The process of the Earth returning to normal actually didn't as long as most would think, it took a day for it all to return to normal. But because it was a world wide thing, conspiracy theorists and many others immediately tried figuring out what actually happened.
San Francisco was no exception, it was abundantly clear when the Tennyson's and their guest were standing outside a video game store. Or more accurately, standing in a very long line to a video game store.
Gwen was shifting her weight back and forth on her feet. "Ugh, we've been in this line for two hours, and it hasn't budged an inch!", she said agitated.
"Small price to pay for "Sumo Slammer 2.1"! I'd do anything to get this game! Even be seen in public with you...", Ben said with a furrowed brow directed towards Gwen.
Gwen looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Don't you already have this stupid video game?"
"Hello?! This is Sumo Slammer 2.1! You can change your fighter's color at any time during the match. Duh.", Ben emphasized as if this was the most groundbreaking thing to ever exist.
Alex on the other hand seemingly just appeared with a slushie in his hand. "Oh wow, you're still here huh?", he commented.
"Yeah- wait, where'd you get that.", Gwen pointed at what he held in his hand.
Alex looked at it before shaking it slightly. "Oh there was this place that sold drinks and they started selling slushies for the Summer. So I bought one."
Gwen narrowed her eyes at him annoyed. "... You didn't buy any for us?"
"I was supposed to do that?", Alex looked at her like a deer in headlights. "Anyways, how long you guys planning on standing there anyways?"
"Until I get Sumo Slammers 2.1.", Ben stated flatly.
"Figured."
Max looked around before letting out a fake cough. "You know, there's a nice air-conditioned bookstore over there.", he says pointing further down the block. "Maybe we can wait inside until this line thins out a bit."
"And lose my place? As if!", Ben looked at his grandfather as if he just ran over his dog. "You two go, I'll meet you at the RV."
"Okay.", Max remarked before looking at Alex. "What about you Alex?"
"Eh I'll stay here, can't leave this little creature alone for more than a few minutes.", Alex said jokingly as he shook Ben aggressively.
"You want us to get you something from the bookstore?", Max asked the two as he and Gwen stepped out of the line.
Ben scoffed at the idea of READING. "I'm on summer vacation? Why would I need anything?", was his response, Alex on the other hand shook his head as Max and Gwen walked off.
"Maybe they should buy you something, I mean you might lose your ability to read.", Alex chuckled as Ben jabbed him with his elbow lightly as his phone started ringing, he flipped it open to see that it was actually his grandfather calling. "The hell does this asshole want?"
Alex answered the call and placed the phone against his ear. {"Hey kid, I know I'm basically the last person you'd want to talk to but I need to ask you something very important."}
Alex groaned at this. "What is it?"
{"You've ever went to Tallahase or Barstow within the last couple of days?"}
A long time had passed, Max and Gwen weren't sure how much time actually passed but it was enough for the like to have shortened to the point of being managable.
"So, you think Ben went stir crazy and drove Alex nuts by now?", Gwen asked sarcastically.
They suddenly heard a short symphony of terrified screams with a loud crash, people run out of a video game store as Pummel comes bursting right out of it. A police car had arrived just seconds after but couldn't stop itself fast enough from being lifted over Pummel's head and ripped in half, the two police officers jumping out as the red goliath spun around before sending it flying into the distance.
Max looked at Gwen. "For the record, I wasn't being serious.", she says nervously as she lightly patted her hoodie pocket. "Ben must've seriously made him blow his top off."
"Yeah... it's a bit hard to believe though.", Max's trained eyes already spotted something off about 'Pummel'. His skin was much darker and he appeared a bit skinnier, it wasn't an insane difference but it's something he noticed.
"Gwen, we should-", Max looked around and Gwen had suddenly vanished. "What- where in the blazes could she had gone?"
'Pummel' laughed as more police officers appeared and began shooting at him, the red goliath was suddenly met with heavy gun fire from a helicopter. "Jesus christ! What is this thing?!"
"Nothing's even scratching it!", a police officer exclaimed as 'Pummel' rolled his eyes as he casually walked forward and plunged his fist into one of the police cruisers before throwing it at the helicopter.
"FUCK! Pull up!", the man wielding the mounted mini gun exclaimed to the pilot as he attempted to pull up... yet they didn't need to. The police car just flew right above them luckily enough.
"Hmm?", 'Pummel' cocked his head in confusion before being launched forward by an invisible force then blasted with a beam of electrically charged fire.
'Pummel' turned around and was... well, he was met with someone with very familiar bright orange hair wearing a strange outfit with 6 charms on her small body. Obviously it was Gwen now donning her Lucky Girl alter ego, floating above him with its respective charm active.
"Not really sure what's making you go nuts, but why don't you just sit down. Kay?", Lucky Girl says in an overly sweet tone before sending out a fire ball at 'Pummel' that was quickly blocked by his durable skin.
"Oh, this is perfect.", Lucky Girl immediately noticed 'Pummel's' voice was a little off. She had little time to think about it further before 'Pummel' threw a dumpster at her with full force.
Lucky Girl hissed before flying forward, breaking dumpster apart into shards if metal fragments before imbuing them with electricity from its respective charm then launching it forward at 'Pummel'. The red goliath looked genuinely surprised before stepping out of the way and rushing to punch her only to hit nothing but air.
The charm of luck glowed as Lucky Girl just barely managed to dodge out of the way of 'Pummel's' attempt to attack her. She flipped into the air and kicked him in the face with electricity surging around her foot before propelling him back with a blast of air.
The dark red goliath smirked as he rubbed his chin, Lucky Girl grimaced at this. Of course she's been used to sparring with Alex in his forms but was never really on the receiving end of his wrath. "Maybe I should've snagged the Archamada Book of Spells while I could..."
That was when the big red alien and the charmed young girl looked back to see a heavily armored vehicle pull up. A man stepped out of the passenger seat, he was a middled age man with blond hair styled in a buzzcut and a long scar over his left eye. He wore a black shirt with what looked like a modified bullet proof vest with SACT labled over his cjest. In addition, he wore a belt with pouches and wore grey pants.
"Lieutenant Steel; Special Alien Containment Team, we'll take it from here.", Steel exclaimed as he popped his neck. "Prepare the Concussion Bazooka!"
"... Huh?", Lucky Girl was confused but quickly sheilded herself with a telekinetic barrier as 'Pummel' backhanded her.
"Oh it's you losers again.", 'Pummel' said in his bizarre, almost unfittingly high voice as he was suddenly met with a flashbang to the face. "GAH-! You-!", he stumbled back before being met with grenades by the military operatives.
The SACT agent's wore somewhat unfitting navy blue and grey uniforms with black boots and gloves, a utility belt with multiple pouches and guns strapped to their legs along with a similar vest as Steel. Their faces were obscured by a black helmet decorated with a visor possessing five circular lenses. The Concussion Bazooka was actually being prepared by two of them while three others kept the giant red beast at bay.
The Concussion Bazooka was a massive firearm that are grey with primarily yellow and black plating. The muzzle of the weapon is black, and the back end of it has a spherical shape with a lightning bolt symbol on either side. A thick red cord connects the bazooka to a battery, worn by the leading operative on his torso. Several cords sprout from the top, which connects to more cylindrical batteries on the second person's back.
"Fall back!", Steel exclaimed as the three men who kept the giant red creature at bay pulled back as 'Pummel' snarled at them. "FIRE!", Steel exclaimed before a powerful beam of energy rocketed forward and collided with 'Pummel' sending him flying into a pizza parlor and causing it to collapse ontop of him.
The agent's stood there as 'Pummel' bursted forward and popped his neck with a brick oven in hand. He threw it at SACT before leaping away, the agents quickly moving out of its direct landing as it exploded into dust.
"... There's gotta be a logical explanation for this, right?", Max asked as he spotted Gwen who had actually slipped on her clothes over her suit and quickly took off the mask. "We're gonna talk about that later, but first."
It took a moment for them to loop around back to the Rust Bucket as they would've needed to pass the path of carnage 'Pummel' had left. But the moment they had neared it, Gwen quickly bursted through the side door. "ALEX! You- what are you two eating?"
Beyond Ben innocently tapping away at his new game, both he and Alex were consuming a pastery. Alex looked at it and looked back at Gwen. "Apple fritter, they were giving out free samples at a pastery shop. Its pretty good actually."
"Wuh- no, are you demented? You went all four armed freaky outside of the video game store!", Gwen exclaimed as Alex looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
Gwen didn't know what to call his expression, but he seemed almost unbothered by this. "I dunno what you're on about, me and Ben left the game shop around an hour ago."
"Yeah I dunno what fell on your head at the bookstore but Alex has been with me like, the whole time.", Ben paused his game to look at Gwen, he seemed genuinely confused.
Gwen frowned before she suddenly had an idea, she grabbed the remote and turned on the small TV to show footage of 'Pummel' and Lucky Girl fighting. "Oh yeah?"
"Yeah.", Alex shrugged almost unbothered by this as well. "You can't be THIS stupid right? I mean we already met one of Deepcut's species and he turned out to be a good... okay, morally greyish guy."
"Eh he has a point there.", Max scratches his chin. "Plus the Tetramand out there looked a bit too dark for Pummel's regular hue, plus you fought him up close."
"YEAH! Plus, Alex would never do anything that bad with the watch... okay, except that one time but that was totally different.", Ben casually says as Alex rolls his eyes.
"Eh, gramps already told me about a couple of aliens trying to fuck me over. So this couldn't be any better timing I think.", Alex yawned as he slipped out of his seat and exited the RV. Max, of course, followed but Gwen needed to drag Ben out.
Getting to the site of the rampage wasn't exactly hard, Alex had just walked from there an hour prior so it didn't surprise him to see caution tape and ambulances on the scene. "Now what do you suppose you'll find that no one else will notice?"
Gwen was... less convinced the more she thought about their fight but remained headstrong. "Probably nothing, maybe he's just lying through his teeth."
"If it's a random attack, going after a random game store in San Francisco is pretty suspicious, even more so when you think about it more.", Alex commented as he picked up a brick. "Maybe I'm just connecting dots that aren't there, but still..."
"What's so suspicious about attacking a game store anyways? You're just making stuff up.", Gwen crossed her arms as Alex tapped his head.
"No shit, I'm saying the timing is awfully convenient.", Alex shrugged as he felt something off, it was a feeling all humans have experienced no matter what.
He felt like he was being watched.
Alex in the alley next to him. He sees the Pummel lookalike for just a brief second, before it disappears around the corner. He quickly turned and sprinted off in that direction.
"Alex! Wait!", Max exclaimed as he and his grandchildren followed after him. Even if he did do a lot of his actions as an alien, Alex was surprisingly fast and had created a wide gap between them already.
Alex had saw the lookalike leap over a fence, he sped up and quickly scales the fence before leaping off and continuing his sprint. The alley opened up and allowed Alex to catch his breath for a moment, looking up to see the lookalike ontop of the US Mint.
"Damn, was Pummel always that quick?", Alex straightened himself out, he never really registered that Pummel moves absurdly quick for his massive frame. "Eh, whatever."
The moment Ben had actually caught up was the same moment Alex sprinted off once again, Gwen managed to catch up as well to catch her breath. "He went in the Mint!", the two dashed at the building.
Max on the other hand had strained his body when he fought the Tick's followers, so he wasn't necessarily in the best shape. He stopped and caught his breath. "Who ever said retirement was- relaxing again?"
The Tennyson's had made it inside of the Mint, which wasn't hard since the entrance was already unlocked, the entered and saw coins being printed out on conveyer belts with bags of the coins being carried across the ceiling.
"You sure he came in here?", Max asked.
A fiery explosion erupted in the corner of the room, Ben looked up at Max. "Yeah, probably.", he smirked as the three sprinted off to the area.
They turned towards that corner and saw two security guards, one having a severe burn on one of his arms, being backed into the corner by 'Sunburn'.
"Okay, I was willing to give him one, but two of Alex's aliens terrorizing San Francisco?! That can't be a coincidence. I'm stopping this right now.", Gwen ran up to 'Sunburn', whos rocks were all the same darker shade of red this time.
"Gwen! Wait up!", Ben attempted to stop his cousin as he immediately registered the change.
"Yo! Hothead! Back off the fireworks before somebody gets really hurt! Now, if you take responsibility for all the wacko stuff you've been doing lately, I'm sure we can help you.", Gwen chastised the taller flaming humanoid but subconsciously backed away once she herself noticed the difference in rocks.
"Jesus, I know you never liked me that much but c'mon!", Gwen turned around to see Alex standing there.
Gwen turned her head back at the Sunburn Imposter, then back at Alex, then back at the imposter. "Wait, so who are you?"
"Me? I'm a total hottie! Can't you tell?", The Sunburn Imposter grinned as he unleashed a powerful beam of fire at Gwen.
Just before it hit her, a green flash rushed by as the fire instead connected with the crystalline body of Deepcut, who simply stood there unphased. "Now what did we learn?", he looked back with a smirk on his face.
"Okay, maybe I was a little too quick to judge but you don't help that sometimes!", Gwen looked at him with a furrowed brow.
"Y'know what? I'll take it, you three get anyone else outta here.", Deepcut smirked as he rushed forward and shoulder tackled the Sunburn lookalike, his battle mask forming around his face. "I got a couple of words for this piece of shit."
The Imposter hissed as he saw Gwen, Ben and Max leading the security guards out of the Mint. "Like hell!", the flaming creature rushed forward and attempted to shoot another beam of fire but was quickly caught by his ankle. "Hey! Let go!"
"If you insist.", Deepcut snickered before lifting his flaming lookalike over his head before slamming him hard into the ground, he leapt into the air and attempted an elbow drop that 'Sunburn' quickly rolled out of the way before unleashing a powerful blast that sent Deepcut skidding back. "Y'know, I don't really know what your deal is, but if you're trying to give aliens a bad name then its working all right."
"Awwhh, what're you gonna do about it then? Go run home and tell your mommy? Or i guess go towards that old piece of shit and the two brats huh?", The imposter tilted his head with mock sympathy before laughing at him.
Deepcut's mask peeled away as he glared at the imposter. "Something about you is pretty familiar, like that whiny little voice you got there."
The Sunburn Imposter scowled. "Huh... guess I really can't get by you.", he then smirked as his head started twitching, the fire dying from his head before quicklu snapping into BugBreath's black face and eye stalks, the insectoid head then suddenly morphing into Deepcut's own head, then morphing into Overclocks before morphing into Kevin Levin's face.
Deepcut's eyes widened as he straightens himself. "Oh wow, it's you?"
"... Yeah? Didn't you figure it out?", Kevin looked almost confused.
"What? Hell no, what made you think that? If anything you'd be my seventh guess.", Deepcut scratched his head. "Also didn't you lose my power back at the subway in New York?"
"At first, yeah, that's what I thought too.", Kevin shook his head as he grinned, it didn't take him too long to intially figure that fact out himself. "Turns out I absorbed enough of that weird watch energy, so I could turn into any of those aliens inside, if I just concentrated hard enough. Only problem is, I can only stay human for a short time. You made me into this freak..."
"Oh boo fucking hoo! What? Did you want me to tape a sign on me that says 'hey don't absorb my watch'? That aint my fault.", Deepcut crossed his arms. "Besides, its not like being a homeless bum was doin you any facors."
Kevin hissed at his response as his hair began to catch on fire, his head bursting into Sunburn's. "I don't care! Cause now it's payback time, partner. Everything 50/50! I do the crime, and you'll do the time."
"You are so fucking dramatic.", Deepcut smirked as his battle mask formed once more. "Ah whateves, how about you try hitting me again. I'll stand extra still for ya!", he tapped his face tauntingly.
"Oh you're so dead!", Kevin hissed before unleashing a beam of flames once again, this one actually made Deepcut root himself to the ground from the sheer force.
"Oh please, do try your best now.", Deepcut laughed as Kevin had leapt through his own beam and delivered a series of punches to Alex's stomach that moved him from his spot. Deepcut quickly grabbed Kevin's head before slamming their heads together with a hard headbutt.
The morphing mutant was dazed for a moment before being met with a kick that extended quickly, launching him back only to be hit by a series of dull projectiles from Deepcut before being met a push kick into Kevin's stomach that knocked both him and the wind out of him
Before they could continue, the mint windows suddenly explode, and those same Special Alien Containment Team soldiers rappel inside. Deepcut quickly looked away to look at them, this split second allowed Kevin to blast him away while his back is turned.
"Good thing we're in the Mint, you can use the change to pay your bail.", Kevin snickered as his flames immediately died before morphing into BugBreath himself, who much like Pummel and Sunburn, lacked an omnitrix. "Later, dipshit!", Kevin exclaimed before flying away, bursting through the glass ceiling on his way out.
"Goddammit.", Deepcut's mask peeled away as he looked up at the giant hole made in the ceiling. "Maybe I should've tried possessing him."
Even as the SACT soldiers surrounded him, Deepcut simply kept his composure before looking at the lieutenant. "Sorry, 'Rock-Head'. No unauthorized withdrawals on my watch.", Steel stated in his authoritative tone.
Deepcut pointed up. "Y'know the real issue here just got away right?"
"Yeah, sure he did. Just like how all those other alien heroes are on the news nowadays. No sale! To me you're just a walking chandelier.", Steel exclaimed as Deepcut looked... behind him? He made a small gesture to step away to which he quickly looked around to find no one there.
Deepcut simply rolled his eyes at this. "Yeah, and what would I get if I'm just lying huh? I'm clearly not trying to attack any of you."
Steel scowled at the crystalline creature. "Sorry, but the boys back at Area 51 figure out who's naughty or nice. I just catch you freaks."
"So, I guess trying to talk it out is off the table huh? Sucks.", Deepcut just shrugged as he slowly got into a more slouched stance, he took in his surroundings and analyzed it.
"Three behind.", Deepcut's fingers morphed into daggers as he spun around, he fired shards right into the barrels of the guns behind him. Just as they pulled the trigger they immediately explode, allowing him to escape in the smokescreen.
"After him!", Steel ordered as the rest of the men pursued him through the corridors of the conveyer belts.
Deepcut treaded quietly. "I wasted too much time fucking with Kevin, I could turn back any minute and then I'm really screwed. I need an opening to make a run for it.", he didn't notice it but a red dot shone on his chest before being blasted by two soldiers from a walkway.
The two SACT soldiers hi fived each other before quickly leaping out of the way when Deepcut leapt at them, quickly climbing ontop of the walkway and jumping directly over them. Steel wordlessly ordered his men to follow after him, some wordlessly climbing up ladders as Deepcut reached the top.
The teenage crystal humanoid found himself pinned, in front of him were two of the soldiers while behind him was Steel himself. "Nowhere to run, come queitly.", Steel narrowed his glare as Deepcut turned around and smirked.
"Too bad.", Deepcut smirked as he looked at the hole Kevin had carved through previously, just as he thought of this the Omnitrix began warning Alex with its beeping. He forced himself to maintain his form before extending his arms out, jumping off the walkway before yanking himself ontop of the roof.
"DAMMIT! Dont let him escape!", Steel barked at his men who quickly running out of The Mint in the hopes to see his escape... but he was just gone.
Steel exited The Mint and scowled. "Fuck, got away again.", the lieutenant then saw Alex walking right past with a confused look. "Hey kid, you haven't happen to see a man made of crystal walkin around have you?"
"I'm pretty sure I would've.", Alex shrugged as he attempted to hide his urgency to just leave.
Steel quickly noticed the large, cuff-like watch on his left wrist. "Hm. Nice watch, never seen anything like it."
Alex looked at the omnitrix. "Oh, thanks. My sister made it herself and wanted me to keep it.", his eyes darted to the Rust Bucket, which wasn't parked too far away.
"How nice of her, stay safe out there kid.", Steel said as Alex walked away, he made sure his walk was quicker but not anything to really make a note of.
One of the SACT agents that had been outside stepped towards Steel. "Sir, just a minute before the alien escaped, the RV had parked itself within a short distance of the Mint."
Steel rubbed his chin, he had noticed Alex's quick and on the spot answers, but something about the situation set him off. "Keep an eye on the mobile home, there's something strange going on and I want answers."
"It was Kevin at both the videogame store and the mint! They were setups!", Ben exclaimed. Alex had explained what exactly was going on, specifically of the identity of the alien lookalikes which had hit Ben the hardest.
"That would explain a few things.", Max says as he was cleaning his prosthetic arm, taking a quick overlook before reattaching it. "That kid's rowboat's missing a couple of paddles."
"But why do those SWAT guys think all aliens are bad?", Ben asked confused on why they had such a notion.
Alex was busy eating something he stole from the fridge on the otherhand. "Cuz Kevin's already been going around shitting on my reputation, the Mint and the Gamestore were just another two added to the pile."
"He's right.", Gwen said looking directly at Ben before turning her computer screen, clicking through pages showing Kevin as Alex's aliens committing various crimes. "Your friend has been pretty busy. Wildbeast terrorizing Tallahase; Fish Man in Chicago; The Haunting in Barstow?!"
"Yeah and I'm taking the blame for all that, no wonder my gramps called me earlier for that.", Alex muttered the last part with a bit of disdain, clenching his side.
Ben turned his head to look at Alex. "Why's he framing you anyways?"
"Getting your ass violently beat in front of people does horrible things to you.", Alex stated casually. "When the hell did that SACK thing come from anyways?"
"It's SACT.", Max corrected. "They're essentially the Plumber's replacements, an old friend of mine contacted me about their creation a while back."
"Why couldn't they just... bring the Plumber's back?", Ben asked curiously.
"They couldn't, that was the whole point. Most government officials that were tied to the Plumbers are either dead or had their memories wiped, any record of the Plumbers or anyone else who worked in it had been completely erased from any database.", Max stated as he remembered when Phil had came to him after he had retired and explained the situation.
There was a suffen chorus of screaming as an odd looking cable car rushed down the sloped road at abnormal speeds, it was entirely black with green circuitry patterns, which made it obvious what was happening. "Kevin!", Ben exclaimed.
Max on the other hand just furrowed his brown in anger. "That boy must've hijacked the cable car."
"Better go after him with some upgrades of our own.", Ben jabbed Alex who was already selecting his chosen alien.
"Yeah but there's also people on the cable car still, better to make this fast.", Alex smirked as he slammed down on TopGear's icon and erupted in a green flash, instead of Topgear he had turned into Watchdog. He let out a series of annoyed snarls.
"Nice one, Fido. Maybe you can just flick fleas at him.", Gwen mocked as Watchdog growled at her.
Watchdog erupted out of the Rust Bucket before charging after the cable car possessed by Kevin. As Max, Ben and Gwen watched, they were completely oblivious to the two SACT agents positioned on a nearby rooftop. "Mobile One, a wild dog alien just emerged from the RV. Now both are heading down California Street!", the agent relayed into his radio
{"Maintain visual on them, and do not engage. I'll be there shortly"}, Steel said on the receiving end.
The cable car races down the slope at nightmarish speeds, cars quickly stopping in their tracks to avoid a collision as people panicked inside. The conductor grabbed onto the lever only to be electrocuted.
"Now why're you doin' that?", Kevin's voice was heard around the entire cable car the conductor stumbled back, the lever being snapped in half by a tentacle. "We're just starting to have fun!"
As the cable car sped through the street, the sound something hitting the pavement quickly followed after as Watchdog was right next, his claws leaving marks in the pavement. "Oh hey there, pal! Sorry but no animals allowed!"
Small machine guns emerged on the top of the possessed cable cart, the noise they produced went noticed by Watchdog of course. He quickly leapt onto the roof of the car as Kevin attempted to shoot benas of energy at him. "Hah! Dumbass!", Kevin laughed as spikes emerged from the roof, which Watchdog quickly flipped off the roof and swinging himself inside.
The Rust Bucket was following the cable car, Ben readied his proto-tool as Gwen was changing in the back, Ben looked a little nervous at Max's excited expression. "You know, times like this, my stock car driving experience really comes in handy!"
"Man you were pretty active, huh?", Ben muttered as he figured out where he got most of his interests in physical activity from.
Watchdog snarled as he quickly flipped on his hands as Kevin attempted to stab him before being slammed with a bench and crashed right next to the group of people which were thrououghly terrified. "Heel, boy! Heel!"
Thats when Kevin felt some sort of tugging sensation, he noticed the cable car started slowing down. "What?", Kevin's Overclock appearing head emerged from the roof as he noticed Gwen, now Lucky Girl once again, was using the Charm of Levitaton and pulling the cable car to slow down.
Watchdog grinned as Kevin groaned. "I already had my fun with you, bitch! Now buzz off!", thrusters appeared on the back of the cable car before erupting with energy, sending them hurdling forward.
"So annoying!", Kevin hissed as his head stretched to look at Watchdog but narrowly dodged the bench being thrown at him. "You both ruined the moment for me! Whatever."
The black and green patterned mass started to melt from the cable car, leaving it as it was regularly. "Eh, brakes are out anyways. Enjoy your dip in the bay, asshole!", Kevin's Overclock form had gathered on the roof before wings befan emerging from his back, his form slimming before snapping into Bugbreath's form once more. Letting out a sigh of relief before flying away.
"He's getting away!", Lucky Girl exclaimed as the Rust Bucket managed to catch up to the cable car, allowing her to grab the car with the charm to slow it down.
"With the speed it's going, we'll need to anchor it.", Max said as Ben was fiddling with the Proto-Tool.
"Hook, hook- ah! Yeah!", Ben smiled as the proto-tool changed from it's regular blaster form into a sort of grappling hook.
Ben managed to hang his upper body out of his window and shoots the grappling hook at the back of the cable car, easily piercing through the metal and attaching spider-like legs into its spot.
"Al-I mean, Watchdog! The line is made out of carbon fiber-titanium composite, attach the other end fo the RV!", Max exclaimed as Watchdog poked his head up and nodded.
"Just-hold- on!", Lucky Girl strained as this was the most force she had to exert so far, she managed to use enough strength to yank the car a bit towards the RV.
Watchdog crawled out, hanging on by his feet as he the line was suddenly thwipping about thanks to Ben disconnecting it, he smirked as he wrapped the cable around the RV's bumper.
Max recieved a furry thumbs up as Watchdog leapt ontop of the cable car once again, the elderly man flipped open a small compartment and pressed a button. A small but numerous thrusters appeared on the side of the RV, just as he stepped on the brakes the reverse thrusters activated.
The cable car began slowing down but not nearly quick enough, so Watchdog leapt into the front and slammed himself against it. Digging his feet into the concrete, the people still inside watched in anticipation as Watchdog pushed against the car which was still being pulled back by the combined efforts of Lucky Girl and the RV.
Just as they made it to the pier, the cable car managed to finally slow down to a halt. Now with a giant, dog shaped dent in the front. The people in the cable car took a second to gather themselves before they bursted out into jubilant cheers.
Watchdog smiled as he leapt onto the roof and used it to push himself off and onto a nearby lightpole, swinging on it for a brief second and let go, letting his momentum launch him onto a building.
Night had descended onto San Francisco as the Rust Bucket slowly parked right in front of a lone blue dumpster, the Tennyson's hopped out and saw Alex was sitting in front of the dumpster with a giant cup of soda in front of him.
"Not bad, but seriously, you should start with a street name next time.", Gwen crossed her arms.
Alex got up and looked at her as if he took offense to that. "Words on signs are weird leave me alone."
"FREEZE!", a group of the SACT soldiers suddenly surrounded the four on all sides, every single one of them had their weapons drawn. Steel stepped forward with a stern expression. "One wrong move and you're all swiss cheese!"
The Tennysons were all speechless, Alex on the other hand was just slowly attempting to finish his drink as quietly as he could. "You have two choices: tell me what you had to do with these aliens, or get measured for your prison uniforms."
Max narrowed his eyes at him as Alex coughed a bit. "Well, we COULD tell you but we're just as in the dark as you.", Alex said as he wasn't technically lying this time.
Steel's eyes immediately shifted to the large, unusual watch on the teenagers left wrist. "It has something to do with this watch, doesn't it?! Is it some kind of...signal to call the aliens?"
"Oh wow, you sure you should be in a position of power right now? I mean, you clearly have taken a few too many hits to your head.", Alex smirked as he lightly tapped on his own head.
"You better watch your tone when you're speaking to me, kid.", Steel snarled at the blatant disrespect from Alex.
Alex just laughed at his before taking a sip from his drink only to realize it was completely empty. "I mean, I'm not the one talking crazy."
Gwen immediately leapt up and covered Alex's mouth. "Don't mind him, he just doesn't know when to SHUT UP.", she grimaces as Alex was still grinning.
Steel hissed before his radio receiver buzzed to life. ["Sir, we're getting reports of a crystal alien rampaging on the Golden Gate. It looks like it could bring down the whole bridge if it isn't stopped!"]
"Shit.", Steel pulled out his radio receiver. "Falcon One, pick up on my twenty.", he says as he placed it back in his spot. "We're not done.", the blond haired lieutenant said towards the group as a helicopter quickly hovered over them. Someone from the copter tosses down a carabiner cord, to which Steel attaches to his belt and is lifted away.
They waited as the rest of SACT mobilized as well, each of them entering their respective vehicles as they drove off. "Those guys don't even stand a chance against Kevin, we gotta stop them!", Ben said as he started pulling on Alex's arm.
"OKAY! Stop tugging on me!", Alex removed his arm from Ben's grasp.
On the Golden Gate Bridge, citizens have parked their cars had started staring at the figure standing at the top of the bridge. Kevin, as Deepcut, smirked as he was singing something to himself. "Go ahead and try to see through me. Do it if you dare. One step forward, two steps back, I'm here.", he hummed some lyrics as he spun around before shooting sharp crystal projectiles at some of the cables, causing them to snap down, the cables easily crushed a few cars as people began running away from that area.
"CAN YOU SEE ALL OF ME?? WALK INTO MY MYSTERY! STEP INSIDE AND HOLD ON FOR DEAR LIFE!", Kevin sang with a big smile on his face as he spun around, doing a sort of waltz. Right as the helicopter passed by he smirked as Steel jumped out attached to a cable. "I AM! I AM ALL OF ME!", he shot at the tail end of the helicopter.
The helicopter immediately began spinning out of control, fire spewing out as Steel hissed. Pulling out a knife as he sliced through the rope, landing on the tower as the helicopter goes down. "Lieutenant Steel! How nice to see you again."
Steel hissed as he engaged, quickly pulling out a gun as he slid under a swipe from Kevin. Shooting at his back as Kevin quickly spun back to stab at Steel who quickly side stepped and attempted to stab him with his knife only for it to break instantly.
Steel's eyes widened as he was back handed by Kevin before being kneed hard in the stomach, immediately being hit by a punch to his jaw before being uppercutted into the air. Kevin laughed as he grabbed Steel and threw him back down.
Steel looked at him with a quickly forming blacl eye as he rushed again only to be met with a barrage of crystals that sliced through his uniform then being drop kicked by the giant creature. "There has to be a weakness...", Steel coughed out blood as he attempted to stand only to have been met with a stabbing pain, one of the shards had lodged itself in his shoulder.
"Awwwww, poor Steel. Did you really think you could stop me by yourself? My god, look at you, pathetic! You're making me feel bad man.", Kevin teased with mocking pity as he scratched his chin. "Y'know, because I feel so bad I'll just pop your head off and skin your family alive.", he smirks as he sharpened his hand into a blade.
"Oh c'mon now.", Kevin turned around to see Pummel standing ever so casually behind him. "I think its a little unfair to beat the shit out of someone who can't fight back. How about you try that with me?"
"Hah! Im game!", Kevin grinned as he threw steel off, he lands on one of the beams, hanging off the side, a long way down underneath him. He musters up his last bit of strength to climb up and collapse on the beam.
Kevin grinned as his other hand turned into a blade. "Still tryna be the good guy, huh Alex? Lemme guess, you just wanna help me this time?", Kevin laughed to himself.
"Pfft-", Pummel covered his mouth to keep himself from laughing immediately. "As if, why the hell would I help a piece of shit like you anyways?"
"Thats all I needed to hear.", Kevin jumped up as he unleashed a barrage of crystal shards at Pummel who charged through and tackled Kevin back into the same wall Steel was pinned to.
"If it wasn't for the fact you harmed innocent people as my aliens, I would've given you another chance.", Pummel says coyly before Kevin snapped his head and headbutts him, pushing him back as Pummel slowly stumbled away.
"Nobody's innocent! They just haven't had the chance to make fun of me yet!", Kevin snapped as one of his eyes twitches as he charged at Pummel once again.
While the two were fighting, two soldiers had equipped the Concussion Bazooka. The one holding the general cannon aimed at them as Gwen quickly chimed in. "Wait! The red ones just trying to help! Hes on our side!"
"Yeah sure.", the SACT officer activated his radio. "Targets locked on sir. Permission to fire?"
It took a bit longer than it needed but they finally got a response back from Steel. ["No. Fire on my command only. Repeat, on my command only."}, he said weakly.
The officer groaned at this. "Dammit. We gotta blow these aliens back into outta space, NOW!"
The person assisting him with the Concussion Bazooka looked at him, although most of his face was concealed, it was obvious that he looked at him in genuine disbelief. "You seriously wanna disobey an order from a Steel?"
Back with the two shapeshifters, Kevin was now trying to defend himself against the relentless onslaught by Pummel. His fists slamming into his body with so much force that pieces of his crystal skin chipped away, he attempted to hit him with a wild haymaker before being kicked punched in the stomach, which brought his face over for an uppercut that lead to Pummel slamming him down with a spinning kick.
Kevin hissed as his eyes widened as Pummel was about to slam ontop of him, he quickly shrunk and morphed into Pointdexter that quickly leapt out the way of his attack before morphing into his Sunburn form. Unleashing a beam of fire before being grabbed by his head and met with a punch to his stomach before being dragged right through the metal and launched into the sky.
"DAMMIT!", Kevin hissed before morphing into Bugbreath and unleashing a blast of mucus at him, this temporarily blinded as Pummel immediately began wiping it off his face just as Kevin landed ontop of him and attempted to stab him with the stinger.
"Dumbass!", Pummel grinned, he felt some bizzare enjoyment as be slammed Kevin onto the floor using his back. Kevin groaned before morphing into a black liquid that was Overclock and slithering away, only to reform as Watchdog.
Just as Pummel stood up, he was met with Kevin clamping his jaws down on his head. His teeth rather than bite through his flesh instead shattered upon impact before being grabbed by his chin. "C'mon! Try a little harder!"
Before being slammed into the floor, Kevin morphed once again, his fur turning blue as he turned into TopGear and managed to zip away and behind him once more as he morphed into Pummel himself and putting him into a headlock. "You think you can beat me! The good guys don't have the guts to finish guys like me!", Kevin roared as Pummel grinned.
"Is that so!", Alex grinned before elbowing Kevin in his liver and backhanding him off the tower and onto the road below.
Kevin crashed landed onto one of the cars, the people surrounding if had quickly fled the moment they saw this colossal red creature crashing down. Kevin had noticed Pummel was climbing ontop of the rail before diving down. In response, Kevin leapt up to meet Alex in the middle.
The two roared before clashing with a thunderous punch from two arms each. The shockwave was so powerful it nearly blew off a few cars and made Steel cling to dear life.
Kevin stumbled up as he felt an intense pain in both of his giant red arms before being tackled into a car by an angered Pummel. Kevin's eyes widened as he quickly morphed into Deepcut as Pummel punched him as hard as he could, leaving a giant crack in his face
"Weren't you trying to kill me?! No wonder your family decided to kick you out onto the streets. You're not GOOD ENOUGH!", Kevin winced at what Pummel yelled before he began relentlessly, viciously beating him deeper and deeper into the car. "You're PATHETIC!"
The Tennysons, the civilians and even SACT watched on as Pummel kept beating on Kevin's Deepcut form. Crystals chipping away as his thunderous blows made the bridge tremble in place. His angered yet exited expression being the most notable thing as Kevin kept weakly trying to cover his face but was incapable of getting that chance.
Max looked on in horror as the way he beats on Kevin with such ferocity reminded him of someone..
Pummel kept beating on him, a frustrated smile plastered all over his face as he suddenly remembered a specific set of words said to him;
You.
Little.
Pussy.
This made Pummel winced as he stopped his punch from colliding with Kevin, who had reverted back into his human form. Covered in bruises and had blood streaming down his nose and tears streaming from his eyes. He huffed as he looked at the SACT agents who still had their bazooka trained on him. "You still looking for me?"
"Sir, permission to fire?", the agent asked into the radio.
Pummel looked up, his eyes locking onto Steel's despite the distance as Steel smiled. ["Stand down, our alien is already been neutralized.", the agents looked surprised as Pummel smiled before leaping away.
["Now what the hell are ya waiting for? A pretty please? GET ME DOWN OFFA HERE!", Steel yelled through his receiver.
The Rust Bucket had started driving through the Golden Gate Bridge after it had been cleared along with Alex having to walk all the way back to them with an almost... ashamed look. They passed by an armored car belonging to SACT as Kevin was gently placed in the back.
"You think Kevin's gonna stay down after this?", Gwen asked as Ben had been staring out the window finding his old friend.
"I hope, he may be a bad guy but he's only a little older than me. He's just a kid who has powers he's got no idea how to handle.. so I guess I feel bad for him.", Ben says in a somber tone as he remembered when they were in his hang out and genuinely had fun.
Max sighed as he tapped the wheel. "I know how you feel, Ben.", he was going to say something towards Alex but he was signaled to stop the RV, which he did.
Max used one of the other buttons to roll down the passenger side window that Alex had sat next to as Steel leaned against the RV. "Now, why is it you three are always around when aliens show up?
"Really? We hadn't noticed.", Max says with a smile as Steel just smirked. "What're you gonna do with that kid?"
"That's classified...", Steel paused before looking at Max. "He'll be taken back to Area 51, I'm gonna try my best to at least get him rehabilitated. Powers like those don't come so often y'know?", he tapped the RV before backing away. "Maybe we'll cross paths again sometime. Drive carefully. Lots of weird stuff out there..."
"You said it.", Ben said with an exhausted sigh as Max drove off. He got up and walked towards the front, leaning on the passanger seat. "Are you okay? You were all scary before and now you're so..."
"Oh fuck-'.", Alex caught himself within the middle of turning around and yelling at Ben, he immediately calmed down and looked out the window with that remaining look of shame.
"I'm fine."
/End/