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Chapter 169 - Chapter 169: Forever Knight's Trap

(After about 2 hours, Max, Gwen, Becky and Allison had set up a station with a TV and game station for them and some chairs for the twins to just relax and play their new game.)

Max: "There."

(Max said.)

Max: "That should enhance your gaming experience."

Becky: "Would you like us to whip up some snacks for you?"

(Becky asked.)

Ben: "Sounds great, dweeb."

(Ben said.)

Gwen: "Oh, Ben."

(Gwen said as they went inside the Rust Bucket as Jen shrugged.)

Jen: "Ben, don't you think it's kind of funny how they're acting so nice to us?"

Ben: "Aren't they always nice to us?"

Jen: "I mean, moreso than usual. It's just... odd."

(No sooner had the twins begun to play, another four versions of their grandfather, cousins and best friend come up to them with a shout.)

Gwen: "Yo, Mega Dweeb!"

(Gwen shouted.)

Gwen: "get up off your butt and follow us!"

Allison: "Now!"

(Allison began.)

Jen: "Hero time?"

(Jen asked.)

Becky: "Duh!"

(Becky said.)

Becky: "We say so!"

Ben: "Okay."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "SUMO SLAMMER!"

(Ben used his controls to have Ishiyama slam down Kenko and Jen cheered out.)

Jen: "Man, I love this game!"

(Soon, the versions of their allies who had just went into the Rust Bucket came out with the snacks and gasped upon seeing the dopplegangers.)

(They all looked to each other and nodded as they dropped the snacks and ran away towards them and shouted out as they dragged them inside the RV and the whole thing started shaking as spells and fire blasts burst out of the windows before one of the Allisons few out of the window as the other one leaped out and mashed her head against the frame of the Rust Bucket repeatedly.)

(One Gwen smashed the other one's face against the window of the door, which then opened as one Becky flew out of the front and crashed onto the table with the other one following as she bound her hands behind her and wiped her head against the table.)

Becky: "Guys! Help us!"

(Becky shouted.)

(Both Maxes and both Gwens tumbled out of the RV as well as the eight pairs of allies were all struggling on the ground.)

(Ben and Jen got up and gasped upon seeing what was happening.)

Ben: "What the heck is going on here?"

(Ben asked.)

everyone: "Ben! Jen! Help! They're fakes!"

(everyone shouted as Ben and Jen looked up confused.)

(That was when the Allison who was pinned suddenly got the upper hand and kicked the other one off of her into a Becky and Gwen used a spell onto her doppelganger and Max overpowered his duplicate as well.)

(They all ran forwards and grabbed the twins before guiding them to the Rust Bucket.)

Jen: "What's happening?!"

(Jen shouted.)

Max: "We'll have to explain on the way!"

(Max shouted.)

Max: "Get in!"

(As soon as the kids were all in, Max slammed the door on them again and drove the Rust Bucket away from the doppelgangers and they drove away.)

Jen: "Okay, somebody needs to explain this to us or we're out of here!"

(Jen said.)

Ben: "Why are there two of all of you?"

Allison: "The others are fakes."

(Allison said.)

Ben: "What?"

(Ben said.)

Max: "Imposters created to keep an eye on you two."

(Max said.)

Gwen: "This all started with you two not having the best of days."

(Gwen explained.)

Gwen: "Everything seemed to be going wrong for you two."

Becky: "But things only got worse after a surprise attack by the Forever Knights."

(Becky said.)

Becky: "They were too fast for us and you guys were captured."

Ben: "Wait, wait, wait."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "Hold the phone."

Jen: "I think that if the two of us were captured by the Forever Knights, we would know about it."

Max: "No, Jen, you wouldn't."

(Max said.)

Max: "Because they hooked you two up to a-"

Ben: "Look out!"

(Ben shouted.)

(Max gasped as an armored truck ran straight out at them from the side of the road rammed them straight off of it, sending the Rust Bucket spiraling out of control before it and snapped right in two before it stopped.)

(Soon, a familiar face came out of the truck followed by four soldiers with the S.A.C.T. logo on them.)

???: "Secure the area! Move!"

(Ben and Jen stumbled, dazed, out of the car and then they found themselves being aimed at from all sides by the soldiers before they parted to reveal...)

Jen: "Lt. Steele!"

(Jen realized.)

Jen: "What are you doing?"

Lt. Steele: "Saving your fannies."

(he said.)

Lt. Steele: "Sorry for the drastic measures, you two, but if they saw us coming, who knows what they would've done to you two?"

Ben: "What are you talking about?"

(Ben asked.)

(No sooner had the words escaped his lips had Max, Gwen, Becky and Allison shoved the rubble off of them and found themselves aimed at by the soldiers.)

(Lt. Steele grabbed the twins and placed them behind him before he aimed his blaster at them.)

Lt. Steele: "They're not your family. They're Limax: alien shapeshifters working for Vilgax."

Ben: "What?"

(Ben asked.)

Jen: "But they said that the other Grandpa, Gwen, Becky and Allison were fakes!"

(Jen said.)

Ben: "And that the Forever Knights were behind all this!"

Lt. Steele: "And you two believe that load of fertilizer?"

Max: "He's lying, guys!"

(Max said.)

Becky: "We're your real family!"

(Becky agreed as they held their hands up at gunpoint.)

(Suddenly, a booming voice sounded throughout the land.)

(A voice they hoped never to hear again.)

???: "You two may have stopped my minions, but you will not stop me!"

Jen: "Oh no."

(Jen said as they all looked up to see the completely repaired Chimerian Hammer looming overhead as they all looked, shocked, at the hulking spaceship in front of them.)

(Soon, a familiar squid warrior leaped out of the ship and once the dust cloud settled, Vilgax stepped out of the blue as the twins braced themselves.)

Ben: "Vilgax."

(Ben said.)

Vilgax: "I hate to say I told you so but..."

Ben: "Enough talk."

(Ben said as he adjusted the Omnitrix and slammed the core down along with his sister.)

(The Omnitrix sank into Ben's wrist and his blood vessels expanded rapidly before spreading across his entire body, which eventually reached his eyes, which he clutched shut and when he shot them open again, they were fully golden.)

(A second pair of arms shot out just below his primary pair and his muscle mass grew exponentially.)

(His feet morphed themselves to only have two toes and his skin turned red with a few black crests on his face and he grew a second pair of eyes beneath the original ones.)

(He wore a green and black one-piece bodysuit before he shot a pose with a shout.)

(The Omnitrix sank into Jen's wrist and her blood vessels expanded rapidly and then reached her eyes and she clutched them closed before they shot open again to reveal they were fully pink.)

(Red and brown fur snaked up her wrist and expanded all throughout her body as her muscle mass expanded to that of a very fit young adult.)

(She grew a small pink udder and her feet shifted into three-toed hooves along with her hands forming hard hoof-like nails.)

(A long tail formed from her rear and a tuft of red fur grew on the end.)

(Finally, two medium-sized horns grew from her temples and her face shifted into a short cute snout and the Omnitrix symbol appeared on her chest.)

(She mooed outwards and kicked up dust and struck a pose as the transformation finished.)

(Four Arms and Flataurus glared at Vilgax as they glared as he stepped forward.)

Flataurus: "You're messing with the wrong twins, Squid Face!"

(Flataurus said as she and Four Arms charged forwards towards Vilgax and engaged in a match of strong punches and kicks towards the alien warlord and Four Arms pounded him into the ground.)

(Vilgax shouted outwards and gave a strong punch to Four Arms in the face as he was sent flying backwards as Flataurus gave out a shout and enveloped herself in a cloak of flame as she shouted outwards and charged forwards, slamming into Vilgax with her horns as she gave out a few strong punches to him, slamming him outwards and giving him a strong pounding before she grabbed him and tossed him to Four Arms and he spun himself outwards and gave him a strong toss towards the Chimerian Hammer, causing it to collapse into itself and explode, causing Vilgax to fall downwards and smash into the ground in front of them.)

Four Arms: "It's over, Vilgax!"

(Four Arms shouted.)

Vilgax: "Wrong, Tennyson! It's just beginning!"

(He then aimed a familiar weapon outwards towards our heroes and fired it up.)

Flataurus: "The Null Void Projector!"

(Flataurus gasped.)

Vilgax: "Now, I will send you two to that retched wasteland where you sent me!"

Flataurus: "No!"

(Flataurus shouted and charged forward, colliding her flaming horns with Vilgax, sending the Null Void Projector flying, where it was caught by Four Arms, who smiled as his sister rejoined him.)

Four Arms: "Sorry, Villy."

(he said.)

Four Arms: "Looks like it's just not your day."

Vilagx: "No!"

(Vilagx shouted as he charged back towards them, but not before Four Arms activated the Projector, sending him back from whence he came.)

Lt. Steele: "Good."

(Lt. Steele said as he walked up to our heroes.)

Lt. Steele: "Now, if you can just use that little toy on our shapeshifting friends, I believe our work here will be done."

Max: "Ben, Jen, no!"

(Max said.)

Allison: "You have to listen to us!"

(Allison said.)

Allison: "We're telling the truth!"

Becky: "Oh, just forget it guys."

(Becky said.)

Becky: "They'll never listen."

Gwen: "Yeah."

(Gwen said, crossing her arms.)

Gwen: "If those guys were smart, they'd realize that Vilgax would've obviously tried to get the Omnitrixes from them before he tried to send them to the Null Void."

(The twins then looked at each other and nodded with realization.)

Four Arms: "Four one-way tickets to alien storage coming right up!"

(Four Arms said.)

Becky: "No! I'm not going back to the Null Void! I can't go back!"

(Becky cried.)

Flataurus: "Sorry, Becky. This hurts us too."

(Flataurus said as Four Arms fired the Projector behind their family as they braced themselves... only for the portal to suck the S.A.C.T. soldiers into it, causing it to close before it could suck the aliens out.)

Lt. Steele: "What are you doing?"

(Lt. Steele asked.)

Four Arms: "That Gwen was telling the truth."

(Four Arms said as Flataurus glared at him.)

Flataurus: "Which means that you must be lying."

???: "How terribly clever of you."

(Lt. Steele. said, now suddenly in another accent before his eyes glowed red and his disguise shed, revealing him to be...)

Flataurus: "Enoch!"

(Flataurus gasped.)

Flataurus: "Then the Forever Knights really are behind everything!"

Allison: "Yeah!"

(Allison said.)

Allison: "That's what we've been telling you guys!"

(Four Arms and Flataurus glared outwards as they were suddenly surrounded by Forever Knight soldiers.)

Enoch: "We needed to keep your minds preoccupied while we removed the Omnitrixes!"

(Four Arms aimed out the Null Void Projector before it suddenly melted in his grasp.)

Enoch: "Having you two believe that this was the perfect day was one way. Now, the two of you will live your worst nightmare!"

(The desert landscape suddenly faded away to reveal some kind of void with a bunch of weird floating rocks and a green and pink void in the sky.)

Four Arms: "Nice trick, dude."

(Four Arms said.)

Four Arms: "But we're still going to kick your butts!"

(As they were about to land a blow, the Omnitrixes timed out on them again, turning them back to human.)

Jen::"Yeah, that perfect day was fun while it lasted."

(Jen said.)

Max: "Let's move!"

(Max said as he, Gwen, Becky and Allison grabbed our heroes and ran away from Enoch as he bared his sword at them.)

Enoch: "Go ahead and run. But it will do you no good! I control this world!"

(As our heroes ran away, they were suddenly stopped as they saw Enoch appear in front of them.)

(They ran the other way, only to discover he was there too.)

(Soon, they looked to see a giant Enoch looming over them.)

Allison: "You've got to be kidding me!"

(Allison shouted as the giant Enoch slammed the ground they were standing on, creating a new environment in front of them.)

Gwen: "Enoch said that he'd create your worst nightmare, guys."

(Gwen said as she and her sister hugged in fear.)

Gwen: "So... where are we?"

Ben: "Oh no."

(Ben said with realization.)

Jen: "It's... it's..."

(Jen said as she saw the bookcases of a library pop up around them.)

Ben: "SCHOOL!"

(Ben shouted.)

Ben: "Get me out of here! Ah!"

Gwen: "Only you would be scared of a book, Ben."

(Gwen sighed.)

Jen: "That's his fear."

(Jen said.)

Jen: "Not mine."

Gwen: "So what is your fear?"

(She then looked upwards and was instantly paralyzed when she saw her worst fear.)

[To Be Continued...]

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