(A trail of footprints burned into the pavement led up to the new Tennyson household that they bought and furnished four month ago and Heatblast walked into his room and sighed as XLR8 zoomed into her room and sighed.)
Heatblast: "Why does this thing never time out when I want it to?"
(Heatblast asked as he heard a knock on his door.)
Carl: "Ben! Come out here this instant young man!"
(Carl said to his son.)
Heatblast: "Just a second, Dad!"
(Heatblast said, trying to make his voice sound normal.)
(He then waited until the Omnitrix timed out as he and his sister looked out to see their parents looking at them.)
(Sandra was holding their new baby sister, Emma Tennyson, in her arms as she looked very similar to Lily Loud with thin blonde hair that their mother had and their dad's brown eyes as they looked.)
Sandra: "Ben? Jen?"
(Sandra asked.)
Jen: "Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad."
(Jen said as she smiled and playfully kissed her new sister's head.)
Jen: "And hi, little Emma."
(Emma playfully babbled as Jen cooed her.)
Carl: "Can you two tell us why the entire house is covered in scorch marks?"
(Carl asked as he gestured to Heatblast's burned footprints that led up to Ben's room.)
Ben: "We can explain!"
(Ben said as he looked at his Omnitrix.)
Ben: "Actually... no we can't. You wouldn't believe us if we told you."
Sandra: "And what's this that we hear about you two falling asleep in class?"
(Sandra asked as she handed the baby to Jen, who patted her back gently.)
Carl: "I'm afraid that we're going to have to ground you two, kids."
(Carl said as Jen groaned.)
Jen: "But, Dad! We're supposed to go fishing with Grandpa Max and Ally this weekend!"
Carl: "You two spent the entire summer with your grandpa."
(Carl said, holding his wife close.)
Carl: "Missing one weekend with him won't be the end of the world."
Jen: "Okay."
(Jen sighed, putting her head down.)
Jen: "You're right."
(Rex then walked up to her and barked as she bent down and scratched him behind his ears as she smiled.)
Jen: "At least I always have you and Emma to be on my side, Rex. Yes, I do. Yes, I do."
(A Few Hours later...)
Ben: "Please tell me that it's the end of the world, Grandpa!?"
(Ben asked as he talked over his laptop camera phone.)
Ben: "Please tell us that there's a life-or-death alien situation that the Omni-Team has to deal with this weekend!"
Max: "Can't overrule your parents, Ben."
(Max said as Jen sighed on her camera as well.)
Max: "And that goes with you too, Jen."
Jen: "I wish we had never come home from our road trip."
(Jen said as she silently practiced her guitar to herself with a sigh.)
Max: "Summer can't last forever. Everybody's got to get off the road sometime."
Ben: "Not superheroes like us, Grandpa."
(Ben said.)
Max: "Guys, don't make the same mistake I almost made with your father. There's no point in saving the universe if you lose your family."
(Later, Ben began typing his history report into his laptop with a groan.)
Ben: "'First Person Narrative from the Point of View of a Crew Member During the Age of Exploration.' Ugh, just shoot me now."
(That was when his Omnitrix shot out a blast of green and pink energy that vaporized his laptop and he shot out of his seat.)
Ben: "I didn't mean literally! And since when can you vaporize laptops? What's going on with you anyway?"
(He sighed.)
Ben: "Well, I guess desperate times call for desperate measures."
(Gwen's phone rung as she picked it up and sighed.)
Gwen: "Hello?"
Ben: "Gwen. How's my favorite cousin?"
Gwen: "What do you want, Ben?"
Ben: "I don't need a reason to keep in touch with family like you and Becky. It's just always nice to shoot the breeze with the smartest person I know."
Gwen: "Okay, who are you and what have you done with Ben? Is Jen mind-controlling you with her powers?"
Ben: "Wow, clever. In fact, you're so clever that if I were to randomly pick a topic, say, the Age of Exploration, you could rattle off a bunch of interesting facts. Enough to fill a first person narrative."
Gwen: "Nice try, cuz. But you need to experience the joy of research yourself. I'm not helping you cheat."
Ben: "Come on. Just do me this one favor."
Gwen: "No. You can't just expect all life's answers to just come flying in through the window."
(As soon as the words left her mouth, a Petrosapien crystal flew through the window and Jen burst into the room to see what was going on.)
Ben: "Right, gotta go! Smell ya later."
(Ben said as Jen gasped and looked through the window to see two old friends come down as they degenerated their helmets to reveal...)
Jen: "Tetrax? Maya?"
(Jen asked as she noticed a small creature floating by Maya.)
(It had a thick, round, translucent blue membrane resembling a jellyfish's hood.)
(Within this membrane were four red, spherical organs resembling nuclei with red connections.)
(It had three leech-like fangs, one larger than the other.)
(lt floated by Maya and rested on her shoulder as she glanced.)
Maya: "I believe that we need to talk, you two."
(Maya said as the two sighed.)
Ben: "We'll get the hoverboards."
Jen: "So?"
(Jen asked as she floated by Maya.)
Jen: "What is that thing by you?"
Maya: "Ridley is a Metroid."
(Maya said as Ridley floated next to her and brushed against her chest lovingly like a child to its mother.)
Maya: "My family is famous for hunting them, but since an experiment that infused my Mom with Metroid DNA, Metroids don't attack us or our friends anymore. We're kind of human Queen Metroids if that makes sense. So, Ridley here is kind of like my hunting dog."
(The Metroid squeaked before flying close to Jen and snuggled next to her as Maya chuckled.)
Maya: "Ridley, down."
(she ordered as Ridley flew back to her and flew next to her shoulder.)
Tetrax: "Now on to why we're here."
(Tetrax said.)
Tetrax: "We received an urgent message from Azmuth."
Ben: "The creator of the Omnitrixes?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "What did he want?"
Tetrax: "He did not specify. Only that he needed to meet with you two right away."
Ben: "Yes!"
(Ben said.)
Jen: "Only problem is that we're grounded. We're not even supposed to be out of the house all weekend."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "Our folks are going to kill us."
Maya: "I see. I guess you don't have to meet-"
Ben: "On the other hand, it would be rude for us to stand up Azmuth."
(Maya smiled and the four flew down into an open clearing in the woods.)
(Tetrax held up his gauntlet which started to glow as a green aura appeared in the ground below as the Resolute deactivated its cloaking device.)
Maya: "That's odd."
(Maya said as she sat down on a rock with Ridley floating beside her.)
Maya: "Azmuth told us he would be meeting us directly at these coordinates."
Jen: "Wait a minute, Azmuth's coming here?"
(Jen asked.)
Jen: "I thought we would be going on another space road trip?"
Tetrax: "Sorry to disappoint you two."
(Tetrax said as he saw the twins' Omnitrixes sparking out pink and green energy that they quickly covered.)
Tetrax: "Is something wrong with your Omnitrixes?"
Ben: "Uh... no."
(Ben began as Jen quickly got onto her hoverboard and her brother followed suit.)
Jen: "I think that we'll go look for Azmuth right now!"
(Jen said as they took off.)
Maya: "Ben, Jen, wait!"
(Maya called.)
(The two hovered alongside the road as Jen wiped her brow.)
Jen: "That was close. What is up with these things?"
(That was when they looked and saw their Omnitrixes spark green and pink energy outwards that illuminated the night sky.)
Ben: "That can't be good."
(Ben said.)
(They looked to the side and saw a flatbed truck move into their path and Jen screamed outwards as the truck honked and pulled over as Ben and Jen briefly skimmed the truck's length and crashed into the woods, sending their hoverboards flying.)
Jen: "Ow."
(Jen said as she gave Ben her hand and helped him up as they quickly ran over to the truck as it rested in the clearing.)
Ben: "Hey! Are you okay?"
(Ben asked as they moved to the truck, which had crashed into a tree nearby.)
[To Be Continued...]