Today, I was chasing down a crook in his getaway car as Upgrade melded with a motorcycle. Normally I'd be XLR8, but this isn't a horrible idea either, and my favorite land vehicle is a motorcycle, so why not?
Crook: "Ah, how easy it can be to make a getaway!"
Upgrade: "This guy is starting to get on my last nerve!" I shot a laser at the back of his car, making his trunk blow up, and he was losing the money.
Crook: "No! Not my stolen loot!!"
Upgrade: "Some people just can't watch their cash well enough, eh?" The crook kept speeding through, and I sped up to the side of him, grew a spike on my front wheel, then made him spin out, and he collided with a street light. I stopped in front of him, turned so my rear was facing him, and made him taste rubber by starting up the motor, then keeping myself in place while blowing dirt in his face. He was coughing, and I left when the police showed up, and hid behind a truck nearby. The police put him in cuffs.
Crook: "The motorcycle was driving itself man! It even shot laser beams!"
Officer: "Tell it to the judge, like they all do, you b******."
Crook: "I swear to God!" I separated from the motorcycle, and parked it right behind the truck.
Upgrade: "That dude's out of the way. Now to… whoa!" I looked at the truck, and by the logo there, it was transporting ice cream.
Upgrade: "Cool! I haven't had ice cream for a while!" I went Ghostfreak, and phased through the back, then went normal, and started chowing down on the ice cream. Outside the RV parked off to the side, and Ben, Gwen, and Max came out, looking for me.
Max: "Where could he be?"
Ben: "Look for a motorcycle."
Gwen: "Found him." She pointed to a motorcycle parked right behind an ice cream truck.
Ben: "Of course he'd be there. He loves ice cream. Especially chocolate!"
Max: "We'd better get to him." They headed over to the truck, then Max opened the back, and found me shivering in the back of the truck, smiling.
Kyle: "Hey guys… achoo!"
Gwen: "Couldn't resist, could you?"
Kyle: "No. Not really. Sorry." I inhaled through my nose.
Ben: "You'd better get out of there, dude." I stepped out, and sneezed again.
Max: "We'd better check your temperature. Now." They quickly brought me back to the RV, and sat me in the couch to check my temperature.
Max: "101 degrees. Not good. You got a cold."
Kyle: "You're telling me… ACHOO!!! *Inhaling through nose*" I started picking at my nose after that.
Gwen: "Eww."
Ben: "All guys pick their nose! See?" He started doing it, too.
Max: "All boys pick their nose, but that's beyond the point. We need to get your cold dealt with. Take this medicine." He handed me a jar with green stuff in it. I smelled it, then immediately pushed it away.
Kyle: "What is this crap?"
Max: "San Ju Yen Pien. I got the recipe from a monk in Guangdong, China."
Gwen: "Plumber mission?"
Max: "Yeah. One of our guys got sick, so we learned this recipe to help cure him. But don't worry, Kyle. It smells worse than it tastes. Or does it taste worse than it smells?"
Kyle: "I'll take it later, when I get used to this ugly smell…"
Max: "You'll get used to it after 10 or so doses of it."
Kyle: "Man…" Max went back to start the RV up again, and Ben went back to watching his TV show. Gwen sat next to me.
Kyle: "I'm quarantined, remember? I'll get you sick."
Gwen: "Doesn't mean I can't stay with you, right?"
Kyle: "Well, no, but…"
Gwen: "But what?"
Kyle: "I don't want you to get sick, too."
Gwen: "Oh. I'm prepared for that." She brought out cough medicine, a hospital mask, and rubber gloves.
Kyle: "You're certainly… ah… ah… ACHOO!!!! *Inhale through nose* prepared, alright."
Gwen: "Yep. If you need anything, just tell me."
Kyle: "I will alright."
Max: "Our next destination is Chinatown for more ingredients for my San Ju Yen Pien."
Kyle: "Oh man…" I lied down in what I thought was Ben's bed in the back, and closed my eyes to take a nap.
15 minutes later…
We made it to Chinatown, and I was out in the open, looking at different things, with a tissue in my pocket just in case, and Gwen was walking with me, holding a tissue box.
Gwen: "Well, while Ben and Grandpa get the ingredients, we're all by ourselves, you know."
Kyle: "Yeah. I know. What do you mean by it?"
Gwen: "Well, someone had to stay with you to make sure you were okay, and Grandpa forced me to bring the smelly stuff."
Kyle: "Whatever. You right next to me is alright. *Inhaling through nose*"
Gwen: "And with my hospital mask, I won't catch your cold." I just noticed she was wearing it.
Kyle: "Whatever." I continued on walking, looking at the Chinese buildings.
Kyle: "Y'know, if I didn't know better, I'd say we were in China."
Gwen: "Me, too."
Kyle: "It is really nice it's here, though. I kinda like this place."
Gwen: "Definitely."
Max: "There you two are."
Ben: "We found the ingredients."
Kyle: "And that doesn't make a difference to me."
Max: "By the way, I was wondering if you wanted to see the parade later on, then there's the speech from the councilwoman."
Gwen: "I'd like to."
Kyle: "Sure." I wanted to skip the councilwoman thing, though.
We were at the parade, watching it go through, and it was really cool. I turned the Omnitrix on, but Max caught me.
Max: "No."
Kyle: "But seeing Heatblast start up fireworks would be awesome!"
Max: "They're good enough with them."
Kyle: "Okay." I turned the Omnitrix off, and continued watching the dragon parade around with other things. After the parade, we got to hear the speech, which I still wanted to skip.
Councilwoman Liang (I learned her name after reading a brochure): "We are going to tear down one of the older buildings to replace it with a new building. It will be a hotel."
Kyle: "Woo-hoo. AC-BBBPBPBPBBPBP!!!!" Gwen handed me a tissue, which I sneezed into, then I blew my nose on it. I handed it back to her, and she put it in the garbage bag in her bag of supplies.
Councilwoman Liang: "This will make more people want to come to Chinatown and possibly live here instead of just for a vacation, but regardless, it will bring in more money for Chinatown." (I don't know political speakingAuthor's note)
We then saw some bugs fly out, and try to kidnap her, but she ran off, along with the other people in the audience.
Councilwoman Liang: "You're the freak that wouldn't leave the building! Clancy?"
Clancy: "You are right!" He had blue skin, and wore what looked like a winter coat, a hoodie, and bell-bottom pants.
Kyle: "It's hero time!!" I turned the Omnitrix on, then became Wildmutt.
Gwen: "Wouldn't Heatblast have been a better choice?"
Wildmutt: "ROAR!" I now noticed I was completely blind, and didn't have much to see. I ran, but right into some fireworks. I also looked paler, and my claws were green.
Ben: "What's up with Wildmutt?"
Gwen: "The sickness! It spread to his alien forms! Ben, Grandpa, make sure everyone else is safe."
Ben: "What about you, Gwen?"
Gwen: "I'll be his eyes." She jumped on my back.
Gwen: "I'm driving, dog-boy!"
Wildmutt: "ROAR!!" I transformed into XLR8.
XLR8: "Well, as Wildmutt, I'm useless, so I'll just use speed!" I took off, but my feet made huge clangs on the ground. Instead of wheels on my feet, my feet looked like blocks of steel.
XLR8: "What the hell? Lead feet? You've got to be kidding me!"
Gwen: "Well, XLR8 is crap, um, try Stinkfly then." I took her decision, and I was red instead of green where Stinkfly's green colors were.
Gwen: "Can you at least fly?" I took off, and flew straight for Clancy. He saw me, and sent his flies at me, and I retaliated, but instead of slime, fire came out of my mouth.
Stinkfly: "Wow! Being sick makes Stinkfly amazing!" I breathed even more fire at him, burning some of his flies to a crisp. He made a fist out of beetles, then socked me with it. I went flying, then I went Diamondhead to absorb the impact, but Diamondhead, instead of being diamond, was a pile of slime.
Diamondhead: "Oh man!!!" I splattered against the wall, then went Ghostfreak. Ghostfreak looked white instead of gray, and when I tried to turn intangible when he went after me with his beetle fist again, I turned into solid steel, and he didn't do a thing to me, so I went Stinkfly again, then shot laser beams from my eyes, burning more of his bugs off. I then tackled him, and he crashed into a building.
Stinkfly: "Wait! I have heat vision now? Cool!" I used the heat vision again, and Clancy dodged the shots.
Stinkfly: "Time for a bug zapper!" I went Buzzshock, but what I noticed was, I wasn't glimmering with electricity, so, I couldn't tell what was going on with me. I tried shooting electricity at him, but instead of that, I got methane.
Buzzshock: "Buzzshock farts? Just great!!" I went Upgrade, and I noticed I was solid instead of feeling rubbery, like I usually feel as Upgrade.
Clancy: "You really don't get what's happening, do you, kid?"
Upgrade: "Mind your powers, and I'll mind mine!" I was about to shoot an eye beam at him, but instead of that, I got sparks.
Upgrade: "Sparks? Oh, I get it now!" I shot even more sparks at but he dodged each one with mosquitoes. I went Stinkfly again, and shot eye beams, causing the sparks I shot out to make a huge explosion. Then I went XLR8, ran in, and socked him. It made a huge banging noise, and he flew into another building.
XLR8: "I get it now! I'm strong as steel! But I'm slow as hell like this!" I tried to run up to him, but he let his bugs carry him and the councilwoman off. I went Stinkfly to try and catch up with him, but he sent some wasps at me, and all I could do was burn each one with my fire breath. I turned back to normal when I landed back on the ground.
Ben: "That went, kinda well, actually."
Kyle: "Yeah, but I couldn't fight for too long because I'm still sick. ACHOO!" The sneeze landed on the ground, and i inhaled up my nose again, and started picking at it.
Gwen: "Could you please stop that?"
Kyle: "Sorry, oh… ACHOO!" I inhaled up my nose again.
Max: "Maybe it's time for some San Ju Yen Pien. We need to go after Clancy anyway."
Kyle: "I'll go after him! You guys… ACHOO!!! Use the RV…" I went Ripjaws.
Gwen: "Why Ripjaws?"
Ripjaws: "My cold changed my alien powers, so, why not?" I concentrated on making my tail, but instead, I grew wheels at the bottom of my feet.
Ripjaws: "So Ripjaws is the speed guy now, huh?" I took off, but I only went, like half as fast as XLR8 would have. The RV followed from behind, and we stopped at an abandoned building with the plans Councilwoman Liang was talking about.
Ripjaws: "He'd be here." I went Grey Matter, but there was something very strange.
Grey Matter: "OUCH! My head hurts!"
Gwen: "Your head hurts?"
Grey Matter: "Too much going on! Have to use Paraslime!" So I became Paraslime, and what I immediately noticed was, I was a hunk of diamond.
Paraslime: "Paraslime and Diamondhead switched powers?"
Ben: "Yep."
Paraslime: "Then I should be able to get all of us in right now." I grew diamond quills, and shot them at the lock, breaking it, and I slithered in. Ben, Gwen, and Max followed me.
Paraslime: "Maybe we should split up." I went XLR8, and started walking through. Ben went with me, and Gwen went with Max.
Ben: "Why XLR8? He's as slow as a snail now."
XLR8: "He's still really strong. There's something to go for."
Ben: "Yeah, but still, man. You're a snail." I went Diamondhead, who was still a slime puddle, and continued slithering along the ground, until I found a new room, where there were a bunch of newspaper clipouts pinned to a wall, and I went normal to read them.
Kyle: "No wonder this guy's a freak. He doesn't want his home torn down."
Ben: "Makes sense. I'd be freaky if my home was being torn down without my permission. We heard some voices, and I went Diamondhead to hide behind the wall, then went Fourarms, who was paler, and had hives under his arms.
Ben: "What's the plan, Kyle?"
Fourarms: "This." I put my pointer fingers out, and against my head. Ben did the same thing. Max and Gwen walked by the door, and we freaked Gwen out.
Gwen: "MegaBug!!!!" She jumped, and saw me and Ben come out.
Gwen: "Very funny, doofuses!"
Fourarms: "But the look was still priceless!"
Ben: "No kidding."
Max: "Let's hurry up and find her, alright? She could be anywhere around here."
Fourarms: "We didn't forget about her." We continued and found her and Clancy together.
Clancy: "You dare invade our home? You must die!" He sent out his ants at us, and I proceeded to try and squish them, but they got up my pants. She was covered in spiders. Max, Ben, and Gwen went to help her, but, she stopped them.
Councilwoman Liang: "Stop! There are black widows on me…"
Gwen: "Great!" I came hopping over, and accidentally sneezed on her, getting rid of the spiders.
Councilwoman Liang: "Thank you."
Fourarms: "No problem, Miss. As for you… I charged towards him, but he moved out of the way, and I slammed into the wall.
Clancy: "No! You'll destroy our home!"
Fourarms: "You're going down!" I went Stinkfly, and shot heat vision beams at him. He dodged them, and I set the building on fire. I went Fourarms again, and grabbed all four of my allies, and jumped out. The place got burned down, and Clancy took off towards the northern direction.
Councilwoman Liang: "Thank you all for saving me from HIM."
Fourarms: "No worries… ACHOO!" I sneezed at the rubble of the building.
Gwen: "I'd recommend taking a nap at home for you, Councilwoman."
Councilwoman Liang: "That's just what I was going to do." She started walking off, and I went normal again.
Kyle: "Now what?"
Max: "We have to figure out his new plan." Gwen was using her laptop to search for data on the bugs, and came up with an idea.
Gwen: "Considering cockroaches can't be killed by radiation, he's headed for the nearby nuclear plant!"
Kyle: "Then let's go there!" Max started up the RV, and set out in that direction. When we made it, we had to track him down. I went Nessy for no real reason, and started searching for him that way. I didn't notice any huge difference, but definitely noticed that I was sick, and I could have any real power.
I found Clancy near the reactor, and he noticed me.
Clancy: "You! What are you?" I went to eat him whole, but he shot wasps in my mouth, and I backed off, then when I spat them out, I noticed that I spat out an energy beam.
Clancy: "Uh oh." I shot the beam at him, and he was trying to dodge it. He got hit right when it ended, and I tried stepping on him. He used beetles to stop me, and I became Stinkfly, and shot eye beams at him again. He dodged each shot, then I flew in for tackling him, but missed, then breathed fire at him. Ben, Gwen, and Max were near the control panel for the core.
Max: "Ahh! It's to hot to control the thing from here manually!"
Ben: "Then we're toast!"
Gwen: "No we're not!" I breathed fire into Clancy's beetle fist, and melted it, then tackled him again. And I went Fourarms right after to charge him. He stopped me with a swarm of ants again. I started itching myself all over, then jumped up and down.
Clancy: "You keep picking bad forms." I went Heatblast, and noticed I was blue instead of orange.
Heatblast: "Oh yeah! Burning even hotter than ever!" I shot blue fire at him, but instead, there was ice. I froze him solid.
Heatblast: "Okay… ACHOO!"
Gwen: "We need to stop the reactor! It'll explode any second! Kyle!"
Heatblast: "I'm on it!" I shot ice at the reactor, and the overheating noise it made stopped it.
Gwen: "You did it again! Yay!"
Heatblast: "Now let's get out of here before bug-man here unfreezes."
Later, in the RV, I was better.
Kyle: "That San Ju Yen Pien really does work. Too bad it smelled so horrible!"
Max: "That would be the monk's fault. Not mine."
Gwen: "At least it worked."
Ben: "Hey, Kyle, want to uh…" He found a bug, then a whole swarm of bugs got in the RV, and Clancy broke down the door.
Kyle: "Whoa! How the heck did you unfreeze?"
Clancy: "My little secret, kid!" He used a beetle fist to punch me again. I flew into the back of the RV, and turned on the watch for Diamondhead.
Diamondhead: "You're getting out of here!" I socked him, and he fell to the floor. Gwen then got an idea, and grabbed what was left of the San Ju Yen Pien off the table, and the bugs smelled it, got off of Clancy, and chased it.
Clancy: "No! My brethren! Stop!"
Clancy looked around, and saw me clench my knuckles.
Clancy: "Um… *Nervous laugh*" I socked him out of the RV, and we continued on our way. We heard a sneeze, and everyone looked at me. I shrugged, and we noticed Gwen got sick.
Gwen: "How? How did I get sick?"
Kyle: "You were near me the whole time, Gwen. Guess you needed more protection."
Gwen: "I'm so gonna kill you when I feel better… ACHOO!!" Ben laughed.
The End. Next time… things won't be so pretty…