Author's Note: Hey everybody! Hope you're all enjoying even the beginning of Summer 2023! For starters, for this chapter I might as well star two villainous cartoon cats I've been wanting to put in the story for a very long time, and one of them has been an iconic Disney character since 1967. And especially as part of High Roller's army, he will be wanting to target Lincoln and kill him for obvious reasons. But he'll be attacking him later in the chapter. As for the other cat villain, he'll appear in the beginning, and as a small spoiler, Lincoln's explanation of encounter with him will be a quick flashback. As for the Omnitrix aliens I'm gonna pick for this chapter, I'm giving special thanks to the WatchMojo narrators Rebecca & Ryan for the Top 10 & Top 20 lists about the Coolest and Strongest aliens, whether Omnitrix, species or individuals, which give me the idea of which Omnitrix transformation is perfect to the situations in the chapter, so my biggest thanks, praise & credit goes out to them and everyone else in WatchMojo. Anyway, on to the chapter, so enjoy!

S3: 18:

It was a clear night at High Roller's East Citadel fortress, where he & the Zebra Brothers arrive at room, and they were hesitant to enter, which they did.

"Um, Master High Roller, are you sure about this?" Sparky Black questioned in fear.

"Yeah, I know he's a Rogue Humanimal, but he has a vicious personality. Especially since he's an apex predator." Sparky White agrees with his brother.

"Yes, I'm sure, you idiots! The moment he answers, you can run like dimwitted cowards! Now quiet!" High Roller told them before called whoever owns this room. "Uh, hello? Are you awake?" He hears a fierce growling noise and the source walks out of the shadows of the room.

It was a full-grown male Bengal Tiger, with yellow eyes. This tiger is Shere Khan, one of the most feared predators in the Seoni Jungle of India.

"You better have a good reason for waking me up this late at night, High Roller. I rather be up at dawn for a little time to myself in my quarters." Shere Khan spoke.

"Ah, Shere Khan. Yes, I most certainly do have a good reason. Which is why I'm also going to ask Phango." High Roller nervously chuckled about rudely waking up the tiger. "You've heard of the Omnitrix Team, especially Lincoln Loud, who goes by the name L-10?" He started.

"You mean this man cub who is stupidly overpowered, and uses such power to protect humans? Which is what I despised for years?" Shere Khan raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, that one. You see, many of our Rogue Humanimals, me included, tried to get rid of that kid and his friends many times, but always failed. That's when I decided to come to you and Phango, knowing you hate what that boy is protecting with a vengeance, and Phango would love to become more powerful. It'll be like you two having equal share of it." High Roller explained.

"Fine. But I'll wait until after my quiet time tomorrow. Now, don't wake me up like this again. Goodnight." Shere Khan warned before going back to sleep in his quarters.

"Us yes. Promise. Never again. Hehe." High Roller gulped while the Zebra Brothers share his fear.

"Guess he knows how we feel right now." Sparky White whispers to his brother.

Our world's about to break,

Tormented and attacked,

Lost from when we wake,

With no way to go back,

I'm standing on my own,

But now I'm not alone,

(Omnitrix Team; Assemble!)

Always, we will fight as one,

Till the battle's won,

With evil on the run,

We never come undone,

Assembled, we are strong,

Forever fight as one,

Assembled, we are strong,

Forever fight as one!

The Loud 10: Omnitrix Team Adventures

The next day in an open field that is in between the routes that go from Big Green to East Citadel, a leopard was having a merciless, hungry, power-seeking intention, and is attacking a certain someone.

This leopard is big, strong, has red marks, and a blind right eye. This is no other than Phango, the leopard High Roller mentioned the other night, who is a ruthless, power- hungry leopard. Who is he attacking, you ask? The answer is Lincoln Loud under his L-10 suit.

"You're probably wondering: "Lincoln, who are you fighting now?". I'll get right to you in a minute." Lincoln looks to the audience behind the fourth wall. "Right after I deal with this leopard named Phango." He added before avoiding Phango's teeth & claws.

"Hold still, child! You're more elusive, smarter & braver than I thought you'd be! I could also use a challenge!" Phango tries to attack him.

"Makes me wonder why High Roller sent you after me." Lincoln dodges a few more times.

"Because he told me how powerful you are! After I kill and eat you, I shall become the most powerful leopard! Now, time to make short work of you!" Phango planned.

"I don't think so! Let's see if there's something that can handle you!" Lincoln dials the Omnitrix's faceplate before pressing the core to become... "Four Arms!" He yelled holding out his arms.

"What is this?!" Phango questioned.

"This is what!" Four Arms delivers two right uppercuts right in Phango's chest and side. "Not so spot on, are you?" He punned.

"Argh!" Phango growled in pain. "I don't know what this is, but I shall have the pleasure of being powerful after killing you!" Phango threatened before pouncing, only to get caught with one hand. "What?!" He looks shocked.

"Sorry, Phango, but another one of your nine lives is gone!" Four Arms opposed before he began punching the half-blind leopard multiple times.

"Argh! Ugh! Urgh!" Phango roars in more pain due to all the number of punches he's receiving.

"Hope you can still land on your feet!" Four Arms slams Phango into the ground really hard.

"I will eat you!" Phango struggled to get up before the Tetramand knocked him out cold.

"Time for a cat nap. Huh, three cat puns. Hope Luan's not rubbing off on me." Four Arms walks away when he changed back. "Ok, here's how the problem started. When the Omnitrix Team came to visit Big Green, Commander Apetrully warned about High Roller sending two cats in his army to attack, one of which is Phango who you just saw me beat. The other one Lin Chung warned me about is a tiger named Shere Khan. So, long story short, I'm keeping an eye out."

Meanwhile on the exact same trail, Sarah was riding Scarlett with Julie being a passenger while in her Lady Rose suit, while they were being followed by Atlanta & Archie who were riding a pink motorbike manifested by Julie.

"Come on, we have to find him. He could be following where Lin Chung told him while taking this path." Sarah spoke.

"Sarah, calm down. Lincoln is a smart kid, and he's taken on High Roller's goons and beat them so many times before, remember?" Archie reminded. "Some of them can take on an army very easily."

"Yes, Archie. But Knowing what High Roller is throwing at my cousin this time, I can't take any chances. We have to make sure he's okay." Sarah argued.

"I think he can handle it until we get there. Knowing Lincoln, he'll teach the new bad guys the hard way of what a powerhouse he's become ever since he first got the old Omnitrix." Julie said.

"Hope my tracking skills are as good as always. This way. He went up north of here." Atlanta instructed.

"You heard her, Scarlett! Up north!" Sarah told as they continued to take the trail.

Moments later, Lincoln came up to a field that is like a mixture of dried grass and an open field, where he is moving around cautiously.

"Someone's here. I can feel it." Lincoln looks around while taking of his helmet.

"You sensed correctly, boy. You took so long to get here, that I was beginning to worry that Phango got to you and left me out of the fun." Shere Khan appears from the grass.

"Woah." Lincoln looks at him.

"A new man cub, one smaller than the one I've faced many years ago. And more armor if I were to guess." Shere Khan said. "Allow me to introduce myself."

"No need. You must be Shere Khan, the Bengal Tiger the Humanimal Ohana warned me about, who hates humans due to being targeted for trophy hunting which is illegal by the way. You were the most feared predators back in the jungle in India where you from." Lincoln identified.

"Ah, so they did tell you about me. Guess that spares me the trouble. And as for that last part, I was all that, until another man cub humiliated me years ago, and destroyed my fearsome reputation in the process." Shere Khan remembered his history with hatred.

"Let me guess. Just like Phango, High Roller sent you after me too." Lincoln figured.

"Smart one, aren't you? Well, that is correct. And you are exactly my target and next victim." Shere Khan chuckled.

"Besides High Roller, why are you after me? I don't even know you." Lincoln questioned.

"Because man who has tried to kill me multiple times through my years with fire & guns is now under your protection. Makes me want to kill you even more." Shere Khan planned.

"Technically, most humans are not like that, but I can see you don't care! And second, you're gonna have a lot of difficulty doing that!" Lincoln opposed putting his helmet back on.

"We shall see. On the count ten, you will run. One, two, three, four..." Shere Khan counted with Lincoln not running. "Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten!" He finished before he begins to attack.

"Not a chance!" Lincoln dodges thanks to his rocket boots and lands in the grass.

"Trying to hide from me? That is futile. For I'm a hunter, mind you." Shere Khan goes into the grass and begins to stalk the Omnitrix wielder. "Though, I'll do my best to find this the least bit entertaining."

"Gotta remember what Lin Chung, T'Challa, and even Big Chill taught me about stealth. But if I need way to use this tiger's stealth against him or detect where he is." Lincoln whispers to himself. "And I think I know just the alien who can help me with that." He makes a sneaky smirk.

Back to the trail, Julie along with Sarah, Scarlett, Atlanta & Archie continue their search for Lincoln. However, that's when Scarlett suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong Scarlett?" Sarah asked.

"Something's coming this way. Something bad." Scarlett feared.

"And you'll never guess who!" High Roller suddenly appears with Bearstomp, along with Kiburi, the Zebra Brothers, a female Asian Elephant wearing gladiator armor while holding a sword with her trunk & a brown hippo with red scars on his face and snout.

"High Roller! I knew you sent Shere Khan & Phango!" Sarah glared.

"You know it! And I believe you remember my friends: Roma & Hatari?" High Roller gestures the elephant & hippo.

"High Roller, I'm so not in the mood for you guys right now! I'm in a hurry to find my cousin!" Sarah told.

"And waste on this little opportunity to let them have the fun with L-10? Why would I do that?"

"How about you leave before there's any trouble?" Julie was ready to pull out her yo-yo.

"That's the new Lady Rose? She's a lot smaller & younger than I imagined." The elephant named Roma questioned.

"Doesn't matter! I bet this little pipsqueak along with these other ones will be my warm-up against Makuu, right Kiburi?" Hatari underestimated.

"Yeah! This will be easy!" Kiburi agreed.

"Lady Rose. Another kid in the Omnitrix Team who's been annoying me besides L-10! Attack!" High Roller orders the Rogue Humanimals to attack.

"We'll handle Bearstomp, Kiburi & the mean hippo! You take-" Archie pulled out his whip and was ready to fight.

"I got this, guys!" Julie volunteered pulling out her yo-yo.

"Uh, Julie..." Atlanta spoke.

"I know what I'm doing, Atlanta." Julie makes a sneaky smirk while igniting her yo-yo in pink fire. "I'm not afraid of you big bullies!" She swings it to knock Roma's sword out her trunk.

"What the?!" Roma widened her eyes in surprise when two big pink fists manifested by the Hathaway girl begin hitting her multiple times. "OW! Ow! Ow! Ow!" She grunted feeling every punch.

"Now take that!" Julie manifested a large pink rope to tie Roma's trunk to her legs before manifesting pink roller skate wheels along with a pink version of XLR8's legs, which she used to run around to tie the armored elephant's legs even more with great speed, followed by delivering a hard jump kick to the face, making her fall.

"Woah!" Atlanta's jaws dropped seeing Noma fall to the ground while being unconscious.

"Now, it's your turn, High Roller!" Julie manifests her butterfly to fly towards Hatari who failed to snap his jaws due to her manifesting a wedge strong enough to hold a hippo's mouth.

"Wow! That's our Lady Rose, being both fun & terrifying." Archie scratched his head before seeing Julie manifest pink hearts around Hatari, which exploded. "I take it back. I was definitely worried for nothing." He added.

"She's becoming a big girl like us, huh Sarah?" Atlanta asked.

"Uh-huh." Sarah answered while watching Julie continue to kick the villains' butts easily, one by one.

Back at the field, Shere Khan was searching for Lincoln within the dry grass, while believing to have the advantage over him and his target was too scared to come out.

"Come out, come out wherever you are." Shere Khan sang-song while continuing to stalk the Loud boy, who he doesn't know transformed into Wildmutt who was using his sense of smell & hearing to gain the upper hand to purposely step on a twig to get his attention. "There you are." He jumps to pounce.

"*ROAR*!" Wildmutt suddenly jumps out and pounces first.

"What?!" Shere Khan looks at the Vulpimancer in shock.

"*Grr! *" Wildmutt growled.

"So, you want to play games, don't you? Very well!" Shere Khan tries to attack with his claws & teeth, only for Wildmutt to fight back with that of his own, which are ironically much stronger.

"*Hehehehe*" Wildmutt makes a dog-like chuckled.

"Don't you mock me, child! I'm not something to be taken likely." Shere Khan continues to attack but Wildmutt using his acrobatics skills, speed, strength and agility or senses to either block him or render his camouflage in the grass useless. "Now, you're trying my patience!" He growled at being overwhelmed more quickly than expected.

"*ROAR*!" Wildmutt roared using his strength and prehensile feet to flip Shere Khan around.

"Argh!" Shere Khan roared as he is starting to get irritated when the Vulpimancer changes back to Lincoln.

"Had enough, Shere Khan?" Lincoln questions with a smirk.

"Far from it. Now, I'm going to enjoy killing you even more! My intelligence being insulted makes me irritable!" Shere Khan tried to pounce on Lincoln again, only for the Loud boy to duck and double kick him back into the grass.

"Too slow!" Lincoln flies to the spot where the Bengal tiger landed.

"That's it! No more games!" Shere Khan threatened getting back up.

"My thoughts exactly! Here goes something!" Lincoln dials the Omnitrix, before he pressed the core which transforms him into... "Swampfire! Huh. Perfect for this terrain, and for dealing with this guy!" He cracks his knuckles.

"Oh, how I will love to kill you as much as that other man cub!" Shere Khan runs towards him.

"Well, come and get me! If you can!" Swampfire retaliates with an uppercut. "Not so fearsome as you used to be, are ya?" He mocked.

"You'll pay for that! And dearly!" Shere Khan finally manages to cut of Swampfire's right arm. "Mmm-Hmm. What?!" His smile was short lived when the Methanosian's arm reattached to his body.

"Weren't expecting that, were you?" Swampfire manipulates the grass to entangle the tiger's front legs and the hind ones. "To be honest, I was going easy on you so far! But knowing your vengeful nature, vendetta & your past defeats, it's quite sad actually! Just when you finally land a mark on me, I was unaffected!" He taunted him even further.

"That's it!" Shere Khan's melting point help him manage to break free from the grass. "I shall end your man cub life, right here and now!" He jumps up in order to pounce on the transformed Loud boy.

"Good thing I call this guy "Swampfire" for one more specific reason!" Swampfire ignites the methane in his palms to throw fireballs to cut the tiger off.

"Argh! Impossible! Argh!" Shere Khan roared in agony & fear of the fire in his path.

"Hot enough for you!" Swampfire delivers a fiery punch to Shere Khan, which this time knocked him out cold. "Good! Now back to the trail!" He uses his flame for pyrokinetic flight to head back.

Later on, back at the trail, Sarah, Scarlett, Atlanta & Archie were still watching Julie kick the butts of High Roller's Rogue Humanimals, and the only ones who weren't hit yet were High Roller himself & Bearstomp.

"Had enough, you, goofballs?" Julie lands on the bruised Zebra Brothers.

"Ow!" The Zebra Brothers both groaned in pain.

"You may try to kick our butts, but by now, Phango & Shere Khan took care of Lincoln Loud by now! Your precious L-10 is finally gone!" High Roller believed.

"I knew this was a distraction!" Sarah figured to be right about her suspicions.

"Too bad it all ironically backfired!" Swampfire suddenly lands between Julie & High Roller. "Miss me?" He smirked.

"What?! But-! Argh! Noo!" High Roller grunted that his plan to get rid of the Loud boy failed again.

"Lincoln! I knew you'd be okay!" Julie smiled.

"Was there ever any doubt? It takes more than two big cats to slow me down! Normally, I wouldn't waste this on you, High Roller! But I'll make an exception!" Swampfire pressed the Omnitrix, causing the four prongs to pop out and evolve him into... "ULTIMATE SWAMPFIRE!" He shouted before blasting High Roller & Bearstomp with blue flames from both of palms.

"AHHH!" High Roller screams in terror until he fell to the ground. "Urgh! It burns!" He complains in pain while Bearstomp's armor looks like it melted a bit.

"Now it's time to take out the trash!" Ult. Swampfire winked at Julie.

"Ok!" Julie gets the Evolved Methanosian's suggestion before manifesting a pink catapult and a pink hand to put the Rogue Humanimals on it which flings them all the way back to East Citadel.

"Nice entrance. And way to play hardball on High Roller. And Shere Khan & Phango." Archie complimented.

"Thanks. Wait a minute. How did you beat most of the Rogue Humanimals that were just with High Roller so easily?" Ult. Swampfire asked.

"Uh..." Atlanta points to the Hathaway girl who giggled.

"Never mind. I rest my case." Ultimate Swampfire changes back into Swampfire, and then back to normal.

"I sure surprised everyone as much as you did today, huh?" Julie said to Lincoln while took of his helmet again.

"Lincoln!" Sarah gives her cousin a tight hug. "I was so worried about you. I'm so glad you're okay." She gives him kisses on his forehead.

"Ok, Sarah. I get it. Sorry. Thanks." Lincoln felt a little embarrassed.

"Can we please go back to Big Green now? I feel like I need to do some practicing of my own since I didn't get a chance to fight." Archie asked.

"I think it's perfect time that we do." Scarlett answered.

"Yep. Because now, I'm planning on relaxing for the rest of the day." Lincoln nodded in agreement as they all head back to Big Green.

Author's Note: And, done! There you have it! Lincoln has defeated both Phango & Shere Khan, while Julie defeated High Roller's forces including Elephantdevinart's OC Rogue Humanimal villains easily, which doesn't surprise me on that last part. Once again, special thanks go to WatchMojo and two of its narrators who I mentioned earlier about the Top 20 Coolest Ben 10 Aliens and the Top 20 Strongest Aliens in Ben 10, as the picks from either list have pretty special ways to survive dangerous situations made by the likes of Phango or Shere Khan, especially the three Omnitrix transformations I've picked. I was originally gonna have Heatblast fight Shere Khan, but I thought it would be Swampfire's time to shine considering where he was fighting at, while also having power over fire which is one of Shere Khan's biggest fears. Anyway, sorry for the wait, here's the new chapter. Enjoy!