(The Rust Bucket pulled up to the apartment building as Gwen shrugged at the decrepit building.)
(It was obvious that no one but Clancy had lived in this building for several years.)
(Possibly decades.)
(No wonder it had been scheduled for demolition.)
Gwen: "Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live here."
(she said.)
Max: "Let's all stay together."
(Max said as the group walked inside of the building and they wandered through the halls as Jen lit her hands up in energy to create a light for them as Gwen used the flashlight app on her phone as they kept close to one another.)
(Ben grew nervous as he looked through a hole in the floor and glanced around as the wood creaked beneath their feet as Jen turned to her cousin with a nervous glance.)
Jen: "Hey, Gwen. Remember back in New Orleans when we had to save those people from the haunted house?"
(she asked as Gwen nodded.)
Gwen: "I know what you mean. But I seriously doubt an evil sorcerer is going to come out of somewhere. And speaking of that place..."
Jen: "Oh no."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "I promised myself that I would only contact Scarlett if it was something we couldn't handle on our own. I'm only going to use her as an absolute last resort. We can take this guy, I swear."
(The group continued their search and Jen grew nervous at the amount of insects crawling along the walls and rafters as they walked into a romo.)
(Max looked at some news articles on a wall as his eyes widened once he saw one with the headline "Bugs Survive Nuclear Blast.")
Max: "They've got to be here somewhere."
(Gwen then gagged once she saw a few roaches feasting on a wall of mold.)
Gwen: "Something tells me we're getting close."
Max: "Where's Ben?"
(Max said as they all looked around.)
(Suddenly, a large figure with four golden eyes and antennae lurked out, bathed in the shadows of the corner as it stepped toward them.)
Gwen: "Ah! Mega Bug!"
(Gwen shouted.)
(But Jen wasn't falling for it this time.)
Jen: "Okay, Ben. You can quit now."
(The figure completely stepped out of the shadows to reveal Four Arms standing at the doorway with his hands positioned to mimic antennae as he smirked.)
(His skin now had a bit of an orange tint due to Ben's cold.)
Gwen: "Ha ha. Very funny."
(Gwen said.)
Four Arms: "I thought so."
(Four Arms said in a more nasally tone.)
Liang: "Help!"
(they heard Councilwoman Liang shout from another room as they all looked to each other.)
Max: "That came from right above us."
(Max said.)
Four Arms: "I'm on it."
(Four Arms said as he pushed and burst through the door frame and grabbed his family in three of his arms as Jen sniffed and almost puked when she saw his armpits had grown gross pockets filled with pus.)
Max: "It's your hives."
(Max said.)
Max: "Your cold must have turned them into pus-filled pockets full of..."
Gwen: "...pure putridness."
(Gwen said, fanning the stench away from her.)
Four Arms: "I can't help it."
(Four Arms said.)
Four Arms: "I'm sick."
Gwen: "You're telling me."
(Gwen remarked.)
(Four Arms leapt up high as he landed just a floor above them before setting Jen, Gwen and Max down as they saw the poor councilwoman being swarmed with black widow crawling all over her.)
(Max took a step toward her but she stopped him.)
Liang: "Stop."
(she whispered.)
Liang: "Black widows."
Gwen: "There's got to be some way to help her."
(Gwen said as Four Arms sniffled before sneezing and unleashing a huge amount of mucus which coated the councilwoman and blew the spiders off her.)
Liang: "Thanks."
(she whimpered.)
Four Arms: "Don't mention it."
(Four Arms wheezed as Max helped her up.)
Clancy: "You are trespassing."
(Clancy's voice sounded around them as they all shot their attention to him.)
(His eyes started glowing again.)
(Suddenly, a swarm of cockroaches crawled towards the group before it formed a massive swam which knocked Four Arms several feet back.)
(Jen looked to Clancy and he hissed at her.)
Clancy: "We will rule mankind."
Jen: "Not if I have anything to say about it."
(she said as her eyes started glowing pink and she surrounded her hands in energy as she glared at him.)
Jen: "You're not the only one with powers here, hillbilly!"
Clancy: "Interesting."
(he observed as Jen looked to see Max face-to-face with the swarm of roaches surrounding Four Arms as she gasped.)
Jen: "Grandpa, look out!"
(she shouted as her grandfather dodged the swarm as it punched through the floor.)
(Suddenly, a huge amount of white bugs started eating through the wooden floor at Gwen's feet.)
Gwen: "Termites!"
(she gasped as the floor caved in beneath her and left her dangling from the edge before she was saved by Councilwoman Liang, who stuck her hand out for her to grab.)
Four Arms: "You want to be king?"
(Four Arms asked Clancy.)
Four Arms: "Get ready to meet crown!"
(He then charged the buck maniac who then used his powers again as he summoned a swarm of red ants which surrounded the alien on all sides and crawled all over him as he gasped and started itching at them and hopping on one leg.)
Four Arms: "Ants in my pants!"
(He started itching all over as he lost control and started crashing into the walls, splintering the wood due to his brute strength as Jen got an idea.)
Jen: "Hey, Councilwoman? You wanted this place demolished, right? Well consider us the wrecking crew!"
(She then fired an energy blast to another beam as she blasted away at the support beams as she glared.)
Jen: "We're taking this place down from the inside out! Not that it would've lasted more than two more months on its own anyway."
Clancy: "You're destroying our home!"
(Clancy shouted as Four Arms crashed into the walls and Jen fired her energy beams at the supports as the building started rumbling.)
Clancy: "No!"
(he shouted as he summoned his wasp swarm again and they surrounded him and flew him out of there.)
Gwen: "The whole place is coming down!"
(Gwen shouted.)
Liang: "We have to get out of here."
(Councilwoman Liang said.)
Jen: "There's no time. Everyone, huddle around me!"
(Jen said as they all huddled around her as her eyes glowed pink and she thrust her arms to the sky.)
(The camera zoomed to the outside of the building to reveal the entire apartment complex cave in on itself and crash down to the ground, completely destroyed.)
(And in the center of the wreckage, the group stood completely unharmed as Jen's forcefield surrounded them all before Ben's Omnitrix timed out and he transformed back to human as Jen dispersed the forcefield.)
Liang: "Thanks."
(Councilwoman Liang said as Jen smiled.)
Jen: "Can you please pay me back by not telling anybody what you saw here?"
(she asked.)
Liang: "Sure."
(she said as Ben sat up in the rubble and rubbed his head.)
Ben: "Ugh, it's a good thing I can't feel my head."
(They heard a shuffling and looked head to see Clancy stand out of the rubble, looking absolutely livid before he looked down and saw a pile of dead insects at his feet.)
(He gasped and reached down to pick them up.)
Clancy: "No, no, no! You will all be sorry. We will exterminate the entire city!"
(He raised his arms to the sky and summoned a massive amount of wasps to him as the group looked on in shock.)
(There was enough wasps to cover them in a huge shadow.)
(The wasps then formed a cyclone that consumed Clancy.)
(When it dissipated, he was gone along with the wasps.)
Liang: "This has been one weird day."
(Councilwoman Liang said as Gwen smirked.)
Gwen: "Welcome to our world."
Ben: "At least my hives are gone."
(Ben said, examining his body before Jen turned to the councilwoman.)
Liang: "Where did that smelly four-armed guy go? I wanted to thank him?"
Jen: "We'll be sure to tell him. You know how to get home, right?"
(The councilwoman nodded before turning her shoulder.)
Liang: "Thanks."
(She then left the area and left the destroyed apartment complex.)
(The Tennysons turned to each other as they immediately returned to business.)
Ben: "So, where do you think Bug Brain wandered off to?"
(Ben asked as Max pondered and gazed out to a nuclear power plant on the top of the hill.)
Max: "There's only one way to exterminate an entire city."
(The Rust Bucket drove down the road to get to the power plant.)
(Ben sat in the front seat of the RV and was shivering immensely as Jen looked from her seat, worried about him.)
Ben: "Turn on the heat Grandpa, it's freezing in here."
Max: "It's already on, Ben."
(Max said.)
Max: "But you're shaking like an earthquake. Jen, get him another dose of my San Ju Yen Pien."
(Ben gasped at that and immediately denied the suggestion.)
Ben: "No! I mean, I just finished it off. All gone. I'm sure it's going to be kicking in any minute now."
Gwen: "Wow."
(Gwen said as she looked at her laptop.)
Gwen: "Ants can lift ten times their own body length, grasshoppers can leap one hundred times their length and cockroaches can hold their breath for over an hour."
Jen: "We don't need their resumes."
(Jen said to her cousin.)
Jen: "We need to know how to squash them."
Gwen: "Duh."
(Gwen remarked.)
Gwen: "I'm saying that insects are tough little suckers. Short of another ice age or a tanker full of pesticide, looks like holding a bug barbecue is our best option."
Ben: "And I know just the chefs."
(Ben said as he dialed his Omnitrix and Jen did the same with hers.)
[To Be Continued...]