(The next morning, Ben and Jen walked towards the school once again as they saw the girls from the previous day practicing their cheerleading routine for the talent show as Jen nodded in confirmation.)
Jen: "I've got my work cut out for me this year."
Ben: "Jump in with both feet."
(Ben repeated his grandfather's words.)
Ben: "Be a normal kid again."
Jen: "Well, I guess it can't be harder than stopping aliens."
(Jen said as she walked up.)
(Ben then walked up to the girls and nodded.)
Ben: "Hi, I'd like to be in the talent show."
girl 1: "What's your thing?" t
(he black girl asked.)
girl 2: "Hello, what do you do?"
Ben: "Well, I'm awesome at-"
girl 2: "This is a talent show, not a talent stare."
(the white girl said as they both laughed and high-fived.)
Ben: "Okay, I'll show you what I can do."
(Ben said as he showed his Omnitrix, much to Jen's worry.)
girl 1: "What kind of lame-o watch is that?"
(the black girl asked.)
Gwen: "Ben! Put that away!"
(Gwen said, walking up.)
Gwen: "You know that trick's not ready yet!"
Ben: "What trick?"
(Ben asked.)
Gwen: "For our... magic act. You know, the one we performed all over the country this summer?"
Becky: "What would he do without us to remind him?"
(Becky asked nervously.)
girl 1: "You guys are magicians?"
Gwen: "Oh yes. We're kind of famous."
(Gwen lied.)
Gwen: "When people hear that The Amazing Gwendini and her assistant are performing, they're going to pack this place."
girl 2: "Assistant?"
Becky: "Go with it."
(Becky said.)
Ben: "Well, we don't have a magic act."
Gwen: "You do now."
Jen: "You guys had better keep practicing if you want to beat them or me and my band."
(Jen smiled as they walked away.)
Ben: "Since when do we have an act, Gwen?"
(Ben asked.)
Gwen: "Since about 10 seconds ago. We need to practice."
Jen: "So do I."
(Jen said.)
Ben: "Great. I love just being a kid."
(Later..)
(Ben and Jen rode their bikes along the road to stop at Le Rou's Restaurant and parked their bikes inside as Jen walked into the area and saw Allison in the restaurant's uniform waiting tables.)
Allison: "Hey, guys."
(she said as she walked over to them as they sat at the bar.)
Jen: "How's the job?"
(Jen asked.)
Allison: "It's good. Waiting tables is kind of lame but I hope to be the chef and then one day leave and open my own place. Ally's."
???: "Haven't seen you guys here in awhile."
(the owner, Doris Dalton, said.)
Ben: "Jen and I were gone over the summer, Mrs. Dalton."
Allison: "I was there with them, Doris."
(Allison said.)
Doris: "Did you do anything fun?"
Jen: "Nah, just went around with our cousins and Grandpa. And our friend."
(Jen said.)
Doris: "Well, you tell Max I said 'hello."
(she said.)
Doris: "And tell him my toilets haven't worked the same since he stopped fixing 'em. What can I get for you kids?"
Jen: "How about something that isn't vegetarian or has squirrel in it."
Doris: "Coming right up, kids."
(Louise left and Ben turned to see the cash register had a symbol of a symbol with the slogan "Plumbus est Infinitus" on it.)
Ben: "Bellwood, blah. We may as well be in the Null Void with Kevin right now."
Jen: "I'll give you one thing, bro. It'd be more interesting than this."
(Louise then came by again and handed the two a strawberry milkshake for Ben and a chocolate milkshake for Jen.)
Doris: "These ought start you off fine. See you in a bit, honey."
(As the twins sipped at their milkshakes, they turned to see an old man reading a newspaper with a headline of Wildmutt and Wildcat running through the town, saving the day.)
Ben: "Can we see that?"
(Ben asked.)
old man: "I don't know."
(the old man said.)
old man: "Can you?"
(He laughed and handed the newspaper to the kids as they read to see the headline suggesting "Are there aliens among us?")
Jen: "Well, there are. But we can't tell anyone that."
(Jen said with a sigh.)
(The door opened and Cash and J.T. walked in.)
Cash: "Talking to yourselves again, Tennysons?"
(Cash asked.)
(They saw Wildmutt and Wildcat on the picture as they laughed.)
Cash: "Who's that? Your new girlfriend, Ben?"
Jen: "I dare you two to say that to Wildmutt's face. He'll chew you up and spit you out."
(Jen glared.)
Jen: "You know what we can do."
Cash: "Yeah, I dare you to transform into them in front of us. You can't pull them out of your butt here."
J.T: "Good one, Cash."
Cash: "Can it, J.T.!"
J.T: "It's not out of our butts anyway."
(That was when the girls from earlier showed up as Casey and Simone stood up from one of the tables and groaned.)
white girl: "Hey, look. It's the little magician's assistant and the singer who's going to kick our butts."
(the white girl said.)
white girl: "Thinking up some fresh new tricks?"
Ben: "That's it!"
(Ben said as they slammed the paper down and ran away as the girls laughed behind them.)
Simone: "Seriously?"
(Simone asked.)
Simone: "What are Sabrina and Jasmine's problem?"
(The twins hid behind the wall and nodded to each other.)
Ben: "Okay, remember Grandpa's thing about just being kids? Yeah, forget that."
Jen: "It's payback time, bro."
(Jen agreed as they prepared their Omnitrixes to the desired form.)
Ben: "I think that Four Arms would give these guys the what for."
(Ben said as they both slammed the cores down.)
(The Omnitrix sank into Ben's wrist as his hands and feet grew grey-blue and slimy as they secreted mucus from his pores and only had four fingers and three toes.)
(The Omnitrix symbol grew on his back and the blue spread to the rest of his skin as his eyes grew huge and buggy, taking up the entire upper half of his face as the pupils turned sideways and rectangular and his mouth was filled with sharp teeth.)
(His hair and nose vanished as he shrunk to three inches tall.)
(His attire shifted to a green one-piece bodysuit that fit his body with wraps around his feet.)
(He struck a pose as the transformation finished.)
(Her skin turned an icy blue and started radiating cold air and her eyes shot open to reveal bright glowing pink eyes with no pupils and her hair shifted into blue spikey hair like ice.)
(Her clothes then shifted to a pink ballerina-like outfit complete with the skirt and flat shoes.)
(Her body then shrank to 3 inches high and a pair of insect wings grew out of her back.)
(The watch symbol appeared on the belt of her skirt and she flew around, striking a pose as her transformation finished.)
Frostblight: "Aw, man."
(Frostblight said as she flew through the air and Grey Matter hopped up.)
Grey Matter: "Hmm."
(he pondered.)
Grey Matter: "Maybe we can work with this."
(The twins then snuck into the building, ducking and dodging the patrons and hiding on the counter as they looked to see Cash and J.T. at a table.)
Cash: "Hey, watch this."
(Cash said as he waded up the wrapper with his straw and chewed it up before sticking it into the straw before spitting it into Simone's hair.)
Simone: "Hey! That is so immature, Cash!"
Frostblight: "Oooh."
(Frostblight said, balling her fist.)
Frostblight: "J.T. and Cash are gonna get theirs!"
Grey Matter: "Wait."
(Grey Matter said, holding her back and examined the cabinets and hot dog rotisserie and fountain machine.)
Grey Matter: "Pastry projectiles, meat-filled torpedoes, stain the clothes, dirty the face... Awesome!"
(He and his sister looked to each other wickedly as they ducked and dodged through the restaurant, catching the attention of no one... except for Allison out of the corner of her eye.)
Allison: "Oh, those two better not cost me my job."
(she said, going back to work.)
(Grey Matter leaped up to the light switch and killed the lights as Frostblight cackled to herself, rubbing her hands.)
(Everyone started to panic as being the smart ones, Simone and Casey immediately fled the restaurant and went outside as Allison urged them out before following herself.)
Frostblight: "What do we have here?"
(she asked herself as she adjusted the wires in the air conditioner.)
Frostblight: "Red to blue, blue to red, food goes flying on your head!"
(Grey Matter then adjusted the soda dispenser nozzles by the bar as he smirked.)
Grey Matter: "Liquid attack mode."
(Frostblight smirked as she fixed up the hot dog rotisserie and then flew over to the door and laughed to herself as she froze the door shut, smiling to Allison, Casey and Simone as they smiled back at her, with a look of worry from Allison as she looked at her name tag and apron.)
Grey Matter: "And here... we... go."
(Grey Matter said as he flipped the light switch back on and the air conditioner sparked out.)
(The pastry spinner flew around, sending pies everywhere, specifically to Cash and J.T., Sabrina and Jasmine as they were also soaked with soda and the hot dogs went flying out at them.)
Doris: "What in the world?"
(Doris asked as she ducked under the bar counter.)
(Grey Matter shouted out as he threw eggs out as Cash and J.T. were both soaked with ice cream and soda.)
(The girls broke the door open from its frozen hinges and everyone ran out in a panic as the shenanigans died down.)
(The old man, completely oblivious to the chaos, held up his cup.)
old man: "Doris, more coffee please."
(Grey Matter and Frostblight were both rolling on their backs, laughing hysterically.)
Frostblight: "You were right, bro! That was awesome!"
(she said.)
Grey Matter: "Am I a genius or what?"
(Cash and J.T. stumbled out, completely soaked from head to toe in pie and ice cream.)
J.T: "I don't feel so good, dude."
(J.T. said.)
Cash: "Can it, J.T.! Let's get out of her."
(Cash said.)
[To Be Continued...]