Now, we were at a gas station, filling up the RV with gas. I was leaning against it, trying to figure out my new form on the watch. Obviously it could fly, and it looked strong, but what I was afraid of was the fact I got it after Kevin touched the Omnitrix. What could possibly be so troublesome about it? I looked at it almost all the time since I got it, wondering what would happen if I used it. Gwen was looking at me from the front half of the RV, while I was on the back.
Gwen: "Kyle?"
Kyle: "What is it, Gwen?"
Gwen: "You've been looking at that thing for awhile. Is there something wrong with it?"
Kyle: "Maybe. I got it after Kevin touched the watch."
Gwen: "It absorbed his DNA? That doesn't look like him in the least."
Kyle: "He absorbed the watch's power, and it probably merged with his DNA. The Omnitrix absorbed the resulting form, I guess."
Gwen: "That still doesn't say why you are afraid of becoming this thing."
Kyle: "I know, but… when I do become an alien, I feel like someone else is there, helping me use it. If this is from Kevin, then… I don't want to be evil like him."
Gwen: "Oh. I see."
Max: "Ah… Ben?"
Ben: "What?" Max pointed to the RV. In the window, it clearly said, "Wash Me" with some smiley faces around it.
Max: "Well, Ben, that's some nice artwork."
Ben: "Thanks, Grandpa."
Max: "But, Kyle hasn't said anything much since he fought Kevin. Did Kevin give him nightmares?"
Ben: "Nah. He's just out of it is all."
Max: "I hope that's it."
Gwen: "Look, Kyle, it isn't the end of the world because you got this form." She pointed to the shadow.
Kyle: "I know, Gwen, but… What if there's a time none of my other aliens will work against something and I have to use this?"
Gwen: "Then you use it. No biggie."
Kyle: "I just hope it doesn't make me evil." Just then, an explosion was heard.
Gwen: "What the heck?" An armored truck got blown up, and we saw three people on motorcycles. One had a blaster.
Kyle: "I'm going hero. Gwen, hide."
Gwen: "You don't need to tell me twice!" She ran in to the RV, and I turned the watch to Fourarms, and I became him. I jumped into the air, and slammed them down of the bikes. Two of them charged towards me, but I easily threw them aside. The last one shot another laser, but I dodged it, and grabbed the blaster, and ripped it in half. The person grabbed a chain, and lassoed one of my arms, but I pulled the person up, and socked them in the helmet. The other two grabbed some pistols, and shot, but each shot jumped off my skin, making only tiny cracks. I ran for them, and slammed them into the ground. I then transformed into Stinkfly, and shot some super adhesive goop to keep them held down. The last one charged at me with a crowbar, but I went Wildmutt, jumped over it, and slammed the person against the wall. The person then dropped the crowbar. I went Fourarms, and pulled the helmets off of two of them, showing that they were girls.
Fourarms: "This is new." I was shot in the back by another blaster, by the third person, who was also shown to be a woman.
Joey (girl's name): "What? You never fought girls before?" I went XLR8, zoomed towards her, grabbed the blaster, and threw it to the ground, where I went Diamondhead to step on it.
Joey: "No!" Just then, two robot drones flew out of nowhere, and shot at me. I shot Diamond shards at the both of them, destroying them.
Diamondhead: "Any last words before you go to jail, lady?"
Joey: "Yes!" She pulled out another blaster, and fired right above the RV, sending the whole structure to be falling down upon it. I ran over, and caught the ceiling just in time, unfortunately, letting Joey escape. And another unfortunately thing was, Max could not be saved in time by me.
Gwen: "Grandpa?"
Ben: "We need to call 9-1-1!"
Diamondhead: "No time! There's a hospital nearby. I'll get us there." I went Fourarms, and grabbed Ben, Gwen, and Max, and started hopping towards the hospital. When we got there, though, things could have been better for him.
Doctor: "He has a concussion, several lacerations, and a broken leg. He'll be here for a few days. And he was hit by a… big rock. Did someone hurl a boulder at him?"
Ben: "Actually, the ceiling from the top of a gas station hit him."
Doctor: "Oh, kids. Having a good imagination helps you cope with things."
Kyle: "But, he's okay?"
Doctor: "Yes. He's strong for someone his age. I'll check up on him later."
Gwen: "Good." The doctor left the room.
Kyle: "Great. If only I…"
Gwen: "We didn't think you being Diamondhead wouldn't be strong enough to save him from the crumbling ceiling. It wasn't your fault."
Kyle: "Yes it is, Gwen. I could've done something! But, I didn't see that…"
Ben: "The doctor said he'll be okay. Don't worry."
Kyle: "I know." I covered my face with my hands.
Gwen sat right next to me, and Ben was right next to Max's bed, still looking worried for him, as we all were.
Out at the wreckage, Joey was still there, and she was looking through the wreckage of the robot drones.
Joey: "Where'd these freaks come from?" She picked up a head, and it inserted something into the back of her neck. It triggered a transformation, and she looked like a cyborg version of herself.
Rojo: "This is new."
Cops: "Freeze! You're coming with us!"
Rojo: "I already did my time!" Two laser pods extended from her shoulders, and she destroyed the cars. The cops fled the scene.
Rojo: "Sweet." She flew out to steal some jewels with her new powers.
Rojo: "Give me the loot! NOW!!" She was given jewels, but she easily cracked them in her bladed fingers.
Voice: "This is not what you are designed to do!!! Deliver the Omnitrix to me!!!" She looked like she was having a seizure on the outside. We go to inside her mind, and see Vilgax.
Vilgax: "Deliver the Omnitrix to me, or you lose your meaningless life in a heartbeat!"
Rojo: "Get out of my head!"
Vilgax: "You will carry out your programming you worthless excuse for a criminal!"
Rojo: "I work for me, and me alone, squid-face!"
Vilgax: "You will regret those words very soon, I promise you." She got a huge shock to her system.
Vilgax: "Defy my orders, and you will die!"
Rojo: "Fine. What do you want from me?"
Vilgax: "Were you not listening?"
Rojo: "The Omnitrix? How am I supposed to find the damn thing?" (Author's Note: Rated K+ for minor cursing, but nothing T-worthy, I think.)
Vilgax: "Excellent. You have the programming to find it, now do it!"
Rojo: "Yes." She snapped back to reality, and flew out to search for it.
Back at the hospital, I was looking back at Max's body, with Gwen's hand on my back.
Gwen: "He'll be okay. Trust me. I've never steered you wrong before, Kyle."
Kyle: "Yeah. I know, Gwen." I still sounded disappointed in myself.
Gwen: "Well, Ben and I were talking earlier about the bad guys you took down, and Ben said you shouldn't have been kicking those girls' butts."
Kyle: "They deserved it. In the hero biz, it doesn't matter if your enemy is a boy, girl, man, or woman. You kick their butts."
Gwen: "That's what I told him. He still doesn't believe me."
Kyle: "Well, that's just how it works." I walked out of the room, and turned the Omnitrix on.
Gwen: "What are you doing, Kyle?"
Kyle: "I'm gonna go Ghostfreak. Get in his mind, hopefully wake him up."
Gwen: "I wouldn't."
Kyle: "Why? Should I go Upgrade on his life reading system and wake him up that way? That's just gonna hurt him."
Gwen: "Let him recover normally. Who knows what kind of side effect Ghostfreak would have on Grandpa?"
Kyle: "But… I have to do something for him." I slammed the faceplate down, and went Ghostfreak.
Gwen: "Fine, but be careful. Please. For Grandpa's sake."
Ghostfreak: "I will, Gwen." I was about to go into his mind, when I heard an explosion outside. I grabbed Gwen immediately, and flew outside with intangibility with her.
Gwen: "What was that?" I put her down as she said this.
Ghostfreak: "I don't know, but I'll deal with it." I turned invisible, and started searching for the source of the explosion. Some rocks were falling down in an avalanche onto the hospital. I went Diamondhead, and created a diamond wall to stop the rocks, but they all turned towards a bridge in progress. I went XLR8, zoomed past the rocks, then went Heatblast to create a path for all of the rocks to fall down through.
Rojo: "Gotcha!!" She flew at me, and caught me. I created a fire shield around me to blow her off me, then I created a flameboard to ride on. She continued on this by shooting lasers at me. I dodged each one, sometimes throwing fireballs back at her. At one point, I disappeared with an explosion, which sent me flying over her, then I went Grey Matter, and landed on her back, climbing along the back of it. She found me, and grabbed me, but I then turned Stinkfly, and sprayed goop in her face, blinding her, tackled her, then sped towards the ground. I then went Diamondhead, and this slammed her into the ground at maximum force. She threw me off, and continued to shoot lasers at me. I deflected each one in different directions, then went XLR8, zoomed towards her, and she tried taking off into the air again, but I jumped, and went Fourarms, and slammed her into the ground again. I was to big for her to throw off, and she kept taking my brutal punch attacks, until she shot lasers at me at point-blank range, then I backed up a bit, and she was slashing at me with her claws. I went Diamondhead, turned my fingers into claws, and we started having a 'claw-fight'. She punched me, then I kicked her, sending her flying off a bit, then I went Buzzshock, and sent electricity flying at her. She nearly short circuited, but shook off some of the shock, and started shooting at me again. I dodged each shot.
Buzzshock: "Geez. You're a lousy shot." She growled, then started charging at me. She kept trying to slash at me, but I dodged each slice through the air, then placed my hand on her back, and sent another surge of electricity through her. She fell to the ground at that much electric force.
Buzzshock: "Being a cyborg doesn't really help you against me."
Rojo: "You are as annoying as hell!" She scratched at me, but I dodged by flying up. She tried activating her flying power, but could not fly up really high. I was about to charge one more electric surge at her, when I saw a truck leaking oil right near her. I went Heatblast, then snapped my fingers. This sent some fire near the truck, and the truck exploded, sending her flying off. I took off back to the hospital, and saw Gwen still waiting outside.
Gwen: "How'd it go?"
Heatblast: "Not bad at all. I owned her."
Gwen: "Well, let's get back in." I went Ghostfreak, and phased us both through the wall up to Max's room. He was awake.
Max: "I saw your fight in the news, Kyle." I reverted to normal.
Kyle: "I know. I was awesome."
Ben: "As usual."
Max: "But, are you sure you finished her?"
Kyle: "Pretty. I don't see how she could get back up after being short circuited, and launched into the air into some jagged rock."
Max: "Good."
Ben: "You're still as awesome as ever."
Kyle: "Max, I'm…"
Max: "Save it. You really couldn't stop the ceiling from hitting me."
Kyle: "I know, but, I'm a superhero, and…"
Max: "If I know everything from being a Plumber, it's this. You can save some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time."
Kyle: "Of course."
Back with Rojo, who apparently survived.
Rojo: "That was way too hard! I can't beat him! Not as long as he can turn into that electric guy."
Vilgax: "You will defeat him, and bring him to me, dead or alive!!!"
Rojo: "I'm out."
Vilgax: "I can end your life as quickly as I want to! Now fulfill your programming!"
Rojo: "AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!" She was being shocked by the program Vilgax installed.
Rojo: "Fine. I will."
Vilgax: "Now, get him to come to you!"
Later, everyone besides me was asleep. I finished writing a note, then went Ghostfreak, and phased out of the hospital.
Ghostfreak: "I knew it was kind of a bad idea to go with the Tennysons, but now, I have to go and find her myself, and see if she isn't finshed. Good bye, Ben, Max, and… Gwen. There will probably be a slim chance I'll ever see you guys again." I continued into the sky, turning invisible as well as intangible to search for Rojo at night. Gwen then woke up at the hospital to find the note.
Gwen: "Dear Ben, Gwen, and Max, I left to go after the bad guys myself. I don't want to get you guys in more danger than you need to be in. I'll find you guys when I finish off the guy sending out these robots at us so I can be sure you'll be in as little danger as possible. Don't try and look for me. Please, stay right where you guys are until Max heals up. Do NOT attempt to look for me. I cannot stress this enough, signed, you guys' best friend, Kyle.
P.S. Gwen, don't take this the wrong way. I'm just doing this to protect you as a boyfriend, if you consider yourself my girlfriend. If not, then disregard this part."
Gwen: "Oh no! I have to go get him!" She ran out of the room, taking the note with her, and putting it in her pocket. She found some ambulances loading up with stuff, and ran into one. She stayed very well hidden under a low shelf. I had found some tanks in the road shooting at something, and went down lower to see what it was. It turned out to be Rojo.
Ghostfreak: "Finally!" I turned Heatblast, and shot her with a stream of fire. She shot lasers at me, stopping it, and ran for me to smash me. I went XLR8 to dodge her attack, then jumped up, and repeatedly kicked her. She grabbed my tail, and threw me. To this, I went Wildmutt, grabbed a streetlight, spun around, and came back. I slammed into her as a ball, then went Fourarms to slam her harder into the ground. She got up, and we started swinging our fists at each other. She was hitting me more than I was hitting her, so I went Diamondhead, and turned out doing more damage to her, because I couldn't feel a thing from little punches from her. She kicked me in the groin, then punched me to the ground. She tried using her lasers, but I went Paraslime to sink under and around her. I then turned Heatblast, and shot more fire at her. She ran right through the fire, and slammed me into the sky. I shot myself back down, then went Diamondhead in a diving pose with both hands in front of me. I did exactly as I wanted, and slammed her like a meteor. We were deep into the ground, then some fire shot up from the crater, making her land one the ground, looking very severely beaten down. I came out as Heatblast.
Heatblast: "Why won't you just give up?"
Rojo: "I can't. Not until you're dead!" She shot her lasers at me, and sent me flying a few feet. But I quickly recovered, and went XLR8, zooming towards her, then running around her in a tornado, punching and kicking her, with tail whips going at her. She finally caught my tail at one point, and I went Buzzshock, and short circuited her.
Rojo: "Not you again…"
Buzzshock: "Oh yeah, tuts! It's me! Buzzshock!!!" I sent another electic pulse at her, and she couldn't even move, so I decided one more shot would finish her, when I saw an ambulance come up. Gwen got out of it, and started rushing in.
Gwen: "Kyle!" I went XLR8 again, then grabbed her, and hid in an alley nearby.
XLR8: "What the heck are you doing here, Gwen? You're in danger!"
Gwen: "I'm your partner! You can't just leave me like that!"
XLR8: "I know we're partners, but…"
Gwen: "Don't give me that crap right now! You acknowledged me as your girlfriend, so the least I can do is be right by your side in your fights! Like I said from the get-go Kyle, 100% of the way!"
XLR8: "Heh. You're right. 100%. I forgot about that, didn't I?"
Gwen: "Yes. You did."
XLR8: "But what about Ben and Max?"
Gwen: "They're still sleeping as far as I know."
XLR8: "Well, I need to get you to a safer place." Some laser fire went off near us.
Rojo: "Looks like hero-boy has a girlfriend. Hope you don't mind me butting in!!" She shot more lasers at us from the air. I quickly grabbed Gwen again, and zoomed off to safety. I found a gym, ran in there, set her down, and changed back.
Gwen: "She found us! How?"
Kyle: "I didn't shock her that bad, I guess. Oh man! We're toast now!"
Gwen: "Why?"
Kyle: "Because, as badly as I can own her, she doesn't seem to die! Or at least stop!"
Gwen grabbed her cell phone, and started dialing.
Kyle: "Who could you be calling?"
Gwen: "Grandpa."
Kyle: "Okay… but hurry! She's close!"
AT the hospital… The phone next to Max's bed was ringing.
Max: "*Yawn!* Who could it be at this hour?" He picked it up.
Max: "Max Tennyson here, who is this?"
Gwen: "It's me, Grandpa!"
Max: "Gwen!" He looked next to him, and saw Gwen wasn't there. "Where are you?" He continued.
Gwen: "I'm trying to help Kyle beat his robot-girl enemy. She seems to be indestructible, no matter what Kyle throws at her."
Max: "Hand your phone to Kyle."
Gwen: "Okay." She handed it to me.
Kyle: "Hello, Max."
Max: "I thought you killed her."
Kyle: "Well… something went off in my head and I went to check it out. She's still alive. I've tried every good move I have on her. Even my Heatblast-Diamondhead meteor smash combo! She was still alive!"
Max: "Try taking her out on the inside. Not the outside."
Kyle: "Oh… You mean…"
Max: "Upgrade. Yes."
Kyle: "Okay. We'll see you later, okay, Max?"
Max: "Alright. But please bring Gwen back soon."
Kyle: "Bye."
Max: "Bye… *YAWN!*" He hung up, and I gave it back to Gwen.
Kyle: "Gwen… as soon as I activate the watch, hide."
Gwen: "Don't worry." I hit the turn on button, and she immediately started attacking the ceiling. Gwen ran as fast as she could, and I turned the watch to Upgrade, then hit it down, becoming him.
Upgrade: "Let's do this, robo-geek!" I went into puddle form and started slithering along the ground. She blew a hole in the ceiling, and said, "I know you're in here!" She started randomly shooting things.
I merged with some weight equipment, and fired a 100 pound weight at her head. She fell over, then shot a laser from behind her. I separated, and went puddle mode again to hide from her.
Rojo: "Hit-and-run, eh? That's not your style, kid!"
Upgarde: "Maybe! But, it's working well so far!"
Rojo: "AGGHH!" She started randomly shooting lasers again. One almost hit me, then I returned fire with an Upgrade eye blast. She turned around, and fired in my direction, in which I was already moving to get closer behind her. She looked confused about where to shoot next. I got behind her successfully, went normal Upgrade, and jumped on her, merging with her body. In her head, I saw Vilgax.
Vilgax: "Remember this message, scum! Be very afraid of me! I will find you, and kill you!"
Upgrade: "Who are you?"
Vilgax: "I am Vilgax, the most wanted alien in the universe! I have done so many bad things even I can't remember what they all are. And I want the Omnitrix to use for myself!"
Upgrade: "Sorry. Not gonna happen."
Vilgax: "Then you will die!" His mouth opened up, and ate me, then I was thrown off of her, and sunk to the ground, slightly dazed and scared at the same time. Vilgax was so terrifying in real-life style!
Rojo: "I finally found you, kid!" She grabbed me, but I regained control on reality, then oozed out of her grip, then merged with her body again, this time, throwing all of the armor pieces off of her.
Joey: "No!!"
Upgrade (while rematerializing): "You!"
Joey: "No! No! You can't hurt me! I'm just an innocent girl." Gwen ran out from her hiding place, and gave her a flying side kick to Joey's head. She fell unconscious.
Gwen: "So am I, dirtbag."
Upgrade: "Cool."
Gwen: "Let's get her in jail."
Upgrade: "My thoughts exactly, Gwen." I picked her up, and gave her to the army people controlling the tank.
Upgrade: "Here you go soldiers."
Soldier: "You caught the cyborg?"
Upgrade: "Yeah, but she's just a plain old human. She's your responsibility now." I walked back towards Gwen, and asked, "You want me to go Ghostfreak or XLR8 to get you back?"
Gwen: "Ghostfreak." I transformed into him, then became intangible and invisible, along while holding Gwen to fly back to the hospital.
Gwen: "Wow. This is cool."
Ghostfreak: "Yeah. Definitely. I like the nighttime flying hours."
Gwen: "And, it's slightly romantic."
Ghostfreak: "I guess you're right, Gwen. It is cool."
Gwen hugged me.
Gwen: "Never leave us, okay, Kyle. We don't know what we'd do without you."
Ghostfreak: "I bet I do."
Gwen: "What?"
Ghostfreak: "Nothing."
The next morning…
Max was on crutches, and Ben walked out with him. I put Gwen down as Ghostfreak, making her visible and solid again, then I went normal.
Max: "How was the fight?"
Kyle: "Thanks for the help, Max. She was easy after that."
Gwen: "And I'm now officially Kyle's sidekick."
Ben: "I thought I was your sidekick, Kyle…"
Kyle: "Um, you both are!" I grabbed them both by the shoulders.
Ben: "Good enough for me."
Gwen: "Me too!" She was smiling. Something I wasn't too used to while watching Ben 10.
Max: "So, we're off!"
Kyle: "Wait! Max!"
Max: "Yes?"
Kyle: "The first time I tried to short circuit her as Upgrade, I met a squid-faced guy."
Max: "I'm sure it was nothing." He continued opening the door.
Kyle: "His name was Vilgax and-" I was interrupted by the door immediately slamming shut.
Max: "What did you say his name was?"
Kyle: "Vilgax."
Max: "Oh no. This is worse than I thought. Everyone! Get in the RV! Kyle! Go Upgrade!"
Kyle: "Why?"
Max: "Just do it! Ben and Gwen ran into their seats, and I went Upgrade.
Upgrade: "Now what?"
Max: "We have to go into space! Now!"
Upgrade: "I don't know if I can upgrade the RV that much."
Max: "DO IT!" He sounded aggressively like this was a mission he had to do. I then merged with the RV, and activated rockets on the sides, then tried to take off, but all it did was send us boosting forward. I tried angling them up, but that wouldn't work.
Max: "Hurry! Launch us up!"
Upgrade: "I'm trying, Max! Don't rush me!!" I activated more rockets on the back, but we were just sent reverse even faster than we were backwards. I stopped at our parking spot. I separated form the RV, then went normal.
Max: "Why didn't you try to-"
Kyle: "I can't! I… just… can't…" A tear came out of my eyes. Max saw that, and patted my back.
Max: "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have pushed you so hard."
Kyle: "I know, but, I messed up."
Max: "We'll just have to try at another time."
Kyle: "I hate the fact I just can't go and finish Vilgax right now."
Max: "Well, we'll be ready for him when he finally comes. Don't worry. I turned Grey Matter, climbed the walls, and sat in the air conditioner.
Ben: "Kyle?" Gwen grabbed his shoulder.
Gwen: "He just needs some time alone." Ben nodded, and sat back down.
The end. Man… Vilgax is gonna attack later. Gwen will be in even more danger, and Max is probably going to be obsessed with killing him now. Will this still be a good adventure for us?