(A truck drove down the road and Kevin leaped off of it down into a ditch with a glare.)
(He crawled under a chain-link fence into an airplane graveyard.)
(Suddenly, he heard a throat clear.)
???: "Hey, little bro."
(He gasped and looked up to see his sister standing there next to her bike with her arms crossed.)
Kevin: "What are you doing here, Ally? I told you that I was done with you."
Allison: "Whatever it is that you're doing here, I'm helping."
Kevin: "This doesn't concern you."
Allison: "Oh, come on, Kevin. We're siblings, anything that concerns you concerns me. Please. Let me help you."
Kevin: "Fine."
(Kevin said.)
Kevin: "I guess I can't stop you. But let me do the talking. Come on."
(The Levins then walked down the path through the airplanes, not noticing as a ton of small aliens with beady yellow eyes followed them, peeking out of the planes.)
(Soon, the red aliens in black clothing holding silver pickaxes moved in front of the siblings, chattering like gophers as Kevin held his sister back.)
Kevin: "Take us to the boss."
(The aliens chattered and moved forwards, leading the two to a large doorway and opened the doors to reveal a factory inside, which housed an old enemy who now wore a greyish blue suit that covered him from the neck down that also lacked spikes.)
(Vulkanus moved towards them as Allison froze at the sight of him.)
Allison: "Vulkanus? You were dealing with Vulkanus?!"
(she asked.)
Allison: "Me and the others have gone up against this guy before. He's really bad news."
Kevin: "I know. I hear you're looking for me, Vulkanus. Well here I am."
Vulkanus: "Kevin Levin. And you brought your sister with you."
Allison: "Actually, I followed him. Surely you haven't forgotten the beat down you and Sixsix received from me and my friends five years ago."
Vulkanus: "I don't know whether to trade with you or tear you to pieces. And yes, Allison. I remember the fight over the Element X. Just like your brother here remembers that counterfeit isotope scam a few years back."
Allison: "The what scam?"
Kevin: "It's complicated. Sorry about that, man."
Vulkanus: "You left me with the bag and at the mercy of the Plumbers! I escaped but now I'm stuck on Earth swapping Level III tech to get by thanks to you!"
Kevin: "Ancient history. We're here to make a deal."
Vulkanus: "I have the Plumber gadget you two want."
(Vulkanus said, standing up.)
(He held out the object, which looked familiar.)
Allison: "Another hologram device? There must be a message on it. We've got to have it."
(Ally said, her eyes widening.)
Vulkanus: "What will you give me for it?"
Kevin: "Look, completely straight, I had this stash of Plumber's technology, but I lost it."
Vulkanus: "You want to owe me?!"
Kevin: "Tell us what we have to do to get it!"
(Kevin said as Vulkanus minions started advancing on them.)
(Vulkanus stuck out his hand, as if to shake hands, but because his hand was so huge that when Kevin took it, he grabbed his whole arm.)
Vulkanus: "Kneel."
Allison: "Kevin!"
(Kevin groaned in pain from the grip as a machine grew from the floor, housing a large crystal that looked like it came from a Petrosapien that wrapped two appendages around Kevin's hand, slowly pulling him in and forcing him to touch the crystal.)
Vulkanus: "First, you're going to pay me back for the double cross."
(The crystal started to coat Kevin's hand as the energy arced outwards, much to Allison's horror.)
Kevin: "I can't stop absorbing!"
Vulkanus: "Because I don't want you to."
(Four Diamonhead like spikes grew from Kevin's back as he glared at Vulkanus.)
Allison: "No!"
(The minions held Allison back as she tried to help her brother.)
Vulkanus: "Your brother's recursibly absorbing a piece of Taydenite. The rarest most precious gem in the entire galaxy."
(Kevin's body, except for his head, was completely coated in Taydenite and the minions slid him back as crystals continued to grow from his body.)
Allison: "No! Kevin!"
(Two large cuffs grew from the floor and held Kevin in place.)
Vulkanus: "This is the only piece of Taydenite in this spiral of the Milky Way. Or at least, it was until you came along."
Kevin: "You're garbage, Vulkanus!"
(Kevin shouted as the Taydenite coated his face and he continued to grow larger.)
Vulkanus: "You owe me."
(Vulkanus minions climbed on the mountain of Taydenite growing from Kevin's back.)
Vulkanus: "I'm gonna take it out of your hide, then sell you piece by piece!"
(The minions then started to chip away at Kevin's body, Taydenite shards falling off of him and into the mine carts on the sides of him as Allison watched helplessly.)
Vulkanus: "And I'm gonna do it forever."
Allison: "No!"
Kevin: "Do what you want to me! But leave my sister out of this and Ben and Jen Tennyson get that holo-viewer!"
Vulkanus: "Ha!"
(Vulkanus flicked the hologram away towards the wall.)
Vulkanus: "You're in a bad position to make demands."
???: "He would be."
(a voice said as Big Chill appeared and Lucky Girl and Huntress appeared as he looked upwards to see Kung Fang spread her wings out after hanging upside down from the ceiling before swooping downwards and unsheathing her swords.)
Kung Fang: "But he's with us."
(she said.)
Kevin: "You guys followed me?"
(Kevin asked.)
Huntress: "Well yeah."
(Huntress said, winking to Allison.)
Big Chill: "That whole get mad and storm off act? Please."
(Big Chill said.)
Vulkanus: "You have friends?! Had friends."
(Vulkanus pulled out a flamethrower and blasted Big Chill back into the wall with a shout as he hit the wall behind him, causing debris to fall down.)
(The minions swarmed outwards towards Lucky Girl, their pickaxes glowing bull as she sent out several energy tendrils that wrapped the aliens up and tossed them away, bringing up shields to block the swipes, that instantly shattered once they were hit.)
(Huntress fired several of the minions away with her arrows and combated them wit her metal spear, doing several fancy flips and kicks, sending them flying away as she shouted out in fury.)
(Kung Fang blocked several of the axes away with her katanas as she blew the minions away with a gust of wind from flapping her wings as she moved towards Vulkanus, who moved the debris away to find nothing where Big Chill once stood.)
(Big Chill phased through the wall behind him and glared before Vulkanus turned around and gave out a blast from his flamethrower, which Big Chill froze with a gust of supercold air that froze the flamethrower.)
(Vulkanus threw the flamethrower away and tried to punch Big Chill into the ground, only for him to go intangible, causing Vulkanus to punch through into a machine.)
Kung Fang: "Great way to break your hand."
(Kung Fang smirked as she flew beside him.)
(Vulkanus brought his hand out only to find that it was destroyed, and leaking oil, signifying he was in a cyborg body.)
Kung Fang: "Told you so."
Vulkanus "You guys wouldn't even be fighting if you knew what he did to me!"
Big Chill: "He stole. He ran. That's Kevin."
(Big Chill smirked.)
(Vulkanus sprayed some oil into Kung Fang's face as she shouted out with a glare.)
Kung Fang: "Is that really necessary? I'm already blind!"
(He grabbed her wing and tossed her into her brother, causing both to slam into the metal wall and slump down, unconscious.)
(Allison absorbed the metal ground and grabbed a pickaxe, tossing them into each other with a shout and pounded all of the aliens away with her immense strength and blocking the pickaxes with her armor.)
(Lucky Girl gave out several blasts of energy towards the aliens, tossing them all away and causing them to shout out before she blocked a pickaxe with an energy shield and blasted it back, sparking out and exploding causing the aliens to fly back.)
(Huntress flipped over another swarm of minions before she leaned back and fired her bow, hitting a pickaxe, blowing it up and creating a row of explosions that caused the aliens to fly back into a heap, all unconscious as she flipped her hair back with a smirk.)
(It was at that point that Kung Fang and Big Chill came to with a groan before Vulkanus picked Big Chill up with his good arm.)
Vulkanus: "I'm the injured party here! When the Plumbers came after me, they blew up my ship!"
(Big Chill's green eyes widened and he grinned with a wink to his sister and he gave out a cold blast of air before he went intangible and flew into Vulkanus' armor, freezing everything as he flew in and out of the armor, freezing it from the inside out.)
Vulkanus: "What are you doing?!"
Kung Fang: "Not fun having the cold shoulder on you, is it?"
(Kung Fang asked before she let out her sonic screech that gave out a cold crunch from the armor and it exploded outwards, revealing Vulkanus to be a puny Detrovite about the size of a human infant.)
(He ran away from the group as the twins fist-bumped in victory.)
Gwen: "Kevin!"
(Gwen said as she ran forwards and shot her hands out, blowing the cuffs up with an energy blast as Allison walked over.)
Allison: "You alright, little bro?"
(she asked.)
(Kevin's Taydenite body started to recede and the shards sticking out of his back melted away before he looked towards his sister with a groan as she hugged him, his clothes completely tattered from the Taydenite crystals.)
(The twins transformed back as they walked over to the rest of the team.)
Becky: "Take it easy."
(Becky said as Kevin struggled to stand.)
Ben: "Hey, what about Vulkanus?"
(Ben asked as they looked to see the small Detrovite tossing the crystals up in the air in glee as Kevin shrugged.)
Kevin: "What about him? We're even."
(Allison walked over to the holo-viewer and placed it Jen's hand.)
Jen: "That's what Kevin was after?"
(she asked.)
Ben: "Another holo-viewer?"
Kevin: "I hear that this one's special."
(Kevin explained.)
Ben: "Why didn't you tell us?"
(Ben asked.)
Kevin: "Think about it, guys. I'm an ex-con. I've done a lot of stuff I'm not proud of. Stuff that if the five of you knew, you'd probably never trust me again. So next time I say "drop it," you guys drop it."
Gwen: "That's not how it works, Kevin."
(Gwen insisted.)
Allison: "It's not what you did that matters, little bro. It's what you're going to do."
Kevin: "Uh-huh."
(Kevin said.)
Kevin: "So are you guys going to look at that or what?"
(Jen flicked the holo-viewer on to reveal Max again.)
Max's Hologram: "Ben, Jen, if you found this message, you must be pretty deep into this mess. There's a lot I can't reveal yet but here's one thing I can: you can't go it alone. By now, you're probably meeting some of the other Plumber's kids, but you need to find more. You need to put together a team."
(The holo-viewer turned off and the team looked towards each other with a nod, understanding what they had to do.)
[To Be Continued...]