It's me again. We had driven into Washington D.C., to look at the monuments and other cool American-related things there, but I was now in the process of a rescue. As in, a burning building style rescue.
Kid: "Mommy, I'm scared!"
Mom: "Maybe if you had not gone to save that card, we would be safe right now!"
They were huddled close, and the fire continued to get closer to them. The ceiling had started to fall on them, but it had stopped at the last second.
Heatblast: "Come with me if you want to live!" I was holding the ceiling up.
Mom: "Didn't you start the fire?!"
Kid: "A dude made of fire. Like the Human Torch! Only with rocks!"
Heatblast: "No! Some other people started up that fire! Just come on!" I threw the ceiling aside, and took off down the hallway. The kid followed me, and the mom tried to stop him, but failed, so she went with us.
Kid: "Now what?"
Heatblast: "This!" I absorbed the fire in our way to clear a path for us to get through, and we headed down the stairs, but they broke when we stepped on them.
Heatblast: "Okay… Bad idea."
Mom: "BAD IDEA? We're going to be burned alive! And the stairs going out is just fine with you???!!!!"
Heatblast: "I have a new idea! Get closer to me!"
Kid: "Okay, Human Rocky-Torch!"
Mom: "You'd better know what you're doing."
Heatblast: "I do!" I created a fire tornado around myself, and flew out of the building in it. When it dissipated, we were outside the building, where a firefighting crew already was, with some other people who had left the building.
Kid: "Thanks, Mister-"
Heatblast: "Call me Human Torch one more time and I'll…" I stopped to notice a gold card he was holding.
Heatblast: "Ooh… Nice card, kid. Where'd you get it?"
Kid: "In a box of Sumo Smacks cereal. Why?"
Heatblast: "Just curious. I like gold. Sorry about threatening you. Second day being a superhero, working on the people-skills. Your Mom should know what I mean."
Mom: "Yes. I do."
Max: "Heatblast!" Max had pulled up the RV right in front of us.
Heatblast: "Hey guys!"
Gwen: "The fire is just a diversion! The real crooks are getting away!" I transformed into XLR8.
XLR8: "What are we waiting for then?" I took off towards the direction the RV was facing.
Ben: "Go get 'em!"
Gwen: "Why does he never wait for us?"
Max: "I can't blame him. He wants to do a good job. This is only his second day." He had the RV on at top speed with the boosters, and they could just see me in view.
Ben: "Yeah. I would."
I saw the getaway van in view. One of the crooks looked into his mirror, and saw me.
Crook #1: "Hey, Lenny! We got a dinosaur on our tail! Shoot 'im down!"
Lenny: "Why do I always have to shoot at people?" He got out of the car with a gun, and started shooting at me. I dodged each bullet, jumped, landed on top of the van, and became Diamondhead.
Lenny: "What the crap?" He kept shooting at me. Each bullet bounced off my face.
Diamondhead: "Does the word diamond mean anything to you, buddy?" I then punched him in the face. He crawled back in to the car, holding his nose, dropping the gun at the same time. I became Grey Matter, then crawled in to the open window.
Crook: "What the hell happened, Lenny?"
Lenny: "A diamond guy punched me, boss!"
Crook: "Dinosaurs, diamond men, what's next?"
I became Wildmutt, dropped into the seat, and started a fight in the van. Random cursing and roars could be heard, along with some punching, biting and slashing noises. The van ran into a street light, knocking the light on top of the van, stopping it completely. The RV pulled up right along-side the van. Ben, Gwen and Max left the RV, and saw a bit of what was happening inside.
Ben: "Get 'em, Wildmutt! Woo-hoo, yeah!"
Gwen: "Show 'em who's boss!" They were thrown out of the car as Gwen finished her sentence. Lenny was a blond guy, skinny looking, and had on a black shirt. The other dude looked kinda strong, but had the black shirt, black pants, and black hat thing.
Lenny: "Nice doggy…"
Wildmutt: "GRRRRRRRR…."
Crook: "Lenny, we'd better run. NOW!" He took off, with Lenny following close behind.
Ben: "Stop them!"
I became XLR8, zoomed towards them, and ran around them in a circle, then stopped.
Lenny: "The dinosaur man…"
XLR8: "There's nowhere left for you to run, boys."
The crook pulled out his pistol, but I zoomed towards him, and grabbed it.
Crook: "Hey!"
Lenny: "What do we do now?"
Crook: "We fight! Hand to hand!"
XLR8 (while dropping the pistol): "Hand to hand you say? That's hardly fair."
Lenny: "You're going down now, dino-breath!" I became Fourarms as soon as Lenny finished his sentence.
Fourarms: "Now, it's fair!" Lenny and his boss took off running and screaming. It turns out; police cars were there, holding up a perimeter.
Officer: "You have the right to remain silent! Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law!" Another officer went up to me.
Officer #2: "You helped us finally catch Lenny Baxter and Rex Garrison. How can we repay you?"
Fourarms: "All in a days work, officers."
The officers had both Rex and Lenny in handcuffs, shoved them in the police cars, and took off.
Fourarms: "Another day, another bad guy stopped."
Gwen: "Wow! You handled those guys without any trouble!" I transformed back to normal form.
Kyle: "Like I said, all in a days work." I did a thumbs up as I said it.
Max: "That was just a group of common criminals. One day, you will face tougher odds. Don't underestimate them, and don't overestimate yourself."
Ben: "He's invincible, come on!"
Kyle: "I wouldn't say invincible, but I'm pretty darn awesome."
Gwen: "For sure, Kyle." She had her usual smile whenever she was around me.
Kyle: "And… I kinda want to eat now."
Max: "Good. I'm planning to make octopus legs for dinner tomorrow."
Kyle: "Octo… pus legs?"
Ben: "NO! Not that!!"
Gwen: "Please Grandpa!"
Max: "Just try it, alright? It's not going to kill you all."
Kyle: "I'll just make myself a hot dog." I ran into the RV, opened up the fridge, got a hot dog, and became Heatblast. I cooked it up, and it only took one ember to fully cook it.
Ben: "One snap of the finger is all it takes to make a hot dog?!"
Heatblast: "Yep. Who else wants some?"
Max: "I've never had a hot dog made by a Heatblast alien before. I'll give it a shot."
Gwen: "Me too!"
Ben: "Me three!"
Heatblast: "I'll keep 'em coming, guys." I made three more hot dogs the same way, and we sat down at the table inside the RV, with as usual, Gwen sitting next to me, and Ben sitting next to Max.
Kyle: "Alrighty, then… Let's do this." I took the first bite. My eyes widened.
Kyle (after swallowing): "This is the best hot dog I've ever had!"
Gwen, Ben, and Max had a bite, and they shared similar feelings. We finished up our dogs, and I was greatly congratulated.
Kyle: "Oh, come on, guys…"
Ben: "You deserve the cooking award of the year!"
Gwen: "You should do all of the cooking, Kyle!"
Kyle: "It was just an experiment, and I must say… I'm pleased with the results."
Max: "I agree, but there is no way he's doing all the cooking."
Kyle: "Of course, Max."
Ben and Gwen: "Aww… but Grandpa…"
Max: "No. You kids need to have other tastes then regular food. Trust me. It helps in the long run."
Ben: "As being a Plumber."
Max: "And this is one of the few Plumber units still in operation."
Gwen: "But, Kyle, Ben, and I are honorary, remember?"
Max: "If you want to be a full-fledged Plumber, consider this an initiation."
Kyle: "Initiation. I'm in."
Ben: "You actually want to eat that stuff?"
Kyle: "If I become a full-fledged Plumber, then, yes!" (thinking to himself) "I also want to gain his full respect as a Plumber superior."
Max: "It's settled, then. The initiation for you kids is eat my 'disgusting'(while moving his front and middle fingers together as he said the word) food."
Gwen: "Um, I'm better as an honorary Plumber."
Ben: "Me, too, Grandpa."
Max: "Okay. But you don't know what you're missing out on."
Kyle: "I'm gonna turn in for the night. See you guys in the morning."
Ben, Gwen and Max: "Good Night."
Ben went to the rear of the RV, Max pulled out his hammock, and set it up over the table, and got in it. I got on the couch again, and fell deep asleep right away.
Gwen: "Good night, hero." She kissed me after she said it, and then headed off to the rear to get her bunk.
In an apartment complex further away…
There was a dark house, filled with cages of animals, hollering to escape from them. There was also a green-skinned man with long white hair, wearing a white undershirt working on a helmet with bug antennae on them.
Man: "At last… my final touches to my creation will be completed."
A door opened up, and a voice was heard.
Voice: "Mr. Animo? I need to speak to you about your rent."
Animo: "That's DR. Animo!"
The person appeared to be a brown haired, kind of short man in a suit and tie.
Short man: "I am your landlord. It's my duty to accept your payments on your apartment. Your rent is way past overdue, Doctor."
Dr. Animo: "No… all of my money was put into my research."
Landlord: "I have no choice then to evict you from the premises."
Dr. Animo: "Which is now complete! My invention is the Transmodulator! It can rearrange and reanimate a creature's DNA!"
Landlord: "HA! That's rich, Doctor, but not rich enough to save you from eviction."
Dr. Animo: "Allow me to demonstrate!" He grabbed a normal frog, and by turning a dial on his helmet, a beam of light hit the frog. It grew to 15 times its size, grew extra eyes, and horns. Dr. Animo was also riding on it.
Landlord: "No… It isn't real!"
Dr. Animo: "It's real alright! Frog! Devour him!" There was nothing left of the landlord after the frog just quickly slurped him up, while he screamed a bloodcurdling scream.
Dr. Animo: "Now that that annoying as all hell landlord is out of the way, I can move to dominate the world with my reconfigured creatures! But, there is still one missing component to my device…"
A TV commercial interrupts his contemplation.
TV: "Get all of your electronic supplies, and whatever other needs, at the Mega-Mart! We have low prices on everything today!"
Dr. Animo: "Well, that's convenient. Just what the doctor ordered."
At the Mega-Mart…
The Mega-Mart was a Mega Mart. It was huge, and had absolutely everything you could imagine! Even video games, DVDs, cameras, toys, all that stuff. Me and Ben were in the cereal aisle.
Ben: "Okay, Kyle, remember that kid you saved from the burning building last night?"
Kyle: "Yeah? Why?"
Ben: "Go Grey Matter, and get a Gold Sumo Slammer card from the Sumo Smacks boxes."
Kyle: "Are you out of your frakkin' mind?"
Ben: "Frakkin'?"
Kyle: "Never mind. But there's no way I'm going in that box just to get you a cardboard cutout."
Ben: "Please…"
Kyle: "No! And if I do… You'll keep asking me to get stuff for you. Not gonna do it."
Ben: "How about just this once?"
Kyle: "Nope." I crossed my arms, and turned away from him.
Ben: "It's the only card I need for my collection! There are four! I have the red, blue, and green ones, but not the gold one!"
Kyle: "Okay. I understand why you want it so bad, but, I'm not getting it for you."
Ben: "This is the only time I'll ask for a favor! PLEASE...." He tried to look cute ad desperate for attention.
Kyle: "HA! Do you think I'm THAT stupid?"
Ben: "That's it! I'm gonna make you do it!" He grabbed my arm, and tried to dial in Grey Matter. I kept trying to pull it away, but he successfully grabbed the Omnitrix, and kept turning the dial until he saw Grey Matter's shadow, and pressed it down. I shrunk into his hand.
Grey Matter: "HEY! Let me go, Ben! NOW!"
Ben shoved me into a box after he opened it and made me suffocate. I bit his thumb, and he let go.
Ben: "OUCH! That hurt!" I swum to the top of the box.
Grey Matter: "You know, that's nothing compared to what I could do to you."
Ben: "Could?"
Grey Matter: "I could stab you, eat you, rip you in half, or to shreds, light you on fire, scare you to death, make you so stinky the stench could stick to you forever, take you into the speed of sound, where there's too much oxygen going into you at once, run you over after I meld with a car…"
Ben: "Okay, I get it!"
Grey Matter: "But I'm still not going to get that card."
Ben: "What if I made it worth your while?"
Grey Matter: "Worth my while? How?"
Ben: "If you find it before Gwen or Grandpa catches us, I'll do all your chores for the rest of the trip."
Grey Matter: "Tempting… Hmm…"
Ben: "And I'll give you all my pizza when we have it!"
Grey Matter: "PIZZA??!! DEAL!" I dove into the box, and searched through all of the cereal, and popped my head out.
Ben: "Well?"
Grey Matter: "It's blue, man."
Ben: "Darn! Next box!"
Grey Matter: "Oh no…" He shoved me right into the next box.
Grey Matter (thinking to self): "At least the pizza's worth this." I searched that box thoroughly, and popped my head out again.
Ben: "Hmm…?"
Grey Matter: "Green."
Ben: "Next box!" It had continued on until I got to the twentieth box.
Ben: "Well?"
Grey Matter: "Hold on! I'm trying to see!"
I pushed the cereal bits back a bit to get light on it. As I did that, I thought, "It's for pizza…it's for pizza…"
Ben: "Well?"
Grey Matter: "Another Red card!"
Ben: "ARRGHH!!!"
Grey Matter: "Here we go AGAIN!!!" He picked me up out of the box as I finished my sentence.
Ben: "Okay… Are you 100% sure you did not see a gold card earlier?"
Grey Matter: "Yeah. And don't tempt me to hurt you, or possibly kill you, alright?"
Ben: "Got it…" He put me into the next box gently.
Grey Matter: "At least he did it gently this time." I searched through the cereal again. I found the card, and pushed away some pieces to shed light on it.
Ben: "Is it gold?"
Grey Matter: "I'm judging it, hold on!" It was shining in the light when it got on.
Grey Matter: "It's actually gold, Ben!"
Ben: "Yes!!!" I picked it up, and he got it. I then got picked up out of the box.
Grey Matter: "Although, that cereal was a little tasty."
Ben: "You ate some of the cereal?"
Grey Matter: "What?"
Ben: "You got Grey Matter germs all over it!"
Grey Matter: "YOU got Grey Matter germs, plus YOUR germs on the say 21 boxes of cereal we ripped open."
Ben: "That I ripped open! Wait a sec…"
Grey Matter: "Stop thinking. You'll hurt yourself."
Ben: "Fine! But I finally got the card! Hooray!!!"
Grey Matter: "And, remember our little bet?"
Gwen: "Yes."
Ben froze up. I turned my head, and saw her staring at us.
Gwen: "Kyle, how could you?"
Grey Matter: "It was Ben's idea! Don't blame me! I was just going through with the bet! I didn't even want to do it at first!"
Ben: "And he threatened to kill me when I grabbed him all those times!"
Grey Matter: "I was suffocating!!! You could've killed me!"
Gwen: "OK… I get it. I won't tell Grandpa."
Grey Matter: "You won't?"
Ben: "Why?"
Gwen: "I don't want to see you (poking at my face as she said you) get in trouble. I could care less what happens to Ben."
Grey Matter: "Oh."
Ben: "Oh man…"
A few minutes later…
Max: "What!?"
Gwen: "Ben wouldn't stop tearing through the cereal boxes until he found the Gold Sumo Slammer Card, Sumo Slammer, did I say that right, Kyle?"
Kyle: "Yes, you did."
Gwen: "Anyway, he found it, and I caught him right as he found it."
Max: "I have two questions. One for Ben, and one for Kyle."
Ben (in an angry tone): "What are they?"
Max: "Ben. Why did you go to such lengths to get a piece of cardboard, and not tear half the aisle apart?"
Ben: "I… um…"
Max: "Spill it."
Ben: "I forced Kyle to become Grey Matter, and we made a bet, and we got caught by Gwen after the bet was filled."
Max: "You 'forced' Kyle to be Grey Matter?"
Ben: "Kind of."
Max: "How did you force him?"
Ben: "I tried operating the Omnitrix since he wouldn't do it otherwise."
Max: "Okay. And Kyle?"
Kyle: "Yes, Max?"
Max bursted out laughing. He asked, "Do you expect me to believe you'd be so irresponsible with your powers, to use them in a meaningless bet like that?"
Kyle: "Actually…"
Gwen: "No he doesn't."
Kyle: "But Gwen, I- mmph!" She covered my mouth with her hand.
Gwen: "No he doesn't. In the least, Grandpa."
Ben: "Hey! You let Gwen answer for you to keep your own butt safe from a punishment!"
Kyle: "Mmph! Mmmmmmmph!!!"
Max: "As if I could believe that. Ben, you get to have that card, AFTER the trip. I'll keep it until then."
Ben: "No fair!!"
Gwen: "Life isn't fair. Get used to it, dweeb!"
Kyle: "Mmmph- ahh! (I removed Gwen's hand from my mouth) Max, no! Don't!"
Max: "What is it?"
Kyle: "I'll tell you the full story."
Gwen (in an insistent tone): "Kyle, Ben already did!"
Kyle: "Butt out, Gwen!"
Gwen backed up, in surprise.
Kyle (taking a deep breath): "Okay. Listen. Ben and I went off to look at stuff while you and Gwen got octopus tentacles, and, he found the Sumo Smacks, and because I told him about the kid I rescued the night before, he's been fixated on getting it. At first, I didn't respond to his 'do it' stuff, and he forced the Omnitrix to make me Grey Matter, and shoved me into a box. I bit him, told him I wouldn't do it, and that bite was nothing compared to what I could have done to him, he made a bet. If I got it before you or Gwen found us, he'd do all my chores for the rest of the trip, and I'd get every slice of pizza he would eat for the rest of the trip. The deal was set at the word 'pizza'. After searching through 21 boxes, and getting shoved roughly into them most of the time, and trying out some of the cereal bits, I found the Gold card. Gwen found us then, and said she'd blame it all on Ben to keep me out of trouble. That didn't seem right, and it's my fault. If anyone should be punished here, Max, it's me."
Max: "Oh. Hmm…" He was thinking to himself.
Gwen gulped. I just stood there with sorry looking eyes at the fact I let Gwen do that to Ben.
Max: "Well, Ben can keep his card-"
Ben: "YAY!"
Max: "But…"
Ben: "But what?"
Max: "Kyle, I know it isn't my right to punish you, since I'm not your real grandfather, so I'll let this go. If, the bet's off."
Kyle: "Of course, Max!"
Max: "Mr. Tennyson."
Kyle: "Mr. Tennyson. Sorry, sir." I got an ashamed look. He lost his trust in me. I did that all because of 'pizza'. We probably weren't going to have it much anyway. Why did I… do it?
Gwen: "Darn it."
Kyle: "It was the right thing to do, Gwen!"
Gwen: "Stuff it, geek."
Kyle: "Oh, I'll stuff it alright… I will…" A large boom noise came from the electronics side of the store.
Dr. Animo was on his giant frog.
Clerk: "Who-who are you?"
Dr, Animo: "I'm the world famous- Dr. Animo!"
Kyle: "It's time to go hero. The right time."
Ben: "What?"
Max smiled at that, and I hit the Omnitrix to become Diamondhead.
Diamondhead: "I'm taking this punk down."
Max: "Ben, Gwen, let's go." They ran off to further into the store to get people to safety.
Diamondhead: "Hey! Freak on the frog!"
Dr. Animo: "Who DARES insult my greatness?"
Diamondhead: "Me."
Dr. Animo: "You? A diamond humanoid?"
Diamondhead: "Exactly, bub. Just leave here peacefully, and the frog doesn't get beaten down to a tadpole."
Dr. Animo: "Attack!" He jumped off of the frog, and the frog jumped towards me. I caught it, but could barely lift it, the threw it off. My hands became spiked, and I started shooting diamond shards at it. The frog recovered, and jumped up into the air. It landed on top of an aisle, and shot out it's tongue, and it latched on to me.
Diamondhead: "Uh oh." It pulled me in to its belly. I grabbed onto its lips, but since it was slippery, it didn't do anything.
Gwen turned around quickly enough to see me.
Gwen: "KYLE!!!! NO!!!" She screamed, thinking I was killed. The frog then started coughing out smoke.
Ben: "What's up with the frog?"
Max: "It's… coughing smoke?" After a few more coughs of smoke, it finally breathed out some embers. Then it breathed out a flamethrower, and spit out Heatblast.
Heatblast: "Eww… Frog slobber…"
Gwen: "Kyle! You're alive!"
Heatblast: "Yeah. Why do you care? I bailed out on you to get myself in trouble instead."
Gwen: "That doesn't matter now! Kill that frog!"
Heatblast: "That's what I was going to do." I threw fireballs at the frog while it was stunned, and it felt pain at getting hit by each fireball.
Dr. Animo was walking through the electronics section, and found a dial. He put it on his helmet, and screwed it on.
Dr. Animo: "At last… I can reanimate dead creatures."
The Frog had enough fireballs, and hopped away.
Heatblast: "Hey! I'm not through with you yet!" I became XLR8, zoomed up to it, jumped, and landed, but could not hold on. I fell off. The frog stopped hopping away, and tried to body slam me. I became Fourarms, and caught it, threw it behind me, and stood up.
Fourarms: "You are really starting to annoy me, giant mutated wollywog."
The frog jumped again. I became Ghostfreak, became intangible, and it missed me all together. It looked around for me, and I put one hand into the side of its head, and it started croaking loudly.
Ben: "What did you do?"
Ghostfreak: "Messed with its brain." The frog lied dead in front of me.
Ghostfreak: "My first kill. I like it…"
Dr. Animo had found his frog lying dead. He had gone to the pet section, and used the Transmodulator to transform a hamster and a parakeet into giant versions of themselves.
Dr. Animo: "I must continue on to my goal! Away, my pet!" The parakeet flew off, and the hamster ran for Gwen.
Gwen: "AAAAHHHH!!!!!" I became Fourarms, and rammed it with all my might. The hamster flew into a wall.
Gwen: "Thanks, Kyle."
Fourarms: "It's what heroes do, Gwen." It got up, and growled at me.
Max: "We'll let you deal with the hamster. Ben, Gwen, let's go."
Ben: "Okay."
Gwen: "Okay…" They ran towards the front of the Mega-Mart to follow Dr. Animo. They got into the RV right after they left the store.
Ben: "So… If we catch up to him, then what?"
Max: "We're only going to track him down."
Gwen: "Got it."
The hamster was still growling. It pounced, and I slammed it up into the ceiling. It fell back down, and looked very rattled. I then pounced on it after becoming Wildmutt, and started savagely slashing it apart. The hamster had died after I slashed its chest open.
Wildmutt: "RRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!"
One of the clerks was still there, and he looked petrified at seeing me.
Clerk: "What are you? Some sort of freak?"
I became XLR8 after he said freak.
XLR8: "Maybe. Maybe not." I ran out, and followed the RV from the side.
Max: "XLR8!"
XLR8: "Now what?"
Max: "We follow Dr. Animo! He's headed more into the capitol!"
XLR8: "I'll get him, Mr. Tennyson. At least you can trust me to do that!" I sped ahead, and saw his parakeet. I then became Heatblast, and launched myself up into the air like a rocket, and tackled the parakeet from below. It shook a lot, and Animo nearly fell off. I became Stinkfly immediately after, and tackled the parakeet again.
Dr. Animo: "You little pest!"
Stinkfly: "Pest? I'll show you pest!!!" I blew goop into his face. He was blinded, and the parakeet started squawking. It tackled me, and I fell down further. I then became Fourarms to cushion the blow, and jumped up to try and grab the parakeet. Animo had already wiped the goop off his face, and got the bird to speed up. I missed it, and before I hit the ground again, I became Diamondhead, and was about to shoot it, when the RV rolled right near me.
Ben: "Hold on! Grandpa knows where he's going! We'll get him there!"
Diamondhead: "Where's that?"
Max: "The Natural History Museum here."
Diamondhead: "Wow. I'm in Washington D.C. already?" I noticed the Washington Monument sticking up in the sky, and some people looking on at me.
Gwen: "Yeah. We are. Get in."
She opened the door for me. I became normal, and ran in to the RV.
Kyle: "Look, Mr. Tennyson, I…"
Max: "It's Max."
Kyle: "Max? Well then…"
Max: "I know. I realized what happened. Your weakness overcame you,"
Ben: "Weakness?"
Max: "Pizza."
Kyle: "WHERE???!!!!" I looked around everywhere very ecstatically.
Gwen: "Not here. (Giggling)"
Kyle: "Oh."
Max: "You do have my trust, Kyle, but remember, pizza isn't that important."
Kyle: "It is to me, Max. It's heaven."
Max: "Okay… Look, just stop Animo, and I'll order Pizza for lunch tomorrow."
Kyle: "Really?! 100% of the way?"
Max: "Yes. Now, we're at the museum. Let's stop Aanimo here, and now."
We all exited the RV. I became XLR8.
XLR8: "Time to kick some tail!"
Gwen: "Ugh…"
XLR8: "Aw come on! Kick some tail! It was good!"
Max: "Not now, okay?"
I ran in, and immediately started searching for Animo. Ben, Gwen, and Max stayed together, and also searched for Animo. His parakeet found them, and they freaked out. But Gwen saw a stick, picked it up, and spun it around. The parakeet squawked, and rushed in. Gwen used the stick like a bo staff, twirling it around, hitting it at all sorts of points on the bird's body. It freaked out, and left.
Ben: "Nice…"
Gwen: "Kyle ain't the only one with skills to show off."
Max: "Let's go find him."
Ben: "He's XLR8. How are we supposed to track him down?"
Gwen: "And Animo wasn't with his bird. Oh no!" She immediately took off running.
Max: "Wait! It could be a trap, Gwen!"
Ben: "Oh man… worrying about my own cousin's safety? This is a new low."
Dr. Animo was near the statue of a Mammoth. He was setting up his ray, and I found him.
XLR8: "The jigs up, Animo!"
Dr. Animo (turning): "Ah, my shape-shifting friend. How are we doing tonight?"
XLR8: "Stay away from the Mammoth thing, or feel my supersonic wrath!"
Dr. Animo: "This device can not only change the DNA structure of animals, but it can also reanimate them!"
XLR8: "No way!" Animo turned on the ray, and the mammoth attacked. I became Diamondhead immediately, and shoved my fist into the ground. Diamond started to come out of the ground, and stopped the Mammoth in its tracks. Animo was already taking off, though. I proceeded after him, but the mammoth tackled me, and I knocked over some caveman display.
Diamondhead: "You wanna wrestle, huh, big guy?" I transformed into Fourarms.
Fourarms: "Then let's wrestle!!" I charged towards the mammoth, and it charged at me. I punched it with two arms, and it went sailing through the air, and went right through a wall. It stood up slowly, but I already grabbed its trunk, and spun around like a tornado, until I let go of it, and it crashed through another wall, and couldn't stand up again. I became Wildmutt, and started running off in the direction of Animo's scent.
Gwen: "Kyle!"
Dr. Animo: "I'm sure my mammoth has already gotten him."
Ben: "There's no way! He's too good!"
Wildmutt: "RRROOOAAARRR!!!" I busted in through a wall after unrolling from a ball-like form, and ran at top speed towards Animo. Unfortunately, I failed to notice a giant tail sweep me away.
Max: "What the…" A T-Rex interrupted him before he finished his sentence.
Animo: "Now, the most vicious predator of all time is working for me!!!"
Gwen: "I'm not going to let you win, Animo!" She entered a karate stance, and readied her bo staff.
Ben: "Gwen! Are you crazy!?"
Max: "It's too dangerous!"
Gwen: "Bring it, Dr. Freakamo!"
Dr. Animo: "You dare to insult me! T-Rex! Crush her!"
She was getting ready, when suddenly, Animo was thrown off of the T-Rex. The T-Rex was also about to eat Gwen, when suddenly, she was floating in the air.
Ben: "What just happened?"
Max: "Ghostfreak."
Ghostfreak (after becoming visible again): "You bet, Max!"
Gwen: "You did it, again."
Ghostfreak: "That was totally stupid! You could have died if I didn't recover quickly enough!"
Gwen: "Remember? 100% of the way. Like I said, you help me, and I help you."
Ghostfreak: "You're that devoted?"
Gwen: "I don't know why either. I just am."
Ghostfreak (while putting Gwen down.): "Okay. But I'll take it from here."
Dr. Animo: "How cute. T-Rex! Come to me!" It did exactly as it was told, and he directed it to ram down a wall.
Ghostfreak: "I'll go after him!"
Gwen: "While we tracked him down, I got info on him. He's a demented doctor that tried to get an award, but got insane when he didn't get it. Now, he' s trying to get it from the guy that got that award. Make sure he doesn't get hurt."
Ghostfreak: "He won't. Not as long as I'm on patrol." I turned invisible, and flew towards Animo's direction.
Max: "Gwen. We need to get on the RV."
Ben: "Come on!"
She immediately rushed over, headed out the museum to where they parked the RV, and they drove out.
At a 'Dr. Kelly's residence'…
Dr. Kelly, the man who won the award Dr. Animo wanted, was having friends over to show his awards to them.
Dr. Kelly: "And this is my genetics award. It was very good to even be nominated to this with many prestigious scientists wanting it."
Animo had just then burst through the house.
Dr. Animo: "You have something that belongs to me, Dr. Kelly!"
Dr. Kelly: "Dr. Animo? The insane one?"
Dr. Animo: "I AM NOT INSANE! I deserve that award! Give it to me! Now!"
Dr. Kelly: "Um, okay. If you promise not to destroy my house anymore."
Creepy voice: "That will not be necessary…"
Dr. Kelly: "Who was that?"
I materialized in front of Animo. He screamed. I laughed a lot at this.
Dr. Animo: "What?! You dare laugh at my excellence!!?"
Ghostfreak: "If you mean the excellence of looking at that priceless expression, then yes!"
Dr. Animo: "Attack!!!" The T-Rex ate me, but I phased through his jaws.
Ghostfreak: "Is that all you got?"
Dr. Animo fired his ray at me, but I dodged it, and turned invisible again. He looked around for me, and he felt his helmet float off his head.
Dr. Animo: "Hey! Give that back!"
Ghostfreak: "I don't think so…" It was floating around him, and he tried frantically to grab it, but every effort failed. "Hope you can catch well!" I yelled after a few minutes. I threw the Transmodulator at the ground, and it cracked. The T-Rex became a Skeleton again, the mammoth became a statue again, and the parakeet was a normal parakeet.
Dr, Animo: "No!!!! My Transmodulator!" I reappeared in front of him.
Ghostfreak: "Oops. I'm sorry. Did I throw it too hard?"
Dr. Animo: "You insolent…"
Ghostfreak: "IF YOU KNOW WHAT I REALLY AM… YOU WILL STAY SILENT!"
Dr. Animo: " Really?"
Ghostfreak: "You don't know the true meaning of the word 'FEAR…'"
The police arrived. Through the destroyed front yard.
Officer: "Thank you, ghost man."
Ghostfreak: "No problem. It was nothing amazingly hard…"
The RV pulled up.
Ben: "Aw… We missed it."
Ghostfreak: "Sorry Ben. I just couldn't help it."
Gwen: "You mind changing back now?" I did.
Kyle: "Oh man…"
Max: "What?"
Kyle: "That was weirder than when I normally use Ghostfreak…"
Max: "How exactly?"
Kyle: "He did everything. Not me… well, when I fought Animo here anyway."
Gwen: "Well, whatever happened, it saved the day."
Dr. Animo: "I am fear! I deserve the award! Give it to me now!!!"
The officers drove off.
The end. What will happen next? Will this weird Ghostfreak transformation have to do with anything later? We'll find out.