Chapter 3: Chapter 3: The Krakken
Late at night with a full moon in the sky by a lake, Ben was in his blue bathing suit and ran up to the lake. "Cannonball!" He then did said dive into the lake before surfacing and spitting the water out. "And he scores: Yes! PERFECT 10! Yeah! *Imitates crowd cheering* and the crowd loves him!"
We then see Jen and Gwen on the boardwalk as Jen smiled and shook her head while Gwen sighed.
"A perfect dweeb is more like it."
"Hey, let the kid have some fun. It's not like he's making fun of you right now," Jen said.
"Yeah. Come on, dive in!" Ben encouraged.
"Are you kidding me? Please! Who knows what nasty slimy things are slithering around in there?" Gwen then shone her flashlight on Ben. "I rest my case."
"Okay, that was totally uncalled for." Jen chided her cousin.
"What's the point of camping by a lake if you're afraid to get wet?" Ben asked as he splashed the girls.
"Knock it off, midget!" Gwen complained before walking away.
"Hey!" Ben shouted as he started flailing in the water. "What's happe-" He then fell below the water as if drowning.
"Very funny, Ben!" Jen said, not convinced in the least bit, seeing as she sees her brother every day and is used to his little jokes. "I'm not falling for it."
Gwen then walked back, a bit concerned as the two saw bubbles rising up out of the water with a look of concern. "Ben?"
Then, a giant monster covered in seaweed rose up from out of the water with a growl as the girls screamed and hugged each other in fear. But, as they dropped the flashlight, the light shone on the monster's face, reavealing that of Four Arms.
"Not funny, bro!" Jen shouted. "Still getting used to the pranks he can pull now that he has that watch."
"You should've seen the looks on your faces! Ah, priceless!" Ben said as pulled off some of the seaweed.
"You are so busted when I tell Grandpa!" Gwen shouted as she ran to the Rust Bucket, leaving a very disappointed Jen behind to chide her brother.
"Seriously, Ben. We're supposed to use our powers for the right reasons, not to pull pranks or to cheat at anything."
"I can't believe you two fell for it! A monster in the lake!" Four Arms said.
"Okay, you got me there. How stupid am I?" Jen asked herself.
Then, without warning, the twins looked to see a green-scaled monster with two tendrils coming from its mouth and a long neck rise up from out of the lake, causing the two to scream.
"Apparently, not that stupid, sis!"
The monster grabbed Four Arms with its tentacle and tossed him a few miles out further into the lake. Before he could get a chance to resurface and fight back, he was grabbed again.
"Hang on, bro!" Jen shouted as she dialed her watch and slammed the core down, releasing a flash of bright pink light. The watch sank into her wrist and her hand was enveloped in green crystal, which then followed suit with her entire body before it closed in around her head and her eyes turned yellow. Four crystal spikes grew from her back and her outfit morphed into a pink jumpsuit with the watch symbol on her left breast area. She then struck a pose as she transformed into Diamondhead.
Diamondhead then tossed a few diamond projectiles at the monster, but they just shattered off of the monster's hard scale body. The monster then grabbed her as well and dragged her under the water along with her brother. They then looked into the monster's giant blue eye and gasped, letting loose their breath before Diamondhead focused, and grew her blade slightly, causing the monster to let her go due to the pain.
Four Arms broke out of his tendril by struggling out and the two then resurfaced and swam to the shore as fast as they could before running for the Rust Bucket and barging inside, waking up their drowsy cousin and grandfather.
"We were just attacked by a giant lake monster!" Four Arms shouted.
Gwen then threw her pillow at him, hitting him in the face. "Hello, current events. You already got me with that one." She then pulled the covers over her head and tried to go back to sleep.
"But I'm not kidding this time. Jen was there with me, she'll testify to this!"
"It's true! I couldn't make this kind of stuff up if I wanted to! Then again, I couldn't make up getting a watch that turns me into alien creatures either and look where I am now," Diamondhead said.
"Come on, kiddos. Joke's over," Max said, sleepily.
"But- we-" Four Arms studdered as the watches timed out.
"Get some sleep. Remember, we have an early day tomorrow for our fishing trip."
The watches timed out, leaving the two back in their human forms.
"Come on, Ben. He's right. We could use some rest," Jen said before yawning, stretching her arms up and going inside, leaving a disappointed Ben.
The next morning, the four were walking towards the dock with the twins trying their best to explain their encounter the previous night. Max was holding a fishing rod and a cooler for the fish they were to catch.
"No, really!" Ben exclaimed. "It was humongous with these red glowing eyes!"
"I'm sure it was just some kind of big fish," Max said. "That's all."
"Yeah," Gwen agreed. "So give the mega-fish story a rest, will you Captain Dweeb?"
"He's not lying! I was there!" Jen said. "When I'm testifying to what Ben's saying, it's probably true."
"Okay, I can expect this kind of behavior from Ben. But from you?" Gwen asked as Jen folded her arms and huffed.
Ben then walked ahead and saw a bucket full of live worms squirming around. He then smirked devilishly, grabbed a handful, and showed them to Jen and Gwen, disgusting both of them.
"Breakfast?"
"Oh, Ben. Gross!" Jen said.
"What's with the bucket of slimeys?" Gwen asked.
"Bait," Max explained.
"Yeah, well, I think I'm going to pass on the fishing thing." Gwen stated. "I'll stay here and catch some sun instead."
"I think I'll keep her company," Jen said as the girls started walking away.
"Okay. But you don't know what you're missing," Max said.
"I'm pretty sure we do," Gwen said as the two walked away.
Max and Ben turned to the boat behind them, where the captain was preparing to go out. He wore a beige long-sleeved shirt and a red and white cap.
"Captain Shaw?" Max addressed.
"Who wants to know?"
"I'm Max Tennyson. And this is my grandson, Ben."
Ben waved hello.
"We charted your boat today for a fishing trip."
"Well what are you waiting for, an engraved invitation? Get aboard," Shaw said as he turned to the controls. "I ain't got all day."
Ben and Max climbed aboard as the boat left the dock and headed out on the lake.
As the boat continued on, Max turned to Shaw as he was driving the boat.
"Anything interesting to catch there today?" he asked.
"More than you can possibly imagine," Shaw answered. He then turned to Ben, who was looking out over the boat and into the water. "Looks like your boy is using his breakfast as chum."
Ben had put on a life jacket for safety as he gazed out into the water.
"Ben, you feeling okay?" Max asked as Ben stood up.
"Yeah. I'm just keeping an eye out for the lake monster. That thing's not taking me by surprise this time."
Max raised an eyebrow at that.
Ben looked out and saw something unusual and gasped. "There it is!"
But as the boat passed it by, Ben realized that it was just a fallen tree branch with a discarded cooler stuck in it.
"Oh. My bad."
"Now, Ben," Max addressed. "This is a fishing trip. Not a monster hunt."
"It's called the Krakken," Shaw said.
"Whoa. You know about it?" Ben asked.
"It's my business to know about it," Shaw said as he showed a picture he took of the lake. The picture had a shadowy figure under the water, as if it was the monster that the twins encountered before. "I've been on its tail for years. Folks say my rudder's not right."
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Max asked.
"Sightings go back hundreds of years on this very lake," Shaw explained. "Some say its a myth. Not me. I can take you to a spot where I personally laid eyes upon the beast. That is, if you got the stomach for some real adventure."
Ben beamed up to his grandfather hopefully and Max sighed in defeat.
"I guess so."
"All right!"
Meanwhile at the docks, Gwen was staring up at the sun while Jen strummed her guitar to herself and muttered osme lyrics to herself as she tried to make up a song in her mind.
"Then I wouldn't be bitter; I'd just be better now," she hummed before she looked over at her cousin and sighed heavily before she walked over to her with a sigh. "We weren't joking about the Krakken, you know."
"Oh, really?" Gwen asked as she sat up from her laying position on the docks.
"Before the start of the summer, I would've sided with you on this. But after what's happened so far, even if I didn't experience it for myself and Ben was alone, I would've sided with him."
"Why? You know as well as I do that it's crazy talk to think of a lake monster attack."
"Is it?" Gwen raised an eyebrow at her cousin's remark. "I mean, think about it. Two alien watches from the sky dropped down right in front of me and my brother," Jen said, showing her watch. "I'm just saying. Strange things have happened to us. Let's not rule a monster attack out of the realm of possibility just yet."
A bit later, Shaw showed the boys the controls equipped on his boat to help him catch the Krakken.
"Sonar, hi-def video setup, ultrasound, I got it all," he said. "And I will find it. Mark my words. "It can't hide forever."
Ben stared in wonder before Max took him aside to have a word from him.
"Ben," he said, "I don't want you to put too much stock into what Mr. Shaw says. I don't think he has both oars in the water if you know what I mean."
"Why? Just because he saw the Krakken too?" Ben asked with a bit of an upset tone. "I'm telling you that and I aren't crazy."
Later, the boat had stopped. For in front of them were a few buoys floating in the water held together with a line that read 'Do Not Enter' forming a barrier over the further area of the lake.
"'Do Not Enter?'" Shaw asked in shock. "What's going on?"
"Looks official," Max said. "Maybe we should turn back."
"Nonsense. This is my lake and I'll go wherever I-"
"Fishing boat," A male voice interrupted. "Stop where you are."
The boys looked over to see a big white and blue boat with a few men on it. The side of the boat had the initials F.O.F. written on the side in blue bold letters. The men wore blue uniforms with black collars. The leader had brown hair and a goatee and he stepped up to the edge of the boat with a friendly smile.
"I'm Jonah Melville, the founder of Friends of Fish. We've closed this section of the lake for an environmental study," Jonah explained. "You'll have to turn your boat around."
"Who's gonna make me, fish-hugger?"
"Well," Max said, "since I charted the boat for the day, I believe I'm in charge. Isn't that right, Captain?"
Shaw sighed in disappointment, knowing that Max was right. He then walked off muttering to himself.
"But what about the Krakken?" Ben asked.
Jonah laughed at that. "The Krakken? Not that old fish story. Now look, I'm a marine biologist and anyone who tells you they've seen a monster in this lake is fishing without a hook. Then, Jonah and his crewmen walked away.
Ben then frowned and sighed.
Later, the Friends of Fish boat was leading Shaw's boat back to the docks with a very disappointed Ben.
Then, suddenly, Shaw noticed that his sonar picked up a blip from under the lake. "The sonar! We've found something!"
A fin was scraping the surface of the lake, heading straight for the boat.
"Or something found us," Ben said. "Look!"
The boys then looked out over the side of the boat to see the fin coming for them.
"The Krakken!"
The fin then went back under. An overhead shot saw that the Krakken was directly under Shaw's boat, but ignored it as it moved straight under them.
"It's heading for the docks!" Shaw exclaimed.
"Jen and Gwen!" Ben and Max shouted together, realizing the girls were in danger.
As the Krakken was heading for the docks, the girls were resting on the edge of the docks, kicking their feet.
"Aw, finally a little sun," Gwen said. "And with Ben nowhere in sight, we can just lay back and relax."
"You know that he just loves to have fun. I live with him, he tends to annoy me way more than you. But I always get him back."
"You don't think I live with that? Kenneth tends to pick on me too, you know?" Gwen stated.
"Hey, he's not as bad as having a twin..." That was when Gwen's eyes started to water from that. "Oh, yeah. Look, I'm sorry about what happened to Becky. If I lost Ben, I wouldn't know what I would do."
Gwen then sighed as she looked out on the lake. "At least you have your twin. I may never see mine again."
Shaw then rang out his horn to warn the people on the dock.
"How many times do you two think we're going to fall for this?" Gwen asked, noticing the fin.
"Um, Gwen. That isn't Ben," Jen said, getting a worried look in her eye as the Krakken rose up in all of its glory and let out a loud shriek.
The girls then screamed as it smashed the docks, sending the civilians sprawling into the lake. They then resurfaced, the girls among them, their soaking wet hair drifting down in front of their faces.
"Um, Gwen, I hate to say 'I told you so' but... I TOLD YOU WE WEREN'T CRAZY!" Jen shouted.
"Hey, Ben's always done those kind of pranks in the past. How was I supposed to know that this was the one time he wasn't joking," Gwen said, with a shrug.
"I told you, it's real!" Shaw exclaimed. "The Krakken lives!"
"Sail now, gloat later," Max said. He then leaned down to Ben and put a hand on his shoulder. "Someone's got to rescue those people."
"I'm way ahead of you," Ben said, leaping into the lake and dialing his watch, showing the fish icon. "Ripjaws to the rescue." He then took a deep breath and ducked under the water, before slamming the Omnitrix. But who came up was not who he expected.
"Hey! I said Ripjaws! Not XLR8! Stupid watch!"
Jen then looked to Gwen. "Sorry, cuz. Momma's gotta go to work." She then pressed her watch which showed her version of Ripjaws. "I wonder if these guys have ever seen a Mermaid?" She then ducked under the water and pressed her watch, releasing a flash of pink light. But she, unfortunately, came up as someone different.
"Oh come on! Not Battlefly!" She then swam over to the shore and trapped herself in a minature cyclone for a few seconds, drying her wings off. She then took to the sky and saw XLR8 on the lake and flew over to him. They then looked over to see the civilians swimming away from the Krakken.
"Here goes nothing." XLR8 said, closing his visor.
"Let's get to work." Battlefly said.
XLR8 then started kicking his legs rapidly, eventually rising up. He was running so fast that he was actually able to run on the water.
"Careful where you're running, bro. I can't fly when my wings are wet!" Battlefly said as she then raised her hands and focused, sending out a telepathic signal from her antenna.
Massive vines of kelp shot out of the lake and wrapped around the Krakken, briefly incapacitating him while XLR8 picked up Gwen and ran her over to the shore, safe.
"You okay?" XLR8 asked.
Gwen coughed up some lake water and sighed in relief. "I think so. Thanks for the save."
XLR8 gave her a claws up before he turned around and zoomed out, splashing her with mud.
"Hey! You did that on purpose!"
Soon enough, the Krakken broke free of its binds and started to pick people up to eat them. Fortunately, XLR8 zoomed by as Battlefly picked up one person at a time and tossed them into XLR8's arms and he zoomed over to the shore where they would be safe.
"These people are not on the menu, Ugly!" Battlefly shouted as he swiped a claw at her, which she narrowly dodged. "Hey! Watch the wings!"
"Get us out of here!" Jonah ordered his crewmate, back on the F.O.F. boat, who fired up the engines and engaged the gears, causing the boat to start to go away. Unfortuntely, the Krakken took notice of this, tossed the boat it was terrorizing aside, and swam after it.
Battlefly noticed the shadow going after the boat and whistled to her brother. "Bro, we've got a Jaws reenactment going on!"
"Let's go!"
The siblings then ran/flew after the boat as fast as they could. Soon enough, the Krakken popped out of the lake and roared. The captain tried to turn the boat around, but not fast enough as the Krakken knocked it aside with its tentacle. Just as it was about to destroy it again, XLR8 zoomed in and Battlefly created a waterspout that her brother strengthened with his running, which knocked him back into the water before XLR8 backflipped onto the boat.
But then, the Krakken popped up on the other side and shredded apart a cannery box, which Jonah then ran towards in an effort to protect it. "No you don't!"
XLR8 then ran forward, grabbed the tentacle and ran in reverse towards, pulling the Krakken back before Battlefly flew up and punched him in the face, knocking him back into the water, and he retreated.
"Thanks for the hands... and the feet," Jonah said as he shook Battlefly's hand.
"What was so important in that crate that you risked your life for it?" Battlefly asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Uh... our lunch."
"You're telling us that you risked your heads for a few sandwiches?" XLR8 asked.
Then, without warning, the Krakken's tentacle popped out of the lake and grabbed the tentacle, dragging it into the lake. That was when the watches started to beep down.
"Oh, gotta run!" XLR8 said as he ran away and Battlefly followed soon after. They were then zooming towards the dock with Battlefly squinting.
"Almost there! I think we're going to-" Then, the watches timed out and the two came splashing down into the water with a splash as Jen spit out the lake water. "-make it." She then looked up and they were at Shaw's boat as Max looked out.
"Man overboard!"
"Um, I think you mean man and girl overboard." Jen said, as she and her brother waded. "I'm not wearing a life jacket!"
"Turn the boat around!" Max ordered as Shaw snarled.
"Next time I see ya in my sights, ya won't be so lucky," Shaw said as he turned the boat around and tossed a net that the twins climbed as Jen smiled as she wrung the water out of her hair.
"Jennifer Tennyson, nice to meet you," they then shook hands. "But you can call me Jen."
That night, a lot of campers were leaving the lake due to the incident that happened. The Tennysons were by a campfire drying off with the twins having towels around them.
"We told you! That was the creature that tried to munch us last night! I would've thought that Ben was crazy to, but I saw it myself," Jen said.
"Captain Shaw and us were right," Ben said.
"Just because he was right about the Krakken doesn't mean I was wrong about him," Max advised.
"You're just being stubborn, Grandpa," Ben said.
"Yeah, don't you just hate people like that?" Gwen asked.
"We'll leave this one to the exerts, guys. Like those Friends of Fish guys."
"Experts? Who better to bust a monster than the twins with the monster-busting devices on their wrists?"
"This is just going to be the one that got away, son," Max said.
"He's right, bro," Jen said, putting a hand on her brother. "If something happened to you, I would never forgive myself. Gwen lost her twin sister. I'm not going to lose my twin brother."
"Um, I don't know if you've noticed but Becky was kind of helpless when she went missing. I'm not."
"Still, I'm not letting you go anywhere dangerous without me. And Grandpa's not going to let me out of his sight."
Then, Captain Shaw walked by and growled to himself. "Low-down, no-good fish-kissers."
"Captain Shaw? What is it?"
"The nerve of those enviro-punks! They shut down the entire lake! Nobody tells me where to sail! And nobody's going to keep me away from reeling in the catch of the century!" Shaw said as he walked away.
Later, Captain Shaw went sailing out on the boat despite the shutting down of the lake.
Inside the Rust Bucket, Gwen was in her PJs as was Max as she was knocking on the bathroom door, which Ben was supposedly in.
"Come on, Ben!" Gwen shouted. "Did you fall in there or something?"
Max then opened the door, revealing the empty bathroom! Max then gasped as he looked and saw that Jen was gone too.
"I think I know where those two are," Max said.
On the lake, Shaw's boat came out from the docks when he heard rumbling by the crates. He then looked and saw one of them shaking under the tarp.
"Hey!" He said, grabbing an oar. "No stowaways on my boat, even if you are a filthy rat." He then uncovered it to see the twins were hiding, Jen with a scowl on her face.
"Um, first mate Tennyson reporting for duty, sir?" Ben said nervously.
"It wasn't my fault! Ben stowed away on the boat even when I begged him not too but he did so anyway and I knew I could never live with myself if I let anything happen to him!" Jen said in one breath.
"Yeah, she's not going to let me out of her sight," Ben said. "She's such a mother even though she's my sister."
"I left Grandpa a note, Ben," Jen said.
"She's probably been scared deep by our fishy friends," Shaw suggested as he put on his diving suit and snorkel. "Only one way to fish her out: live bait."
"Maybe we should go with you. You know, just in case," Ben suggested as his sister nodded in agreement.
"No need," Shaw said, grabbing his harpoon. "I've got the only help I need right here. Wish me luck." He then dived down into the lake as the twins looked and saw two spare diving suits by the crates.
Under the lake, Shaw was swimming through the lake to search for his prey, scaring off a school of fish, breathing heavily. He was then shocked by what he thought was the Krakken's tentacle and was actually an eel.
He then went into a crater below the ocean, which could only be the Krakken's nest and saw a giant ball with veins poking out of it. He analyzed it in thought before two shadowy figures appeared in the clearing and he fired his harpoon at them before they dodged, revealing themselves to be the twins before as he sighed.
"Kids these days. This is why I left my wife," Shaw said, gesturing them down to the nest before going up for some air. But then, as he went up to his boat, he saw a black boat near his before he was grabbed and thrown violently onto the boat's floor to see a group of men in diving suits.
"Don't you know night-diving is dangerous, old timer?" the leader asked. "Unless, of course, you went with a friend."
"I work alone. I ain't got no friends."
"Men with a sparkling personality like your's," the leader smirked as the twins rose from the water with a gasp to see the divers.
"I ain't got anything worth stealing, either."
"Ah, but you have us all wrong. What we want is information like what you saw down there."
"Nothing. Same as always."
The leader then punched Shaw unconscious before he removed his mask revealing himself to be Jonah, much to the twins shock. In fact, Jen had to cover her brother's mouth just to muffle his exclamation as she shushed him.
"We can't give ourselves away," she reminded before Ben nodded.
The two looked at their Omnitrixes with a glare.
"Take Ahab here with us," Jonah commanded his assistants. "Find out what he knows here back at the cannery. We'll come back here later with a mini-sub for the rest of the eggs." He then tossed a tracking device to the bottom of the lake down to the nest. "In the meantime, I think this boat just got lost at sea." He then through a bomb onto the boat, destroying it instantly in a ball of fire before the boat sped away.
The twins then ducked under the water and swam for their lives, avoiding the debris as they looked at their watches as they formed the diamond shape and the sihlouettes of their insectoid forms.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Jen asked.
"It's hero time."
On the F.O.F boat, the two looked at a shape forming in the sky.
"Is that a bird?" one of them asked.
"Nah. Looks like a plane," the other said before Stinkfly and Firefly showed up in the sky with a glare in their eyes.
"It's a pair of bugs!" Jonah shouted. "Man the harpoons!"
"Such ruffians to mess with a lady like me. Don't you agree, brother?" Firefly asked.
"Sure enough. Give it up!" Stinkfly shouted. "You're totally busted!"
The sailors then hooked up two harpoon guns before firing them at the two before they combined their goo and heat ray, effectively blowing the harpoons up with the toxic combination as Jonah angrily flipped a few switches, dropping charge barrels into the water.
"Oh dear!" Firefly shouted before he blew them up. They were able to get through a few before one blew up a tree, surprising them and sending them sprawling into the lake in a haze.
The two tried to fly again, but found themselves unable to.
"Oh man! Our wings are too wet for takeoff!" Stinkfly shouted.
The boat then went around with an angry look in Jonah's eyes as the two looked like a deer in the headlights. Or should I say 'bugs in the headlights."
"Let's squish these bugs once and for all!"
They then swam away from it before reaching a log and climbing on top of it before flapping their wings in a hurry.
"Come on! Come on! Dry off!" Stinkfly begged as they fired harpoon at them as Firefly closed her eyes tightly.
"Goodbye, cruel world."
Stinkfly then spotted a tree branch above them and got an idea as he fired a stream of goo from his mouth, sticking to the branch as his sister spotted him.
"Oh, that is truly repulsive, Benjamin."
Stinkfly then grabbed his sister and swung away from the log as the boat ran over the log, almost killing the pair of them as they landed on a tree branch, leaving Jonah and his men confused as they used their flashlights to try to spot them, but they covered behind the tree as he shown on their area.
Jonah then spotted a fin ducking under the water.
"It's getting too crowded in here," he said. "Dump the trash overboard."
Stinkfly and Firefly shook the last of the water from their wings as they tossed an unconscious Shaw into the lake. But before he could sink too deep, Firefly grabbed him with her legs and the pair flew back to the campsite as fast as their wings could take them.
"Almost there," Firefly said, spotting the Rust Bucket in the distance. Unfortunately, the pair's watch symbols started beeping. "Oh dear."
"Not again!" Firefly shouted.
Gwen had her binoculars out, trying to spot them as Max walked out of the RV.
"Any sign of the twins and Shaw?"
"Not yet?"
Then, they heard the beeping which could only mean one thing as a flash of red and purple light came from the sky and the twins and Shaw fell right out of the sky. Luckily, they were saved by the awning on the Rust Bucket, which broke their fall.
"Ugh, I hate it when that happens," Ben stated.
"-And the Krakken's nest was full of eggs!" Jen exclaimed as the pair gave the story of what they encountered on the lake.
"No wonder she's been attacking everything!" Ben stated. "Jonah must be stealing her eggs!"
"And I think I know who Jonah is," Gwen stated as she showed them a webpage on her laptop. "I did a little checking on Friends of Fish and found out it's not listed on any environmental website. But I did find this: Jonah Melville isn't a friend to any kind of wildlife. He travels around the world poaching rare animals and crates them up and sells them to private collectors."
"Crates them up..." Jen thought. "Oh man! I bet that crate the Krakken took off their boat had a hurt egg in it!"
"Looks like we were all a little too hard-headed," Max stated.
"We've got to stop them! They said something about going out to a cannery," Ben reported.
"All this talk doesn't change a thing," Shaw said. "Mommy or not, that beast is mine." He then walked out the doorway and motioned the team to follow. "Let's go. I've a spare boat down at the docks."
The family then smiled at each other mischievously and then ran out.
On the boat, Gwen had dialed 9-1-1 on her cellphone.
"It'll take a while for the police to get here," she said as Shaw untied the boat from the dock. But when he did, they sped off without him as he held up his lantern.
"What are you doing?! Get back here."
"Sorry, Captain," Ben said.
"You don't know what you're doing! A monster's a monster and I know a monster when I see one!"
He then spied a rowboat next to the dock.
At the cannery, a crane hooked up to Jonah's underwater mecha-suit as he was holding one of the eggs and it lifted him up to the dock as one of his men pushed a can with the other egg. He handed it to his worker and he struggled to carry it from its weight.
"Careful or you'll be cleaning up the world's most expensive omelet," Jonah warned as his worker put it into the can with the other egg. "After we sell these babies to the highest bidder, we'll be kicking back in a beach in the Bahamas."
Under the dock, the boat sped up to the ladder as Max and Gwen started climbing it.
"See if you can find the eggs," Jen said.
"What about you two?" Gwen asked.
"We're gonna kick some Friends of Fish tail!" Ben smirked as the pair synced up their watches as they dialed in their aquatic forms before they slammed down the cores.
The screen split in two as the very similar transformations commenced.
The watches sank into their wrists and their arms were covered in greyish-blue scales that traveled up their arms and their fingers turned to claws. They then grew anglers from their forehead, only while Ben grew one angler, Jen grew two. They then grew gills from their neck as their teeth grew and sharpened themselves as the scales finished covering their bodies and their hair turned into a green dorsal fin running down their backs. Ben's clothes turned into a green loincloth-like bathing suit that was only on his bottom half while Jen's turned into a more full-piece swimsuit covering her entire midsection. The watch symbols were on their upper left torso. These forms were known as Ripjaws for Ben and Mermaid for Jen.
But before they could do anything, the Krakken burst up from the ground and wrecked the dock, knocking them out of the boat.
"The bigger the Krakken, the bigger the pay day!" Jonah smiled as he ran for his mecha-suit while his men opened fire on her with their guns, which did nothing to pierce her thick hide. One of them, giving up, ran inside of the cannery to be safe. The Krakken then knocked the other one into the lake.
The Krakken then went down to get her eggs, but Jonah used the crane to use the suit to swipe them before she could get them. He then fired blue bullets at her, which were actually doing some damage as she began to fall into the lake.
But then, the twins came swimming up and leaped out of the water and onto Jonah's suit.
"You want to mess with a monster?" Ripjaws asked in a gravelly voice.
"Try us on for size!" Mermaid growled in a slightly more feminine voice.
The pair then crawled down using their claws to grab the eggs. Jonah tried to blast them but Mermaid ripped the blaster off with her powerful jaws. Ripjaws then ripped his grip off of the eggs and Ripjaws dove down to try and grab them, but Jonah swatted her out of the way and onto the dock, dazed as the container broke on the dock and the eggs rolled away onto a loose board. Just a shake would cause them to fall into the lake.
Inside of the cannery, Gwen and Max peered sneaked quietly and peeked around the corner at Jonah's henchmen, who were grabbing a weapon. Max then did a game of charades to signify that he was going to go and for Gwen to keep watch.
Meanwhile, the henchman that was knocked over the edge by the Krakken surfaced and took a deep breath. He then went and climbed the ladder back into the cannery. He then got behind Gwen and Max as they were about to enact their plan and aimed his gun at them.
"Okay, buddy," Max said, pounding his fist into his open hand. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
The henchman smiled and backed them up.
Suddenly, the Krakken's tail burst through the cannery and Max and Gwen were surprised by it as were the henchmen.
"Go high!" Max said as he and Gwen grabbed onto two of the latches for shipping the cans and swung forward as the floor was knocked out from underneath them, sending the first henchman back into the lake.
As they reached the other side, the other henchman came out with the weapon. But before he could do anything, Max kicked the weapon out of his hands and Gwen kicked him unconscious.
"Is this the easy way or the hard way?" Gwen asked Max who just shrugged with a chuckle.
Back with the twins, who were still fighting Jonah with the Krakken, all that fighting was causing the eggs to shake on their board.
Jonah went for them, but the Krakken grabbed them with her tail, saving them.
"My eggs!" Jonah shouted as he tried to go for them again, but the twins grabbed onto his suit's legs.
"They aren't your eggs!" Ripjaws shouted. The pair then tackled him away and they eached grabbed an eggs and dove into the lake.
Jonah scowled and released the crane's grip on his suit as he followed them and they were both followed by the Krakken. He then caught the twins and started brawling with them as they grunted from the quick punches from the heavy metal suit.
"Rescuing babies. Very heroic," Jonah smirked. "But not very smart."
He then grabbed the eggs and controlled his suit to go back up with them.
The twins then scratched at their heads as they growled and swam back up.
"Rush him?" Mermaid asked.
"You know it, sis," Ripjaws smirked as the two merged their legs together to form a tail and swam up as fast as they could.
They then reached him and grabbed onto his suit and started their brawl bck up as they eventually got the eggs out of his grip and Ripjaws caught them in his jaws as Mermaid swam right towards him and delivered a strong jab into the glass window of the suit as it started to crack.
"How! Dare! You! Steal! Babies!" Mermaid grunted, delivering a punch with every word as the suit started to fill up with water.
But that was when the Krakken came swimming up and used her tentacles to slam both of the twin, causing Ripjaws to loose his grip on the eggs as they went flying out of his jaw. The Krakken then caught them in her tentacle as the twins recovered on the lake floor and gazed Jonah going after her, despite the flooding in his mech suit. The two nodded at each other and went swimming after him.
Jonah then let loose a sonic pulse from his suit's claws, causing the Krakken to screech in pain as she dropped the eggs. Jonah then gripped them again and tried to swim away before the twins tackled him into what remained of Shaw's boat.
Mermaid saw the anchor loose before she kicked herself up onto Jonah's suit's claw but he let out an electric shock which stunned her as she fell down and he tried to swim away.
Ripjaws then saw the anchor next to his dazed sister before he grabbed it, swung it around like a mace and threw it, managing to grip the suit, preventing it from getting any further as the Krakken swam in and chomped down on the chain of the anchor as the two of them were flung away as the three of them got into a tussle with the eggs as Mermaid then suddenly swam in and grabbed the eggs in her arms and then went swimming for the Krakken's nest as the three of them went swimming after her.
As the Krakken reached her, Mermaid then placed the eggs down in the nest as the Krakken cradled them lovingly as Jonah came swimming up to them with a furious shout. But the Krakken then gripped the suit in her tentacles and ripped it to shreds, forcing Jonah out of the suit.
Jonah then, in a last-ditch effort, pulled a knife from his pant leg, only to have in break against the Krakken's hide.
The Krakken then screeched as it attempted to eat him, only for the twins to block her way with their arms spread out, telling her to spare him. The Krakken reluctantly agreed as she went back to her eggs as Jonah shrugged at the twins as they both gave him a knuckle sandwich, knocking him out.
On the surface, Mermaid then hung Jonah on a loose wooden plank as the twins then glared at his unconscious body.
"Hang here for a while until the police find a nice dry cell for you," Ripjaws said as they saw the red and blue lights of the police boat as they then swam away from sight under the water.
Max and Gwen then saw the police pick up Jonah from the dock a Max scoffed.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish."
"Got one!" Shaw said as he came up in his rowboat with Ripjaws and Mermaid in his fishing net. "I finally got me not one but two Krakkens! The eggs must have hatched. Imagine these two mounted on my wall."
That was when the watches timed out in a flash of red and purple light.
Max then chuckled at the sight. "I think your catch of the day isn't exactly as advertised."
Shaw then raised his eyebrow as he lifted his lantern, revealing the twins tangled up in the net as they smiled innocently, lake water dripping from their clothes and hair.
Shaw then, embarrassed, removed his hat and shook his head. "But I could've sworn."
Back under the lake, the Krakken cradled her eggs lovingly, thanking the twins for saving them.
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