(The group walked down the halls of the power plant, keeping an eye out for Clancy or any insects lining the walls as Ben stood, shivering like crazy as they walked.)
(Suddenly, an alarm started blaring through the building and a red light started flashing through the halls.)
Ben: "What's happening? I take it that's bad?"
(Ben asked.)
Gwen: "No, Ben."
(Gwen deadpanned.)
Gwen: "I'm sure that every time an alarm goes off in a nuclear plant, it's a good thing."
building's alarm: "Core temperature rising."
(the building's alarm stated.)
building's alarm: "Approaching critical."
Max: "He must be fooling around with the reactor's controls."
(Max realized.)
Max: "Let's go!"
(They then ran, following the smoke that came from the reactor, only to find the controls and several computers smashed and sparking out.)
System: "Core temperature critical. Meltdown imminent."
Max: "All the controls are smashe.,"
(Max stated.)
Max: "We'll have to shut it down manually."
Jen: "How do we do that?"
(Jen asked as they walked up to the computers.)
Max: "Just outside the reactor core, there's an emergency override system."
Gwen: "Let me guess."
(Gwen smirked, leaning against a cabinet, unaware that a cockroach was crawling up next to her.)
Gwen: "You learned about nuclear reacting from a monk in China."
(She then leaned her head and noticed the cockroach and gasped in surprise.)
Jen: "Oh no."
(Jen said as Clancy walked in, bugs swarming all around him.)
Clancy: "Here for a front row seat?"
(he asked.)
Ben: "Hey, news flash, bug boy."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "If this place goes nuclear, you're going to wind up blowing up right along with the rest of us."
Clancy: "Oh, we don't think so."
(Clancy said as an entire hive of cockroaches swarmed out from his sleeves, shoes, pants, whatever and crawled all over his body, forming a bug armor if you will.)
Clancy: "When the reactor goes super critical, we'll be snug as bugs in a rug."
Gwen: "Of course!"
(Gwen realized.)
Gwen: "Scientists believe that cockroaches are the only things that would survive the blast."
Ben: "So the guy's going to wear a bug suit to protect himself from the meltdown?"
(Ben asked as he walked up and dialed in his desired alien on the Omnitrix before slamming the core down and transforming into Heatblast.)
(Only, his flames, which were supposed to be orange, were now an icy blue instead.)
Gwen: "Wait."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "Something's weird about you."
Heatblast: "No time to diss me."
(Heatblast said.)
Heatblast: "You guys fix the reactor. Jen and me will take care of Bugsy."
Jen: "Going hero!"
(Jen said as she slammed her own core down and started her own transformation.)
(She float in the air she spun around then curled up as her body got wrapped by multiple lava-like silks until she was conceal within the lava-theme pupa then changed to orange crystal form.)
(The pupa start cracking then a long insectoid arm with three claws, spikes on the arm and coated with orange exoskeleton smashed of the pupa then her four long legs with long thin talons and finally her head, which she matured to a young woman with a light-orange exoskeleton and wore crown-like horns on her head, has C-cup breastbones, very large abdomen with light-like orb at the bottom tip and a pair of large skin-like wings and her body itself stretched into a more insect-like structure.)
(Her clothes consisted of a one-piece pink and white bodysuit with wholes for the legs.)
(She is now a humanoid firefly-like creature with the watch symbol on her forehead.)
(She floated around gracefully as she open her eyes, revealing her black needle-like pupils with green sclera as she gave a elegant smile, threw a kick in the air, spun around and float gracefully as she finished her transformation.)
Firefly: "You wouldn't hurt a lady, would you?"
(Firefly asked with a smirk as she started hovering in the air.)
Heatblast: "Jen, Firefly's a bug. He controls bugs, remember."
Firefly: "Brother, I may be an insect."
(she said.)
Firefly: "But I'm an insect with a human intellect. Much more advanced than the ones that cretin controls."
(Heatblast rolled his eyes and then leaped forward before he was swatted away by Clancy.)
(Firefly then flew in and glared as she fired her heat ray from her abdomen at him, which caused him to stumble back as she blasted a few of the roaches off of Clancy's armor as she glared at him.)
(Gwen and Max ran out of the room to get to the reactor, but Clancy took notice of this.)
Clancy: "You cannot escape us."
(He stuck his arm out and a swarm of hornets followed them.)
Firefly: "Don't worry, brother. I'll save them!"
(Firefly announced as she beat her wings rapidly and sped after the hornets as fast as her wings could carry her.)
Heatblast: "That's it."
(Heatblast said, getting up.)
Heatblast: "Time to turn up the Heatblast around here!"
(He stuck his arms out before he sneezed and a gust of cold air came out with no fire.)
Heatblast: "Hey! What happened? You should be a bunch of briquettes by now."
(He then came to a realization as his eyes widened.)
Heatblast: "My cold! It froze my flames!"
(Clancy smirked before laying the smack down on Ben.)
(Gwen and Max ran down the halls to the reactor when Max looked over his shoulder and saw the swarm of hornets following them.)
Max: "Uh oh. You know that old expression 'mean as a hornet?'"
System: "Meltdown in T-Minus five minutes."
(They ran down to the end of the hall where they found a fire hose just as Firefly was rounding the corner.)
(Max turned the valve and Gwen held the hose as it fired a large stream of water at the swarm before Firefly fired a stream of flames from her hands as the hornets all dropped dead to the floor.)
(Clancy tossed Heatblast around like a ragdoll as he hit the glass pane and groaned to the floor and held his hand up in surrender.)
Heatblast: "Oh man. Maybe we can talk about this?"
(Suddenly, a blue beam shot out of his hand and Clancy was frozen in the spot where it landed as Heatblast noticed this and smirked.)
Heatblast: "Well what do you know?"
(Firefly, Gwen and Max arrived at the reactor just below where Clancy and Ben were fighting as it flashed bright orange, clearly stating that it was going to go boom any second.)
System: "Core temperature critical. Meltdown in T-Minus one minute."
(Heatblast continued to fire his ice beams before breaking off one of Clancy's arms, which regenerated from the cockroaches before he tackled him out of the observation room and into the reactor chamber.)
(Max was working on the manual override controls as Firefly blasted the bugs away with her heat ray and Gwen swatted them with a broom as she started sweating.)
Gwen: "Grandpa, hurry up! We can't take much more of this!"
Firefly: "I've always said that I wanted to be hotter."
(Firefly said as she looked at the reactor.)
Firefly: "This isn't what I meant!"
System: "Meltdown in 30 seconds."
(Suddenly, an ice beam froze all the bugs on the spot as Clancy crashed down and Heatblast swung down on the resulting stalagmite at his family.)
Heatblast: "Somebody call for a hero?"
Gwen: "I don't get it. Since when are you an instant ice cube maker?"
(Gwen asked.)
Heatblast: "I guess for some aliens, getting a cold isn't just an expression."
(Heatblast smiled.)
Firefly: "I really don't want to find out what happens to my aliens when I get sick."
(Firefly said.)
Max: "I can't override."
(Max said.)
Max: "All of the manual controls have overheated."
(Clancy rushed at the group as they all looked to each other.)
Firefly: "Brother, look out!"
(Firefly shouted as Heatblast generated a blue sphere in his hands and tossed it at Clancy, freezing him on the spot.)
System: "Core meltdown in 10..."
Heatblast: "Stand back! I've got an idea"
(Heatblast shouted.)
System: "9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2..."
(Heatblast fired his ice rays at the reactor, instantly causing the temperature to drop significantly and the room to fill up with steam due to the combination of the hot air combining with ice.)
(The reactor froze over and the red light stopped flashing.)
System: "Core temperature dropping. Returning to below critical limits."
Gwen: "Alright!"
(Gwen cheered.)
Max: "Way to go, Ben!"
(Max said.)
Firefly: "I don't think even I would've had the courage to do that."
(Firefly said, slapping a hand on her brother's shoulder.)
Heatblast: "Thanks."
(Heatblast said, shivering.)
Heatblast: "Could we get some hot chocolate or something?"
Ben: "The bad guy's on ice, the reactor's chilling and I think that steam knocked out the last of my cold."
(Ben said, his skin tones back to normal as Jen smiled at him and hugged him.)
Jen: "And I can get back to hugging my brother without fear of getting his bug."
(she said.)
Max: "Don't you just love it when everything works out?"
(Max asked.)
(Gwen got a carton of milk out of the refrigerator when she spotted a roach crawl out from under it.)
(She reeled her leg up to stomp it.)
Gwen: "Sorry, Mr. Roach. This is going to hurt you a lot more than it's going to hurt me."
(Before she could step on it, she saw an inordinate amount of roaches crawl from the walls and door of the Rust Bucket as the twins stood up from their seats.)
(Max pulled over as the roaches completely swarmed the Rust Bucket and the door opened as Clancy, still covered in his roach armor, walked in and revealed his disgusting face to them.)
Clancy: "We didn't appreciate the cold shoulder you gave us back in the power plant."
(Max tossed a punch at him, but he caught him and threw him back into the front of the RV as the kids glared as Gwen grabbed a fire extinguisher.)
Gwen: "I thought you turned Mr. Bug into a snow cone."
(Gwen asked as the twins dialed their Omnitrixes.)
Ben: "He must have thawed out!"
(Ben said as they tapped the buttons, only to find out that the watches were still recharging.)
Jen: "Oh man!"
(Jen groaned.)
Jen: "We're on our own."
(She then lit her hands up in pink energy as she glared and Gwen fired the extinguisher to blow the roaches away from her.)
Ben: "Any ideas?"
(Ben asked.)
Jen: "Not unless you have a six-foot candy bar to tempt them with!"
(Ben then got an idea.)
Ben: "Nope. But I have the next best thing!"
(He ran for the medicine cabinet and grabbed the San Ju Yen Pien medicine, whose stench filled the RV as he smiled.)
Ben: "Come and get it!"
(The roaches were instantly mesmerized by the smell of the vile medicine and instantly flew towards it, even the ones covering Clancy as he lost his strength and dropped Max from his grip.)
Clancy: "What's happening?"
(he asked.)
Ben: "Come and get it!"
(Ben shouted as he tossed the medicine out the window and into the ocean, all of the bugs following it as Clancy gasped.)
Clancy: "No, stop!"
(he shouted before he turned to Max who glared at him.)
(He chuckled innocently.)
Max: "No hard feelings right?"
(Max then sucker-punched him out of the door and into the street barrier as he groaned and fell unconscious.)
Ben: "Good. That guy was really starting to bug me."
Max: "I'm calling the police. I'll be right back."
(Max said as he went for the phone.)
(Gwen then inhaled hard before she sneezed.)
Gwen: "Oh no."
Ben: "Hey, what do you know? Everything really did work out after all."
[To Be Continued...]