(The twins continued chasing the alien walk through the hallowed building as Blossom Rose put her hands on her dress and sighed, catching her breath as she and her brother split up.)
(Blossom Rose backed up slightly, looking for the alien and she suddenly backed into a man with black hair and a slightly grizzled face wearing a blue suit with heavy weaponry and they gasped.)
Both: "Who are you?!"
(They both exclaimed.)
The man: "Who am I? Who are you?"
(The man then used his blaster and fired at Blossom Rose, knocking her back into the desks and she breathed out as she fell into unconsciousness.)
The man: "Today's my lucky day. Two aliens for the price of one."
(he said.)
The man: "Just sit tight, Rosebud. I'll be back in a minute."
(He then chased the alien again, blasting his weapon at him and missing as Ripjaws snuck up to his sister and briefly patted her cheek as she groaned and he dropped a pitcher of water on her and her pores instantly soaked it up as she looked up at her brother and smiled.)
Blossom Rose: "Thanks, bro."
(she said in relief.)
Ripjaws: "You gotta love room service."
(he said to her.)
(The man looked around cautiously.)
(Unfortunately, the alien pushed a bookshelf on him, knocking him out as he groaned.)
(Fortunately, sneaking in the darkness, Blossom Rose wrapped the alien in vines and Ripjaws slammed a metal crate on top of him.)
Blossom Rose: "Not bad for a rosebud."
(Blossom Rose said with a smirk as the Omnitrixes started beeping down and they transformed back into their armored forms.)
Jen: "Um, gotta go."
(Jen said, mimicking Blossom Rose's voice.)
Ben: "Are you sure? You promised that you would show the media-"
Jen: "That'll have to wait for another day. We've to got to split."
(she said.)
(They then walked off, right before encountering their cousin and grandfather.)
Max: "Are you two alright?"
(Max asked as the twins removed the helmets from their battle armor and sighed as the pressure released.)
Ben: "Barely."
(Ben said as he held his helmet under his arm.)
Jen: "As if the rogue alien wasn't bad enough, some nutjob in here nearly roasted us."
(Jen said as she held her helmet under her arm.)
(The man then recovered as he rubbed his head, sore from where the bookshelf landed.)
(The twins quickly deactivated their armor before he saw them.)
(He looked over and his face beamed as his eyes landed on a familiar face.)
???: "Max?"
(he asked.)
Max: "Phil!"
(Max realized as he walked over and the two old friends hugged each other tightly.)
(The kids then looked on in shock at the two.)
Ben: "You know this guy, Grandpa?"
(Ben asked.)
Phil: "You can say that."
(Phil said.)
Phil: "We used to be partners back when this guy was still a Plumber."
Jen: "Nice to meet you."
(Jen said as she walked over and shook his hand as her brother followed.)
Jen: "We're his grandchildren. I'm Jen. This is my brother, Ben."
Phil: "Pleasure."
(he said as he shook their hand.)
Phil: "And who's this young lady?"
Gwen: "I'm their cousin Gwen."
(Gwen said as she shook Phil's hand as well.)
(They exited the building as the twins morphed back to their normal attire.)
(They then saw Phil packing up his blue car and the captured alien as he put his weapon inside.)
Phil: "Yeah, she's not much to look at."
(Phil admitted.)
Phil: "But it's better than that old Rust Bucket of an RV you used to drive."
Max: "So, how are you?"
(Max asked.)
Phil: "Pretty good considering I just bagged a Havok Beast."
(he said.)
Phil: "Seems like old times."
Jen: "You bagged it? It was Blossom-"
(Jen started before Max stopped her and walked over to his old partner.)
Max: "Havok Beast, huh?"
(Max asked.)
Max: "I haven't seen one of those since the one we caught terrorizing Denver years ago."
(As he said this, the Havok Beast rumbled around in the safe before Phil closed the trunk on it.)
Phil: "Yeah, well, good thing I was around. You know, once a Plumber, always a Plumber."
(Phil said.)
Phil: "You ever think about getting back in the game, Max? You know, relive the glory days?"
Max: "No thanks."
(Max said.)
Max: "I'm retired. And so are the Plumbers."
Phil: "Yeah, thanks to you."
(Phil said.)
Phil: "Once you put Vilgax out of the picture, the work just seemed to dry up."
Max: "I'm just doing my job."
Phil: "Yeah. Anyway, looks like things are picking back up again. I'm starting my own freelance Plumber business."
(His eyes then suddenly shot to the Omnitrixes around the twins' wrists and his eyes beamed.)
Phil: "Wow. Cool watch. They look so familiar."
Ben: "They ought to."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "They're the Omni-"
(Max then pushed his grandkids away to keep them from revealing their secret.)
Max: "Okay, we need to go. Nice catching up with you, Phil. Happy plumbing."
Jen: "I don't get it."
(Jen said as they drove down the road in the Rust Bucket.)
Jen: "How come you didn't tell Phil about the Omnitrixes?"
Max: "That's on a need-to-know basis only, guys."
(Max said.)
Max: "The less people need to know, the better."
Gwen: "Guess that's your answer to everything, isn't it, Grandpa?"
(Gwen asked.)
Ben: "Hey."
(Ben said as an idea came to his head.)
Ben: "Why don't we start up the Plumbers again? Us, you and Phil? We'd be super alien butt-kickers!"
Max: "Ben, I'm flattered you appreciate what I did, but you can't bring back the past."
(Suddenly, the computer system suddenly started ringing and Phil's image showed up.)
Phil: "Max."
(he said.)
Phil: "If you're out there, I need help. Two Vulpinmancers tearing up a meat factory plant on Highway 44!"
(Phil then hung up as Max got a surprised look on his face.)
Max: "Vulpinmancers?"
(He then made a legal U-Turn and headed towards Highway 44 to deal with the problem.)
Ben: "Alright! The Tennysons are back in Plumbing business!"
(Ben cheered.)
Jen: "Face it, Grandpa."
(Jen said as she smiled.)
Jen: "It's our destiny to be Plumbers someday."
(Max could only sigh as he drove on.)
(At the meat factory, the Rust Bucket parked close by and the Tennysons walked out before hearing a deep beastly growling from the inside and Gwen looked on nervously.)
Gwen: "I really don't like the sound of that."
(she said as her family walked in slowly towards the factory as the twins clutched their fists, ready to activate their armor at any minute.)
(They walked into the slaughterhouse to find Phil struggling to get up.)
Max: "Phil!"
(Max said as they walked towards him and helped him up.)
Phil: "Max."
(Phil said.)
Phil: "Thank goodness you showed up. Two aliens, nasty. We're going to need a bit of that old magic."
Jen: "No worries."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "We're on it."
(They then heard the growling intensify as they looked over to see two creatures that looked eerily similar to Wildmutt, but far more beastly with gaping mouths always open, showing their beastly fangs and long animalistic tongues.)
Gwen: "Friends of yours?"
(Gwen asked as the twins readied themselves for battle.)
Ben: "Wildmutts!"
(Ben exclaimed.)
Ben: "Maybe I can talk with them."
Max: "Ben-"
(Max warned, but it was too late and Ben slammed the core down.)
(The watch sank into his wrist, causing his veins to pulse and expand rapidly, until they reached his eye, which he clenched shut.)
(When he opened them again, they were fully orange.)
(Afterwards, orange fur sprouted all over his body, his teeth turned to fangs and he grew three gills on each side of his collar.)
(He stretched his three-fingered paw out and it sprouted black claws.)
(The watch's symbol was on his shoulder pad and he let out a roar as the transformation ended.)
Phil: "That's why I recognize those watches."
(Phil said.)
Phil: "They're the Omnitrixes."
(Wildmutt then nodded before walking over to the other Vulpinmancers and growled softly, only for the two aliens to roar in his face and start chasing him around the slaughterhouse as Jen rubbed her temples, annoyed from all the roaring.)
Jen: "What exactly did he say?"
(she asked.)
Max: "Vulpinmancers were never big for small talk, even with their own kind."
(Max explained.)
Jen: "Fine."
(Jen said as she activated her battle armor.)
Jen: "Never send a mutt to do a woman's job."
(Wildmutt sensed that one of the Vulpinmancers were about to pounce on him and he leaped onto a chain to safety as he hung onto it as Jen tackled the other Vulpinmancer, her strength, speed and endurance enhanced by her battle armor as she punched him in the face to stun it.l
Jen: "Bad dog!"
(she shouted.)
Jen: "Very bad dog!"
(She then surrounded it in a forcefield before tossing it aside to stun it before the other Vulpinmancer tackled her and tossed her onto the conveyer belt that lead to the meat shredder as she gasped once she realized where she was.)
(She tried to get up, but the Vulpinmancer had her pinned to the belt as it advanced towards the shredder and incinerator.)
Jen: "I'm done for!"
(she shouted before Phil rushed over to the controls and quickly stopped the belt before Wildmutt ran in and tackled the Vulpinmancer off of his sister as he growled at her.)
Jen: "Good dog."
(She then smiled and hopped onto her brother as he leaped off of the belt and she smiled at Phil.)
Jen: "Thanks for saving me."
Phil: "What are partners for?"
(The group then rushed for the exit, only to stop when they caught in the crossfire of the Vulpinmancer that Jen tossed aside.)
(They tried to turn around, only to come face-to-face with the other Vulpinmancer.)
Max: "We're surrounded!"
(Max shouted.)
Gwen: "Don't suppose you'd consider becoming vegetarians?"
(Gwen asked pathetically.)
(They were about to attack, but a sonic screech sounded throughout the room.)
(The frequency was enough so that humans couldn't hear it, but Vulpinmancers, Wildmutt included, could and they were incapacitated by the sound.)
(Phil held up a sonar device that emitted the screech and he nodded.)
Phil: "Sorry about that, Ben. Only way to bring down a Vulpinmancer."
Max: "Yeah."
(Max said.)
Max: "Lucky for us you had a sonic pitch whistle with you."
(Wildmutt whimpered and growled before the Omnitrix timed out and he turned back to Ben as Jen deactivated her armor and she patted his shoulder.)
Phil: "So, the stories are true."
(Phil realized.)
Phil: "The Omnitrixes really do exist. Hey Ben, Jen, pretty good moves out there. They remind me of your grandfather back in the day."
Benv "Really?"
(Ben asked admiringly.)
Jen: "I guess the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree after all."
(Jen said, beaming.)
Max: "Phil, look out!"
(Max warned as the Vulpinmancers went into a frenzy and swatted Phil aside before one of them crushed the whistle under its paw.)
(Max ran over to a forklift and engaged it into drive.)
Max: "Why don't you pick on someone with more meat on his bones?"
(He then rammed the forklift right into the two alien mutts and jumped out before it crashed into one of the coolers.)
(He recovered and saw them running towards him and he quickly pressed the switch that shut the fridge with the Vulpinmancers inside.)
Phil: "Just like old times, eh?"
(Phil asked, sticking his hand out to his old partner.)
Phil: "I think this is going to be the beginning of a new partnership."
(Max could only look at the hand, unsure.)
[To Be Continued...]