Outside of a warehouse, an elephant-like Alien struggled in his energy cuffs as Apex held him back with her immense strength as Ultimate Echo-Echo and Ultimate Rockette walked out and transformed back to human form.
"How are the energy cuffs, Dumbozo?" Kevin asked. "Comfortable?"
The elephant alien only gave a loud trumpet in response as Becky turned to Kevin.
"Kevin, I already told you the stupid elephant's name is Trombipulor," Becky said. "I had a few tussles with him in the Null Void before.
"Whatever. I forgot because the rest of us just met him today."
"He wouldn't," Emma joked, only to be met with another loud trumpet. "Oh, come on! It was too funny!"
"Anyway, your ride's here," Ben joked.
A bright spotlight shone down on Trombipulor as a Plumber's prison ship appeared in the sky above him and then touched down to the surface of the Earth.
"Trombipulor's wanted for dealing in Level III technology," Gwen said. "He's all yours, officer."
"Prince Ben Tennyson, Princess Jen Tennyson, Lieutenant Commander Emma Tennyson, Gwen Tennyson, Becky Tennyson, Kevin Levin and Allison Levin, right?" the officer asked as he produced his badge and pulled up the files on the Omni-Team.
"That doesn't look like a medal to me," Ally said.
"Because the six of you were drafted by the late Magister Prior Gilhil during a field engagement Michael Morningstar while Ben and Jen were promoted to co-leaders of the Earth division of the Plumbers by their grandfather last year and Emma was drafted by her older siblings before the Conqueror's Challenge with Vilgax, your required training as Plumbers is incomplete," Huntress read. "Please report to Academy 2814 for field certification courses?"
"Wait, we have to go to school at the Plumber's Academy?" Ben asked.
"Looks like it," Jen said, bowing her head.
"What's the Plumber Academy going to teach us anyway?" Ben asked as he and Jen paced on the transport ship. "It's not like we haven't already saved the entire universe over and over again."
"Relax, Tennyson," Kevin said. "This is what it's gonna take to stay in the Plumbers and for you and Jen to remain as the co-leaders of the Earth division, so this is what we'll do."
"Besides, you two have gone through much worse than this when you trained with your godmother for three weeks," Ally reminded with a smile.
"Good point," Jen said. "But why hasn't Mom come to complete her Plumbers' training too?"
"She completed it shortly after we were on that trip to stop Aggregor," Emma said.
"Tennyson?" a young recruit asked, looking over at the twins. "You're Ben and Jen Tennyson and their little sister Emma? Heroes of the Highbreed Wars? Prince and Princess of Earth and the youngling who conquerored of Vilgax and killed Malware and Aggregor?"
"The three and only," Jen said, blushing from the praise.
"But how do you know me?" Emma asked. "I'm not as famous as my big brother and sister yet."
"You are famous for being the youngest Plumber's Kid ever to be inducted to the Plumbers and for being brave enough to stand up to Vilgax when no one else would," the recruit said before stretching his neck over to the twins. "It's because of you three that I'm going to the Plumbers' Academy. My name's Tack."
"Um... what are you doing?"
"Greeting you reverentially," Tack explained before retracting his neck.
"I thought it was a really slow headbutt," Ben said.
"Head... butt?"
"This is awesome!" Gwen said as she showed the others her laptop, showing research on the Plumber's Academy. "Look at the classes we get to take!"
"Special Weapons and Tactics, the Galactic Code of Conduct as ratified by the Casey-Kelly Accords, interstellar law, culture insensitivity," Becky recited, very interested.
"Started strong, but then, you lost me," a bored Kevin said.
"The fourth one's starship maintenance," Ally smirked, getting Kevin's attention again.
"And you reeled him right back in again," Jen said proudly.
"I wouldn't mind learning about those new foldspace engines they're putting in the new cruisers."
"Starting a project with Alexia when Mom picks us up, Kevin?" Emma asked.
"Hit the nail on the head, kid. You sure you're ready to go here."
"I know you guys think I'm just a kid. But I'm a smart kid," Emma said. "Classes remind me and my siblings too much of school though."
"This isn't a school like your teammates and I've ever attended," Tack said. "Because I heard the drill sergeant's the meanest, toughest Plumber in the service."
"Except our family, Tack," Jen said.
"With all due respect to Xylene, your grandparents and your mother, Jen, Magister Hulka is the most decorated officer in the history of the Plumbers. And he expects no less than excellence from his students."
"Huh," Ben said.
"But surely, he's never had star pupils like the great Ben and Jen Tennyson."
"Trust us. He hasn't," Ally said, crossing her arms.
As the ship touched down, the Omni-Team plus Tack walked through the halls with their belongings in hand as they moved forwards as Gwen checked her badge for the map.
"I think that our barracks are this way," Becky said, but the hologram on her badge wasn't working at all. "I can't get a signal in here."
"Plumber Badges don't work on campus," Tack said. "It's against the rules to use them."
"Good thing they're not grading on following directions, huh, Tack?" Ben asked as Tack laughed.
"You and your sisters are funny, Ben," Tack chuckled, but failed to realize he wasn't watching where he was going as he bumped into a green-skinned alien recruit wearing red armor.
"Keep your eyes forward, you larval dipteroid!"
"Larval dipteroid?" Jen asked. "Did Cadet No-Neck just call our new friend a-"
"Maggot?" Kevin asked. "Yeah, insulting."
"Techncially, he implied you were a certain space maggot instead of one on Earth, so there's that."
"Are you plebes giving me attitude?" the cadet asked.
"No, that's just Ben and Jen Tennyson and their little sister Emma," Becky asked. "They're new here, but they're hardly lowly pleb-"
Tack was interrupted as the cadet tossed them aside.
"I don't care who they are. I'm Senior Cadet Brannigan, Commander of Alpha Squad. And until you prove yourselves to me, you are larval dipteroids who are here to learn Plumber work, so shut it!"
"Hey, no one talks to my big brother and sister like that!" Emma shouted as Brannigan glared down at her, but didn't hit her as he knew slapping a six year old was a bad move.
"There's been a breakout in the Null Void, so Magister Hulka wants all new recruits in their bunks and accounted for," Brannigan said. "Trust me, you don't want to make him and me mad on the same day."
Ben and Jen glared at Brannigan heavily as Ally winced.
"Ooh, big mistake on his part."
"Oh, trust me, dude," Jen said as her hands glowed pink. "You do not want to piss off royalty."
That was when Becky grabbed her arm and wrested her back.
"We're going, Jen," she said. "You do not want to get all of us thrown out of here on the first day."
"Wait, you're holding us back?" Jen asked as Kevin, Becky and Ally rushed the three siblings forward.
Emma glared back at Brannigan as he grinned evilly at them.
"Any time, any place."
"Ooh, I'm in Alpha Squadron, look at me," Ben said with a mocking tone as the team arrived in their bunk room. "I should've just gone Armodrillo on him."
"Forget that. I should've gone Fury on him," Jen groaned.
"You should've walked away," Gwen said. "Which you did thanks to us."
"Way to have our backs, guys," Emma said.
"Keeping your Plumbers' badges may not be important to you, but it is to me," Kevin said.
"And we don't want our reputation tarnished either," Becky said.
"Don't mess this up for him," Ally said.
"You ladies settling in okay?" a voice asked as the team glanced over at the door to see a cybernetic Plumber with a large foreboding muscular figure glaring over at them as they all immediately knew it was Magister Hulka.
"You must be Magister Hulka," Ben said. "I'm Ben-"
"I DON'T CARE WHO YOU LOT WERE BEFORE YOU CAME HERE!" Hulka shouted. "Now, you are all larval dipteroids, you are not fit to shine my boots! But maybe, just maybe, if you shut your holes, and learn everything I teach you, you might become Plumbers!"
The Omni-Team stood at attention as Hulka paced in front of them.
"I am the hardest, meanest, most fearsome teacher you have ever met!" Hulka shouted. "And I can promise you all that when I'm through with you, you will not like me!"
"I already don't," Jen muttered under her breath.
"I heard that! Drop and give me fifty!" Hulka shouted.
"But sir, I-"
"Make that one hundred!"
Jen immediately shut up and started doing push-ups as the others stood at attention.
"Any questions?"
"Sir, we wanted to ask about the Null Void breakout," Becky said. "I was thinking we could help-"
"Think?! Did I order you to think?!"
"Sir, no, sir!"
"Then your minds are blank slates!
"Sir, yes, sir!"
"This is Plumber's Academy. You are here to learn how to do your jobs and help me do mine! So while you are under my instruction, you will study hard shoot straight, fight to win and above all, follow orders, got it!"
"Sir, yes, sir!" the Omni-Team all shouted as Jen got up from finishing her push-ups.
"I can't hear you!"
"SIR, YES, SIR!"
Hulka then got into Ben, Jen and Emma's faces with a glare.
"Test me again, Tennysons, and I will wear you all like an overcoat."
"Sorry, sir," Emma said. "But I do have one question. We've heard you have more medals than anybody else. I noticed you only wear one."
"REPORT TO THE FIRING RANGE AT 0500 HOURS! EVERY SECOND YOU ARE LATE WILL LEAD TO AN ETERNITY OF SUFFERING!"
The rest of the Omni-Team groaned as Ben sighed.
"He really needs to cut off the caffeine."
At the firing range, the team and Tack, now all dressed in color-coded Plumber's suits, stood at attention as Hulka handed them their blasters.
"This is a Mk XII Techadorain multiblaster. It is capable of delivering an energy burst of three pedawatts," Hulka said before taking it apart in front of the team. "You lot will learn how to assemble it blindfolded with one hand tied behind your back. You will keep it clean and maintain it. Used properly, it will save your life and the lives of those you've sworn to protect. A Plumber's blaster is his best and only friend."
"Hello, old friend," Jen said, causing Tack to chuckle immaturely.
Hulka then glared sternly at Jen and her siblings, causing her and Tack to shut their mouths.
"Your best and only friend is in pieces! What are you waiting for? Assemble your best friend! Go go go!"
As soon as Hulka left, the Omni-Team and Tack started assembling their blasters, as Emma was able to learn the steps rather quickly for someone her age. Tack, however, was struggling to load the blaster's power pack into the barrel. As he struggled, the magazine slipped out of his grasp and slid underneath a set of lockers.
Tack started panicking and ran over and put his hands under the lockers in a vain attempt to lift it and Jen walked over and adjusted her Ultimatrix and transformed into...
"Four Arms!" she said as she put her hands under the locker and easily lifted it so that Tack could retrieve the power pack and ran back over. And, of course, as she put the lockers back down, she found herself face to face with Magister Hulka.
"What do you think you're doing?" Hulka asked.
"Helping my squad mate, sir," Four Arms said. "His power pack fell under the-"
"Did you read the general orders during your flight, Princess?"
"...No, sir. And neither did my siblings."
"This is a learning facility. There is to be no use of superpowers by any of you. None. You must remember that from now on."
"Yes, sir," Jen said as she tapped her Ultimatrix symbol to change back to human form.
"We have bad reading habits aside from spellbooks, comics and novels, Sir!" Ben said as he ran beside his sister and both twins gave a salute.
At the shooting range, Becky held her blaster at the ready as she fired at the alien dummy target and nailed the vital areas on her first attempt as Kevin stood next to her and nailed his targets with great accuracy as well.
Gwen and Ally held up their blasters and nailed the targets in the heads as well as Emma struggled to hold her blaster up and aim at the targets accurately because of her height, which caused Hulka to sigh and sent a few smaller targets out in her range and she blasted out, the impact of the blast sending her flying back into the wall, but she did hit the targets in the heart.
"You okay, sis?" Jen asked as Emma raised a thumbs-up and smiled. "It's okay. She'll get that down when she's a bit older and stronger."
The twins then aimed their blasters outwards and Jen aimed out her blaster and nailed the target with a few well-placed shots. Ben, however, tried showing off and fired a few fancy positions, causing him to miss the target every time.
"Stop trying to show off and just blast them!" Jen shouted as Ben slammed his Ultimattrix core down and transformed into...
"Swampfire!" the Methanosian shouted as he shot two streams of fire out that destroyed the targets instantly, causing his teammates to all groan and facepalm in annoyance as Hulka appeared in his face with a wordless glare and he transformed back. "Sir."
"I should probably practice with the blaster more, huh?"
"No shit," Becky said, rolling her eyes.
"I'll go help him," Jen said as she led Ben to the practice range as Hulka shook his head at the pair, none of them noticing as Brannigan stared at them from the window.
"The key to using fusion grenades is to reverse the polarity of the magno-catch," Hulka said, dropping a fusion grenade into Tack's hand, causing it to stick like a magnet without metal. "So instead of using attracting it to your hand, it repels it. You first, cadet."
Tack pressed the button on the fusion grenade, but when he threw his hand out, but the grenade refused to leave his hand and the timer continued to tick down.
"What's the glitch? We've been studying this all week!" Hulka shouted. "Reverse polarity, get rid of it!"
"It will not come off!"
Hulka grabbed Tack's hand as they both struggled to remove the grenade as the twins looked concerned.
"It's on overload!" Hulka shouted as the Omni-Team attempted to help. "Get back! That's an order!"
And that was the point where the fusion grenade detonated, causing a large explosion, which Gwen and Emma blocked with their mana shields. Fortunately, Ben came in as XLR8 while Jen zipped forwards in a new alien form.
Jen had transformed into a is a feline-like alien with a black suit-like color scheme, and her hands, legs, chest, and part of her head are colored blue. He has black Wolverine-like fins around his pink eyes, a triangle-shaped nose, a thunderbolt-like design down her chest, and a triangle one down her back. Similar to Water Hazard, she also has spike-like blades on his arms and legs.
"Ben! Jen!" Emma said as she turned to Jen. "That's a new one."
"You like her?" Jen asked. "I call her Fasttrack."
"You saved us!" Tack rejoiced. "You really are the greatest Plumbers of all."
"They are larval dipteroids!" Hu8lka shouted as he got into the Omni-Twins' faces. "And they disobeyed orders!"
"And if we didn't, you wouldn't be around right now!" Jen shouted.
"We were supposed to just let the grenades blow you two up?" Ben asked as he and Jen changed back.
"You were supposed to do what I tell ya. You'd know that if you were ever listening in class."
"You don't think this was an accident, do you, sir?" Gwen asked. "Tack's glove was tampered with to stay magnetized, wasn't it?"
"I get it," Ally said. "This is some kind of test to solve the mystery, right?"
"I'm with my sister on this one, Ally," Becky said. "This can't be a test. I think someone's trying to hurt Tack."
"Wh-who would want to hurt me?" Tack asked.
"Get real, you guys. It was a bad grenade," Kevin said.
"What? The magna-lock went bad and it was set to overload instead of stun?" Ben asked. "Our cousins are right."
"Go back to your barracks," Hulka ordered.
"Someone's out to get you, sir, aren't they?" Jen asked. "Or you wouldn't let Tack be out of your sight, would you?"
"Mind... your own... business," Hulka said through gritted teeth before walking off.
At the barracks, Ben was combing his hair... and Tack was right beside him doing the same thing.
"Someone tampered with that grenade," Becky said. "Hulka knows who it was."
"He doesn't want our help," Emma said.
"Let's just take the night off. Explore a little. We've been stuck in these barracks all week," Ben sighed.
"The whole place is on lockdown until the Null Void Prisoners are recaptured," Kevin said. "Breaking curfew's against orders."
Ben and Jen then gaped in awe at what Kevin just said.
"It's like we don't even know you anymore," Jen said.
"Being a Plumber isn't something you mess around with. If you guys screw this up, you and I are gonna get into it."
"Come on, Tack. Let's see what this place is all about," Ben said as Jen and Emma gave a nervous look as they followed her brother and Tack out the door. "We'll bring you guys a souvenir."
"...Yeah, I'm not sure this sis such a good idea-" Emma said before Ben yanked her away with a yelp.
Later on, having not found anything suspicious, Ben, Jen, Emma and Tack came back into the barracks as their teammates were all sound asleep and Tack banged his head on the underside of the bed, causing Ben to shush him.
"I can't help it," Tack said. "I'm exhausted."
"Relax. We can sleep until 0800 hours tomorrow," Jen said as she and the others fell asleep once their heads hit the pillows.
And that very instant, Magister Hulka appeared in the doorway and tossed an empty metal garbage can into the room, waking everybody up as Dixie played over the loudspeakers.
"...Or not."
"On your feet, cadets!" Magister Hulka ordered, causing everyone to jump out of their beds and stand at attention. "Let's go, let's go, let's go!"
Ben, Jen, Emma and Tack looked a little groggy as Hulka sneered at them.
"Late night?" he asked before walking off.
"How'd he know?" Ben asked.
"I want you in full gear and dusted off in ten minutes!" Hulka ordered. "Your inability to follow orders yesterday and last night bought you all a combat exercise!"
"Nice, guys," Gwen said with a sacracstic tone.
"Nice going, Tennysons," Kevin sighed.
"You are the Plumbers on duty," Hulka said as the team had their Plumber Suits on and glared intently at the training course with the Alpha Squadron standing guard over a few hostages. "Alpha Squadron has taken a hostage. Your mission is to rescue that hostage using your Plumber training and not your powers. All multiblasters are set to stun. Go!"
Our faithful heroes ran forwards as they all ducked and dodged the laser fire from Alpha Squadron with a shout of effort.
"Bad news, plebs. Alphas never lose!"
The Omni-Team plus Tack all ran for cover, with Emma trailing slightly behind due to her age and stature before ducking for cover behind a wall.
"They may be jerks, but they're good," Ally said.
"Not as good as us," Ben said, preparing his Ultimatirx.
"Ben, Jen, no powers, remember?" Becky asked. "We have to do this the right way."
"What is the right way?" Tack asked as everyone covered their heads from the laser fire raining down on them.
"Kevin, you and Ally advance to that boulder," Gwen ordered. "Becky and I will cover you, then follow as Tack covers us, et cetera. Ben, you, Jen and Emma stay here as backup."
"Why do we have to stay?" Jen asked.
"Uh, because you haven't mastered firearms that aren't part of your Omni-Suits yet," Kevin said.
"No offense," Becky said as everyone ran out of the cover.
Kevin and Ally ran forwards towards the boulder as they fired their blasters out while avoiding the laser fire coming from Brannigan's team as Gwen and Becky advanced forwards with Tack flanking them as Ben and Jen gave a look as they peeked out of the boulder.
"Or I turn into Ghostfreak while Jen turns into Coldphase, we phase into the ground, come from behind and take them out while Emma sneaks up from behind and secures the hostage."
"We can't use our powers, dude," Jen said through gritted teeth.
"I hate this!"
"Although, me sneaking from behind isn't a bad idea," Emma said to herself as she wandered off in a completely different direction from the rest of the team.
Kevin and Ally made it to the boulder clearing as they both cocked their blasters... only to suddenly gasp in shock as one of the Alpha Squadron was looming over them as they both dropped their blasters in surrender.
Gwen and Becky gasped as they witnessed their friends getting dragged away as they both gave a determined look.
"Kevin! Ally! Hang on!" Gwen shouted as laserfire rained down on the two, blocking them from moving forwards.
Tack moved in as well and fired a few blasts, only to get suckerpunched away by another member of Alpha Squadron.
"What did I say? The Alphas never lose," Brannigan said with an evil smirk.
Becky gained a determined look as she stuck out her hand.
"Give me your blaster, sis," she said.
"Okay," Gwen said as she handed her blaster to her sister.
Becky dual wielded her blasters as she got out of the cover and gave out several well-placed shots that nailed Alpha Squadron in several spots as she shouted out in fury, the entire scene looking like something out of Tombstone.
Ben and Jen both ran out of cover and shot out their blasters as well, both of them absolutely wrecking the Squadron as Hulka turned to them with a glare.
"Alpha, what's wrong with you!? Take them down!"
Brannigan fired out his blaster at the twins, who dodged everything as Ally gave out a quick elbow to the face of one of Brannigan's squadmates before sweep-kicking him down as Kevin gave out a sucker punch of his own, sending them flying back as they all grabbed their blasters and aimed at the Alpha Squadron.
"Don't blame yourselves. Becky's pretty unpredictable," Kevin said as he, Gwen and Ally opened fire on the Alpha Squadron.
Ben and Jen ducked and covered from Brannigan's blasts as he aimed at them... just as Emma made her move and somersaulted forwards and grabbed the hostage right from under his nose.
"We win!" Emma shouted as she hugged the hostage dummy to her chest, much to Brannigan's shock. "Beaten by a little girl! Ha!"
"In case you were wondering, that's what it's like to lose," Ben said.
"The exercise is over, stand down," Hulka said as he maneuvered his machine over. "Brannigan, how could you let yourself get taken down by a six-year-old? You're supposed to be the elite squad."
"Maybe you can add our moves to the lesson plan?" Jen suggested.
Hulka then looked down to Emma as she held the hostage dummy close to her chest with a dumbfounded look.
"For someone your age, I wouldn't never thought I'd ever see someone as smart as you."
"Thanks," a grateful Emma said as Ben and Jen rubbed her head playfully.
"It doesn't matter how the job gets done as long as it gets handled," Ben said.
"Maybe your methods are a bit... unorthodox. But they worked this time," Hulka said as he reluctantly shook Ben's hand. "Technically, you didn't break the rules."
"Now can we rest?" Jen asked.
"Fine," Hulka said as he departed the scene.
A few hours later, as the group was sleeping in their beds, they heard a massive crash that instantly woke them up as they sprang into action and ran through the academy's corridors and arrived to see a large hole in the wall surrounded by a massive fire.
"Anyone know if he was in there?" a Plumber asked.
"Who?" Ben asked.
"Magister Hulka! These are his quarters."
"If Hulka is in there, he doesn't stand a chance!" Tack said.
"Yes, he does!" Jen shouted as she and Ben transformed into...
"Terraspin!"
"Overflow!"
Terraspin spun around and Overflow shot her water cannons out, effectively creating a mini typhoon that instantly extinguished the fire as they transformed back and the Omni-Team rushed into Tack's headquarters.
"All clear," Becky said. "No sign of Magister Hulka."
"Somebody loves fusion grenades," Kevin said as he examined the shrapnel left behind.
"And doesn't like Magister Hulka," Gwen said.
"That's the second attempt on his life we've seen. What gives?" Ally asked.
"Where is Grouchy McRulebook anyway?" Ben asked.
"What's happening here?" Magister Hulka asked as he walked into his quarters and Kevin handed him the debris from the grenade. "Plumber issue."
"I swear, it wasn't us," Jen said.
"I have no doubt," Hulka confirmed as he turned away.
"But you do know who it is, don't you?" Becky asked, causing Hulka to stop in his tracks.
"Tennysons, Levins, when you're finished having dinner in your barracks, come to mine so you can help fix it up," Hulka asked.
"Will do," Ally confirmed.
Later on, the Omni-Team regrouped in their barracks after having dinner, discussing the crime scene.
"Plumber weapons and tactics," Gwen said. "Someone with a grudge against Hulka."
"Long list there," Kevin said. "But Brannigan looked pretty pissed off when we defeated him and Hulka threatened to throw him out."
"That's not proof," Becky said.
"So what do we do?" Emma asked.
"Stakeout," Jen said.
Later on, as Hulka was moving from his quarters through the corridors, Brannigan emerged from an adjacent hallway and began to follow, not noticing as Gwen and Becky emerged from behind and ran after him and arrived to the garage.
The twin sisters then fist-bumped and ran off in separate directions to corner Brannigan.
Becky reached into her shorts and then pressed a button to extend her spear and then stalked forwards, only to be cornered by Brannigan.
"Hulka hasn't taught you much about surveillance," he said as Becky didn't even look at him.
"I'm a huntress. I learned that on my own," Becky smirked.
"And we sort of put our own spin on it," Ben said as the rest of the Omni-Team cornered Brannigan from all sides.
"Where's Hulka?" Tack demanded. "Why are you trying to hurt him?"
"What are you lot talking about?" Brannigan asked. "I'm shadowing him because he doesn't want a guard."
Suddenly, a loud crashing was heard as they saw Hulka brawling with a blue Tetramand with a mullet and goatee as they threw several powerful punches at each other before grabbing each other's hands.
"I knew it was you all along," Hulka spat. "I assume you didn't learn anything in the Null Void."
The Tetramand shouted out and socked Hulka in the face and sent him flying back into a shelf of blasters, sending them flying to the floor.
"I learned enough to break out and come here to pay you back."
Hulka picked up one of the blasters and struck the Tetramand in the chest, sticking a device to his chest that sent several coils around him like a straightjacket, binding his arms in place.
"But not enough to get lured into attacking me in an equipment depot."
"You ruined my life!"
The Tetramand charged forwards while Hulka blasted him in the chest again, reinforcing his binds.
"You ruined your own life, Kolar. Plumbers have honor. You've got nothing."
"I may not have gotten smarter, but I'm a lot stronger!" Kolar shouted, breaking through his bindings.
Ben and Jen then fist-bumped before transforming.
"Stronger than Four Arms?"
"Or Titanosaurus?"
"Oh, yes, Ben and Jen Tennyson!" Kolar shouted as he ran forwards and started brawling the twins as they dodged and socked him as well as Kolar grabbed Titanosaurus' tail and tossed her into her brother, sending them both crashing into the shelves again as Emma turned to them.
"Guys, time to show Kolar the boss level," Emma said as Titanosaurus sat up and nodded.
"Time to evolve."
"Go for it," Ben said as they both slapped their Ulimatrix symbols, which grew four spikes.
"Ultimate Four Arms!" the Evolved Tetramand shouted as his skin turned blue, his four arms grew to be as muscular as Humungousaur's, he grew much taller and his knuckles grew spikes.
"Ultimate Titanosaurus!" the evolved Vaxasaurian shouted as she looked exactly like her brother's except with red scales.
Ultimate Four Arms slammed the ground with each of his four hands, sending out a massive shockwave that knocked Kolar off his feet as Ultimate Titanosaurus shifted her hands into gattling guns as she fired out her bone missiles that all struck Kolar and detonated on impact.
"Enough!" Kolar shouted out as he grabbed Tack and held him up into the air. "Nobody move or I'll tear him in half."
"Let go of my cadet right now, Kolar!"
"Happily met, Magister," Kolar said as he pulled out a Null Void Projector. "But first, you're gonna do something for me."
Kolar blasted at the ground and opened a portal to the Null Void.
"You're gonna step into this space warp."
"And the other end leads where?" Hulka asked.
"A small sun in the Null Void. You won't feel a thing."
Becky then spied one of the blasters as she reached up on her tip toes to whisper to Ultimate Four Arms' ear with a nod.
"Tack, greet Kolar like you did with me," he said.
"What?" Tack asked.
"You know. With great respect," Ultimate Titanosaurus said through gritted teeth.
"Ah, headbutt!" Tack realized as he stretched his neck upwards and gave Kolar a wicked headbutt, causing Kolar to let go of him as he grabbed the rim of the portal, struggling to stay up.
Hulka leaped over the portal and gave Kolar a powerful uppercut, sending him sprawling backwards before reaching over to take Tack's hand ujust before he fell into the Null Void. Kolar tried sneaking up behind them, only for Becky to snare him with the claw cannon she spotted and everyone else grabbed onto her and pulled her back to force Kolar backwards as Kolar pulled them forwards. Fortunately, Hulka came in and sucker punched Kolar again, sending him hurtling down into the portal back to the Null Void as the portal closed.
"You... pushed him into a sun?" Gwen asked.
"I did not. I changed the arrival address to a Null Void penitentiary," Hulka explained. "Plumbers are law enforcement, not judges. Remember that."
"Yes, sir," Emma said as the twins changed back.
"Good day," Ben said. "We saved our instructors' life and we used Plumber tactics and weapons."
"But you still used your powers. Your entire family just can't resist improvising, can you?" Hulka asked.
"Nope," Jen said with a smirk and a fold of her arms.
"You two definitely have that naughty spark in you. Keep it," Hulka said.
"Will do," Ben said with a nod as Hulka left.
"Man, I hope this class is pass/fail," Kevin said.
Later, everyone was packing up their things to leave the academy as they looked over their scores.
"I can't believe I only scored a 98!" Gwen shouted.
"Out of a hundred, sis," Becky said as she showed her 94 score. "Try to unclench."
"It only takes a 72 to pass, which Kevin and I exceeded," Ally said. "How about you, Jen?"
"Ben and I got 95," Jen said. "People think we're not paying attention, but we are."
"My 98's starting to feel really weak," Gwen said. "What about you, Emma?"
"100," Emma said as everyone looked stunned.
"I just got schooled by a pre-schooler!" Gwen shouted in despair.
"Hey, I had good coaching," Emma said as Ben and Jen both rubbed her head playfully.
"To my considerable amazement, you all completed the course," Hulka said. "So it's official. You're all Plumbers."
"But we knew that already," Ben said. "So what you really came here for was to thank us for saving your life."
"Go on. It won't hurt," Jen said cheekily.
"... Your shuttle home leaves in five minuets," Hulka said sternly as he took off three medals and pinned them to Ben, Jen and Emma's chests before walking away.
"What's this for?" Ben asked.
"For demonstrating a Plumber's most essential attribute: to exercise latitude and creativity in problem solving. Whoa."
"Sounds like a thank you to me," Ally said as the Tennyson siblings all beamed proudly.
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