Chapter 43: Chapter 43: Jen 4 Good Buddy

 
The Omni-Team was driving through the mountainous California Rockies down a highway detour to get away from the traffic.
"It's nice being off the highway," Max sighed. "Don't you kids just love the open road?"
Gwen adjusted the radio, but all she heard was static.
"Not when you can't get a radio signal," Gwen sighed.
"Well then, how about a sing-along?" Max asked.
"Oh, please no!" Allison shouted.
"We'll be comin' round the mountain when we come. We'll be drivin' the Rust Bucket when we come."
Becky pressed the pillow to her face in agony and groaned as loud as she could, moaning into it.
That was when Jen stuck her head out of the bathroom with an angry look on her face.
"How about a flush-along?! The toilet's backed up again!"
Max then pressed a button on the RV's receiver and Becky got up and adjusted some of the dials on the radio signals on the shelves.
Everyone felt the RV speed up a little and Allison gave a thumbs-up to Max, who happily honked the horn.
"Hydraulics are on," Max said as the RV lifted a little on its wheels.
"You're clear to flush, sis," Ben said.
"And hopefully fast," Gwen nodded.
Jen hurriedly went into the bathroom and flushed the toilet down the chute.
"Seriously, Grandpa?" Jen asked. "This thing can go 300 miles an hour, yet it takes three people to flush the toilet?"
"Hey, our old gal's got character, Jen."
That was when they heard a honking noise from behind them and noticed a large blue and silver RV drive by them, clearly in a hurry.
"No, Max," Allison said. "That's character."
Soon, a blue monster truck-style pickup drove up behind them, with an orange muscle car with a subwoofer on the hood and a brown tow truck flanking its sides.
Jen glared outwards as she looked out the back window.
"We've got company, people!"
"This is the Baron!" a voice announced from the pickup truck. "Move that piece of junk in front of us so we can get what we came for!"
"You've got to be kidding me!" Becky said. "Road pirates?! Of all the things that could ruin our day now, it's road pirates?!"
They felt a jolt as the Baron's truck bumped them from behind, right as they were rounding up on the barrier towards the edge of the mountain.
"Forget going round the mountain!" Ben shouted. "We're going down it!"
"We're doomed!" Gwen shouted.
"Grandpa, hurry!" Jen shouted.
Max nodded and made a sharp turn towards the curve, breaking off a piece of the barrier and quickly drove down the curve.
Everyone sighed in relief at that.
"What's with those drivers?" Allison asked.
"Forget what's up, Ally," Ben said. "They're going down!"
"Right," Becky said as the team quickly activated their watches and suited up.
"It's Hero Time!" Lucky Girl said.
"Time for some real XLR8-tion!" Omni-Green said as he and his sister slammed down and transformed into... Blitzwolfer and Firefly.
"Oh man!" Blitzwolfer whimpered.
"The last thing I want to help me against road pirates is a puppy," Huntress sighed.
"We're getting those road pirates," Max said as he sped the Rust Bucket up as they got off the mountain trail and went down on the open plains.
The road pirates continued driving up to the deluxe RV on the road ahead.
The Baron, their leader, smirked. He had light brown hair, a light brown mustache, and wears a black vest over a white shirt and a white and green cap and sunglasses covering his eyes. He also had the tattoo of a skull and crossbones on his right arm.
"I've got it in my sights. And soon, they're gonna be under my wheels."
The camera shifted to the tow truck, where a man missing most of his teeth with brown eyes, light brown hair with a bald spot and tattoos all over on his body, wearing blue overalls and black gloves, smirked evilly. "You're mine!"
The woman driving the muscle car wore a short white jacket with the ends tied under which she wears a black full sleeved shirt, torn-by-the-edges jean shorts and green welding glasses. She also had long black hair reaching down to the center of her back and bright blue eyes. "You can count on me, boss!"
The Baron drove his truck, using some kind of jump feature to leap over the RV and drive right in front of it.
Fortunately, Max drove the Rust Bucket right by as he shouted out towards the Baron.
"Leave him alone!" he shouted as he rammed the Rust Bucket into the monster truck.
"Well, my, my," the Baron mused. "It seems you can't judge a vehicle by its paint job nowadays."
The deluxe RV drove away as the other two road pirates drove on. The man smirked as he and the woman flanked the Rust Bucket as the Omni-Team climbed up on top of it and Matter Girl absorbed the metal from the top.
They felt the other cars ram the sides of the vehicle, making them shake a bit from the impact as the Baron's truck got back onto the area.
"Where's Speed Queen when you need her?!" Huntress asked as she prepared an arrow from her quiver.
Blitzwolfer howled out and leaped onto the tow truck.
"Hey, old man! Try this on for size!"
He then growled and used his powerful-as-steel jaws to rip open the truck's hood.
The man inside screamed and slammed on the accelerator, peeling away from the Rust Bucket.
"Go get him, brother!" Firefly shouted as she flew up with Matter Girl riding on her back.
The girl in the muscle car smirked and pressed a button, producing spikes from her wheels. She moved towards the tires of the Rust Bucket, but it swerved to avoid her and generated some lightning sparks from its wheels, sending a nasty shock through her car's systems and it moved back.
The tow truck moved up to the Baron's monster truck with Blitzwolfer still on it.
"Ride's over, freak!" the man shouted as he slammed on the brakes, sending Blitzwolfer flying off and tumbling onto the roof of the luxury RV.
Huntress prepared an arrow and glared as she fired it out, blasting the tires of both the tow truck and the muscle car, sending them swerving as Lucky Girl positioned her hands carefully.
"Thanatis Icatis Exodus!" Lucky Girl shouted as she thrust her palms forwards.
A tornado suddenly generated from the open desert ground and swerved past the RV and caught the three pirate vehicles in its vortex as it tore its way through the desert.
Firefly then smirked and sent out some fire balls to blow the engines before settling down on the Rust Bucket where she timed out.
The pirates stood in the open desert with their cars scattered and glared out at the two RV's leaving with the superheroes on top of the Rust Bucket making funny mocking faces at them as they passed.
"My engine's blown!" the woman shouted.
"We can still get that RV for ya, boss," the man told the Baron.
"I'm thinking about getting me a different set of wheels," the Baron said, looking at the Rust Bucket.
"Good job, guys," Max said as he pulled the Rust Bucket over onto the side of the road as they deactivated their suits.
"By the way, where's Ben?" Allison asked.
Suddenly, the RV's driver ran up in a panic to Max and the girls before stopping, gasping for breath.
"I... think I have a pretty good idea," Becky smiled, rolling her eyes as they ran up to the RV.
"Help! There's a monster in my hot tub!" the driver said. "With your help, I had just gotten away from those road pirates when I heard this sudden splash."
"Did you say... hot tub?!" Jen asked, stars in her eyes as she and the others went inside the RV and gasped with bulging eyes at the sight. It was like a luxury hotel on wheels.
"Wow," Gwen said.
"It's a paradise in here!" Becky said.
"I suppose," Max said. "If you like all that fancy schmancy stuff."
The man opened the door to his hot tub and they went inside and chuckled, rolling their eyes as they saw Ben relaxing in the hot tub with a pleased smile on his face.
"Well, it's not a monster," Gwen said. "But he is pretty horrific looking."
"Hey, you guys try finding someplace cool in the middle of the desert!" Ben said, getting out and grabbing a towel. "I almost had to eat a cactus just to stay hydrated."
"How'd you- I mean, there was this werewolf creature who came through the sunroof and-"
"Sir," Max said. "It was probably the desert heat playing tricks with your mind."
"I wouldn't mind travelling in here forever," Ben said.
"It's just the most advanced satellite communications system out there. Wi-fi, email, internet and radio."
"Wow," Allison said, impressed.
"I've got a 63-inch plasma flat-screen with 500 channels of satellite TV," the driver said.
"Sweet!" Jen said. "I could kill for something like this!"
"Name's Laurence Wainwright. Been on the road all summer. I figured it was time for me to cash in and see the country, really get to meet people, finally relax in life."
"Guess what, sir, you're not alone," Ben said. "We've been on the road all summer too."
Becky looked at a shelf full of trophies before Laurence ran by and stopped her.
"No, not my trophies! My RV has won best in show in 16 states!"
"Sorry, Mr. Wainwright," Becky said.
"No problem. So, can I treat you six to dinner for all your help?"
"Well," Max said, looking at the Rust Bucket's smoking engine. "I do need a place to stop and do some repairs."
"Shotgun!" Jen shouted as she hopped in the front seat of the luxury RV.
Later, at a truck stop diner a short ways away, the two RVs stopped for lunch and some repairs.
The twins piled their plates high with corn dogs, french fries, pizza, burgers, chicken wings, you name it.
They went to the table set for seven and smiled as Allison rolled her eyes.
"These guys haven't seen my cooking," she said with a smile as she ate at her BBQ platter of ribs, mac and cheese and mashed potatoes.
"Word around these parts is that you six took down the Road Crew," an elderly waitress named Shelby said as she walked up to the group.
"The Road Crew?" Jen asked.
"Baron Highway, Turbine and Road Rage," Shelby explained. "They've been terrorizing good folks on these backroads since I had a full set of teeth. They took my ride years ago. I've been stuck here working as a waitress in this complex ever since."
"Well, we're just doing our job," Max said.
"When people are in trouble, we have to help. That's our policy," Ben smiled.
"And they'll be out of a job once the new highway opens. With no one taking the backroads, there'll be no more sitting ducks on the road for them to pluck off."
"Thank goodness for that too," Becky said. "The world is much better off without people like them in it."
"Well," Shelby said, taking notice of the twins stuffing they're faces. "I hope you two left room for dessert. We've got the best ice cream this side of the Rockies."
The twins paused and took a look at the ice cream sundae bar and smiled to each other, raising an eyebrow each.
Meanwhile, on the hill outside of the truck stop, the Road Crew looked out at the Rust Bucket as Baron Highway smirked to himself with his partners getting impatient.
"We're wasting time!" the tattooed man, Road Rage, said as he scratched himself with his chained hook. "I'm itching to do this."
"Maybe that's cause you ain't washed in days," the woman, Turbine, said. "You smell more putrid than a possum in a barrel of pickles."
Road Rage then stopped and smelled underneath his arms.
"Oh," Jen said as she rubbed her temples as she laid against the Rust Bucket while Max worked on the undercarriage. "Brain freeze."
"I don't feel so hot," Ben said as he groaned.
"Gee," Gwen said. "You think it was your guys' fourth trip to the ice cream bar or the fifth?"
"I need an ice water," Allison said as she walked up and opened the freezer, prompting Max and Gwen to panic.
"Don't use the ice maker!"
Allison gasped as she was blasted with ice and stumbled out of the stairs and onto the ground.
Outside, the windshield wipers activated on their own and Becky was squirted with the fluid from the nozzle on the hood of the car as Allison shivered from the cold.
"Cold, cold, cold," she shivered.
"We warned you," Gwen said, helping her friend up.
"Huh?" Jen asked as she stood up. "What's that strange noise?"
"Oh crap!" Ben shouted as he and the others ran away as they saw Baron Highway and Road Rage pull up in the tow truck with a determined look on their faces.
"Not these guys again!" Becky said as they ran away.
"Grandpa!" Gwen said as Max pulled out and Turbine pulled up in her muscle car, got out, and fired her bolt gun at our heroes as they ran away from them.
Turbine walked up to Max as he got out from under the Rust Bucket and glared at him as she swung her wrench down and shattered the block on the creeper as Max got up.
The two then got into a fight with their wrenches, which culminated in Max pushing her aside, where she stumbled over her car.
As the group was distracted, Baron Highway snuck into the Rust Bucket and turned the keys, which were still in the ignition, and fired up the engine.
"Get out!" Max ordered.
Baron Highway smirked and peeled out of the parking lot in the Rust Bucket as the group looked out.
"Hero time, bro?" Jen asked as she activated her Omnitrix.
"You know it," Ben said as they slammed the cores down and transformed into Upchuck and Frostblight.
"Let's eat!" Upchuck said.
He shot out his four tongues and devoured some oil cans before spitting out his exploding projectiles at Turbine as she peeled away while Frostblight flew away and created an icy path on the road to try to trip the Road Crew up.
"What is that thing?!" Turbine asked.
"Whatever it is, it's about to be roadkill!" Road Rage shouted as he swung his hooked chain outwards and snagged Upchuck and dragged him across the blacktop of the road and he shouted out in pain.
"Road burn!"
Road Rage then shouted out and tossed the eating alien into the diner's windows as he whooped out, but not before slipping on the icy road and crashing into Turbine's ride.
"What do you think this is? A drive-thru?!" Shelby asked as she peeked up from the tossed table and Upchuck looked at the bottomless amounts of food surrounding him.
"An Upchuck dream come true," he said as he shot his tongues out and devoured some pizza slices... only to immediately spit them out in disgust. "Oh great. I'm a bottomless pit and I can't digest the good stuff!"
Upchuck walked out of the wreckage and gasped when he saw Turbine rush in with her muscle car and glare as Frostblight suddenly flew in and created an icy mist from her wings, distracting her as she was blinded before Frostblight gasped as she was right in front of her and went splat on the windshield like a bug as she had her blue tongue sticking out.
Turbine smiled and flicked on the windshield wipers, knocking her off as she rammed right into Upchuck, sending him crashing into the car wash as the Omnitrixes timed out.
"Ugh," Ben said as he stood up.
Suddenly, he realized that he had his foot stuck in the conveyor belt that locks the cars in place and it started moving. He then looked to see the sprayers activated the hot wax feature of the car wash. "I'm stuck! And I'm about to be ultra-hot waxed!"
Max reached into his shirt as Jen recovered and he pulled out a small device, which unfolded into a small boomerang that he tossed at the car wash, pressing the button and deactivating the hot wax just before Ben went under.
Jen and the others sighed in relief as they saw Ben go through the automatic car mops in the car wash that he was sucked into. He shouted out, which was muffled out by the rinse cycle as he was sprayed with hot water.
The girls, minus Jen, tried to stifle a giggle as he walked towards them before he was suddenly blasted by the hot air from the blow dryers, which left his hair spiked up from the intense heat plus the water from the rinse cycle.
"Do I look okay, guys?"
"Actually, it's an improvement," Allison chuckled before Max looked out.
"They took the Rust Bucket," he said.
"Oh man. All of our stuff was in it!" Becky said.
"Tell me that you took the weapons out," Gwen begged
"I never go anywhere without my weapons," Becky said.
"And I took the hoverboards and the energy cannon just in case," Allison said as she tossed them to the twins from her backpack.
"Good thing too. They already have some of the most advanced technology in the world on that RV. I don't want to think what would happen if they got their hands on these things."
The Road Crew looked under the hood of the Rust Bucket as they investigated it in their garage with an amazed smile on their faces.
"Hoo, doggy! The catfish are biting tonight!" Turbine smiled. "Nitro-methane supercharged engine and turbo boosted. She probably tops out at 300 miles an hour."
"Crank her up a bit more, will you darlin'?" Baron Highway asked. "I want it ready for the highway grand opening."
"Will I?!" Turbine said.
Turbine and Road Rage, immediately got to work and started to hotwire the Rust Bucket with some of the Road Crew's own tricks and mechanics. They gave it a new shiny paint job, took off the hubcaps and replaced them with shiny new steel ones, attached a large mechanical arm to the top, added solid steel bumpers, and nitrous boosters at the tail end of the car.
"Now this is Klass. With a Capital K!"
Max hung up the phone at the diner with a sigh as he looked to the kids.
"The police haven't seen it anywhere. We'll need to search high and low," Max said, worried.
"I don't know," Jen said with a sigh. "You really want it back that badly?"
"I'm with Jen on this one," Becky said. "I've had to take 30 minute bathroom breaks in that thing just because of how bad the toilet is."
"Look on the bright side, Grandpa," Ben said. "With the insurance money you'll get, you can buy something brand new. Like Mr. Wainwright's deluxe RV."
"Ben, Jen, the Rust Bucket's irreplaceable," Max said. "It's got character. It has personality."
"It smells," Allison said.
"It breaks down," Gwen said.
"It has the worst heating system since the 1950's," Jen said.
"It has a toilet that doesn't work," Becky agreed.
"It has an ice maker that can actually kill you," Ben finished.
"And it's like family," Max said. "I'll search every inch of the Southwest if I have to."
"Um, with what, Grandpa?" Jen said.
"There's no other cars or RVs here that we can borrow," Gwen said. "Everyone bailed out of here when the Road Crew came back. Everyone's afraid of them."
They suddenly heard a car horn honk Dixie and they looked out to see Laurence's deluxe RV move towards them with Shelby smiling in the driver's seat.
"Hop on in, everyone. Old Wainwright's letting me take her for a quick spin around the block," she said.
"Dibs on the satellite TV first!" Ben shouted as he and the kids all rushed towards the RV with Max walking sadly towards it.
The Road Crew drove the tricked out Rust Bucket towards an armored truck in front of the county bank.
"Now for a little tune-up just to see what this baby can really do!" Baron Highway said.
Road Rage pressed a button and a laser port came out of the side of the Rust Bucket and pointed itself at the armored car, causing the driver to run away in a panic as a huge laser blasted out and destroyed the car in a fiery explosion, sending cash flying everywhere.
Road Rage cackled as he and Turbine went outside and gathered up countless bags of bucks as the cops watched.
"Help! We're being robbed!" One shouted over his radio.
Max looked on worried in the front seat of the RV while Shelby drove as the kids were all geeking out over the deluxe RV's settings as the twins played a video game with Becky and Allison while Gwen checked out the radio.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Ben said. "I want this gaming system for my room!"
"It plays in HD and it has every game ever made!" Jen said as she glared.
"This satellite can pick up anything," Gwen said as she adjusted the radio. "Police alerts, weather reports, roadside emergency calls, you name it."
"Tonight's forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a-"
"Flat tire on Old Mill Rd-"
"Robbery in progress! Escape vehicle is some kind of tricked out RV in downtown Augustus,"
"Tricked out RV?!" Max gasped.
"Augustus is only five miles from here," Shelby said.
"Go!"
"With pleasure," Shelby said. "It's payback time!"
"If those jerks touch one string on my guitar, they're vehicles won't be the only things that are gonna be totaled!" Jen shouted.
Once they arrived in Augustus, they saw that the crime scene was already set up and the Road Crew had escaped already.
"Darn, we missed them," Max said.
"Let me see what else I can pick up, guys," Gwen said as she adjusted the radio while the others played Super Smash Bros. together.
"Don't rush because of us," Ben said as he dodged Allison's Samus with his Link. "This is only our second match."
"This is the conductor of the Continental Express," the radio announced. "We're under attack at cross creek headed to Base 499 to make a delivery. Cargo in jeopardy."
"Wait a minute," Max said. "499 is code for a missile silo."
"Oh no," Allison said as she looked at them from her beanbag. "There's only one target around these parts that's big enough to hit with a missile."
"The new highway," Becky gasped.
"And once it's out, there'll be lots of traffic on the backroads again," Shelby realized. "Lucky for you guys, I know a short cut to Cross Creek."
"Ready guys?" Ben asked as they quit the game.
Everyone stood up and nodded.
"Let's hero up," Gwen said as they all activated their hero suits.
The Rust Bucket pulled up to the Continental Express and Baron Highway activated the mechanical arm and loaded a missile after Turbine and Road Rage had incapacitated the guards.
"The new highway grand opening ceremony is about to go out with a bang!" Baron Highway smiled.
Fortunately, our heroes arrived in Wainwright's RV and Max looked in horror at what they had done to his baby.
"Oh man," he said. "What did they do to her?"
"Time to barbecue up some tailgaters!" Baron Highway said as he looked at the RV in the rearview mirror and activated the nitrous thrusters, sending out jets of flame from the pipes at the tail-end which the others gasped at.
"It's attacking us!" Lucky Girl said.
"I know you don't mean it, girl!" Max said as he watched the flames come towards them.
Shelby swerved to the side to avoid the flames as the Omni Twins nodded and went to the door and opened it before activating their Omnitrixes.
"Time for us to hitch a ride, sis," Omni-Green nodded.
"You know it, bro," Jen said as they slammed the cores down and transformed in a flash of green and pink light.
Ben's Omnitrix sunk into his arm and his skin turned black and green lines of energy scrawled their way across his body as his clothes and hair vanished into his body and his eyes merged into one and merged into a circle before he struck a pose as he finished his transformation.
Jen's Omnitrix sank into her wrist as her entire body degenerated itself into purple sludge before going splat on the ground before twisting and morphing itself back into Jen's body shape with a lighter purple on her chest and legs to represent her clothing. Four small tendrils grew out of her face before she backflipped and struck a pose and her transformation finished.
Upgrade and Sludgeshifter looked at each other and nodded.
"Actually, you hitch the ride, sis," Upgrade smiled. "I'll just become it."
He crawled up onto the RV before oozing his way onto the train while Sludgeshifter stretched her arms upwards and grabbed onto the train before she slingshot herself over to it and glared at the tricked out Rust Bucket.
"Those are quite the grandchildren you've got there," Shelby told Max.
"I know," Max sighed. "You mind if I drive for a bit?"
Baron Highway used the Rust Bucket's arm to try to grab another missile before Upgrade suddenly merged with it and grabbed Road Rage with it instead.
Turbine shouted up and tried to save her partner before Sludgeshifter suddenly shot in and tackled her back as she shouted out as she hit the wall.
"If you touched my guitar, lady," Sludgeshifter said as Turbine reached for her blaster and fired about ten rounds into Sludgeshifter, which she didn't even bother to avoid.
Turbine stared in awe as the holes in Sludgeshifter's body just reformed themselves due to body's inconsistent structure and she smirked.
"Yeah, that's not going to work this time, bub," she smirked.
She then morphed her arms into spiked mallets and charged towards the group as Upgrade glared at Baron Highway, who quickly detached the arm from the Rust Bucket. Luckily, Upgrade grabbed onto the train and glared outwards at the road pirates.
Sludgeshifter, Turbine and Road Rage glared at each other as Sludgeshifter avoided their blows before leaping up and giving a flying kick to Turbine's chest before stretching her arms out and slamming Road Rage in the head.
As they recovered on the ground, everyone looked up to see the train take on Upgrade's color as his eye suddenly glared at Turbine and Road Rage.
"What's wrong? Never seen a train come alive before?"
Sludgeshifter smirked and then dissolved her body into a pile of mud as Upgrade closed the walls of the train onto Turbine and Road Rage, who shouted out in pain.
"Take this!" Road Rage said as he slammed a hammer onto the side.
"Open wide and say 'Aah!'" Turbine said as she pressed a wench into the walls and brought them apart, allowing them to squeeze away.
"You can't get away from us that easy, sleazy!" Sludgeshifter said as she slithered after them through the walls as they escaped through the closing doors.
Upgrade glared after them and de-merged himself from the train and followed them along with his formless sister.
The deluxe RV dodged the lasers coming from the rear bumper of the tricked-out Rust Bucket as Turbine and Road Rage climbed to the top of the train as the twins followed them as Upgrade formed a wave of himself after them.
"Surf's up!"
Thinking quickly, the two road pirates leaped off the train and activated parachutes, which they used to fly down to their vehicles as Sludgeshifter glared.
"Rats! That is just so unfair!"
"Uh-oh!" Upgrade said as the twins gasped and then dissolved their bodies into puddles to avoid going splat against the oncoming tunnel entrance.
Meanwhile, Lucky Girl, Huntress and Matter Girl glared from the back as they prepared their powers and weapons while Max glared.
"Let's see if there's anything on this thing for us to fight back with," Max said as he flipped a few dials and then pressed a few buttons and he heard a shifting and a coffee maker came up, causing the superheroines to facepalm and shake their heads.
"Heated seats and a cappuccino machine?"
"I guess the Rust Bucket wasn't so useless after all," Huntress said.
Everyone heard a jolt from the sides of the vehicle as they felt themselves getting rammed by Road Rage's tow truck and Turbine's muscle car.
"Okay, that's it!" Matter Girl said, a savage look on her face as she glared. "Lucky Girl, you've got my back?"
"You know it, Matter Girl," Lucky Girl nodded.
She glared and looked towards the trophies on the shelf and glared.
"Sorry, Mr. Wainwright. Duty calls."
She then grabbed the trophies and absorbed the gold material from them.
"Max, get ahead of them."
"With pleasure."
He stepped on the gas as Matter Girl tossed the trophies out the window, slashing Road Rage's tires before she leaped out the window herself with a savage look upon her face as she growled at Road Rage.
Road Rage screamed in horror as she opened the hood, morphed her hands into hatchets and went completely berserk, slahsing the engine wires before she completely lifted it out and tossed it to the side before she leaped off and was caught with Lucky Girl's telekinesis as she waved goodbye as Road Rage's tow-truck skidded to a stop before falling on it's side.
"Dang!" he said, slamming down on the hood and triggering the air bag.
Turbine glared after them in her muscle car as Upgrade, merged with the train with Sludgeshifter hanging on for dear life inside, sped by at incredibly fast speeds.
"Who needs train tracks?!" Upgrade shouted.
"Ben, Jen, stop the Rust Bucket!"
"With pleasure, Grandpa!" Sludgeshifter shouted through cupped hands before she readied herself and Upgrade sped after the Rust Bucket.
Huntress, Matter Girl and Lucky Girl glared out the windshield as they saw Turbine peel in front of them while Lucky Girl scoffed.
"That is it! I have so had enough of you!" Lucky Girl shouted as she flipped through her spellbook. "Terra Tremo Eradico!"
A nearby fruit stand suddenly broke apart and sent the fruits flying outwards at Turbine's muscle car, blinding her from view as a ramp sudddenly formed from the stand's awning.
"Buh-bye, psychopath!" Huntress said as she fired an arrow frmo out the window, slashing Turbine's back tire, and sending her careening through the road and off of the ramp, crashing through a billboard.
She glared out, dazed before she climbed out and leaped onto the roof of the deluxe RV as it chased after the Rust Bucket.
Baron Highway glared outwards towards the new highway grand opening as he aimed the missile at the highway.
"Time to let them fireworks begin," he said, smirking as he armed the missile.
Suddenly, Upgrade's train came rushing by with Sludgeshifter on top.
"All aboard!" Sludgeshifter shouted before she and her brother leaped onto the Rust Bucket as the Omnitrixes timed out, leaving the Omni-Twins sticking to the roof using their magnetic grips.
"Now!" Omni-Green said as he opened the sunroof and the twins dropped down into the roof.
"It's over, Baron Highway!" Omni-Pink said as she and her brother struck a fighting pose. "You mess with our ride, you get dropped off!"
"How'd you two get in here?!"
"Forget about us getting in!" Omni-Green shouted "It's you who's getting out!"
"Is that so? How do you plan on stopping me, sonny?"
"Um..." Omni-Pink began. "Yeah, that's where the plan falls apart."
"Even with your fancy powers, you're too late, Omni Twins!" Baron Highway boasted. "These missiles are gonna launch in 10 seconds! Oh, and by the way, what do you think of my new and improved wheels?"
"That's it!" Omni-Green realized. "What's new isn't always what's improved!"
The two then fist-bumped and then ran off and started pressing all the buttons and adjusted the dials on the radio and Omni-Pink smirked as she went into the bathroom and flushed the toilet.
Sparks suddenly flew out of the radio dials and the dashboard as the weapons all shorted out and the missile disarmed itself.
"NO!" Baron Highway shouted out as Omni-Pink ducked out of the bathroom with the smile like the cat that ate the canary.
"You may have tricked out the Rust Bucket," she smirked.
"But we still know all its tricks," Omni-Green finished.
"Who needs missiles? I'll fire off some lasers and crash the grand opening ceremony myself!"
"I don't think so," Omni-Pink said in a singsong voice.
She slightly opened the door to the fridge and caused the windshield wiper fluid to spray up onto the windshield, blinding Baron Highway's view.
"I can't see a thing!"
He pulled the Rust Bucket over as our heroes looked to each other and smiled slyly, bumping fists.
"You little brats!"
"I know you are!" Omni-Green said as he ducked from Baron Highway's grip as Omni-Pink blasted him back with her energy blast as her brother had his hand on the freezer.
"But what are we?" Omni-Pink asked as they ducked as the flurry of ice cubes flew out of the freezer and pelted Baron Highway out of the door and right into Max's grip.
"Nobody messes with my ride!" Max said as he dragged the Baron to the car seat and strapped him into it. "Now take a seat. Or not!"
He then flipped a hatch on the windshield lever and pressed a button, sending the seat rocketing out through the sunroof with Baron Highway screaming all the while.
"You know, Grandpa?" Jen asked as she and her brother took off their helmets. "We were wrong."
"The Rust Bucket rocks!" Ben smiled.
Suddenly, Turbine suddenly came in and tried to grab the twins, only for Huntress to grab her jacket from behind as Lucky Girl levitated her towards her and Matter Girl smiled and cracked her knuckles and neck joints.
"I'm going to enjoy this," she said.
She shouted out as she socked Turbine right in the eye, drawing some blood from her as she put her hands up.
"Wait, please-" Turbine began.
But this fell on deaf ears as the young heroine slammed her right in the throat, causing her to pt her hands to her neck.
"Ooh, I think I heard something crack there," Matter Girl smiled as she shrugged.
She then performed a final roundhouse kick to the face, knocking Turbine unconscious as she dusted off her hero outfit.
"Wow," Huntress smiled. "I've never seen you so savage before."
"She had it coming," Allison smiled.
Meanwhile, Shelby pulled Road Rage out of his tow truck and glared at him as he looked on in fear.
"And this is for what you've done to everyone else on these roads!"
She shouted out and pushed him back with a kick and then perfomed a karate chop to the neck, knocking him out instantly before she pushed up her glasses with a smile.
Back at the truck stop, the heroes smiled as they watched the Road Crew get taken away by the police as Allison smirked as the severely beaten up Turbine glared at her as Road Rage and Baron Highway glared back at her.
"What, nothing to say?" Ben asked.
"She's having trouble speaking," Allison smiled. "I think I fractured her windpipe."
"Oh, good," Jen smirked as Turbine turned her head as the squad car doors closed.
"Thanks for all your help, Shelby," Max said as he shook the waitress' hand.
"Anytime, honey," Shelby smiled.
"You took my RV?!" Laurence asked, angry as he walked towards the group with an angry look upon his face.
"I must've forgot to tell you I was borrowin' it," Shelby shrugged.
Angry, Laurence walked into the RV and slammed the door closed... right before the impact caused the framework to suddenly loosen and the RV completely fell apart.
Laurence just bowed his head and walked off as the twins smiled and shook their heads in slight amusement.
The group just looked towards the still-tricked out Rust Bucket with a glare towards what those evil road pirates did to it.
"She's going to need a lot of work," Max sighed.
"Don't worry, Grandpa," Jen said. "We've got you covered."
The twins pressed the core down and transformed into their XLR8 forms, quickly replacing the tires with the normal ones and quickly replacing the bumper as well as destroying the rest of the extra machinery attached to the beloved RV as the others, especially Max, looked on with a smile.
A few minutes later, after picking some some last minute snacks from the truck stop, our heroes finally set off towards their next destination as Max started singing again.
"We'll be coming round the mountain when we come. We'll be driving the Rust Bucket when we come."
Meanwhile, Ben and Becky looked into the freezer and sighed as they saw the cookie dough ice cream start to melt.
"Freezer's busted again," Ben said.
"Oh well," Becky said. "Hey, guys, grab some spoons."
Jen, Gwen and Allison smiled and stood up, taking a spoon as they all dug into the melting ice cream before Gwen looked towards her grandfather with a smile.
She then shoved some ice cream into his mouth to stop the singing as he smiled at them.
The Omni Team then all high-fived with a laugh as they all drove off into the sunset.
Next time on Ben and Jen 10:
Ready to Rumble
Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone