Chapter 2: Chapter 2: Washington BC
A fire was going on in an apartment building in Washington D.C. A mother and son were running for the door only for flaming debris to fall around them. They were about to be crushed and they braced themselves. But the crushing blow never came. They opened their eyes and looked to see Ben as the fire alien that he now called Heatblast holding up the debris.
"Who are you?" the son asked.
"*grunt* I'm here to help," Heatblast said. He tossed the debris aside and rubbed his hands together and then started absorbing the flames in the room into his body. He then led the family out the door.
They went out into the hallway to a staircase.
"This way!"
As soon as he said that, the staircase caved in.
"Uh, on second thought, that way." He pointed to the hallway and they looked to see a dead end with a window. Heatblast then fired a heatray and blasted a hole into the wall and then punched it out of the wall.
After the hole was made, Jen flew up as a new alien. She was a fuschia pink humanoid butterfly alien with pink and purple-patterned wings and two antennae sticking out of her short pink hair. She wore a sleeveless one-piece pink dress with the watch symbol on her belt and no shoes. She was hovering in the air as her wings flapped 12 times per second like a real butterfly. She called this form Battlefly.
"Come. Trust in me," Battlefly said as she held out her hands in a reassuring gesture.
The mother looked nervous as she gestured her son forward and Battlefly took him in her arms as she flew him down to the ground. She then flew back up and did the same for the mother. She then flew back up to her brother and smirked at him.
"You know, I would say Heatblast isn't really a good choice for this situation, but we don't have any aliens that can jetison water," Battlefly said.
"At least this guy can absorb fire," Heatblast said as he vanished in a tornado of fire and turned back to normal on the ground as Battlefly flew down.
The civilians gasped at the sight of the two aliens. Heatblast more so than Battlefly.
"I'm sure you want to thank us personally," Heatblast said. "But really, it's all in a days work for- no way! A Gold Sumo Slammer card!"
He saw that the kid that they had just saved had three Golden Sumo Slammers cards in his hands. Sumo Slammers were Ben's favorite media. He had tons of video games, watched the cartoon, and even collected the trading cards religiously. He had ever colored card except for Golden. He had tried every single card pack he could get his hands on and never got it.
"Where'd you get it? I've been searching all over for that!"
Battlefly face-palmed and shook her head.
"Don't hold your breath, Heatblast. You'd just burn those things to a crisp the way you are now."
"It was a prize inside a box of Sumo Smacks cereal," the boy explained.
Then, the two heard a honk and saw the Rust Bucket pulled up and saw Gwen and Max in the front seat.
"Hey, Super Doofus!" Gwen explained. "The fire was just a diversion to cover up a jewelry store robbery! The bad guys are getting away!"
"What?!" Heatblast and Battlefly explained.
Heatblast looked to the cards and then back to Gwen. "Uh, I knew that."
"Let's go, Heatblast!" Battlefly ordered as Heatblast got into the Rust Bucket and Battlefly flew beside it as they took off.
At an intersection in the city, a car that was driven by the robbers sped right by, ignoring the stoplights and with no regard for the lives of the civilians as they ran away to the sidewalk. As they looked in the rearview mirror, they saw that the Rust Bucket was on their tail with Battlefly flying next to it, beating her wings rapidly.
As Max drove, he smelled something burning. He looked to see smoke coming from the seat Heatblast was in due to his molten skin.
"I knew I should've bought those asbestos seat covers when I had the chance," he deadpanned.
"Sorry, Grandpa, I can't help it," Heatblast said. "I'm hot."
Soon, Gwen blasted him with the fire extinguisher to put out the fire he set to the seat. It put out the fire on his head that instantly reignited.
"Ten superheroes on that stupid watch and you pick the one with the flaming butt?" Gwen asked.
"Well, Heatblast is all he has that can deal with fire," Battlefly said into the open window.
"Jealous?" Heatblast asked as Gwen blasted his butt with the fire extinguisher again.
The two cars turned a corner and Heatblast leaned out the window as his sister flew slightly next to him.
"Ready?" she asked, readying her arms.
"Born ready," Heatblast said as he put his hands together and formed a fireball in his hands that he tossed at the robbers' car that hit the back, sending it flying in the air. "Stee-rike!"
The car slammed back down, still on its course. Battlefly then spun her arms rapidly in a circular motion and created a small cyclone that she blasted at the car, sending it flying right into a brick wall as the driver screamed and the car crashed down to the ground as the robbers rubbed their heads in a daze.
The twins then pulled the ruined doors off of the car and glared.
"Unless you guys want a permanent sunburn, hands against the wall," Heatblast ordered.
"That means you," Battlefly said as the robbers obliged.
Then, the watch symbols started beeping and Jen looked nervous.
"You guys picked the wrong day to be bad-." Heatblast said as Battlefly crossed her hands over her neck a few times as the watches gave out a flash of red and purple light and the twins returned to normal, Jen landing on the ground as she was still hovering in the air as Battlefly.
"-guys," Ben finished.
"Huh?" one of the robbers said, noticing the change in his voice as Ben looked to see the twins, Ben looking confident and Jen looking worried. "Hey! It's just two kids! Get the jewels."
Ben then looked over himself and then saw his dead watch with the red faceplate. "Wow, time sure flies when you're having fun."
"Why can't these things have clocks so we can tell how long there is until we turn back?" Jen sighed before chuckling. "We've decided to let you guys off with a warning this time."
Luckily, some police cruisers came riding up and the cops got out and pointed their guns at the robbers.
"Freeze!" one cop ordered.
"They're all yours officers!" Jen smiled.
"Now I know you all want to thank us but-" Ben started.
"Step aside, kids, this isn't playtime," the cop said, handcuffing one of the robbers.
"Playtime?" Jen asked. "But we're the ones who captured them!"
The officer ignored them as he and his partner carried the robbers away.
"It's not fair!" Ben shouted. "We're the heroes! Aw man!"
"Sometimes I wish we could just reveal what we can do. Just to see what it's like to get credit for being a hero," Jen sighed.
"I know, kids. But it's not just for your own safety. It's for your families as well." Max said.
The next morning elsewhere, a man with a bald spot on his head in a suit was knocking on an apartment building with a sign hanging over the door that said "Dr. Animo."
"Animo!" the man said. "I know you're in there! Open up!"
The man entered the apartment and heard a bunch of animal sounds and saw a bunch of cages with a bunch of animals in them. There were birds, reptiles, and mammals of all sorts. he took a whiff of the air.
"Ew. Smells like a zoo in here," he said. That's because it kind of was a zoo.
As he wandered, a shadow appeared behind him.
He looked into one of the cages, a bullfrog leaped out of a log with a ribbit and the shadow walked up behind him, stepping into the light and startling him.
The shadow was revealed to be a man with ultra pale-almost green skin that obviously hadn't seen the sunlight in a few weeks. He had white hair in a ponytail, brown eyes, and crooked teeth. He wore a blue shirt with a brown vest, orange pants, and black gloves and boots. This was obviously Dr. Animo.
"How did you get in!" he demanded.
"Past key," the man said. "I am still your landlord, remember? Probably not since your rent is six months past due."
"All of my funds go into my research," Animo said. "Now get out! You're disturbing me." He went back to his animals.
"Looks like you were disturbed long before I got here, pal," the landlord said. "Listen, Doc, you and your furry friends are out on the street unless you pony up the green."
"Pony up," Animo said. "Interesting choice of... phrases." He said the frog down onto a table. "You must be an animal lover. Then you're gonna love this." He placed some sort of helmet on his head that looked like it was made from a pasta strainer and other parts. It had two antennae-like protrusions on it and a strap on the bottom of it. He also placed some sort of strap over his vest with some sort of dial at the strap that connected it.
The landlord just laughed at how ridiculous Animo looked. "What's that? You're a member of the moose lodge or something?"
"This is my Transmodulator," Animo explained. "Phase Number One: It creates and accelerates mutations at the genetic level. Observe." He turned the dial on his chest, boosting the power.
Red sparks shot out of the Transmodulator and blasted the frog. Right before their very eyes, the frog began to grow and mutate into something truly monstrous. It was now about ten times its normal size and now had four red eyes, multiple orange growths all along its body, some crests on the its head and it now had two horns sticking out of its temples, making it seem like a literal bullfrog.
The landlord screamed as the mutant frog chomped down on him and started chewing him. He continued screaming, but it was muffled inside the frog's mouth.
"I'm sorry," Animo said with an evil grin. "I can't hear you. Sounds like you have a frog in your throat. *laughs* Or is that the other way around!? *laughs maniacally*"
The frog then spit the landlord out and he crashed against the wall, covered in gross green saliva. He groaned in pain before passing into unconsciousness.
Animo held up a photo and glared. "So close to having what is rightfully mine. All I need is a few lousy components to finish my work!
"So whatever you needs from hairspray to state-of-the-art electronics, you'll find under one roof at the grand opening of the district's newest Mega Mart!" an advertisement said over the Television, (which, for some reason I can't explain, Animo left on) conveniently.
"Ah, just what the Doctor ordered," Animo said, grinning evilly.
Speaking of the Mega Mart, our heroes were shopping there now. Ben looked to his side and noticed the cereal isle. He then stepped aside to find the Sumo Smacks cereal and at the bottom left corner, there was a caption that said "Free: Inside Sumo Slammer Cards."
"Sumo Slammer cards! Cool" he exclaimed.
He then grinned mischievously as he got an idea.
Back with Jen, Gwen, and Max, who were standing with the shopping cart, Max picked up a can.
"Only canned octopus? I thought this store prided itself on wide selection," Max complained.
"Uh, Grandpa? No offense, but can we please, please, please have a normal dinner just once on this vacation? One that doesn't involve stir-fried tentacles?" Gwen asked.
"Please. I don't know how much more of your cooking my stomach can take! I'm not Japanese!" Jen said, practically crying.
"Nonsense," Max smiled. "Now where do you suppose they keep the sheep's bladders."
At that, Jen looked like she was about to burst into tears at when the cousins saw a blast of green light and instantly knew what that meant.
"Ben!" Gwen scolded as the two looked to see the cereal isle absolutely ransacked and was an absolute mess as Jen rubbed her temples in frustration.
"Sorry, Gwen. I can't take him anywhere," Jen said.
They walked down the isle to see a box fumbling around.
"Aw man, another Red Card!" a nasally voice complained from inside the box.
Jen pulled out Ben and held him in her grip. He was a four-inch-tall grey-skinned frog-like alien with large green eyes with rectangular pupils. He wore a green jumpsuit with a black stripe going down it and had the watch symbol on his back. Ben called this form Grey Matter.
"What are you doing?" Gwen asked, angry.
"Uh, looking for the Gold Sumo Slammer card. Duh!" Grey Matter said.
"Ben! We're supposed to use our powers to help people. Not find some stupid trading card!" Jen scolded. "As Spider-Man always goes by, 'with great power comes great responsibility.'"
Unfortunately for the kids, one of the employees named Regis as it said on his name tag walked up behind them. Jen panicked quickly and held Grey Matter behind her back to hide him.
"Just what do you think you're doing, young ladies?" Regis asked angrily.
"It wasn't us! It was my brother!" Jen said.
"Well, no matter who it was, somebody is going to have to pay for all this!" Regis said.
The girls groaned in frustration.
The family's shopping cart was now filled with cereal as Jen slammed her head against the wall, not caring about the headache given how much of a headache she already had with her brother's antics.
"So, why are we buying all this cereal?" Max asked.
"Well, we would've only had to buy the one I found the Gold Sumo Slammer Card in if Gwen didn't but in with her big butt!" Ben yelled, now back to normal.
Jen gasped at that and twitched her right eye in shock.
"Hello! You were trashing the whole cereal isle just to find some stupid piece of cardboard!"
Jen walked over and placed her hands on her brother's shoulders.
"Ben, I appreciate how much this card means to you. But don't you think you're getting a little obsessed?"
"Maybe you're right, Jen. I don't deserve a Gold Sumo Slammer card. I mean, it's not like I saved a bunch of people from a burning building or anything like that!"
"One, we saved those people together. And two, if we could reveal that we were the ones who did it, we would get so much more than just a measly card! Now I know that you're obsessed." Jen said.
"Superhero guilt?" Gwen asked. "That's pretty low."
"Whatever it takes," Ben said.
"Why? Why would you embarrass me like that?" Jen asked, disappointment clear in her face as they walked on.
As they continued into the electronics isle, Ben noticed a stand with the cards in it.
"Wow! Sumo Slammer Cards! The complete set!"
"Let's check out the pet department," Max suggested.
"I'll stay behind and make sure he doesn't get into trouble," Jen said as Max nodded.
"Please tell me you aren't looking for our breakfast," Gwen begged.
Jen looked confused as they walked away. "Yeah, why are they going to the pet department. We don't even have a pet." She walked over to Ben who was staring at the cards. There were 5 different cards: two red in a different pose, two blue in a different pose, and the rarest of them all: the gold sumo slammer card.
"Someday, you will be mine," Ben said as the other cards faded from his view and the gold card shined brightly.
"Ben, look. I'm a fan of Sumo Slammers too, but I'm not obsessed with it. Don't you know it's wrong to destroy tons of unpaid cereal boxes just to get a card?" Jen asked.
"It's not just a card. It's something that almost nobody has! I'll do what I can to get it and nobody is going to stop me."
Jen sighed and face-palmed. "Seriously. Sometimes, I can't believe that we're twins."
"Me either."
Then, there was a sudden rumbling and the television showed static and shook before some fell off the shelves. Sensing what was about to happen, Jen tackled Ben out of the way as the wall caved in and Dr. Animo appeared, riding on his mutant frog. He was now wearing red goggles and had discarded his vest.
The twins then looked at each other in worry and shock.
Animo then jumped off of his frog and then started gathering the chips from one of the shelves into a bag.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?!" Jen shouted, getting the doctor's attention.
The mutant frog then shot it's tongue out at them, which they narrowly avoided by side-stepping, only to hit a stack of boxes which caved in on top of our two heroes. They then stuck their heads and arms out, dazed.
Animo then stepped up to them once their vision cleared.
"Don't be a hero, kids. Just run along and play!" Animo ordered.
Ben looked at his watch, which was still in the red.
"You are so lucky that I can't go hero."
"Maybe if you weren't so obsessed over a certain trading card, you could stop him." Jen whispered.
"Alright, I'll give you that one." Ben said. "It's up to you."
Jen then looked at her watch and crawled back into the boxes just before Animo walked away and got back onto his frog and two security guards ran up to the scene.
"Get down off that... giant... frog and put your hands up!" one of the guards ordered.
The frog then leapt away in the direction of the pet department.
"Uh, we got a grab-and-dash in electronics. Male, 5'6", riding a on a giant, uh, frog or toad," the security guard reported into his walkie-talkie. "Trust me, you can't miss him."
Then, there was a flash of pink light out of the pile of boxes and then, Jen's feline alien form that she now called Wildcat came bounding out with a snarl and ran after Animo.
Ben then looked at the guards and shrugged. "Strange day, isn't it." He then ran after his sister.
In the pet department, Max was looking at his shopping list while Gwen played with a hamster.
Suddenly, Animo and his frog leapt in and Animo adjusted his Transmodulator and used it to mutate the hamster into a giant version of itself with 8 red eyes like a spider and then did the same to a parrot in its cage.
"Arise to your full potential, my pets!"
That was when Ben arrived from one corner and Wildcat pounced up onto one of the shelves, seeing the giant pigeon and hamster, which were normally food for felines. She then narrowed her eyes with a smirk, smiled, and licked her lips in anticipation.
Ben went running after them and saw the new mutants and Gwen and Max went running for their lives, screaming.
The mutant hamster pursued them before being tackled off of the shelf by Wildcat as she then kicked him off of her with both legs, into a stack of boxes.
"Oh, man. What kind of pet food are they selling around here?" Ben asked, surprised.
Wildcat then stood in front of her brother, cousin, and grandfather protectively as Animo and his three mutants stood in front of her.
"Back down, Wildcat. There's no way that you can handle all three of them by yourself," Max said, putting a hand on her shoulder and she purred disappointedly.
Animo spread out his arms and announced his presence. "Behold! The genius of Dr. Animo! Nothing can stop me from getting what I deserve! Mark my words: today, I will make history! Or should I say pre-history!"
"If you didn't go cereal-diving, one of those heroes could seriously help your sister stop us from becoming hamster chow!" Gwen whispered.
The hamster attacked, causing them to run away.
Wildcat then tackled the hamster and they started clawing at each other as Wildcat slashed its arm, causing it to screech in pain. The hamster then slammed her in the gut, causing her to fall net to Ben, but not before adjusting her falling body and landing on all fours.
Ben looked at his still-charging watch and then at the giant hamster. "I don't need to go hero to stop an overgrown furball."
Wildcat snarled at him.
"Sorry."
The mutant hamster stalked Gwen and Max before it was hit in the head with a football. It then turned its head to see Ben, wearing a helmet and riding a scooter. It then charged after him as he went on his scooter before Wildcat went charging after the two.
The three raced through the store's aisles before the hamster pounced, knocking over several jars of mustard as Wildcat tackled him and bit him in the shoulder. Ben then skated over the pair, the shelf acting as a ramp, before the hamster broke free and almost ate Ben like a Piranha Plant. Ben then landed on another shelf and it tipped over, trapping the hamster underneath the two shelves as Wildcat backflipped off of the shelf and transformed back into her default form in a flash of purple light and landed in a crouched position as Ben took off his helmet.
Gwen and Max walked by as the hamster collapsed from exhaustion.
"Uh-huh! That's right! Not even giant hamsters can beat the Tennyson Twins!" Ben cheered.
"Right here, bro," Jen said as Ben high-fived her.
"Clean-up on Isle 6," the manager said over the intercom.
Then, Animo's frog landed near them.
"Young fools! You cannot stop me! I will turn Washington D.C. into Washington B.C.!"
Then the mutant parrot flew by and Animo leaped onto it as it flew out of the skylight, destroying it, with the frog following close behind.
Jen dusted off her shirt and pants and gave out a sigh.
Then, a couple of store employees walked by them as Jen fell to her knees and started breathing heavily. "You saved the store! If there's anything I can do to repay you, just say so."
Jen then perked up and zipped away.
Ben then smiled as he thought about the Gold Sumo Slammers card. But before he could say what he wanted, Max picked him up.
"Grandpa! I was finally about to score the Gold Sumo Slammers card!" Ben complained.
"No time for that, now, Ben. We have a giant parrot to follow," Max said as he went for the Rust Bucket.
Gwen smirked as Ben stared disappointedly and followed them.
Outside as they got in the Rust Bucket and Max strapped himself in.
"Wait. Where's Jen?"
Jen then burst through the doors with a shopping bag in her hands and ran for the Rust Bucket and tripped on the step, collapsing inside and spilling a bunch of DVD cases all over herself.
"Sorry. Can't turn rewards down. Just went through to get a few more movies for my collection," Jen chuckled, picking herself up.
Gwen and Ben then stared as they picked through the DVDs she had gotten.
"Inglourious Basterds? Pulp Fiction? Django Unchained? You're a Tarantino fan?" Gwen asked, shocked.
"Um, yeah. He's only my favorite director in Hollywood. I've also picked up some Coen Brothers films, some Spielberg, some Scorsese films. Oh, and even some Cameron films." Jen said, holding up a copy of Aliens.
Max then sighed and drove off. "These kids are never going to be able to sleep with these kind of movies in the car."
Later, after night has fallen, the Rust Bucket is still following Animo riding on his parrot.
Ben was in the front seat looking quite irritated that his sister was able to get her reward and he wasn't. Meanwhile, Jen was picking through her new movies and Gwen was on her laptop, researching the team's foe.
Max smiled at the chase that was going on.
"Ah, just like the good old days before I retired."
"So exactly what kind of plumber were you, Grandpa?" Gwen asked.
Max got a nervous look on his face. "Uh-uh-A darn good one."
Jen then got a suspicious look on her face. "Yeah, how can us chasing after a crazed scientist riding on a giant parrot remind you of fixing toilets?"
Max then noticed the disappointed look on Ben's face and quickly changed the subject. "Hey, Ben. Why Are you looking so down?"
"We saved an entire Mega Mart from being a giant hamster's chew toy and what do I get? Nothing!" Ben complained. "Meanwhile, my sister gets a whole shelf's worth of movies. It's not fair."
"Being a hero isn't about others knowing you did something good, it's about you knowing you did something good," Max inquired. "Being a hero is its own reward."
Jen then looked at the movies in the box that she had gotten and then had the worst sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"Were you reading greeting cards at the Mega Mart?" Ben asked.
"Well, yes."
Gwen then gasped as her laptop beeped. "Bingo! Five years ago, Dr. Animo was a promising researcher in veterinary science. But it turned out, he was doing all kinds of twisted genetic experiments where he was mutating animals. And when he didn't win this big prize called the Verities Award, he flipped out." She then turned to her cousin with a smirk on her face. "Anything about this sound familiar, Ben?"
Max then looked out the window and saw the parrot make a left turn behind some buildings.
"We've lost him. He could be going anywhere in Washington D.C."
"Or Washington B.C. as he put it." Jen stated.
Ben then perked up at the 'B.C.' part. "That's it! I know where he's going!"
"The Natural History Museum," Ben said as the four were standing in front of said monument.
"I always wanted to visit the Smithsonian. I just never thought that it would be this way," Jen said.
Ben then leaned down and picked up a giant feather, obviously from the mutant parrot.
"Something tells me we're on the right track," Max said. "Good thinking, Ben."
"Guess even a doofus can surprise you once in a while," Gwen complimented.
"You should know," Ben said as they walked inside.
The group made their way into the B.C. section of the museum, when Jen picked up something on one of the stands. It was a chip from the Mega Mart.
They then saw Animo by the mastodon figure. He then sensed them behind him. "You are very persistent. I hate persistent."
"We all know about you and your freakazoid experiments, Dr. Animo! It's over!" Jen stated.
"Oh, but it's only just begun. See, I only needed a few components to push my work into Phase 2. Reanimation of dormant cells."
"Uh, does this guy come with subtitles?" Ben asked.
That was when Jen's eyes widened with horror. "Oh no. That means-"
"That's right, little girl! Bringing back life into that which has been long since lifeless! Observe!" He adjusted the dial on his Transmodulator and fired the beams at the mastodon, which came back to life with glowing red eyes and then stepped off the stand as the Tennysons stepped back in horror. "Behold the genius that is Doctor Animo!" He then ran away from the scene.
"Now would be a really good time to go hero," Gwen told the twins.
"No duh!" Ben said.
"You guys get Animo. We'll handle Jumbo," Jen said as she and her brother slammed their watch cores down. The screen split in two as the transformations occurred.
The watch sank into Ben's watch and his blood vessels expanded rapidly before spreading across his entire body, which eventually reached his eyes, which he clutched shut and when he shot them open again, they were fully golden. A second pair of arms shot out just below his primary pair and his muscle mass grew exponentially. His feet morphed themselves to only have two toes and his skin turned red with a few black crests on his face and he grew a second pair of eyes beneath the original ones. He wore a green and black one-piece bodysuit before he shot a pose. This transformation was known as Four Arms.
Jen's watch sank into her wrist before brown fur spread up her hands and then spread all over her body. Her eyes turned yellow with green sclera and her hair hardened itself into quills before it grew out into several spikes and grew down her back. Her front teeth grew larger before she spun around like a ball before the transformation ended. This form was known as Needle Mouse.
As the lights faded, Four Arms cracked all four of his knuckles while Needle Mouse got into a crouching position.
"Let's wrestle," Four Arms said before he charged forward, grabbed the mammoth's tusks, and brought it down to the ground while Needle Mouse spin-dashed away a la Sonic the Hedgehog.
Gwen and Max went to stop Ultimo only to be stopped dead in their tracks by the mutant parrot.
Gwen then looked to her side and saw a spear being held by a stuffed caveman in one of the exhibits. She grabbed it, swung it around like a bo staff and brought it down on the parrot's head before she slammed it into it's beak as it slammed it shut, breaking the spear and then ran away.
"The twins aren't the only one's with skills," Gwen smirked as they moved forward, Max in a state of shock.
However, they arrived too late as Animo used his Transmodulator on the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. It then regenerated flesh and blood as it stepped off of the exhibit. It was still missing some chunks of skin, showing the muscle.
Meanwhile, Four Arms was tossed back into the wall, leaving a dent as he saw the mammoth charged him.
Needle Mouse saw this and jumped down from the balcony with two of her quills in her hands as she brought them down on the mammoth, who shrieked in pain and thrashed around wildly with her hanging on for dear life.
Four Arms ran in and punched it in its trunk. Unfortunately, it wrapped it around him and tossed him into another dinosaur skeleton, leaivng him dazed. "You are going down, Peanuts!"
Needle Mouse was then bucked off of the mammoth and into a stuffed sabre tooth tiger.
"Okay, no more Ms. Nice Alien!" she shouted as she hopped onto Four Arm's upper left hand and started to spin dash.
"I like the way you think, sis." Ben said as he tossed his sister like a javelin and she slammed right into the mammoth, who then crashed into the pole and it collapsed on top of it.
Needle Mouse stumbled out, woozy from spinning around so much.
"Are you okay?" Four Arms asked.
"But, Mommy, I don't wanna shampoo the cupcake," Needle Mouse said with a look as she then passed out on the museum floor.
Four Arms then ran over and picked up his sleeping sister and ran towards their cousin and grandfather.
Speaking of whom, the pair of them ducked as the T-Rex's tail demolished the entryway they were standing by as Animo rode it to leave the museum.
"I'd love to stay, but I have to claim the award I so richly deserve!"
At that, the T-Rex crashed through the wall towards the hall where the award was being given out.
As Gwen and Max stood there, stunned, the mutant parrot swooped in and grabbed Gwen and flew away with her screaming.
"Ben!" Max shouted.
Four Arms ran out of the ruined wall, as Needle Mouse, who had recovered at this point, peeked out with a gasp as Four Arms leapt up using his strong legs to try to catch the parrot.
Max picked up a note that was left behind and pondered.
The parrot let out a yelp and looked back to see Four Arms gripping onto it, loosening a few of its feathers.
"No 'bye bye' for you, Birdy!"
The birdy then shook him off for a few seconds as the watch timed out as he fell to the earth. Luckily for him, he was still transformed when he hit the ground, leavingbehind a massive crater as the watched timed out in a flash of red light. Ben crawled out of the crater to see the parrot fly away with his cousin in tow.
"Gwen!"
Then, Max and Jen, who had also timed out at this point, came driving up in the Rust Bucket.
"Somebody call for a taxi?" Max asked as Ben got in.
"Don't lose sight of it this time!" Jen ordered as the RV sped away.
"Spend a summer with your grandpa, honey. It'll be an adventure," Gwen mocked her mother with a deadpan look and her arms crossed as the parrot flew away, grasping her backpack.
Meanwhile on the ground, the T-Rex roamed the streets, throwing the civilians into a panic as they ran away from it as it crushed a bus with its massive feet. Then, it let out a massive roar.
"Ah, I, too love my work," Animo said.
The camera zoomed in to its left foot, where a Gold Sumo Slammer card was stuck in its middle toe under its claw.
The parrot held Gwen's backpack in its beak atop the Washington Monument.
Gwen was freaking out as the backpack could barely support her weight. Then, she got an idea and pulled her cellphone out of her pocket.
"Well, my mother said only to use this in an emergency." She dialed a number and held the phone to her ear. "I think this qualifies."
The Rust Bucket sped through the streets as the twins and Max looked for the parrot.
"No sign of Beak Breath," Ben analyzed.
"There can't be that many places for a parrot the size of an elephant to roost," Max said before handing them the note. "Here, look at what Dr. Animo left behind."
Jen took it and the twins looked at it. "Dr. Kelly accepts Verities Award."
"He's gonna finally pick up his award!" Ben realized. "We've gotta stop him!"
"First thing's first. We gotta find your cousin," Max reminded them.
Then, the phone on the raidator rang and it showed that Gwen was dialing them.
"Gwen!" They all exclaimed.
"Hang on, cuz! We're coming!" Jen said as the camera zoomed to the parrot taking flight from the Monument, with Gwen clinging to the flagpole for dear life.
"I can't hold on much longer!"
Then, she lost her grip on the cellphone, which came plummeting down to the earth.
They parked the Rust Bucket and got out just as the phone hit the ground, shattering into a million pieces.
"Oh no!" Max exclaimed as they looked up. "Gwen will be next!"
The twins then looked at their watches, which turned green and pink, signifying they were ready for action.
"Not if we can help it!" Jen said.
"It's Hero Time!" Ben shouted as they slammed their watches.
Jen's watch started surging with pink energy then covered her whole body with a pink energy surge, and she float in the air as she spun around then curled up as her body got wrapped by multiple lava-like silks until she was conceal within the lava-theme pupa then changed to orange crystal form. The pupa start cracking then a long insectoid arm with three claws, spikes on the arm and coated with orange exoskeleton smashed of the pupa then her long legs with long thin talons and finally her head, which she matured to a young woman with light-orange skin and wore crown-like horns on her head, has C-cup breastbones, very large abdomen with light-like orb at the bottom tip and a pair of large skin-like wings. Her clothes consisted of a one-piece pink and white bodysuit with wholes for the legs. She is now a humanoid firefly-like creature with the watch symbol on her forehead. She floated around gracefully as she open her eyes, revealing her black needle-like pupils with green sclera as she gave a elegant smile, threw a kick in the air, spun around and float gracefully as she finished her transformation. This transformation was Firefly.
Ben's watch sank into his arm as the skin hardened and turned into a green exoskeleton with the hand becoming black with three clawed fingers. His head morphed, growing four golden insectoid eyes that blinked vertically and his face turned black. His body reshaped, becoming insectoid, as six green insect legs grew out of his sides, two green silk wings grew from his back, and his abdomen grew a large black stinger. The watch symbol appeared on his forehead as he flapped his wings in a pose. This transformation was Stinkfly.
As the transformations ended, Firefly turned to Stinkfly.
"Come, brother. We must save our cousin!" She then flapped her wings and flew up towards the monument.
"Since when are you in charge?" Stinkfly asked as he followed her.
"I am the older sister."
"Only by three minutes."
Gwen then finally lost her grip and went plummeting to the ground, only to be saved by Firefly as she grabbed her.
"I've got you, Gwendolyn!"
"Huh?" She then looked to see who caught her and looked to see her cousins as insectoid aliens. "Butterfly."
"Firefly," she corrected as she swung her onto her back.
"And I'm Stinkfly," he said, flying by his sister.
Gwen sniffed and barfed in her mouth. "Ew! This thing is grosser than you are normally!"
"I can't help how I smell in this form."
"Whatever. Anyway, thanks for the save." She then looked to see the parrot following them. "*gasp* Incoming!"
"Hang on!" Firefly shouted as they avoided the bird gracefully, doing aerobic tricks, much to Gwen's displeasure as she was becoming nauseous.
Soon, as Gwen rode on Firefly's back, the parrot grabbed at her with its talons. Fortunately, Firefly ducked to save their cousin.
"How rude. It's not becoming of a lady to act like this, but it's what a hero does," Firefly said as she turned around and presented her rear to the parrot before firing a heat ray from it that blasted it's wing, scorching off a few feathers and the parrot screeched in pain, but ignored it as it continued to chase them.
Gwen was getting a little green in the face at this point. "Oh. I think I'm going to be sick."
"It's not very becoming to puke on a queen, Gwendolyn," Firefly stated as the twins bee-lined towards the Washington Monument.
Soon enough, Max had made it to the top floor next to the windows of the monument after climbing the long flight of stairs.
"Like it would've killed the Founding Fathers to install an elevator," Max said, gasping for breath in exhaustion. Soon, he looked to see the fight from out of the window.
Firefly and Stinkfly looked to see their grandfather leaning out of the window signalling them.
"We can't shake Cracker Breath!" Stinkfly said. "You're going to have to trust us!"
"Trust you?!" Gwen shouted as they neared the window.
"Now, Ben!" Firefly shouted as she flew down, Gwen flying off of her only to be caught by Stinkfly by the arms. He then flew towards the window and dropped her into their grandfather's arms before flying back down the foundation of the monument.
"Come to Grandpa," Max said before they looked to see the parrot closing in on them, prompting the two of them to scream at the top of their lungs.
Fortunately, the twins tackled it into the monument's side and then threw it to the ground, where it fainted.
"You don't pick on Gwen!" Stinkfly shouted. "That's my job!"
"Go! Stop Animo!" Max ordered.
"What about you?" Firefly asked.
"We'll be fine!" Gwen reassured them.
The two of them nodded and made a bee-line for the University where the Verities Award was.
At Kelly Industries, Professor Kelly was giving a tour to two visitors. They were at a trophy case where he was presenting the Verities Award that he won in Animo's stead.
"And here is my Verities Award," Kelly said. "Of course it was an honor just to be nominated along with a group of distinguished scientists."
Suddenly, the room shook violently like an earthquake. And then, Animo and his T-Rex burst through the window, shattering it to smithereens. The T-Rex stopped as Animo glared down at his rival.
"Kelly! I believe you have something of mine!" He jumped down from his steed and seized the award. "I'd like to thank the committee for this honor!"
Then, as the T-Rex was about to eat Kelly alive, the twins came in and slammed the T-Rex across the face with their stingers. The T-Rex retaliated by slamming them with its tail and the collided with the wall and slumped to the ground, dazed.
Then, Stinkfly noticed the Gold Sumo Slammer card that was shaken loose from the T-Rex's talon. "Whoa! I struck Sumo Slammer gold!"
The two insectoid twins then noticed the T-Rex picking up Kelly by the jacket of his suit as the other scientists stood back helplessly.
"Somebody help me!" Kelly shouted.
"Oh man. This hero stuff ain't easy!" Stinkfly took off, casing another rockslide as Firefly noticed it was about to crush the card.
"Eh. What the heck." She then beat her wings rapidly to blow the card away from the rockslide before joining her brother.
The T-Rex tossed Kelly up and opened its jaws to eat him. But just before he landed in them, Stinkfly flew by and caught him.
Firefly then tossed two fireballs at him, scorching the side of his face as Animo glared at them.
"What are you pests!"
"I am Firefly!"
"And I'm Stinkfly! And we're here to kick some tail!" Stinkfly said as he set Kelly down.
"I'd like to see you try!" Animo shouted.
"Bring it on, you ruffian!" Firefly shouted.
Animo angrily fired his Transmodulator beam at them as they flew in opposite directions to avoid it.
Stinkfly fired streams of green slime from his eyestalks that his him in the side of the face. Firefly fired her heat ray at it, causing an explosion that sent Animo stumbling back as he dropped the trophy.
"No!" he shouted helplessly as it shattered on impact with the ground.
"Yoink!" Stinkfly mocked as he snatched the device from his head.
"My Transmodulator!"
Stinkfly then tossed it against the ground, causing it to send out a wave that reversed its effects. The T-Rex slowly decomposed back into a skeleton and it broke apart on top of Animo.
"Well, considering the circumstances, um, we should get out of here." Stinkfly said as Firefly snuck the card into her claws.
"Right behind you, Stinkfly," the two flew away.
Back at the Washington Monument, Max and Gwen backed up helplessly as the mutant parrot cornered them. Suddenly, the wave struck it and it was reverted back into a regular parrot that perched on Gwen's arm.
"Don't even try to kiss up to me now."
The Tennysons stood with a smirk as the cops took Animo away.
"Let me go! I deserve that award! I've got it coming to me! I want it!" Animo shouted as he was loaded into the cop car.
"For some reason, that sounds kind of familiar." Ben said, recalling how he was .
As the Rust Bucket rode away, the kids were discussing their adventure in Washington DC.
"Well, I didn't get that Gold Sumo Slammer card. But at least I snagged a trophy from Animo," Ben said as he placed the Transmodulator into a cardboard box, which the twins were now going to use as their Trophy Box for anything they can use as trophies against the villains they faced.
"I believe that saving Washington D.C. is it's own reward," Jen said.
"Don't forget that you two saved me too," Gwen smiled. "Thanks."
Ben then turned to Jen to discuss Firefly's attitude. "I don't know if I like you acting proper like that," Ben said. "It's kind of creepy."
"Hey, it's only when I'm Firefly," Jen said.
"What about your pyrophobia? You don't seem to be bothered by it at all when you're Firefly," Gwen asked.
"I don't know. Maybe it just comes with the territory," Jen said, shrugging her shoulders. "Speaking of which, I kind of have something to show you." She then flicked her wrist and produced the Gold Sumo Slammer card, much to Ben's shock and awe as he took it.
"Where did you-"
"Don't say I don't do anything for you. I felt guilty about taking advantage of the Mini Mart thing, so I decided to cut you some slack."
Ben then hugged her tightly. "You're the greatest sister ever!"
"It was nothing you wouldn't have done for me."
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