(Meanwhile in a clearing nearby, Argit examined under the hood of the Rust Bucket II, checking out the technology inside and muttered to himself before closing the hood and turning to Kevin.)
Argit: "It's a bucket of bolts, man."
(Kevin then led his old friend inside the RV and used his Plumber's badge to separate the framing on the wall to reveal several weapons inside.)
(He then revealed the Plumber's tech inside of the dashboard as Argit turned to him, impressed.)
Argit: "Like I said, it's a bucket of bolts. But the aftermarket extras are worth a fortune!"
Kevin: "Think your guy will take it?"
Argit: "Oh yeah... if he ever got the chance."
(Argit suddenly bared his quills at the vigilante and fired them at him, sticking into his neck, which injected venom through his system and caused his motor functions to suddenly seize up.)
Kevin: "I can't move!"
(Kevin shouted through gritted teeth.)
Argit: "Oh, sorry, Kev. See, this haul's worth enough cashola to pay off everybody I owe and finally live a little."
(Argit then tossed Kevin out of the Rust Bucket II onto his back, unable to do anything.)
Kevin: "The Rust Bucket's all I have to bargain with!"
Argit: "You should've held out on me, buddy."
(Argit slammed the door and got into the driver's seat.)
Argit: "When you can walk again, you go see him. A tech dealer named Vulkanus. He says he knows you. Says he wants you, your sister and your friends dead!"
(Kevin gasped at that name as Argit drove off into the desert.)
(He growled and groaned out as he struggled to touch the ground, but once he did so, he absorbed the rocky material, gaining his motor functions back as he ran towards a large boulder and punched it, severing the top layer.)
(He lifted it up and then tossed the large rock towards the Rust Bucket II.)
(Argit swerved past it to avoid it, driving off into the moonlight.)
(Kevin only looked on in defeat as he could only hear the faint hum of a motorcycle engine and a car engine as Allison drove up on her motorcycle with Jen hanging onto her back as Gwen drove his car up to him with Ben, Gwen and Becky arrived in it and filed out, all looking extremely pissed.)
Kevin: "Okay, guys. I know it looks bad..."
Jen: "Bad? Bad?!"
(Jen asked, pushing him back.)
Jen: "If you don't get the Rust Bucket back from that possum, me and Ben will show you bad!"
Kevin: "I doubt it, Jenny."
(Kevin smirked.)
Ben: "This is serious, Kevin! What happens when all of this is over and Grandpa comes home?"
(Ben asked, worried.)
Ben: "Where's he going to live then?"
Gwen: "Do I have to separate you three?"
(Gwen asked, her hands enveloped in energy.)
Jen: "Gwen, he stole Grandpa's home!"
(Jen said.)
Jen: "What kind of jerk steals an old man's home?"
Allison: "The kind that has a good reason for it."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "Right, little bro?"
Kevin: "Yeah, sis. This is important."
(Kevin insisted.)
Becky: "What's important to you isn't necessarily important to us."
(Becky said with a smile.)
Kevin: "Give me one second, guys."
(Kevin said as he pulled out his Plumber's badge and pressed a button, revealing the map of Bellwood from before with a blinking red dot in the center of it.)
Gwen: "You hid a tracking device in the undercarriage."
(Gwen examined.)
Gwen: "Good one."
Kevin: "Please, like I'd let anybody swipe a fortune of Plumber tech from under my nose."
(Kevin smiled.)
Allison: "Let's go get it."
(Allison said as they got onto their vehicles again and drove off to find the Rust Bucket II.)
(The Omni-Team arrived at what looked to be an abandoned garage and Kevin pulled out his badge to check the map, confirming they were at the place.)
Allison: "I'll let you take this one, bro."
(Allison said as Kevin kicked the door down and they all walked in, powers/weapons at the ready as Jen sent a glowing ball of pink energy out to illuminate the room.)
(Ben stopped everyone when the light showed the Rust Bucket II, only to find it...)
Kevin: "Stripped!"
(Kevin gasped.)
Ben: "Great. So where's your fortune, Kevin?"
(Ben asked as Becky rolled her eyes.)
(She then picked up a stray piece of equipment and flicked it away.)
Becky: "What's this worth, guys? $4?"
(Jen frustratedly sent out an energy blast towards a pile of tires, sending them flying everywhere as everyone turned to her.)
Jen: "The six of us are supposed to defend the planet from an alien invasion and we can't even keep a motor home from being stolen?!"
(she shouted.)
Kevin: "Drop it, Jenny."
(Kevin then walked off, only to be stopped by the twins.)
Ben: "Don't walk away from us, Kevin!"
(Ben shouted.)
Kevin: "Is this where you two turn into aliens and try to kick my butt?"
Jen: "We're seriously thinking about it."
(Jen growled.)
(They then heard the sound of a doorknob being turned as Jen extinguished her light and everyone fell into a nervous silence.)
(Argit walked into the room with a whistle as he went into the Rust Bucket II and pulled the core out from the Plumber tech with a smile.)
Argit: "I knew I'd missed something."
(He pocketed the core before the room was illuminated with pink light as the Omni-Team stood there with angry looks upon their faces.)
(Ben cracked his knuckles and Jen's hands illuminated with pink energy as Argit looked on in fear.)
Allison: "You're Argit, right?"
(Allison asked with a smile as she knelt down to the Hedgesapien's level and smiled as she cracked her joints.)
Allison: "Hi. I'm Ally."
Argit: "Uh-oh."
(Argit said before he quickly leaped out of the boarded windows and ran for his life.)
(The twins sprinted off after him as they slammed the Omnitrix cores down and transforming.)
(Ben transformed into...)
Echo Echo: "Echo Echo!"
(Jen's form stayed mostly the same but her hair turned completely pink and her clothes morphed into a white dress with a transparent skirt flowing at the end, which separated into two folds in the back.)
(Her arms had white warmers with pink from her shoulder joint to her hands, which now sported pink nail polish.)
(Her feet now had small pink boots with a heel on the end.)
(The front of her dress had the shape of the Omnitrix symbol on the front and the irises of her eyes turned pink.)
Crystagirl: "Crystagirl!"
(she shouted as she stepped on the ground and large pink crystals formed under her and brought her onto the rooftops as Echo Echo multiplied himself into several copies.)
Echo Echo: "Don't. Let. Him. Get. Away!"
(Argit skittered into the corner and stopped when he saw two Echo Echoes zoomed in and glared at him.)
Echo Echoes: "No. You. Don't."
(They then unleashed a sonic scream blowing Argit back into a ladder.)
(He then started to climb up the ladder only to run into Crystagirl as she sat on the railing to the balcony and smiled, running a hand through her pink hair.)
Crystagirl: "Hi."
(She grunted and stuck her hands out, a sigil appearing in front of them and several pink crystals blasted out, sending Argit crashing down into the ground and into a swarm of Echo Echoes, surrounding him on all sides.)
(He then shouted out and ducked as he fired out several black quills which knocked all of the Echo Echoes down, except for one that ducked down as Crystagirl leaped down from the railing as the others all came in and Becky brought out her spear with a glare as Gwen illuminated her hands in energy.)
Kevin: "Watch out!"
(Kevin shouted.)
Gwen: "Don't warn him!"
(Gwen glared.)
(Argit fired his quills outwards as Allison and Kevin ran forwards and tackled the two sisters out of the way of them as they stuck into the wall behind them.)
Kevin: "No."
(Kevin said to Gwen.)
Kevin: "You watch out."
Gwen: "Oh."
(Gwen said.)
Becky: "Ugh..."
(Becky groaned as she fell over, asleep as the others followed her, quills sticking out of their back.)
Crystagirl: "Guys!"
(Crystagirl shouted as Echo Echo held her back as she gulped and put up a crystal shield generating from the air in front of her and she held her ears.)
Echo Echo: "Wall. Of. SOUND!"
(Echo Echo shouted as he multiplied himself again, redirecting the quills that were fired at him to each other before they bounced off Crystagirl's shield and stuck back into Argit himself as he fell to the ground, asleep.)
(A Few Minutes later...)
(Argit soon came to again as he looked up and saw Kevin, Allison, Gwen and Becky glaring as they stood over him.)
(He struggled but found he was tied up.)
(He tried firing his quills out, but he couldn't get a single one of them to shoot out to his opponents.)
Echo Echo: "We. Super. Glued. Them. To. Your. Head."
(Echo Echo explained as Crystagirl looked to see the several copies and nodded.)
Crystagirl: "Everybody awake?"
(she asked.)
Becky: "Uh..."
(Becky pointed out one Echo Echo who was fast asleep, a quill sticking out of his butt and snoring with a digital sound like always.)
Echo Echo: "Well. Close. Enough."
(The Echo Echoes then all jumped into the sleeping one, to transform back into Ben as Crystagirl timed out.)
(Ben groaned and stood up as Jen laid a hand on his shoulder and they all glared at Argit on the ground.)
Ben: "So let's get this straight..."
Argit: "I'll give it to you straight."
(Argit said, turning to Kevin.)
Argit: "You cannot trust that man!"
Kevin: "Me?"
Argit: "Do you guys know what he was gonna do?"
(Argit asked.)
Argit: "Steal your motor home and sell it to another criminal! Thank goodness I stopped him."
Kevin: "By stealing it yourself!"
(Kevin glared.)
Gwen: "You ransacked the thing!"
(Gwen shouted.)
Argit: "Yeah. You're not wrong. I may be a crook, but this guy's no good! You guys can't trust him! He'll stab you guys in the back just for laughs!"
Kevin: "Thanks, Argit. I knew I could count on you."
Jen: "This creep does have a point, Kev."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "You are always up to something. Self-serving, shifty, always working some kind of angle. You've always been a thief."
Ben: "Not to mention, you tried to kill me and my sister on several occasions."
(Ben added.)
Becky: "That was five years ago, though."
(Becky said.)
Allison: "What does this guy mean you were going to sell it to someone else?"
(Allison asked.)
Kevin: "You know what, Tennyson? I don't have to explain myself to you guys!"
(Kevin shouted as he looked to Gwen and Becky.)
Kevin: "Or you two either. I'm done with all of you."
(Kevin then walked away from them.)
(Everyone looked on concerned as Allison walked off back to her bike and glared.)
Allison: "I'm going to follow him."
Ben: "You sure? We could help you."
(Ben said.)
Allison: "Thanks, but he's my brother. He's more my responsibility than any of yours."
Gwen: "We're still going to track you down."
(Gwen said as Allison nodded to her friend.)
[To Be Continued...]