Chapter 14: Chapter 14: Truth
*Flashback*
It was late at night at a nuclear missile testing site. A golden energy suddenly shined down on three of the missile pods and the missiles rose up from their silos as the guards on the inside noticed and panicked. A red light shone throughout the area as an alarm sounded out.
"Security breach! Red alert!"
"I didn't authorize any launch," the lead officer said. "Abort! Abort!"
"We're not launching the nukes, sir!" the operator exclaimed. "Something's pulling them out of their silos!"
The missiles rose up to the Chimera Wrath as the soldiers looked on in a state of shock. An explosion occurred near them and two of Vilgax's drones came out of the smoke. They fired their beams at the soldiers, knocking them out cold.
A younger and less bulked up Vilgax walked out of the smoke and observed his handiwork before two blue beams burst out and destroyed one of his drones and blasted Vilgax back before he glared at them.
"You," he growled.
The camera revealed two men wearing blue suits with blue helmets and visors with a heavy artillery weaponry.
"It's over, Vilgax! You're going down!" one of them announced.
"Many have tried, none have succeeded!"
"Until now, slimeball!" the apparent leader said and he ran towards him.
"Phil, wait, stop!" the other one said.
Phil fired his blasters at Vilgax, sending out tons and tons of energy bolts. But Vilgax jumped up to dodge them and immediately landed a jump kick to his head, knocking his helmet off, revealing his black hair and chiseled, handsome face
The other soldier aimed his gun at the alien warlord carefully. Unfortunately, Vilgax had Phil locked in a headlock and the other one was caught between a rock and a hard place. Vilgax aimed his blaster at Phil's head.
While this predicament was happening, the other drone was at the computer on one of the missiles and hacked into it, initiating the missile launch.
"Back away or watch one of your cities be destroyed!" Vilgax threatened as the ceiling of the facility opened and prepared the missile launch
The other soldier looked on in shock as Vilgax aimed his blaster at him.
"Put the weapon down! Now!"
The soldier sighed as he dropped his blaster and put his hands up.
"You can't just let him get away!" Phil shouted.
"Never said I would, kid," the soldier said as he shot out his fist, revealing a hidden blaster strapped to his wrist that blasted Vilgax, knocking the weapon out of his hand and sending it sliding across the floor.
Phil took advantage of this and elbowed Vilgax in the face, freeing him from his grip and he pushed him back towards his drone.
Unfortunately, the drone finished activating the launch as the coding turned from red to green.
"You're too late."
"Wrong. My timing's perfect," the soldier boasted as he kicked his weapon into his hand and fired, revealing a sort of sticky gel that stuck Vilgax and his drone to the missile as it was launching. Vilgax struggled to get free, but it was too late as the missile left the facility.
"NOOOOO!"
"What are you doing?!" Phil asked as the other soldier removed his helmet, revealing himself to be a younger Max Tennyson with red hair.
"Sending Vilgax out with a bang," Max said.
"Tennyson!" Vilgax growled as the missile collided with his ship, causing a massive explosion, seemingly destroying everything it came into contact with.
*Present Day*
"...And then kablamo," Max finished his story as his grandchildren were listening. "No more Vilgax... or so I thought. Until today."
"Whoa!" Ben said, amazed at the story.
"You were a hero?" Jen asked, stars in her eyes.
"I was just a guy doing a job."
"Excuse me," Gwen interrupted. 'But exactly what was that job?"
"We called ourselves the Plumbers. Officially, we didn't exist. We were the guys who fixed the guys no one else could: extraterrestrial, extrasensory, extraordinary."
"So that chamber you brought us to back at Mt. Rushmore..." Gwen started.
"Was an old Plumber base," Max confirmed.
"So all this time me and Jen have been going hero... we've been following in your footsteps!" Ben realized.
"We're Plumbers in training!" Jen said as she and her brother hugged tightly.
"And you knew about the Omnitrixes the whole time?" Gwen asked.
"Not really. Just rumor and scuttlebutt. I was as surprised as you guys when they turned up on the twins' wrists."
"You always told us that you could tell us anything, Grandpa," Gwen said. "Guess you couldn't do the same."
Jen then got a concerned look on her face as she looked to her grandfather.
"Do our parents know who you really are?"
"No," Max said. "I never told either of my sons what I really did. As far as they were concerned, I was just an ordinary plumber."
Max then pulled the Rust Bucket over onto the side of the road once some emergency vehicles pulled up behind him, blaring their sirens out.
"Alright! Could be a chance for the Plumbers to go back to work!" Ben said.
"Ugh," Gwen said. "You should start by unclogging that hairball from your brain, Mr. Plumber."
"You're just jealous because you're not apart of the family business," Ben said, sticking his tongue out.
"There is no family business," Max said. "My hero dies were over a long time ago."
"Well, our's are just getting started," Ben said as he and Jen stepped out.
"And we've kind of been planning for the world to know the two behind the aliens that have been showing up," Jen said.
"Oh no! Don't even think about-" Gwen began.
"Relax, we're not really going to reveal who we are. Our Omni Suits serve as a perfect foil for our identities. It will reveal that the alien appearances are really just two heroes and our identities will still be top secret," Ben said as he activated his Omnitrix and donned his green biosuit while Jen donned her pink one as they both fist-bumped.
"It's hero time," she said.
"Let's XLR8 out of here," Ben said as the pair slammed their watches before turning into... Ripjaws and Blossom Rose. They looked in the rearview mirror of the Rust Bucket to see their disappointment.
"Ripjaws! What a ripoff!"
"What good is a plant in a dress supposed to do in an emergency!" she whined.
A firetruck passed by them and Blossom Rose shot her vines out of her fingers as she grabbed her brother to hitch a ride.
The firetruck arrived at a building that resembled a city hall. The firefighter popped up and the owner of the building walked up, concerned to him.
"There's some kind of weird creature inside tearing up the place!" he explained to the fireman.
It suddenly started to rain all around them. They looked up to see Ripjaws holding up the running fire hose to soak up the water as Blossom Rose sighed in relief.
"Sorry, we just needed to moisturize."
"Stand aside boys. Mulder and Sculley aren't around, so I believe the supernatural are our jurisdiction," Blossom Rose said as she smiled. "Who are we? Give us about... 7 minutes to find out."
They then walked up to the door as Ripjaws bowed to his sister.
"Ladies first," he said.
She opened the door and they both got on their guard as they walked in.
"Okay, who's the punk giving us creatures a bad name?" Blossom Rose asked.
They then heard a growling as an alien with a red exoskeleton and black claws roared at them... and they realized it was only about 2 feet tall.
The two then snickered and laughed in hysterics at how minuscule the creature was and Blossom Rose's sides started hurling.
The alien, it's feelings hurt, picked up a rock and tossed it at Ripjaws and it struck him in the head, stunning him.
"You picked a bad day to be an alien, pal," Ripjaws said.
The two lunged at the alien, who jumped out of the way and they slammed into the fountain as the alien stuck its tongue out at them. It then leaped into the fountain and guzzled a ton of water and spat it back out at the twins, who just absorbed it given their current alien forms.
"That's just a breath of fresh air for us," Blossom Rose said. "You're just watering a plant right now."
The Rust Bucket pulled up to the building and Gwen and Max exited the vehicle.
"Anyone see a giant walking fish and plant walk through here?"
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.
"Who are you?!" They both exclaimed. "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.
"Today's my lucky day. Two aliens for the price of one," he said. "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.
"Thanks, bro," she said in relief.
"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.
"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.
"Um, gotta go," Jen said, mimicking Blossom Rose's voice.
"Are you sure? You promised that you would show the media-"
"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.
"Are you two alright?" Max asked as the twins removed the helmets from their battle armor and sighed as the pressure released.
"Barely," Ben said as he held his helmet under his arm.
"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.
"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.
"You know this guy, Grandpa?" Ben asked.
"You can say that," Phil said. "We used to be partners back when this guy was still a Plumber."
"Nice to meet you," Jen said as she walked over and shook his hand as her brother followed. "We're his grandchildren. I'm Jen. This is my brother, Ben."
"Pleasure," he said as he shook their hand. "And who's this young lady?"
"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.
"Yeah, she's not much to look at," Phil admitted. "But it's better than that old Rust Bucket of an RV you used to drive."
"So, how are you?" Max asked.
"Pretty good considering I just bagged a Havok Beast," he said. "Seems like old times."
"You bagged it? It was Blossom-" Jen started before Max stopped her and walked over to his old partner.
"Havok Beast, huh?" Max asked. "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.
"Yeah, well, good thing I was around. You know, once a Plumber, always a Plumber," Phil said. "You ever think about getting back in the game, Max? You know, relive the glory days?"
"No thanks," Max said. "I'm retired. And so are the Plumbers."
"Yeah, thanks to you," Phil said. "Once you put Vilgax out of the picture, the work just seemed to dry up."
"I'm just doing my job."
"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.
"Wow. Cool watch. They look so familiar."
"They ought to," Ben said. "They're the Omni-"
Max then pushed his grandkids away to keep them from revealing their secret. "Okay, we need to go. Nice catching up with you, Phil. Happy plumbing."
"I don't get it," Jen said as they drove down the road in the Rust Bucket. "How come you didn't tell Phil about the Omnitrixes?"
"That's on a need-to-know basis only, guys," Max said. "The less people need to know, the better."
"Guess that's your answer to everything, isn't it, Grandpa?" Gwen asked.
"Hey," Ben said as an idea came to his head. "Why don't we start up the Plumbers again? Us, you and Phil? We'd be super alien butt-kickers!"
"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.
"Max," he said. "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.
"Vulpinmancers?"
He then made a legal U-Turn and headed towards Highway 44 to deal with the problem.
"Alright! The Tennysons are back in Plumbing business!" Ben cheered.
"Face it, Grandpa," Jen said as she smiled. "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.
"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.
"Phil!" Max said as they walked towards him and helped him up.
"Max," Phil said. "Thank goodness you showed up. Two aliens, nasty. We're going to need a bit of that old magic."
"No worries," Jen said. "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.
"Friends of yours?" Gwen asked as the twins readied themselves for battle.
"Wildmutts!" Ben exclaimed. "Maybe I can talk with them."
"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.
"That's why I recognize those watches," Phil said. "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.
"What exactly did he say?" she asked.
"Vulpinmancers were never big for small talk, even with their own kind," Max explained.
"Fine," Jen said as she activated her battle armor. "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.
"Bad dog!" she shouted. "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.
"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. "Good dog."
She then smiled and hopped onto her brother as he leaped off of the belt and she smiled at Phil.
"Thanks for saving me."
"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.
"We're surrounded!" Max shouted.
"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.
"Sorry about that, Ben. Only way to bring down a Vulpinmancer."
"Yeah," Max said. "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.
"So, the stories are true," Phil realized. "The Omnitrixes really do exist. Hey Ben, Jen, pretty good moves out there. They remind me of your grandfather back in the day."
"Really?" Ben asked admiringly.
"I guess the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree after all," Jen said, beaming.
"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. "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.
"Just like old times, eh?" Phil asked, sticking his hand out to his old partner. "I think this is going to be the beginning of a new partnership."
Max could only look at the hand, unsure.
"It's fate that we all met up," Phil said back at the hotel he was staying at. It was a luxury suite that was enough to house 10 people if necessary. Ben was stuffing himself silly with the room service tray, while Jen was looking over his film collection and Gwen was reading in a rather comfy chair.
"Nifty suite," Max said. "It must have cost a pretty penny."
"Just a little thank you I negotiated with the manager for helping with his alien problem. And trust me, this is just the tip of the old alien iceberg. You know, kids, you two would make great Plumbers?"
"We would?" Jen said, looking up with a smile as her brother gave a thumbs up.
"Sure. Two real chips off the old block. We'd all make a great team. With your powers, Max's experience and my instincts, we'd be a an unstoppable team. What do you think?"
"I think that it's a strange coincidence that for a hyper weasel and two mega mutts to show up on the same day," Max said.
"Aliens. Go figure."
"He does have a point, Phil," Gwen said.
"I hate to second-guess you, but I think I agree with Gwen on this one," Jen said, shrugging her shoulders.
"I need to get some fresh air," Max said before he left the room.
Phil scowled for a bit before he turned to Ben. "Hey kids, order whatever you'd like off the room service menu," he said before following his old friend out.
"Now we're talking!" Ben said as he went back to admiring the food.
"Is that shrimp cocktail? I love shrimp cocktail," Jen said as she dipped the shrimp in the sauce before munching on it.
"Something's going on that Grandpa's not telling us about," Gwen said. "Come on."
"And pass up free room service/ No way, I'm staying here," Ben said.
The girls then smirked as they got an idea.
"Yeah, you're right," Jen said, crossing her hands and smirking innocently. "It's probably some top secret Plumbers mission. Perhaps it's better if the three of us just stay out of it."
Ben then shot his head up at the suggestion before turning to his sister and cousin.
"I...guess I could take a look for the hell of it."
"That's my bro," Jen said, ruffling his head.
The kids burst out of the hotel room and looked around and saw neither hide nor hair of either their grandfather or his old partner.
"No sign of Grandpa," Gwen said.
"Or Phil," Ben said.
"But where would they go?" Jen asked.
Gwen then got a suspicious look on her face. "If Grandpa thinks that alien weasel and those space mutts are connected, there's only one place around here to check out."
"Mt. Rushmore," Ben agreed as Jen nodded and slammed her Omnitrix down as she morphed into XLR8. She then whipped her tail and slung her cousin on it as Ben turned into his own XLR8 form.
"Hang on," XLR8 (Jen) said. "Pedal to the metal."
They both then sped off towards Mt. Rushmore.
At Mt. Rushmore, Max opened a chamber to a secret room in the underground Plumbers base. Unfortunately, he discovered that the object he was looking for was gone, in its place was just an empty socket.
"Looking for something?" a familiar voice asked him.
Max turned around to find Phil twirling a gun-shaped device with a sphere at the end of it, a smug smirk on his face.
"The Null Void Projector," Max said. "I thought all those aliens looked familiar."
Phil could only smile mischievously.
"You stole the Null Void Projector to release all those aliens we caught back in the old days."
"You were always too smart for your own good, Max. But wanting to not joining up with me? That was just plain dumb."
"Why are you doing all this?"
"Job security. I release an alien, then get some hotel manager or mayor or whoever to pay me to catch it. Easy money."
"I'm not going to let you get away with this."
"Yeah, I figured you might say that. Too bad, too. We would've made quite a team again." Phil then fired the Projector, releasing a golden light from the sphere, which Max dodged. The light then opened a portal and out stepped a monstrous alien with a green exoskeleton, clawed hands, a mouth filled with fangs, and four spider-like legs.
Max looked on, horrified.
"And don't worry. I'll be sure to tell the twins that your last words to me were how you wanted them to follow in your footsteps as my partners."
The alien brought its claws down on Max, but a blue and black blur suddenly sped by and Max disappeared from view.
"What the-"
The blur then reappeared behind him as the twins showed up with Max safely by their side.
XLR8 (Jen) lifted her visor, a disappointed look splattered all over her face. "You're no Plumber. You're nothing but a fraud!"
"We really looked up to you, too!" XLR8 (Ben) said.
"Guys, listen to me," Phil said. "We don't need your grandpa. We could start back up the Plumbers again. Just the three of us."
"Forget it!" XLR8 (Jen) spat. "We never abandon family!"
"And there's nothing you can do to change our minds!" XLR8 (Ben) added.
"Sorry to hear that."
The alien then pried his claw from the ground and roared ferociously.
"Say hello to an old friend: a Wigsilian Org Beast."
The Org Beast then advanced towards the group, who looked on nervously as Phil made a break for it as he opened the back door to the chamber.
"I'd love to stay but I've got lots of work to do," he said as he escaped.
The twins then got their grandfather out of the way of the Org Beast's attacks before advancing on it themselves and bringing on their own raipd fast attacks, which seemed to do no damage.
Max then ran for the cabinets to find some kind of weapon to help his grandchildren. But he was unsatisfied with what he found in each one. "Where is it? Where is it?!"
"Hey Grandpa, could you pick up the pace?" Jen asked, dodging a ground pound.
Suddenly, the watches started beeping down and the twins gulped as the Org Beast threw a plank of wood at them as they timed out.
"...because we sure can't," Ben groaned.
"Got it!" Max said, picking up a grenade. He tossed it at the Org Beast and it released a green gas that knocked the beast out once it inhaled enough of it. He then ran up to the twins and helped them up as they rubbed their heads, sore with pain.
"Where's Gwen?" They all asked.
Said redhead was investigating Phil's car that was parked underneath the Rust Bucket.
She then saw the elevator light up and she hid inside the car as the traitorous Plumber exited the elevator and got in his car, throwing the Null Void Projector into the passenger seat.
"And who says crime doesn't pay?"
He then exited the Plumber's base in his car, completely unaware of Gwen hiding in the passenger seat as she looked on nervously.
The Rust Bucket followed him, hot on his trail as the twins fastened up their seatbelts.
Max pressed a button on the dashboard and the drive shaft was replaced with a shaft used for airplanes. The radio antenna retracted inside the RV and two thrusters opened up out of the back of the roof and two brakes out of the rear of the vehicle. The thrusters heated up and the RV shot off as the twins could barely handle the speed.
"So, how many aliens did you store in that Null Void thingy?" Ben asked.
"At least a couple hundred," Max said. "But it's a portal to another dimension. In theory, it could have millions inside of it. Some of them might not even be from this universe! If Scarlett's presence is any indication, other dimensions entirely separate from ours could very well exist with alien species that may not even exist in this one."
In Phil's car, the traitorous Plumber was completely oblivious to Gwen as she eyed the Null Void Projector as she nervously shot her hand out to pick it up.
Sadly, Phil noticed her in his rearview mirror and he shot his hand out and grabbed the Projector just as Gwen did and the two struggled for it. "Oh no you don't!"
Fortunately, a truck came passing on the other side of the road and Phil broke the struggle and gave a sharp turn to avoid it.
Gwen went flying back into the back seat with the Projector in her hand. She then rolled down the window. "Better start thinking about a new line of work, because this thing is going bye-bye!"
Phil glared and slammed on the brakes, causing Gwen to lose her grip on the Projector. Phil smirked as he pressed a button on the steering wheel, which then glowed with a light.
"Autopilot engaged."
Phil then unbuckled his seatbelt and resumed the struggle with Gwen for the Projector. Unfortunately, the Projector activated and opened a portal to the Null Void just as the Rust Bucket came pulling up behind them.
"You're right," Phil smugly said to Gwen. "We could use a distraction."
A grey beast came out of the portal with a wide gaping mouth full of fangs, a pair of bat-like wings, and some tentacles flowing behind it as it growled and came flying by.
"Something tells me that's not the state bird of South Dakota!" Ben said.
The beast then crashed onto the Rust Bucket and glared as the twins activated their battle armor and glared as Ben dialed in his desired alien.
"I need some muscle to beat this thing! Four Arms of muscle!"
He then slammed the Omnitrix and transformed into...
"Grey Matter? I said muscle, not miniscule!"
"Oh for the love of Pete!" Jen shouted as she ran for the chest and instantly brought out her plasma cannon that she got from Rojo before she slung it over her shoulder, picked up her brother and transformed into Firefly as she flew towards the beast from the other side.
Little did they know, a news helicopter was hovering in the air just a few miles away from them as it caught the attention and the pilot then noticed the aliens attacking with the cars close by.
"Hey, we got another one of those alien attacks and the good aliens are back to help," the newscaster said as he started rolling the film.
"I'll bring us in for a closer look," the pilot said as he flew the helicopter closer to the action.
"Sis, throw me towards the alien's back!"
"As you wish!" Firefly said as she tossed her brother to the alien beast and examined the quills on its back.
"Triggering the correct sequence of synapses should allow me some form of rudimentary motor control... I sure wish I knew what I was talking about."
He then pulled on tow of the quills, which pulled the beast off of the Rust Bucket and then he flew beside his sister as the pair and their grandfather chased after the traitorous ex-Plumber.
Firefly then flew next to her brother as he reared towards Phil's car. "Now!"
Grey Matter then hopped off the beast as it crashed into the car before his sister caught him.
Phil felt the impact and smashed into the dashboard, triggering the airbag as it inflated and he was caught in a daze, losing his grip on the Projector as Gwen caught it and Max pulled up right next to the car as they both opened the doors to the respective vehicles as Max shouted to her.
"Get in, quick!"
Gwen then gulped as she gave a jump and leaped into the Rust Bucket before she fell over, dazed onto the floor as Max used a button on the dashboard to close the door.
Firefly then unslung her cannon and aimed it carefully at the car.
"This is for trying to kill my grandfather, you bugger!" she said before firing the cannon and once it hit the car, it caused it to crash into the mountain, with the alien on top of it.
Phil stepped out of the car, dazed as the news helicopters then showed up, recording the whole chase.
"You two better back off or I'll release every alien in this thing!"
"Then you'll be out of a job," Grey Matter said as he gestured to the news cameras and helicopters that were close by, recording the whole thing. "The whole world will know that it was you who released them. No one would pay you to capture them again."
"It doesn't have to be this way!" Phil said. "We could all work together."
"I don't think so," Firefly stated, putting her hands on her hips. "These are two heroes who aren't for sale."
Gwen then reached for the rearview mirror, which was jerked loose from the crash as the Omnitrix symbols started beeping.
"Well then you're all going to be very busy," Phil spat as he charged up the Projector.
"Sorry, we're on summer vacation," Grey Matter joked as Gwen then tossed him the mirror and the beam reflected off of it and back onto Phil, sending him to the Null Void as the Rust Bucket then showed up as the Omnitrixes timed out, showing the twins in their battle armors as Jen smiled and waved to the crowd as her brother used the Projector to send the flying beast back to the Null Void.
"See ya," Gwen said.
"And Ii definitely wouldn't wanna be ya," Jen smiled.
"That was incredible," a reporter said as she walked up to the twins, their true identities hidden by the armor as all of them said as Ben and Jen smiled and waved to the crowd as Gwen rolled her eyes.
"So all of those alien heroes that have been popping up all over the country?" another male reporter asked as he walked up.
"That was us," Jen said to them. "All of them. At the campsite in California, at Sparksville, at Mt. Rushmore. It was all us."
"Can you tell us your names? The people out there should know who saved them all those times."
Max then stepped out of the RV and smiled at the two and nodded his head, proud at his grandchildren.
Ben and Jen smiled to each other and nodded, their faces hidden by their visors.
"You can call us... the Omni Twins," Ben said.
Back at the Plumber's base, Max used the Null Void Projector on the green insectoid alien, finishing up his work.
"Well, that's the last of them," he stated. "I'm sorry I had to keep my past a secret for so long. I should've known I could trust you guys."
"It's okay," Gwen smiled.
"And for what it's worth, Ben, Phil was right about one thing. You would've made a great Plumbers. All three of you."
Max then placed the Null Void Projector safely back into its chamber, where no one else could use it for evil again.
"Hey, we're your grandkids. What do you expect?" Jen asked.
""What about Phil?" Ben asked.
"I think there's some things about this job we're better off not knowing," Max said.
"You're probably right," Jen shrugged as the family left.
In the Null Void, which was an orange and amber-colored void with a bunch of island-like rocks floating in it, a portal opened which sent Phil hurtling through the void before he landed on a rock and looked around fearfully at the aliens floating around the void.
"So, a newcomer to this awful place, huh?" a gruff voice asked as the camera shifted to someone looking on from a distant cliff above.
She was a young girl who had unevenly cut black hair with a bang over the left side of her face, with green eyes and she wore caveman-like clothes that looked like they were made with old scraps and the hide from aliens in the area. She had wraps around her feet from Vulpinmancer fur and a spear made from alien bones and a stray piece of metal tied together and she was roasting some sort of alien over a campfire she had next to her.
"Maybe he'll somehow know how to get me out of this awful place."
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