Enoch muttered as he saw the recording one of his two personal assistants managed to salvage from the equipment. What caught his attention the most was Alex, saying he was in awe of what he could do was an understatement.

"They have all made an enemy of the organization...", using his computer he managed to catch images of Alex, Gwen, Ben and even Max on his screen. "Find out all there is to know about these figures..."

/end/