(The group walked up to the abandoned Mann and Phillips factory with the holes still smoking from the laser heat.)
Gwen: "Whoa."
(Gwen said as they stopped and stared.)
Gwen: "It's all messed up. There was a fight here."
Ben: "This place is abandoned."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "It probably always looked like this."
Allison: "Nope, there was a fight."
(Allison said with a groan.)
Allison: "Between us and Cash. Totally wiped the floor with us. I haven't had my butt kicked like that for a long time. Not even when I tied with Nora Cesaire."
Jen: "She's a champion kickboxer."
(Jen explained.)
J.T: "These holes in the wall are new."
(J.T. analyzed.)
J.T: "But the garbage has been here forever. And over there by the loading dock-"
(He was cut off as he saw Ben, Jen, Gwen and Allison walk off to look inside the building and he sighed before he went off to join them.)
Allison: "Kevin?"
(Allison asked as she saw Kevin groaning as he sat down by the hole in the wall, his clothes slightly torn from the fight.)
(She ran over and helped Kevin up, putting his arm over her shoulders.)
Allison: "I got you, little bro."
(she said.)
Kevin: "Bet you two are loving this, eh Benji, Jenny?"
(Kevin asked.)
Gwen: "Kevin, what happened?"
(Gwen asked.)
Gwen: "Are you hurt?"
Kevin: "It's not as bad as it looks."
(Kevin said.)
Allison: "He went easier on me."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "Maybe it's because I'm a girl or because I'm tougher than he is, no offense."
Kevin: "None taken, sis."
Ben: "Wait, Cash did that to you two?"
(Ben asked as Kevin glared.)
(The twins just couldn't help but giggle and laugh at that before stopping.)
Jen: "Right, not helping. Stopping now."
(Jen said.)
Kevin: "He must have got a hold of some alien tech."
(Kevin said.)
Kevin: "He kinda looks like that robot we fought yesterday."
Gwen: "J.T."
(Gwen scolded.)
Gwen: "Is there anything you forgot to tell us?"
J.T: "Uh, maybe..."
(J.T. began.)
J.T: "When we- I mean Cash trashed your car and all that stuff fell out, we grabbed something. A big metal glove. It shoots lasers. I tried to get it back but Cash wouldn't give it up. It's like the glove possessed him. I'm telling you, he's not himself."
Allison: "He called you two out."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "3:00, Mr. Smoothie."
Ben: "We'll be there."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "This is gonna end. Now."
Kevin: "Actually, more like in about fifteen minutes."
(Kevin said with a cough.)
Jen: "Sorry, these things don't tell time."
(Jen said with a chuckle.)
Jen: "Gwen, I don't want you helping us. This is our fight, not yours."
Gwen: "Got it."
(Gwen said.)
Allison: "Go."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "I'll take care of him back home."
Kevin: "Good luck, guys."
(Kevin said as the group nodded and they ran off for the showdown.)
(J.T. hesitated as he looked back to see the Levins' glaring faces.)
J.T: "Wait up!"
(At the Mr. Smoothie, the teens in the parking lot were all socializing with each other when a huge explosion occurred by the building near them.)
(They looked towards it as the smoke cleared to reveal Cash, now bulkier than before.)
(The metal had completely coated his body up to his head, his left arm mirroring his right now as his feet were covered in metal boots and his torso was now the black of the robot from before as the metal veins snaked up to his head.)
(The teens all shouted in terror before running off to safety as Cash advanced towards them.)
(Two teens tripped and fell on the sidewalk as Cash loomed over them.)
Cash: "You all thought I was so funny before? Well who's laughing now?!"
???: "Hey!"
(Cash turned his head to see the Tennyson twins approach as Jen glared hatefully at him as her eyes flashed pink and she cracked her knuckles.)
Ben: "What is your problem?"
(Ben asked.)
Cash: "You two are my problem, Tennysons! But now I've got power. And no one can stop me, not even your friends Kevin and Allison!"
(Gasps were heard behind him as Cash turned back to the teens.)
Gasps: "That's right. I kicked Kevin and Allison Levin's butts. And you two are next, Tennysons."
Jen: "We're not gonna fight you, Cash."
(Jen said.)
Cash: "Well then, this should be over pretty quick."
(Cash said, preparing his laser to blast the twins.)
???: "Cash!"
(He turned his head to see Gwen and J.T. rush in to stop him.)
J.T: "Look, this is messed up. We were supposed to be having fun. This ain't you, man."
Cash: "You ratted me out!"
(Cash blasted his laser towards J.T., only for it to be blocked by Gwen's mana shield as she glared at him.)
Gwen: "Nice friend you've got there!"
(Cash leaped towards them, preparing to crush them, only to get tackled out of the way by Ben, who had transformed into Chromastone, sending him skittering back as Jen flew in in her Anodite form and blasted out several mana bolts to him, sending him skirting back some more as she floated by her brother, hands coated in mana as she glared.)
Chromastone: "Cash, listen to us."
(Chromastone warned.)
Chromastone: "You don't want to do this."
(Cash blasted out his laser to Chromastone, only for the laser to phase through as he flickered in and out like a hologram as it struck the Mr. Smoothie sign, setting it ablaze.)
(He then doubled the dose to Chromastone, only for him to shoot his arms to his sides as the laser struck his chest, causing him to absorb the energy as it flooded through his veins.)
(He then shouted out as he blasted his hands out, sending an ultraviolet ray to Cash, sending him flying back.)
(Jen took her turn as she blocked all of his lasers with her force fields.)
(She then shouted out and sent out several mana blasts from her hands and legs, sending him skittering back before she pounded the ground, sending up several mana tendrils from the ground, ensnaring Cash before she flew in and gave him a mana-charged knuckle sandwich to the jaw, sending him flying back some more to the sidewalk before Chromastone floated in front of her as she levitated.)
Chromastone: "Grandma's training you and Gwen well."
(Chromastone whispered as she giggled.)
Jen: "You can't beat us Cash."
(Jen warned.)
Jen: "Just quit while you're ahead."
Cash: "You two think that just because you're some freaks, I'm gonna stop? I'm never gonna stop! Ever!"
(He charged forwards and smashed into Chromastone with his fists, sending him skittering back before he grabbed Jen's leg and tossed her into her brother with a shout.)
(He grabbed Chromastone's leg and used him as a mace, smashing him into cars, street lights, the works as Jen stood up on her knees as he flew forwards and smashed her brother into the ground as Cash ran forwards and tossed Chromastone into a truck, sending him slumping down as he advanced towards her.)
Jen: "What are you going to do to me?"
(she asked.)
Jen: "I'm just a girl. How will it look to you if you hit me?"
Cash: "Come on, Jen. When have I ever cared about what others think of me?"
(He then shouted out as he brought his fist down on her before she threw her gloved hands in front of her and shouted out as she felt her feet drag behind her as Cash pushed her before she shouted out and fired two mana beams from her eyes that blasted him backwards and Chromastone flew in and the two engaged in a power struggle.)
Chromastone: "Why are you doing this?"
(Chromastone asked.)
Chromastone: "Why us?!"
Cash: "Why not?!"
Jen: "We'll show you why not!"
(Jen shouted as she created a giant mana fist and slammed Cash down as he struggled in Chromastone's grip, forcing him down to his knees as the armor sparked out.)
Chromastone: "It doesn't have to be this way, Cash."
(Chromastone said.)
Chromastone: "None of us win anything by fighting! Just stop!"
Cash: "I can't!"
J.T: "Yeah, you can!"
(J.T. called.)
Cash: "No, the machine wants to fight!"
(Cash said as the metal formed the crest of the robot's head around his.)
Cash: "Look, it's fixing itself already!"
J.T: "The Cash I know isn't going to let a pile of scrap metal tell him what to do! You're the toughest kid in school! Fight it!"
Cash: "How?"
J.T: "That thing doesn't control you. You control it!"
Cash: "Maybe."
(Cash contemplated as he struggled in the twins' grip.)
(Red energy suddenly seeped out of the machine as Cash struggled and the twins let go of their grip as Cash thrived and spasmed on the ground, the metal receding into his body until the gauntlet was just by itself again.)
Cash: "Get off me!"
(he shouted before J.T. ran up and pulled the gauntlet off of his hand, tossing it away before helping his friend up off the ground as the twins transformed back, Jen looking concerned at Cash.)
J.T: "Thanks."
(J.T. said to Gwen before looking to the twins.)
J.T: "You guys too. We should get together sometime and eat paste."
Jen: "Wait, what?"
(Jen asked Ben, who shrugged.)
J.T: "Come on, Cash."
(J.T. said to his friend.)
J.T: "Let's go."
(They walked off as Ben picked up the glove and Jen sighed.)
Jen: "We have to lock that thing up where it can't take control of anyone else. And I know where that is?"
Gwen: "Have the Protectors store it away on the Mystic Isles?"
(Gwen asked.)
Jen: "You know me so well, cuz."
Ben: "Come on."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Kevin and Allison are probably back home by now and we have to get back to watching Emma before Mom and Dad show up."
Jen: "You're right, bro."
(Jen said as they walked back home as Jen pulled out the communicator Scarlett gave her to call said warrior queen to pick up the glove.)
[To Be Continued...]