(Jen walked up to Ben, Gwen, Becky and Allison as they cleaned up the remnants of the dinner and she raised her eyebrow.)
Jen: "Um..."
Gwen: "Don't ask."
(Gwen said.)
Becky: "What did you learn about Grandpa and Xylene?"
(Becky asked.)
Jen: "Ben, we should've kicked that alien's scaly butt back to outer space when we had the chance."
(Jen scoffed.)
Allison: "Max seems to like her, Jen."
(Allison said.)
Ben: "Well we don't."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "I'm just saying, you two should give her a chance."
Jen: "Right, and the next thing you know, she'll want us to call her Grandma Lizard! Forget it."
(Jen said.)
Gwen: "I've never seen you this angry."
(Gwen said, talking to Jen.)
Gwen: "You saw something that upset you."
Jen: "...Yeah."
(As they were talking, they didn't realize they were being watched as a visor saw the Omnitrixes on the twins' wrists and Jen gasped when she saw a laser pointer at Ben.)
Jen: "Bro, look out!"
(She tackled Ben out of the way of the laser blast with a shout as he hit the ground and a cloud of dust kicked up around them.)
Allison: "What the!?"
(Allison asked as they stood up to see the same drone from the Arctic site, now upgraded with snowmobile equipment, land in front of them before stomping towards them, intent on finishing its mission.)
Becky: "Crap!"
(Becky shouted as they ran away from the drone as it lashed out its cables towards them and they avoided it.)
Gwen: "Isn't that one of Vilgax's robot droids?"
(Gwen asked.)
Ben: "Yeah, but I thought we took care of them all when we blew up his ship!"
(Ben said.)
Ben: "He's supposed to be in the Null Void!"
(The robot fired out several missiles towards them and they dodged as it hit the ground they were just standing on, sending them tumbling away from it as it marched towards them.)
Jen: "It must be after the Omnitrixes."
(Jen said.)
Ben: "Let's do this, sis!"
(Ben shouted as the twins suited up and glared as they charged towards the drone.)
Ben: "You want these?!"
(The twins then slammed the cores down as Ben transformed into Snare-Oh and Jen transformed into Four Arms with a shout.)
Four Arms: "Then you'll have to take them from us!"
(Four Arms shouted.)
(She then gave out a war cry and leaped upwards before pounding down on the drone's body with a grunt of effort as Snare-Oh did the same and wrapped his appendages around the frame and pulled downwards with all of his might, taking off a few cables before doing the same to another part as his sister pounded down.)
(That was about the point that Max and Xylene appeared while the girls prepared themselves.)
Four Arms: "We've got this!"
(Four Arms shouted to her.)
Four Arms: "We don't need your help!"
Xylene: "Oh, children, I believe you do."
(Xylene said as she focused and levitated herself upwards and used her telekinesis to levitate up several large chunks of earth out of the ground and tossed them at the drone, knocking it back.)
(Allison glared as she absorbed the rock hard ground and morphed her hands into axes as she leaped up and sliced off some machinery on the outside as she leaped around it with a grunt of effort.)
(Max fired his blaster at the drone as Gwen flipped through her spellbook with a glare.)
Gwen: "Emocha Objectia!"
(With those words, a blast of blue energy blasted out of her hand and hit the drone at full blast as Becky did her share as she used her spear to slice off several pieces of machinery on the drone with a shout.)
(Snare-Oh and Four Arms took off its legs with a grunt and they were just about to finish it off when they were suddenly enveloped in a glow of purple energy and were casually tossed aside, right into the Rust Bucket as it exploded.)
(The drone took advantage of the new machine it was on and sent out several tendrils and started taking the R.V. apart with no regard.)
Becky: "It's taking over the Rust Bucket!"
(Becky shouted as Allison glared at the alien.)
Allison: "I'm starting to think that the twins are right about you."
(she scolded.)
(They looked up at the giant hulking machine in front of them and gasped when it suddenly halted.)
Becky: "Guys, look!"
(Everyone looked back to see Four Arms and Snare-Oh doing their best to hold the machine back with their tendrils... up until they saw the giant cannon align in their direction.)
Snare-Oh: "Oh come o-"
(Snare-Oh began as he and his sister were blasted with the cannon, the blast taking out the Rust Bucket as well.)
Max: "My baby!"
(Max cried.)
(Then, the giant machine was stalking the others as they hid behind two adjacent rocks before Max spotted the Rust Bucket's gas canister on the drone's bottom and he smiled.)
Max: "Xylene, now!"
(Max shouted.)
(Xylene then focused her telekinesis on the gas canister, levitating it in front of the drone, where Max shot it with his blaster, causing it to explode in a fiery inferno, knocking the drone back.)
Xylene: "We make a great team."
(Xylene told her old friend.)
Max: "Always did."
(Max smiled.)
(Four Arms and Snare-Oh glared and then went for the drone and started ripping it to pieces with a shout and grunt of effort as they all shouted out once they were absolutely certain that it wasn't going to come back and stopped.)
Snare-Oh: "Sorry about the Rust Bucket, Grandpa."
(Snare-Oh said.)
Snare-Oh: "I guess we got a little carried away."
Max: "Yeah."
(Max said.)
Max: "Maybe just a little."
(Xylene glared at the twins as they shrugged.)
(Little did they know, a certain robotic processor was still lurking in the bushes nearby.)
(Later on, the group was working on fixing up the Rust Bucket as best as they could as Allison brought over the door and Max screwed in the headlights.)
Max: "I guess that mecha droid was the same one that fell to Earth with you."
(Max theorized.)
Gwen: "And it seems to be doing the mechanical merge thing like the one that merged with Rojo."
(Gwen said as Xylene levitated over some parts.)
Xylene: "Apparently, they gained the ability to amalgamate mechanical devices in order to fulfill their programming."
(Xylene said.)
Xylene: "Retrieving the Omnitrixes."
(She walked over to Ben as Diamondhead and Jen as Water Lily as they fixed up the inside of the Rust Bucket.)
Xylene: "You are sure the mecha droid was destroyed?"
Diamondhead: "Yes, we're sure the mecha droid was destroyed."
(Diamondhead said.)
Water Lily: "Give us a break already."
(Water Lily sighed as she went outside and sliced off a tree branch that had one of the Rust Bucket parts in it.)
(Xylene only glared at him.)
(Meanwhile, at the ranger house, the ranger pulled up in his Jeep and went inside.)
(As his back was turned, the droid appeared and started taking the Jeep apart with its tendrils to upgrade itself again.)
(Back with our heroes, they were still working on fixing up the Rust Bucket and Diamondhead and water Lily started carrying parts over to Max.)
Xylene: "If you wanted to be truly helpful, a Galvanic Mechamorph would've been a more appropriate choice."
(The twins only started blankly.)
Max: "She means Upgrade."
(Max explained.)
Water Lily: "Yeah, well, you're not the boss of us, lady."
(Water Lily said.)
Max: "Come on guys."
(Max said.)
Max: "Xylene probably knows a thing or two about the Omnitrixes. Maybe you should listen to her."
Diamondhead: "You're taking her side?!"
(Diamondhead asked.)
Max: "You're being irrational!"
Water Lily: "Oh yeah?"
(Water Lily asked as she stomped over to the lizard alien.)
Water Lily: "Well if we're such screw-ups, why'd you send the watches to us in the first place?!"
Xylene: "I didn't send you the Omnitrixes. You two found the Omnitrixes before they reached their intended recipients."
Diamondhead: "What?"
(Diamondhead asked.)
Xylene: "The pod containing them veered slightly off its intended course."
(The shocked Diamondhead and Water Lily exhaled sharply once they got this new information.)
(They were having a hard time letting it sink in as Gwen and Allison walked over to comfort them.)
Water Lily: "...We got the Omnitrixes by mistake?"
(Water Lily asked as said watches timed out and turned them back to human form.)
Xylene: "Of course, child. You didn't really believe that I would purposely send the two most powerful devices in the universe to children, did you? I was sending them to Max and hopefully your grandmother. It was merely bad luck that she wasn't around."
Becky::"I guess it would make more sense, Grandpa being a Plumber and all."
(Becky said.)
Allison: "Not helping."
(Allison whispered through gritted teeth.)
Ben: "Oh, well that's just great!"
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Just take them back."
Jen: "Then, you and Grandpa can just cruise around the universe like you were planning before! See if we care!"
(Jen shouted as she and Ben ran off.)
Max: "Ben! Jen!"
(Max shouted.)
Max: "You three, go after them."
Allison: "Yes, sir!"
(Allison said as she, Gwen and Becky ran off to follow the twins.)
Xylene: "Did I say something wrong?"
(Xylene asked.)
(The girls found the twins sitting down on the edge of a cliff deep in thought as they stared up at the stars.)
Ben: "Leave us alone, girls."
(Ben sighed as Gwen smiled.)
Gwen: "Okay, so the watches weren't meant for you two. So what? You've done a pretty good job with them so far."
Becky: "If it weren't for you two, I would still be in the Null Void."
(Becky reminded them.)
Jen: "Guys, that's not why we're upset."
(Jen told them.)
Jen: "We can live with the fact that the watches weren't meant for us. What we're upset about is that Xylene wants Grandpa to go away with her just like before."
Ben: "Only this time... there's nothing keeping him here."
(Ben said as Gwen and Becky gasped in realization.)
Allison: "Oh man."
(Allison said as they all sat down on the cliff and looked up at the stars.)
Becky: "What else did you learn, Jen?"
(Becky asked.)
Jen: "Well, it was just in bits and pieces, but I'm pretty sure that I heard something about your dad, Allison."
Allison: "Say what?"
(Allison asked, shocked.)
Jen: "I don't know all the details, but I think that your dad and Grandpa were partners at one point."
Allison: "Yeah, I kind of figured that he led a double life."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "I just didn't know what it was... until now."
(Becky then walked over and gave Allison a quick hug and a smile.)
Allison: "It's fine."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "I don't really like to talk about it."
(The five young heroes then looked up at the stars together.)
Xylene: "I'm sorry, Max."
(Xylene said as she and her old friend continued repairing the Rust Bucket.)
Xylene: "I must admit these human offspring are a mystery to me. On my planet, Ringa Morr, once you hatch, you're on your own. Well, soon we won't have to worry about them."
(Suddenly, they heard a whirring sound and then a familiar-looking machine drove by and glared at the group and they gasped in realization at what was before them.)
Xylene: "The Mecha Droid!"
(Xylene shouted.)
(She then pushed Max out of the way of the hit just before the droid swatted her with its wheel-covered tendril and she was sent barreling through a ton of trees.)
Max: "Xylene!"
(Max shouted.)
[To Be Continued...]