It's me again. Yeah. Today, we were on our way to a fishing pier. These first few lines are what happened the night before.
Me, Gwen, and Ben were outside near a lake. We had our bathing suits on. Max bought me a new one, since I didn't have one with me. It was black, and had silver stripes down both sides with red lines in between the silver ones. Ben had dived in.
Ben: "Ben Tennyson makes a perfect dive! All 10s! the crowd goes wild!"
Kyle: "Woo-hoo!! Go Ben, Go Ben!!" I looked at Gwen after that.
Gwen: "Way to go, dweeb."
Kyle: "Can you ever just be nice to Ben?"
Ben: "Yeah, Gwen. Lighten up."
Gwen: "Sorry. There are ugly fish there. And I do mean him."
Kyle: "Ugh… Could you go tomorrow without insulting him just once?"
Gwen: "I don't know… Not really."
Kyle: "How about if you do it for me?" I took in the fact she liked me a lot. Maybe adores me by now, considering what she does for me.
Gwen: "That I can do."
Kyle: "Now it's time for Fourarms to dive!" I dialed his shadow on it, and pressed down.
Gwen: "Take cover!!!" As Fourarms, I ran up, then jumped right before I got to the lake.
Ben: "MAN!!!!" He was swimming away as fast as he could.
Fourarms: "Cannon ball!!!" I wrapped myself up, and I made a huge splash. It blew Ben right out of the water, and into Gwen as she was running.
Gwen: "Get off!"
Ben: "I don't know…" I pulled my head out of the water, and was covered in seaweed.
Fourarms: "Ahh! That hits the spot. That was a 'seismic' splash. Woo-hoo!"
Gwen: "Oh… That was perfect!"
Ben: "Wait… Lake Monster!!!"
Gwen: "AHHHH!!!!" They ran into the RV.
Fourarms: "What's the problem?" I was about to come out, but something grabbed my leg, and pulled me in. It looked like a sea monster pulled me in. It had huge jaws, and was massive. I couldn't hold my breath as Fourarms, so I went Ripjaws, and bit what it wrapped around. It roared, and whipped me with a tentacle of some sort, right where my Omnitrix symbol was. It glowed yellow, while I flew out of the water, and landed on top of the RV.
Ripjaws: "That was a wild ride…" Max opened the door, and was holding a baseball bat.
Max: "Who's out there?" I slid down from the top of the RV.
Ripjaws: "Oh man…" I was then knocked unconscious, and reverted to normal. The Omnitrix was now yellow instead of its usual green, and then, a new shadow appeared in it. It was shaped like a lizard, but had two tentacles coming out of its head.
Max: "Oops. It's just Kyle!"
Gwen: "Just great! Ben!!"
Ben: "I'm sorry!"
Max: "Let's pull him in to the RV." They immediately put me on the couch, and Max started the RV up.
The next day…
I woke up to the smell of food.
Kyle: "Ouch… Huh?" The Omnitrix had the shadow on it. "Who's this guy?" I continued to ask myself.
Max: "Sorry about last night."
Kyle: "You mean you gave me this headache?"
Ben: "Yeah. He's sorry."
Kyle: "I get thrown out of a lake by a monster, then get hit on the back of the head, and all you can say is I'm sorry?"
Ben: "Yeah, pretty much, heh-heh."
Kyle: "Ouch… What's breakfast?"
Max: "Flodderworms."
Ben and Gwen: "EWW!!!"
Kyle: "Alrighty then." I had some while still sitting on the couch. "Mmm… Not half-bad."
Ben: "He has taste-buds of steel."
Kyle: "No. I have taste buds made out of Omnitrix." I showed it to him. The shadow was still displayed.
Ben: "An eleventh alien? When'd he get there?"
Kyle: "Oh, this? It appeared between the time I got hit with the baseball bat, and a lake monster threw me on the top of the RV."
Max: "A lake monster?"
Kyle: "It was something! I remember the symbol on Ripjaws' shoulder going yellow when it was hit really hard by that thing."
Max: "I guess the Omnitrix absorbs new DNA if it has been struck at by a new species."
Kyle: "And this thing was huge!"
Gwen: "Maybe you shouldn't use that form. Even you don't know what it is."
Kyle: "I know…" I pressed the button, and the faceplate went down, showing no shadows at all.
On Vilgax's ship…
Robot: "Oh. This is new."
Vilgax: "What?"
Robot: "The Omnitrix has absorbed another DNA sample."
Vilgax: "Bringing the count to 1,000,904."
Robot: "And this one seems formidable."
Vilgax: "Don't send anything down yet. I wish to see it in action first…"
Robot: "Of course."
Back down with us…
We headed into a pier, because Max chartered a boat from a guy called 'Shaw.' I was looking at the Omnitrix, trying to figure out what the heck it was.
Gwen: "What's wrong?"
Kyle: "I'm trying to think about what it can do. It's obviously a water alien, and is huge, so it's pretty strong, but I don't know anything else."
Ben: "I got a name for it."
Kyle: "Okay. What?"
Ben: "Nessy."
Kyle: "Nessy? This isn't Scotland."
Gwen: "Yeah. It isn't."
Kyle: "You actually went through with my suggestion? Wow."
Gwen: "Well…"
Ben: "Well, big lake monster, Loch Ness Monster, come on."
Kyle: "Yet, there is no better name for 'her.' Nessy it is, then."
Max: "Kids! Ready to start?"
Gwen: "Yeah!"
Kyle: "What're we doing anyway, Max?"
Max: "We're going on a fishing trip."
Kyle: "Fishing? Cool." I've been fishing in North Carolina before, do I knew what it was like.
Ben: "I'm in."
Gwen: "Count me out. I'll wait here."
Kyle: "Why?"
Ben: "The worms…"
Kyle: "Oh. Seeya then, Gwen."
Gwen: "Okay." Max, Ben, and I got on the boat, and saw an older looking guy, but clearly still able to see and walk well enough.
Max: "Are you Captain Shaw?"
Man: "Yes I am, sir."
Max: "We're the Tennysons, and we chartered your boat for some fishing today."
Shaw: "Very well. Let's go." He seemed alright. We all put on lifejackets before the boat started, and we went out into the lake. I kept a very close watch on the surface of the water for bubbles. Max was fishing out, and Ben was just lying back in the sun.
Shaw: "You okay, boy?" Me and Ben looked up at him.
Shaw: "The blonde."
Kyle: "Yeah. Just watching for the lake monster that got me last night."
Shaw: "You met the Krakken and lived?"
Kyle: "The Krakken?"
Shaw: "I commend your bravery, boy. I'm proud to have you aboard my ship."
Kyle: "Thanks. You've met it and lived, too?"
Shaw: "Aye. I can take you to where I met her."
Kyle: "It's a girl?"
Shaw: "'Tis true."
Max: "I got a bite!" He reeled it in, and it was a pretty decent sized fish. He put it in a bucket.
Shaw: "Max. You want to go out further?"
Max: "Okay. No problem. He pulled the lure out, and lied back like Ben was doing. I kept my eyes on the water at all times.
Shaw: "Be wise, lad. We could run into it at any given time."
Kyle: "I know. But I'm ready for her this time."
I turned the dial to Nessy, aka the Krakken.
Shaw: "So am I." He pulled out a harpoon gun. "So am I, boy."
Kyle: "Nice." I admired the sharpness of the harpoon.
Shaw: "She's a beaut, ain't she?"
Kyle: "If I ever saw one, ."
Shaw: "Captain Shaw."
Kyle: "Captain Shaw. Excuse my rudeness."
Shaw: "Whatever." He stopped, and Max put the reel back out. Ben put his out, and I kept an eye on the water, and my hand on the Omnitrix, ready to go Nessy whenever she showed up.
15 minutes later…
Kyle: "This is getting boring. I'll just look for it myself." I turned the dial to Ripjaws, and was about to slap it down, when we heard a Megaphone.
Megaphone: "Leave this lake now! It is under the protection of the government for underwater studies!"
I was startled, and turned it off again.
Shaw: "What gives?"
Kyle: "Yeah."
Guy with megaphone: "I am Jonah Melville! This section of the lake is being used to study the fishes. Evacuate all boats currently out in the water."
Kyle: "No. We can't, Jonah."
Jonah (removing the Megaphone): "Why?"
Kyle: "We have to get the Krakken."
Jonah laughed, and some of his crewmates also laughed with him.
Kyle: "Hey! I'm serious!"
Shaw: "Yes. He is. I've seen it meself."
Jonah: "We've looked everywhere in this lake, and we have never seen a Krakken, or anything even slightly resembling it. Trust me. The water is completely safe."
Kyle: "It isn't! You'll all be eaten alive!"
Shaw: "Let those fish-huggers have their way."
Kyle: "But…" He winked at me, and I smiled, and nodded.
Max: "At least Ben and I caught some decent amount of fish."
Shaw: "25. Must really be bitin'."
Jonah: "And you should be bitin' land. Now."
Kyle: "Fine." We were about to start heading back, and the other people on fishing boats were preparing to leave, when… the Krakken actually showed up. Many boats were overturned. It roared loudly.
Ben: "Oh no! Kyle!"
Kyle: "I know Ben! Goin' XLR8!" I became him, then jumped on the water, and ran right over it. I grabbed two people at a time, and got them all back to land, when I noticed that the Krakken was starting to attack Jonah's boat.
Kyle: "Oh man!!" I became Heatblast, launched myself up, on a column of fire like a surfboard, and started throwing fireballs at it. It turned to see me doing it, and whapped me with a tentacle on its head. I became Ripjaws so I'd land safely, and bit on the Krakken's front leg, and it flailed around. I latched on to its body, and started biting, but, it actually flung me off after it shook its whole body around. I went XLR8 again, ran onto Jonah's boat, because the Krakken was still going for it, and I kicked its face over and over again. The Krakken backed off, and dove back underwater as a result of it.
Jonah: "Whoo. That was a close one. You were right about the Krakken."
XLR8: "What was in those boxes that made the Krakken attack them you guys instead of the other people?"
Crewmate: "Our lunch."
XLR8: "What? It tried to kill you for sandwiches? You think there's enough fish in the sea."
Jonah: "Yes. And we're Friends of Fish. That's the organization me and my crewmates here are apart of."
XLR8: "I have an idea. I'd like to request clearance to hunt the Krakken down, and kill it. For good. You can then do your studies in peace."
Jonah: "I can't do that, kid."
XLR8: "Why not? I'm a superhero."
Jonah: "Still, this is government business. It'd be hard to squeeze you in to the plans. You understand, right?"
XLR8: "Not totally. Look, I'll check in every once in a while to make sure the Krakken causes little trouble."
Jonah: "I understand, but…"
XLR8: "Fine. I'll go." I ran back to Shaw's boat, and we headed back. I reverted to normal.
Shaw: "Remember. We go out tonight. Okay, lad?"
Kyle: "Right, Captain." We left the boat, and waved bye to Shaw.
Gwen: "25?"
Max: "Really biting today. This is for dinner tonight."
Ben: "I thought that was octopus tentacles."
Max: "Fishes are the side-dish."
Kyle: "I can dig that."
Max: "Listen. Kyle."
Kyle: "What is it?"
Max: "I know you want to be the hero here, but, this one's gonna have to slip through your fingers."
Kyle: "Aw, come on!"
Max: "I don't like it either, but the government has sanctioned this area. We can't go off and just search without a CIA or FBI badge."
Kyle: "What about a Plumber's badge?"
Max: "Not this time. We are a Plumber unit on patrol, but we don't have a proper license."
Kyle: "Oh…so, Jonah's gonna have to deal with this on his own, then?"
Max: "As much as I regret to say it, yes."
Gwen: "But, Grandpa, he can't do it alone! And we can use its own powers against it!"
Ben: "Yeah, Grandpa!"
Max: 'I'm sorry, but not this time. We leave at daybreak tomorrow."
Kyle: "Can I at least say by to Shaw before I go?"
Max: "Yes, you may. Why?"
Kyle: "I kinda like the dude." I ran off towards his boat, where he was setting up his harpoon gun and scuba gear.
Shaw: "Hey, first-mate."
Kyle: "First-mate?"
Shaw: "You're my right hand man on this fishing trip."
Kyle: "Got it."
Shaw: "And we're going to need your fish form."
Kyle: "I know. I'm ready to back you up any time, man."
He set the boat out, and we got to the same point where Jonah stopped us the first time. Shaw had his scuba gear on, and his harpoon gun. I became Ripjaws for him.
Ripjaws: "Ready, Captain?"
Shaw: "What're we waiting fer?" We dived down into the water. I used Ripjaws'power to turn his legs into a giant fish tail. It looked beautiful. Fishes swimming everywhere, some lake-floor rocks, and a sunken boat was also there.
Ripjaws: "Underwater's a beaut, ain't she?" Shaw nodded. I knew he couldn't talk through the Scuba gear, so I knew why he did that.
Shaw pointed to some orange spheres. I nodded, and swam to them.
Ripjaws: "Eggs. I think." I picked it up, then heard a roar. The Krakken came out from under the boat wreckage. Shaw fired his harpoon, but it failed. She head-butted Shaw, and I bit one of the tentacles on her face. She flung me off. Shaw swam for cover, and I knew he had to, because without his harpoon, he really wasn't too much. I tried to scratch at it's eye, but it whipped me away with its tentacles again.
Ripjaws: "Well… This is gonna be hard as Ripjaws. Going Nessy!" I became the Krakken, and roared at the real one.
Shaw looked in disbelief, but the difference between me and her was the Omnitrix symbol on my forehead. We had an underwater brawl that was noticeably epic. It went blow-for-blow. Until Shaw motioned for me to leave, because he noticed another boat heading towards his. I nodded, and swam towards him, then went Ripjaws. The Krakken chased after us, but I directed her into a rock, where she ran into, and stunned herself. We jumped back on to the boat, and found Jonah there.
Jonah: "I thought I said, no other boats but mine on this lake until the studies were done." His crewmates were each armed with a pistol. There were 5 of them.
Shaw: "We were trying to do you a favor."
Ripjaws: "Yeah, man! Lay off!"
Shaw: "Heh. You really believed my study story?"
Ripjaws: "What are you then?"
Jonah: "An auctioneer of endangered species. I believe in the Krakken alright, and now, I'm gonna kill her, and sell her for an amazingly high price!"
Ripjaws: "Wait! Were those boxes really her other eggs?"
Jonah: "Of course, numbnut." I became Diamondhead.
Diamondhead: "You piece of s***!"
Jonah: "Get them!" His crewmates fired on me, but every bullet proved useless.
Jonah: "Impossible!"
Diamondhead: "Not if you're made of diamonds, it isn't."
Shaw was trying to fight off some of the other crewmates with an oar, but one finally knocked him out, and took him with them. I was too busy fighting off some of the other guys, though to really notice. One set a bomb on the boat.
Diamondhead: "No! You're going to blow this thing up?"
Jonah pushed a button, and the boat exploded. I was sent flying up, changed into Stinkfly, and went after his boat at top speed.
Crewmate: "He's still after us, sir!"
Jonah: "Shoot it!" they got a harpoon, and shot, but missed. I shot slime onto the boat, it stuck, and I pulled myself in like I was on a web strand.
Jonah: "No…" I then went Upgrade. I shot an eye beam, which knocked out some crewmates, and then grew spikes on my arms, stretched them out to 20 feet, and whipped them all around, knocking many of the others of the boat.
Upgrade: "Your time is up, Jonah! Stop what you're doing right now, and I promise not to kick your butt."
Jonah: "That would be good, but, I have other plans now." He pushed a button, which launched me, and the unconscious Shaw, up into the air. I went Stinkfly again, and flew back to land. Shaw woke up, and I became normal again.
Shaw: "What exactly happened?"
Kyle: "Jonah tried to kidnap you, and I saved you. And now, I have to get the Krakken's eggs back from them."
Shaw: "Her eggs? What's that got to do with this?"
Kyle: "She wouldn't be attacking if her 3 eggs weren't stolen. I'm gonna stop Jonah."
Shaw: "Let's go, then!"
Kyle: "They blew up your boat, dude."
Shaw: "Fish-huggers!"
Max: "There you are, Kyle."
Kyle: "Max, Gwen, Ben, um…"
Max: "I know. We looked up Jonah Melville. He auctions endangered species to get money. And he'll get anything to make him rich."
Gwen: "You were right to be suspicious of him."
Ben: "Yeah. You figured it out before we did."
Kyle: "Well, I'm going to get us there."
Shaw: "We'll use my rowboat!"
Kyle: "I'm sorry Captain, but you're going to have to lay here for a while. Gwen, Ben, Max, and I can do it ourselves."
Shaw: "Well, give those fish-huggers a beating they won't forget." I got Nessy's shadow on when he finished his sentence.
Kyle: "Don't worry, Shaw." I hit the faceplate down, and became her. I roared, and got into the water. Max, Ben, and Gwen hopped on my back, and I swam off into the direction he went in, until we found a cannery.
Max: "There! Let's go in there." I sunk deeper down, so Jonah couldn't see us. They held on to back and held their breath as I did it. I resurfaced under the cannery where a ladder was.
Ben: "Jackpot!"
Gwen: "Cool!"
Max: "You try to find the eggs. We'll clear out the place." I nodded, and submerged completely again. They finished climbing the ladder, when two guys blocked their path.
Max: "We have company."
Gwen entered a karate stance, and Ben also did. They ran to attack them, but Gwen and Ben managed to stop them. Max threw them overboard.
Gwen: "Well Ben, you have moves, too. I guess you're not a dweeb after all."
Ben: "Well, I thought I'd, uh, you know, learn your moves."
Gwen: "I'm sorry for calling you a dweeb or doofus all the time. You're actually skilled."
Max: "Kids!"
Ben and Gwen: "Oh, right." They followed him, and Ben said, "Apology accepted, Gwen."
I became Ripjaws, and started climbing up one of the wooden poles to the top floor. A guy spotted me.
Guard: "Hey! You're not supposed to be here!"
Ripjaws: "You're going down!" I went Wildmutt, and knocked him overboard. I then went XLR8, and zoomed around at a faster speed.
Jonah was loading up the eggs onto a boat. He was in a mini-sub with arms, dropping them in. The Krakken showed up, and went berserk on him. He tried fighting it with missiles he installed in, but all they did was stun it. The others found Jonah doing it, after knocking down a few more idiotic guards.
Jonah: "Where's good help these days?"
Ben: "Not here, that's for sure."
I zoomed in.
Gwen: "Kyle!"
XLR8: "She's pissed right now, huh?"
Max: "Pretty." I became Ripjaws.
Ripjaws: "I'm taking this underwater." I jumped, and got on the front of the sub.
Jonah: "You punk!"
Ripjaws: "Punk? Look who's talking!" He dropped the sub underwater, and shot out torpedoes. They exploded, and I was sent back a few inches. I then swam at him, and bit one of the arms off. He sent out an electric surge at me, and I jumped off, shrugging off the shock. The Krakken tail-whipped the sub, and it slammed into a rock wall, opening it up. Jonah swam out, and took out a knife to stab the Krakken, but the knife broke. The Krakken roared. I swam back up, and got its eggs back by knocking over the cargo on top of the boat. The Krakken happily grabbed them, and swum away. I looked at Jonah, and he shrugged. I socked him in the face, and hung him on a rock.
Ripjaws: "Now, wait for the cops to pick you up, because a nice dry cell's waitin' for ya." I became Nessy, and picked up Ben, Gwen, and Max. Shaw came with the police, seemingly, and they got him on to the boat.
I swam back, and they slid down the back of my neck. I swam onto the shore, and changed back to normal.
Kyle: "The Krakken shouldn't be bothering people anymore."
Shaw: "You got that right, lad."
Jonah was cuffed by cops.
Jonah: "I will have my revenge, kid! Count on it!"
Kyle: "As if, fish-hugger."
Shaw: "More like fish-seller."
Kyle: "I hear ya, Captain."
Shaw: "Now what are ya gonna do, lad?"
Kyle: "Go on, I guess."
Shaw: "I want you to have this." It was a fishing lure.
Kyle: "Why this?"
Shaw: "It was my first fishing lure from when I was a wee boy fishin' with my Pop. It's never failed me, and it shouldn't for you either. Or, you can keep it just to think o' me."
Kyle: "Wow. Such a valuable gift needs to be treasured. Thank you."
Shaw: "Just to tell ye, though, I'm not usually this friendly. You were the only one besides me who believed the Krakken was real, so I felt a sort of good friendship. Don't tell the others I did this. I don't want them to know I got soft over the years, ya know?"
Kyle: "Okay, Captain."
Max: "Ready yet. Kyle?"
Kyle: "I guess so. Bye, Captain!" I waved.
Shaw: "Are ya sure the Krakken won't be showin' up any time soon?"
Kyle: "I'm sure!"
Shaw: "Goodbye, lad! Good luck on your travels!"
The End. Will Nessy ever be useful again for me? We'll find out on the next chapter.
Author's Note: I always liked the Krakken on the show, and I wanted it to be on the watch, so, yeah. Tell me your opinion on that.