(Back in the woods, Tetrax and Maya were debriefing the rest of the Omni-Team on just what had happened.)
Maya: "By the time Gluto gained control of the Resolute, there was no sign of either of the twins anywhere."
(Maya said as Ridley squeaked sadly.)
Maya: "Even a pilot with his talent was barely able to land back here in Bellwood."
Max: "So you just abducted them?!"
(Max glared.)
Tetrax: "Actually, they volunteered."
(Tetrax said.)
Tetrax: "In fact, they seemed eager to leave Earth."
Max: "They were grounded!"
Tetrax: "Grounded? As in, confined to quarters?"
Max: "Why? What did they tell you?"
Becky: "Knowing Ben? Anything to get out of doing homework."
(Becky said with a sigh.)
Becky: "And Jen just wanted some excitement in her life after what's happened."
Max: "No."
(Max said to his granddaughters.)
Max: "It's more than that. Ben told me that he wished they'd never come back home from our summer vacation. Now your aunt and uncle are worried sick, even with the new baby."
Maya: "I can relate."
(Maya said as she twiddled her fingers.)
Maya: "My mother's a single mom and a Protector. She was always my hero and I wanted to be a great bounty hunter like her. I desperately wanted to leave our home planet too, but she insisted that the job is dangerous. But now, I'm just as famous as her."
Tetrax: "Also."
(Tetrax said, wincing to his partner.)
Tetrax: "We... may have altered the Omnitrixes to prevent the twins from returning to human form once they went alien again."
Max: "And they let you two do that?!"
Maya: "We never actually told them what the new features were."
(Maya said.)
Maya: "It was for their own protection. The Omnitrixes were completely malfunctioning in their default forms and we figured that if they stayed in alien form, we could prevent it from happening again."
Allison: "So now the twins are stuck in alien form and we don't even know where they are."
(Allison said as she facepalmed.)
Gwen: "No..."
(Gwen said as she piped up.)
Gwen: "But Azmuth might."
Max: "The creator of the Omnitirxes?"
(Max asked.)
Becky: "Is there another Azmuth?"
(Becky asked sternly.)
Gwen: "That's the ship he created out of the head of one of Vilgax's drones, isn't it?"
(Gwen asked.)
Tetrax: "So, Azmuth did make it to Earth."
(Tetrax examined.)
Maya: "But if that's the case, then what happened to him?"
(Maya asked as they walked over to the ship with Ridley following her.)
Max: "I bet that we'll find answers inside."
(Max said.)
(They looked at the ship, not noticing the large gaping hole in the top of it.)
(The chase continued through the streets of Bellwood as Stinkfly and Firefly desperately avoided the laser blasts that rained down on them as they shouted out in effort from the rate they flapped their wings.)
Stinkfly: "Wow. That's one wicked bug zapper!"
(Stinkfly said as Firefly gulped as she avoided the lasers.)
Firefly: "I'm too young to die!"
(Retaliator adjusted his blaster as he aimed towards the young heroes and locked his gaze on them.)
Retaliator: "Time to ground these insects."
(He then blasted a water cannon out from his left arm that Stinkfly and Firefly desperately avoided.)
Stinkfly: "All things considered, sis, I'd rather be grounded by our parents!"
Firefly: "Ditto!"
(Firefly shouted.)
(They were then blasted with the water and crashed into an office building.)
Firefly: "AAAH! We can't fly with water wings!"
(Firefly shouted as they groaned in pain.)
(Retaliator then appeared in front of the window and smirked to himself... right before another flash of green and pink light flashed out as Heatblast flew out, crashing through the glass windows with Blitzwolfer hanging from his arm as she blasted out her sonic howl blasting him back as they landed on a roof by him as they prepared themselves as Retaliator righted himself with his boosters.)
Blitzwolfer: "Hot enough for you, bro?"
Retaliator: "A Loboan and a Pyronite? How many aliens are on this planet?"
Blitzwolfer: "We don't even know."
(Blitzwolfer said with a snarl.)
Blitzwolfer: "But there's enough to kick your butt!"
(Heatblast blasted out two jets of fire, which Retaliator avoided and then he flew above them and blasted his water cannon out, extinguishing the flames.)
(He then froze the water, freezing Heatblast in place as Blitzwolfer leaped forwards and held him down with her claws.)
Retaliator: "I'll just have to stun yourbutt!"
(Retaliator was not phased as he blasted out his lightning ray again, which stunned Blitzwolfer in place as he retracted his blasters into claws which he used to grab the twins before he flew them above.)
Retaliator: "Now that I have your undivided attention, where can I find your To'Kustar boss?"
Heatblast: "Our... what?"
(Heatblast asked.)
(Unamused, Retaliator extended his claws out, preparing to drop the twins off the building to their certain doom.)
Retaliator: "The giant alien that attacked this place you call Bellwood!"
Biltzwolfer: "Oh, you mean that evil Way Big we fought?"
(Biltzwolfer asked as Retaliator turned them upside down over the street.)
Retaliator: "So you two do know where he is. Talk!"
Heatblast: "We don't know! We were fighting him in the woods and he just... disappeared!"
(Heatblast desperately said.)
Retaliator: "To'Kustars don't just disappear!"
(That was when the Omnitrixes beeped out again and caused the twins to switch aliens again, vanishing from sight.)
(Retaliator looked out to see his prey were gone.)
(He looked around the building and his surroundings but found no sign of anything there.)
(Little did he know, Grey Matter and Frostblight ducked all around his suit and gulped outwards as they avoided his sight before running away in fear, knowing they didn't stand a chance against him, at least not without their Omni-Suits.)
(Tetrax, Maya, Gwen, Becky, Max and Allison walked inside Azmuth's makeshift spaceship to investigate what was going on.)
(Max walked over to the weaponry on the ship and glared as he saw something peculiar on the ship.)
Max: "A Vanpartiblan sonic disruptor."
(Max examined.)
Max: "This could easily blast a hole in a spaceship while it's in sub-orbit."
Tetrax: "And your point is?"
(Tetrax asked.)
Max: "Maybe your ship's 'malfunction' was no accident."
Tetrax: "But that doesn't make any sense. Why would Azmuth want to shoot down our ship? We're friends after all."
Max: "I don't know. I've never met the guy."
Allison: "But we have."
(Allison said.)
Becky: "Um, I think you guys should take a look at this."
(Becky said as they looked at the ship's computer to see it show the Omnitrixes and Jen, Ben and some of their aliens showing up on the screens.)
Becky: "It appears that Azmuth was tracking a malfunction with the Omnitrixes."
Max: "What did the twins do to them this time?"
(Max asked, annoyed.)
Gwen: "Wait."
(Gwen said as she typed in a few commands.)
Gwen: "I think I found a ship's log."
(She then pressed the "Enter" key to pull up a video of Azmuth as he entered Earth.)
Azmuth: "Targets acquired."
(he said as he entered the atmosphere and his computer showed the Omnitrixes.)
Azmuth: "Time to blend in with the locals."
(He then typed in a command on his computer, which cloaked his ship to look like an Earth truck.)
(That was when a green and pink light blasted through the visors and Azmuth gasped and screamed, losing control of his ship as it crashed into a tree.)
(The camera looked out to see the To'Kustar from before rampaging through the woods as it roared outwards before the log went dead, showing static.)
Maya: "That's the To'Kustar that I fought with Tetrax and the twins!"
(Maya realized as Ridley chirped nervously.)
Max: "You two didn't tell me you fought a To'Kustar!"
(Max shouted angrily.)
Tetrax: "It didn't seem relevant at the time, Max."
(Tetrax said.)
Max: "I'll decide what's relevant and what's not. What else are you guys not telling me. I want answers and I want them now."
???: "I couldn't agree more."
(a voice said and everyone looked outwards to see Retaliator teleport into the ship, glaring at the party present as he aimed his blaster arm at them.)
Allison: "Who are you?"
(Allison asked as she absorbed the metal from the ship and pointed her blade arms at him while Becky prepared her spear and Gwen readied her spells.)
Becky: "Where's Azmuth?"
(Becky asked.)
Retaliator: "Azmuth is dead!"
Maya: "No!"
(Maya shouted.)
Gwen: "How can this be?"
(Gwen asked.)
Retaliator: "I think you know how."
(Retaliator said as he showed them the footage of the To'Kustar attacking the ship and destroying the camera.)
Retaliator: "Now where's the alien you call Way Big?!"
Allison: "But that's not Way Big."
(Allison said, confused.)
(Irritated, Retaliator blasted a hole in the roof with his laser.)
Retaliator: "I don't care what his name is! I have tracked him across the galaxy and around this planet! He will pay for his crime! Now bring him to me or perish!"
(He blasted out his laser beam to them but, reacting quickly, the girls suited up as Lucky Girl leaped in to block the blast with a force field.)
(Tetrax created two crystal boomerangs from his back shards and them at the Galvanic Mechamorph, sticking him into the wall as Maya blasted out her cannon to him with Gwen backing her up with some spell blasts.)
(Retaliator struggled as the boomerangs restrained his grip and Max walked up to him as Matter Girl pointed a bladed arm to his throat as she glared hatefully.)
Max: "I don't know who you are."
(Max said.)
Max: "But you're not leaving this ship until you tell us where my grandkids are."
Matter Girl: "Better do as he says."
(Matter Girl said, her blade arm getting dangerously close to breaking skin.)
Matter Girl: "My arm's getting tired."
Retaliator: "I have no idea who they are!"
Huntress: "Really?"
(Huntress said as she walked forward and pounded on his gauntlet, which showed the Omnitrix symbols.)
Huntress: "You sure seem to know their symbols."
Retaliator: "Tell me more about these symbols."
(Retaliator said, intrigued.)
Retaliator: "What do they mean? Some kind of alien hit squad?"
Max: "You're in no position to ask questions right now!"
(Max shouted.)
Retaliator: "Neither are you six."
(A red light suddenly flashed through the ship and they looked to see a countdown on the ship initiate.)
ship Ai: "Self-destruct sequence activated."
Max: "You're bluffing."
(Max dared as Retaliator only teleported away from the group as they looked on, defenseless.)
Maya: "Uh-oh."
(Maya turned to the team as the countdown finished and the ship exploded in a ball of fire, destroying all the trees in sight.)
(The smoke cleared to reveal Lucky Girl shielding everyone with her forcefield before she dispelled it.)
Lucky Girl: "I don't think he was bluffing."
Huntress: "That's my sister."
(Huntress smiled.)
Max: "We need to find the twins before that blue Upgrade does."
(Max said as Tetrax nodded to them.)
(Lucky Girl put her hands to her temples and concentrated as she sensed her cousins' energies.)
Lucky Girl: "That's odd. Now the twins' energies are close. Very close."
Matter Girl: "I think I have a good idea where they're going."
(Matter Girl said.)
Tetrax: "Where?"
Maya: "They're going home."
(Maya said.)
[To Be Continued...]