Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Tourist Trap
On the road outside of a city, Ben was making funny faces at a kid inside of another car moving right alongside the Rust Bucket as Jen sighed with her hand on her chin and strumming her guitar to herself as she tried to come up with something.
"I'd warn you that your face might freeze if you keep doing that, but in your case, it would be an improvement," Gwen mocked as Jen gently strummed her guitar and mumbled to herself.
"Come on, Jen, think! You know you've got in in you, just do something already!" she said as she crumpled up another piece of paper and tossed it into the trash can with tons of other papers around it and only a few actually landed in the can.
"Writer's block?"
"Like you couldn't believe," Jen said as she put her guitar down and banged her head on the table. "I want to write this really great song about a heartbreak somebody had but it's just not coming to me."
The kid in the other car then ate some of his burger he got from a drive-thru restaurant, chewed it and then stuck his tongue out as Ben as the three recoiled in disgust at that.
"Oh, man. The see-food special!" Ben exclaimed. "Time to pull out the secret weapon." He then held a finger up to him as he ducked under the seat, out of view of the window as he dialed his Omnitrix and slammed down the core, transforming into Stinkfly in a flash of green light and then stuck his face back at the kid, growling and green slimy drool foaming from his mouth.
The kid then screamed before his father noticed the alien and he then screamed as well before he floored the gas and drove away from the Rust Bucket as Stinkfly collapsed on his back laughing, his sides hurting in hysterics.
"You know, there is such a thing as taking a joke too far," Gwen stated.
Stinkfly didn't stop laughing before he blasted a stream of slime from one of his eyestalks onto Gwen's seat as she sat down, instantly feeling the moistness and she glared at her cousin.
"Impossible," Stinkfly said. "Funny is funny."
"Ben, better get up here," Max said from the driver's seat before he slammed the brakes and Stinkfly came soaring to the front of the car as Gwen and Jen walked up. "Oh, good. You're all ready to go. We've got trouble ahead."
They looked out the windshield to see a massive truck accident as a fuel truck was crashed into another truck with a fire going down on the floor as the fuel truck driver banged on his door, which was stuck due to the truck's position.
"Help!" he shouted.
"The door's stuck! He can't get out!" a civilian exclaimed.
Suddenly, the flames reached the leaking fuel from the truck and blazed brighter, much to the driver's fear.
"If that propane he's hauling catches fire, that truck will become a rocket to the moon!" Max exclaimed as Jen nodded and dialed her Omnitrix as she transformed into Battlefly in a flash of pink light.
"It's hero time!" she said as she and her brother flew out of the door and into the scene before they saw the fire burning bright as they both had trouble breathing from the smoke.
"Come on people," Max said, guarding the civilians who had pulled over to watch the scene unfold. "Let the bugs do some work."
"The fire's too intense!" Stinkfly said as his sister glared.
"If you weren't trying to show off to that kid in the car, you could be Heatblast right now and this would be no problem!"
"Hey, that gives me the idea," Stinkfly said as he whispered into Battlefly's ear as she then nodded.
"That could work," she then started twisting her hands together in a circle as a small cyclone appeared as she flew skywards and let the cyclone go downwards as it hit the flames, instantly evaporating them as the driver looked confused.
"The vortex sucks away the oxygen. No oxygen, no flame," Gwen explained to Max as Battlefly stopped to give Stinkfly a chance to breath.
He then flew onto the car and used his tail to slice the top of the truck down and open it and grabbed the driver out of the car and flew him outwards and set him down on the scene.
The kid from before then gasped at Stinkfly. "That's the monster that ate that kid!"
"We're not monsters!" Battlefly shouted from above. "We're aliens!"
"We've gotta fly," Stinkfly said as he and his sister flew away.
A little bit later, the Tennysons were back on the road before they stood there bored as Gwen started reading the roadside signs that were showing up.
"You'll have a ball with it! Next exit," she read.
"Come on, Grandpa!" Ben said. "At least give us a hint of what "it" is."
"Uh-uh, no hints," Max said. "I've been planning this stop all summer."
When they arrived at the destination, Max opened the door to let the kids out.
"Now, the three of you close your eyes."
The kids exited the Rust Bucket with their eyes closed.
"Okay, open 'em up."
The kids did so before looking up at the sign before them.
"Ta-da! Welcome to Sparksville!"
The kids then looked down at the town to see the old-fashioned culture. There was a hotel next to a giant jackalope, a gift shop and a hot dog restaurant among other things.
"Is this place great or what?"
"Let's go with 'or what," Jen said, disappointedly.
"Come on! What's more exciting than the world's biggest fish bowl?" Max asked.
"Um, everything," Ben said.
Then, a man in a suit walked over to them.
"As the mayor of Sparksville, I welcome you as seekers of wonder," he said in a monotone voice.
"I know you guys are probably excited to see 'it,' so I'll check us in," Max said as he handed the three their tickets as the kids just shrugged.
Later, at the Sparksville Museum, the kids were at the welcoming desk as Ben rang the service bell.
The man from before then showed up at the desk, much to their shock. "Tickets please."
"I thought you were the mayor," Jen asked.
The mayor then took their tickets and took his half before handing theirs back to them. "He who wears the crown is bound by many hats, little lady."
The kids then entered the museum through the gate as the man turned back to them.
"Mind the signs," he warned them.
We then cut to a montage of pictures of the kids looking at a jackalope and then Gwen mocking it with the twins laughing, Ben messing around near the jackalope, Ben and Gwen taking a photo inside of a standee that looked like the American Gothic, the kids at a planetarium, the kids looking at the World's Largest House of Cards, the kids admiring the aroma of hot dogs, followed by Gwen spraying Ben with ketchup and mustard, Ben tossing a hot dog at his cousin in retaliation, the kids sporting some souveniers from the gift shop, the kids acting like fish next to the World's Largest Fish Bowl, them looking bored on a bench with Jen sipping a soda, and finally, the kids by a sign saying "'It' is this way."
At the warehouse containing 'It", the kids were standing with the mayor with admittedly interested stares.
"Through these doors lies the weirdest, wildest thing ever to make its way to Sparksville," he explained before opening the door and the kids walked through into the darkness with slightly worried stares.
"Please tell me this is 'It'," Ben said as tons of neon signs that read "This way to 'It' lit up around them. "Because I can't stand 'It" anymore. 'Do not touch It," he read.
"Do not photograph It," Jen read.
"Do not use batteries or electrical equipment anywhere near It," they all read.
They finally reached some light and saw a neon sign that read "This is It."
"Please don't tell me it's the world's biggest Michael Jackson collection," Jen sighed to herself.
The sign then raised up into the sky to reveal *drumroll*... the World's Largest Rubber Band Ball.
*cue wah-wah trumpet*
"This is It?" Ben asked in disappointment as the mayor walked up.
"It's a big ball of rubber bands," Gwen said.
"And who knows what secrets lie within?" the mayor said.
"Um, more rubber bands," Jen said.
"Stay as long as you like. But mind the signs," he said before walking away, leaving the kids to the rubber band ball.
"Look at this place!" Ben shouted. "These guys are full of 'It.'"
"We've been totally punked," Jen said.
"It is pretty lame," Gwen admitted. "I can't believe Grandpa was so excited about this place."
Ben then got a smirk on his face before he walked a bit away.
"I know that look, Ben," Jen said. "What are you thinking?"
Ben then got behind the ball and in a flash of green light, Four Arms appeared in his place and he lifted up the ball with a smile. "One good prank deserves another."
The girls then got a mischeivous look on their faces and they smiled.
"For once, I agree with you," Gwen smirked.
"What do you have in mind?" Jen asked.
"Maybe the World's Biggest Booger?" he asked as the girls laughed before Four Arms tossed the ball in between his top two hands.
"Careful, Ben! You'll drop it!"
"Not a chance. I can hold this thing with three hands tied behind my back," Four Arms then put three of his hands down, leaving the ball on one hand. Unfortunately, it started to rumble and his grip gave out as the ball fell out of his hand and bounced towards the girls before Jen tackled Gwen out of the way of its path as it bounced and broke through the warehouse as Jen groaned.
"Oops," Four Arms said as Jen activated her Omnitrix and glared.
"I'm on it!" she then slammed down the core in a flash of pink light. Her hands then lost two fingers and morphed into black scissor-like claws before her entire structure started to take on a more velociraptor-like state and her skin grew blue with black-armor like plating with pink on the center as well as her feet morphing into a ball-like structure, she grew a long blue and black striped tail and her head into a more triangular shape before her face was covered with a black visor with pink lighting as she struck a pose before XLR8 zoomed after the ball as it bounced, wreaking havoc through the town.
It destroyed a hot dog stand before it bounced off of a hay jackalope before it bounced back to Gwen and she dived out of the way before it went back and struck Four Arms right in the chest before it bounced back before XLR8 gripped the ball in her claws and ran backwards in an attempt to stop it in its path as she shouted out in effort before she was struck back into the World's Largest House of Cards, causing it to topple before the ball rolled on top of her before stopping.
Four Arms then walked up to his sister as she lifted her face visor as she struggled under the ball. "Hey, bro. I could use some help under here."
Gwen then walked up to Four Arms before she glanced at all of the damage that was done by the ball and slapped Four Arms no the shoulder.
"Ow! What was that for!?"
"For turning me into a criminal! Do you have any idea how much money this is going to cost to repair?" asked Gwen.
"Certainly more than either of our families have in our accounts!" XLR8 shouted as Four Arms slightly rolled the ball off of her.
"Don't get your panties in a twist," Four Arms said. "I'll just put everything back to where it was. No problem."
That was when the Omnitrixes started beeping and the twins transformed back into their human forms as they looked at each other and Jen glared.
"Okay, maybe a little problem," Ben said, resting his arm on the rubber band ball, unaware that the Omnitrix on his arm and caused some red sparks to shoot off inside of the ball.
Back at the Motel Sideways, the twins conversed over what happened.
"What are we going to tell Grandpa?" Jen asked, worried and pulling her hair out.
"Nothing. We just play dumb," Ben said.
"Easy for you. You're a lot better at it than we are," Gwen said.
The three of them then pushed open the door to the hotel room, which, true to the name, was entirely on it's side to see their grandfather waiting for them inside.
"Hey, there you are," Max said. "Isn't this place a riot?"
"Why? What'd you see?" Gwen asked, worried.
"We don't know anything about it!" Jen said, also worried before her brother laid a hand on her shoulder.
"They mean, 'It's great, Grandpa. Can't wait to check out the bathroom," Ben said with a nervous twitch.
Back at the rubber band ball, a ball of yellow lightning shot out of it and into a nearby power line before it flew all around the square and crashed through the "Welcome to Sparksville" sign and settled to reveal it's true form: a small yellow and black battery-like creature with a wicked cackle before vanishing.
That night in the hotel room, the kids were sleeping soundly in the sideways beds (the twins decided to sleep in the same bed since the hotel room only had two beds) before they heard their grandfather.
"What the heck happened here?"
The kids then gasped and fell out of their beds and onto the wall below (just go with it).
"He knows everything! We are so busted!" Gwen exclaimed.
"We have to come clean and tell Grandpa everything!" Jen said.
"Sometimes it's hard to believe we're the same age. Never admit anything until you absolutely have to, got it?" Ben said.
"Benjamin, Jennifer, Gwendolyn, get out here," Max called.
The girls then grew shocked.
"Jennifer?" Jen asked.
"Gwendolyn?" Gwen asked as they looked at each other.
"He full-named us," Jen said as she pulled her fingers nervously.
"We're doomed!" Gwen exclaimed.
They exited the hotel to see absolute carnage in the streets. The buildings were smoking everywhere around them, the cars were all wrecked and overturned and the power lines were in black smoldering curled sticks out of the ground and the lines were sparking everywhere.
"Whoa? What happened?" Ben asked.
"I don't know," Max said. "Looks like a tornado flew in overnight."
"Good," Ben said before Max looked to him and raised his eyebrow, prompting Ben to change his words. "I mean, yeah. It was just one of those freaky nature things. Right, girls?"
Gwen nodded as Jen shrugged her elbows.
"Sure, let's go with that."
Then, the mayor came walking over to them and cleared his throat.
"I think I know who's responsible for these juvenile acts."
"Juvenile acts?" Max said as the kids grew nervous. "If I didn't know better, I'd say that sounds like-"
"Oh, I'm not talking about these youngsters," the mayor said.
"You're not?" the Tennysons all asked before Max looked to his grandchildren and they all smiled innocently.
"Yeah, well if they didn't do it, who did?" Max asked.
As soon as he asked, the lightning creature from before appeared and swarmed all over the kids annoyingly before it went to Gwen and stuck it's black tongue out at her before fling over to Jen and pulling her shirt over her head and she glared before he went over to Ben and tapped his shoulder and stuck it's tongue at him as well before flying away from the group.
"What was that?" Ben asked.
"Megawatt," the mayor explained.
"Megawhat?" Jen asked.
"Exactly. Normally, wrapped up tight inside of "it." that is, until last night."
The kids looked at each other nervously, knowing they were responsible for Megawatt's escape.
"Some say, it might be a ball of lightning come alive, others think it's static cling run amuck. Tough to say."
"Maybe it's an alien," Gwen suggested.
"Alien? Now that's plain kooky talk."
Megawatt then showed up in front of a vending machine and cackled to itself before flying inside of it, causing it to violently shake and rumble.
"What's it doing?" Jen asked.
"It eats electricity. The more it gobbles, the more powerful it gets," the mayor explained.
The vending machine started throwing out cans of soda at them as they gasped and ducked for cover.
"It's also got a dangerous sense of humor."
They then ducked behind a ruin car to shield themselves from the bullet-like soda cans.
"You had that thing wrapped up in a giant rubber band ball this entire time?" Max asked. "Isn't that kind of dangerous?"
"Not so long as people minded the signs," he then turned to the kids as they looked nervous.
"Alright, we did it! We're guilty!" Ben exclaimed.
"So much for admit nothing, bro!" Jen said with a raised eye.
"We're going to talk about this later, you three," Max said. "But now, how do we stop this thing, Mr. Mayor?"
"What do you mean 'we?'" the mayor asked, putting a toothpick in his mouth. "You let it out, you catch it."
A piece of flaming debris crashed by them as they sighed.
"Easier said than done," Ben said.
"Well this is just perfect," Jen said, crossing her arms as they walked through the city, trying to catch Megawatt. "And of course, neither of us have any electrical aliens."
"Should we lure it out with some batteries or something?" Gwen asked.
Little did they know that Megawatt was following them with a mischievous chuckle as it traveled across the power lines in a ball of yellow lightning before travelling through a street light and finally up Max's pant leg before giving him the worst wedgie you've ever seen.
"That's not funny!" Max exclaimed. "Just painful."
Megawatt was struggling to hold the old man up due to his weight.
"Don't worry Grandpa. I know just the hero to deal with a trouble maker like this."
He readied his Omnitrix before slamming it down and transforming in a flash of green light. The 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.
"Why go Upgrade?" Gwen asked as Ben smirked.
"It's complicated. You wouldn't understand," Upgrade said.
"The watch didn't turn you into what you wanted it to, didn't you?" Jen asked as she raised her eyebrow.
"Shut up."
Megawatt cackled before he shot into the World's Largest Ketchup Bottle, the electricity causing the ketchup to boil to the top, causing it to explode and the cap to go flying, slicing off the head of a giant chicken, which crashed into the street, causing people to run away screaming. Megawatt cackled at its mischief before he looked to see Upgrade rolling the giant rubber band ball towards him.
"Alright, twinkle toes. Time to go home!"
Unfortunately, the bands started to give way and snap off, sending them flying in several directions as the ball rolled to its point, causing Gwen to duck for cover.
"Hey, doofus! Whose side are you on?!"
"Is it just me, or is there a lot of excitement today?" the mayor asked as he sat on the bench, munching on some popcorn.
Megawatt then appeared behind Upgrade as he glared and started making fun of him and laughing in midair as Upgrade glared in anger at him before his eye started to glow and before he knew it, he fired a beam of green energy from his eye, which Megawatt dodged in confusion.
"Whoa! That's new!" Upgrade said as Jen glared and noticed one of the discarded cans of soda, which she then opened and guzzled down before she ducked and dialed her Omnitrix as she tried to pic an alien. "Not so funny now, is it?!"
Megawatt then just laughed at him again before flying away and Upgrade tried chasing after him, to no avail as he was just too fast.
Meanwhile, Jen ducked behind a destroyed mailbox to transform.
"Eenie, meenie, miney, mo," she said as she stopped on several different aliens and finally stopped on one. "Here goes."
Jen's watch sank into her wrist before brown fur spread up her hands and then spread all over her body. Her clothes turned into a pink one-piece bodysuit and the Omnitrix symbol was below her chest area. 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.
Needle Mouse then got into her spin ball formation and spun rapidly before dashing towards Megawatt with a glare, but even at her speed, she couldn't catch up to the fast-as-light alien and she then glared as she briefly got out of her dash up in the air.
"Hold still, you little booger!" she shouted before dashing again and tossing some of her quills at it, which just embedded themselves in the wall behind her as she glared at him before Megawatt then got a smile on his face and giggled before firing his lightning at a power line, which destroyed it and sent it crashing right into the street and she crashed into it, coming out of her dash as she screamed.
"Oh man!"
Needle Mouse was sent flying into a local restaurant where a certain figure was seen sitting at alone at the bar in the otherwise abandoned restaurant that was evacuated thanks to Megawatt's mischief with long golden blonde hair and serene blue eyes hidden under black sunglasses. She was wearing a red shirt and golden colored shorts as she sipped her tequila with a sigh.
Needle Mouse struggled to get up as she was sprawled in front of the tables as the woman glanced over to her with a smirk before she snuck a hand into her pocket and released a blue heptagonal rune and released it into the air, knowing no one was watching her since they all left the restaurant.
"Song of Resurgence," she whispered as she released a blue ghost-like creature from her body that she sent flying up to the rune and it entered it before she snuck out of the back of the building.
Suddenly, Upgrade and Megawatt both heard 7 loud notes ring throughout the area as a purple light suddenly shone on top of the restaurant as Needle Mouse's eyes shot open as she was suddenly re-energized and somehow stronger than before as she shot out of the restaurant with her spin-dash and hit Megawatt dead center before they collided into a wall as she backflipped over and landed next to her brother.
"What the heck was that?" Upgrade asked.
"Your guess is as good as mine, bro," Needle Mouse said. "One minute I'm struggling to get up and the next thing I knew, I was recharged in two seconds."
The twins then heard the alien cackling towards them as they again tried capturing Megawatt, but still without much luck as it was just too fast. Finally, at one point, Upgrade caught him, but was then shocked severely, much to his sister's horror, as he was sent sprawling back before rubbing his head with a groan.
"Note to self, never touch electrical enemies when you're made of living metal."
"How are we going to ground that electric devil?" Max asked as Gwen suddenly got a shocked look on her face.
"Grandpa, you're a genius!" she said as she ran off.
"Why thank you, Gwen. But why?"
Back with the twins, Needle Mouse shot as many quills as she could at them and all of them missed as he doged her and smirked before sticking his tongue out at her and she grit her teeth in anger.
"That's it! I'm pulling the plug on this freak's pranks!" she shouted as she grabbed a manhole cover she was next to and tossed it up into the air at him and Megawatt dodged it, but while he was distracted, she tossed a quill at him like a javelin and it sliced the electric alien right in two.
But, much to the twins' shock, Megawatt's halves suddenly regenerated into two Megawatts at the same time as Needle Mouse looked absolutely dumbfounded as she sighed as her brother walked up to her.
"Okay, not one of my best ideas," she said as the Omnitrixes timed out and the twins returned to normal and Ben sighed.
"Great. Now we're powerless and we're about to be turned into KFT," Ben said.
"KFT?" Jen asked.
"Kentucky-Fried Twins."
Speaking of twins, the Megawatts fired twin bolts of lightning at them as they ran away from the scene sa they gasped.B
But then a truck that was carrying the World's Largest Thermometer came running up to them and they gasped before Gwen opened the door as Max was driving the truck.
"Get in, quick!"
The twins then hopped into the truck with the Megawatts close behind them as Jen gasped for breath after running so hard.
"Grandpa, what are you doing?" Ben asked as Max smirked.
"Giving these sparklers a science lesson they won't forget," Max said as he floored it and the truck sped away from the scene with a glare as the Megawatts followed it, cackling all the while.
"Hey, Mega-Weirds, Come and get us!" Gwen shouted as she raised the flatbed of the truck upwards and it released the thermometer, sending the Megawatts crashing into it, trapping them inside of it.
"What happened?" Jen asked as they stepped out of the truck after Max hit the breaks.
"We just used the World's Largest Thermometer as a lightning rod," Gwen said. "Who needs superheroes when you have good old-fashioned brain power?"
"Of course, the ground is basically just one big conductor," the mayor said as he walked over to them.
"What does that mean?" Ben asked.
"Oh no," Gwen said, realizing what he meant. "It means that the Megawatts are just zipping around underground until they find some way to get back up to the surface."
Suddenly, the landline telephone that lined the streets started ringing and sparking wildly and out of control.
"They're in the underground phone lines," Max realized.
Then, tons and tons of Megawatts started coming out of the phones and cackling wildly and mischievously as they flew threw the air as Jen shook her head sadly at that.
The Megawatts flew through the air and the power lines, blowing up the generators causing tons of buildings to black out as well as slashing all the tires of the cars lining the streets. One even caused a fire hydrant to blow up and spray its water into the air as it started raining briefly to them as the gathering crowd watched on.
"Uh-oh, now they really did it," a waitress from the hot dog restaurant said as the twins turned to their cousin.
"Ben Tennyson, don't you dare say a word," Gwen said.
"So, Gwen, how does it feel to be the one who screws everything up for once?" Jen said as Gwen groaned.
There was an explosion nearby and they all ducked for cover as the Megawatts stood on top of the giant hot dog at the top of the restaurant, looking absolutely stuff before letting out a hypersonic screech that echoed throughout the area, causing everyone to cover their ears in pain (with the exception of the mayor, still looking bored as hell.)
The screeching caused the glass container holding a bunch of giant toothpicks shattered into pieces as Max looked on in fear before Jen shouted out.
"Get down!"
The toothpicks all then stabbed into the ground around them before the woman from before was leaning against a building as she suddenly gasped at the sight and snapped her fingers as a red forcefield suddenly appeared over the twins before they gasped in as the toothpicks bounced off of the forcefield and clattered to the ground all around it before the shield faded and the woman stepped out of view from the camera as she sighed in relief before wiping her brow.
"What the heck is going on today?" Ben said as his sister shrugged. "First you're suddenly completely recharged and now this?"
"I swear, I'm not doing this, Ben," Jen said. "I think I may have a guardian angel or something."
"How right you are, Jen Tennyson," the woman said as she ducked from behind a building.
The remaining toothpicks then stabbed into the ground all around the bench the mayor was sitting on as he still looked utterly indifferent to everything that was going on as he munched on his popcorn.
"There goes the World's Largest Toothpicks. Oh, the humanity."
The Megawatts cackled mischeivously and flew away with a flash of lightning.
"Those creeps' idea of good clean fun is going to have us all pushing up daisies," Max remarked as Gwen turned to the twins.
"Don't just stand there, you two. Dial up some help."
"Like we're not trying!" Ben said.
"These things take time to recharge," Jen stated as they suddenly heard some gibberish as they looked to see the Megawatts communicating with each other in language they couldn't understand, while also using their lightning as some sort of sign language. They then zipped away from the scene as the Tennysons looked on, confused.
"Uh, where'd they go?" Ben asked as Max walked over.
"I don't know. But I don't think it's good."
They then heard a massive explosion as the twins stepped back.
"Definitely not good!" Jen shouted.
They then looked to see a giant planetarium that the Megawatts were using as a robot walking towards them, using the planets as hands and feet and the poles attaching them as limbs. It then turned around and walked away from the crowd.
"Well, there's something you don't see every day," said the waitress from before as she walked over. "They brought that planetarium exhibit to life."
"Come on, we'll head off in the-" Max began as he looked to see that his precious RV had been vandalized. The Rust Bucket had been spray-painted with green paint that had mocking emoji-like faces and writing that said 'U am lame.' "Oh my."
"'U am lame?" Ben asked as he chuckled. "That's weak."
"And don't even get me started on the grammar and the spelling," Gwen remarked as Jen could only chuckled.
"Okay, even I'll admit that that's kind of funny," she said. The mayor then walked over.
"I reckon they'll head for the big hydroelectric dam to power up," he suggested. "After that, they'll wipe out the next town over and so on and so on-"
"Until they blow the power in every single city in the country. Possibly the world," Jen realized.
"They think it's funny. Yep, Megawatt's got a real twisted sense of humor."
Gwen looked down in shame as she realized her cousins were right. This was all her fault. But then, she glanced over and saw the world's biggest fish bowl next to the giant ketchup bottle.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Gwen asked as the twins nodded.
"Oh yeah," Ben said.
"It's time to beat those pranksters at their own game," Jen said as they activated their Omntrixes.
At the dam, the planetarium robot was punching holes in it. It was about to strike the final blow until it was suddenly wrapped up in massive thorned vines that restrained it and then it was struck by a massive wave of flame that caused it to stumble back as it looked to see Heatblast and Blossom Rose on two sides of the dam with their arms crossed.
"This is your first and only warning," Blossom Rose glared.
"Knock off the funny business or we'll kick your twinkling butts."
The planetarium robot then punched a final blow into the dam, which caused it to burst open water going everywhere.
They then stumbled down from the force of the water as Blossom Rose then nodded before jumping down and thrust her hand forward as vines extended from her fingers and wrapped themselves around the giant planetarium and swung on it like Spider-Man before she glared as she thrust her other hand and caused a flurry of thorns to shoot out and embed themselves in its frame.
"Now, Ben!" Blossom Rose shouted as Heatblast then glared and ran down the perimeter of the dam before he shot out some fire from his hands and braced himself for impact... only to find that he was flying on a flaming chunk of concrete that he was controlling with his flames, a la jet propulsion. He then jumped down to the floor and then chuckled to himself as Blossom Rose continued swinging from the vines that she conjured before she was finally smacked away by the plantarium and hit her head on the dam and sunk to the ground, unconscious as he looked to the dam and glared at the plantarium, but then noticed the still flooding dam.
"I'd better seal that up fast."
As he ran to the dam, the planetarium noticed the power lines that were being led to the cylindrical generators that were powering the dam. The Megawatts had found what they came for.
Heatblast then zoomed by with a jet of flame trying to go past the planetarium, but he suddenly lost control and crashed head-first into the dam as he then got to his knees in a daze.
The plantarium then took it's opportunity and punched Heatblast unconscious. The twins had been defeated. They were victorious. They then walked over to the generators again.
Little did they know that back with Blossom Rose, she had landed in a puddle of water that had resulted from the flooding dam. Her body then suddenly shot out small roots that absorbed nutrients from the water. She suddenly shot open her bright pink eyes as she started to grow from the water as she then smirked as she now matched the size of the planetarium as she cracked her knuckles.
"I guess water does do a flower good," she said as she formed a shield from her thorned vines as she then ran up to it and started brawling with it as she grew her chlorophyl-filled fists and smiled at him with a glare as she dodged it's punches and then she caught the giant planets with a glare as they suddenly heard a voice.
Hey, Mega-Whimps!" Gwen shouted as she ran over with a fire hose. "You know what's really funny? You're all wet." She then fired the hose at the planetarium, which briefly shorted it out before it tried to step on her with its planet foot, distracting them enough to see Heatblast back with a massive fireball in his hands.
"What's the matter?" Heatblast asked. "Can't take a joke?" He then tossed the fireball at the planetarium, causing it to stumble back as Blossom Rose closed her eyes and charged up her solar beam as the bud on her head bloomed open and she pointed her head at them and fired the yellow-orange beam at them, destroying the planetarium body as she smiled.
"You guys need to lighten up," she mocked as the Megawatts glared and charged at her, only for her to vanish in a puff of smoke.
"Na-na-na-na-na!" she mocked as she stuck her tongue out at them as she and Heatblast were standing by something covered by a cloth as the Megawatts grew angry at them and charged at them as they ducked under the cloth as the Megawatts followed them.
Max and Gwen stepped from behind and removed the glass, revealing the fish bowl that now had the Megawatts stuck inside of them as the twins smiled.
Heatblast then breathed a massive plume of fire that then sealed up the glass with a smile as the two mocked the Megawatts inside, showing them that it's not so fun being on the other side of the spectrum.
"Great idea using the fish bowl, guys. With non-conductive glass sealed up tight, Sparky and his pals won't be going anywhere."
"Once again, science saves the day," Gwen said as the Omnitrixes timed out and the twins leaned against the glass.
"With a little help from science fiction," Ben remarked as Jen smiled.
"Featuring fantasy," she said as they all laughed.
Back in Sparksville, the construction crew was fixing up the damage that Megawatt had left behind as the Tennysons met with the mayor, who was standing by a giant cloth-covered figure.
"You folks done right by us," said the mayor.
"I hope our little adventure wasn't a setback for Sparksville," Max said as the mayor smiled (for the first time.)
"More like a giant step forward," the mayor said. "What with our new attraction, soon we'll be raking 'em in."
He removed the giant cloth to reveal a giant lightbulb that obviously held the Megawatts.
"Vegas lightbulb. It'll be a humdinger."
Inside the lightbulb, the Megawatts tried desperately hard to get free, to no avail.
"So long as folks mind the signs," he reminded Ben as he walked away and revealed a sign by the giant lightbulb.
"'In case of emergency, do not break glass,'" Ben read as he shrugged and headed to the now-cleaned up Rust Bucket as he sighed. "I'm all pranked out for awhile."
"There's a time and a place for a practical joke, bro," Jen said as Ben opened the door to the Rust Bucket door, only to have a bucket of water fall on him and Jen smiled as she chuckled. "But funny is funny. Especially when it's not on you."
The family then laughed (except for Ben) as they got into the Rust Bucket and left Sparksville.
On a cliff, the woman from the restaurant smiled as she looked down on the departing Rust Bucket as she crossed her arms as a cloud of mist suddenly formed around her feet and transformed her clothing, revealing her to be the figure from the desert dressed in the uniform from before.
"I won't let you down, Adaline," she said. "I swear on my father's grave that I will protect the Master Anodite or I'm not the Scarlet Warrior."
She then summoned her key again and opened a portal and glanced back.
"One day, we'll meet face-to-face, Tennysons. But that day is not today."
She then walked through the portal and headed back home.
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