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"Lemme tell ya something Megaman, NO ONE STEALS FROM RATH! Get your own!" Rath screamed. "OK, Waddya want, Suzimiya?"

 

"Errr, Ben's perfectly right. Did you know that there was a Galvan named Albedo, he used to be Azmuth's assistant. He was smart even for a Galvan, thus was able to create a Pseudo-Omnitrix that synched with Ben's, causing him to look like Ben, Red jacket, red eyes, white hair, everything but colour was identical, including whatever's in his Ultimatrix," Alexis coughed, "If you are willing to fight with him, I mean together with him, maybe he'll make you an Omnitrix. But HOLD ON! You're a robot, you don't have DNA, you can't wield the Omnitrix, that's a theory."

 

"Oh yes, by the way, I am able to alter my form only by entering different MORPG worlds. When I'm part of the world I'm in, or if I'm in the real world, this is my true form. Woah! 2 more hours to dinner time! I've gotta get outta here!" Alexis continued.

 

Alexis then turned over to Haruhi. "Oh my, if it isn't the smexilicious Haruhi Suzimiya. I've heard so much about you..."

 

"Weren't you some big bewbed pink haired girl? Interesting, a good addition to my club. Same goes to you, Alien boy, cos' you're an Alien," Haruhi said. In a sense, she was the most indestructable person ever. It is possible that she could be destroyed by Alien X, I mean the other way round.

 

"LEMME TELL TA SOMETHING HARUHI SUZIMIYA, NO ONE recruits RATH to any CLUB," Rath shouted. Alexis then said in Rath's accent, "WE WILL KICK YOUR BUTT COS' ALIEN X CAN!" Alexis showed Haruhi a troll face, "Ben, I'm afraid, lets go, when you join the SOS brigade, you're in it FOREVER," Alexis and Ben went through a Portal made by Alexis himself.

 

He glowed and tranformed into a Purple Penguin with a T-shirt and a hat. He was Zappyozappy again. "I bet Megaman is still following us. Lets recruit him into the EPF. He'll have what he needs to kick Herbert's butt!" Zappy said, "Lets hope Herbert doesn't get his hands on the Omnitrix."

 

Back at Bellwood, Ben's girlfriend, Julie Yamamoto, was playing with her pet Ship, a Galvanioc Shapeshifter. "Apart from Ben, no one visits us. If only I had children, apart from you good boy," she talked to Ship.

 

Meanwhile, somewhere in the universe, Albedo, still with his Ben-like look, was sitting down. "Man, I have created a spare Omnitrix by accident. I don't need it, but its so expensive..."

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"Who needs the omnitrix itself, I just want the powers" Megaman told alexis, or zappy, or whatever. "I just attack the omnitrix and when it gets destroyed, well then I unlock a new attack, I become green then I gain anyof the aliens powers, its simple" Megaman explained. "And whats this EPF, 'Elite puppy fingers?' 'elephant poop fungas'?" Megaman asked. "And finnaly, who's herbert?" Megaman asked and finished

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"Elite Penguin Force, I know a lot about Club Penguin, AKA this place. I can show you around. Herbert is a Polar Bear lurking in Club Penguin. Pretty strange, but yeah," said Zappy, "Albedo is located in Vilgaxia, assisting Vilgax with his new Pseudo-Ultimatrix and superduperintelligence. Helping Vilgax rule worlds and stuff, while he's away hunting for-"

 

"BEN TENNYSON! There you are!" a cthulhu-like creature appeared. "Vilgax? I thought you became a vegetable," said Zappy. "False, bird, false. I still LIVE!" shouted Vilgax.

 

"Quick, lets RUN!" shouted Zappy as Ben and Zappy jumped into another Portal. Zappy transformed into the form he takes in GaiaOnline, or should I say, she.

 

"Ah, no Vilgax in Barton Town," Ben heaved a sigh of relief. Suddenly, an announcement was heard "Attention! A giant Shark Thingy in the sky has struck Barton Town!"

 

A humongous mechanical shark appeared. "BANZAI!" the Airshark shouted. It threw Torpedoes down and Flying Boxes dropped from the shark

 

Zappy used her ring to fire Solar Rays at the Flying Boxes. Meanwhile, Ben couldn't do anything with his Ultimatrix. "2 Uncatalogged DNA Samples detected." When he slammed down his watch it said, "Function not available, please try again later." The Ultimatrix scanned the Airshark and a Flying Box.

 

Soon, the Airshark went pass them again. "This is for you Sam!" it shouted as it fired torpedoes on the ground. "Looks like I have no choice!" Ben slammed down his watch. "WAAAY BIG! Or maybe Lodestar could do the trick..."

 

Lodestar fired electromagnetic waves at the Airshark. "Looks like you are not- Attractive enough." Nothing happened. "What's this thing made of?" Lodestar thought.

 

"Unknown metal! Not even Airshark is safe from Airshark! That's how powerful Airshark is!" replied Zappy.

 

"Hey, this gives me a brilliant idea!" Lodestar said.

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Kenny went through a portal. He saw Lodestar. "DAD!" Kenny yelled running up to Lodestar. "DAD! I HAVE A BELT THAT LETS ME TRAVEL IN TIME!" Kenny yelled hugging Lodestar. He let go. "If Ben 10,000 didn't tell you, I'm Kenneth James Tennyson. Call me Kenny. Julie is my mom and you named my little sister after your cousin Gwen." Kenny said. "Oh! And most people call me, Ken 10." Kenny said holding up his Omnitrix. He slammed down the Omnitrix. His body grew thin. A hole grew in the middle. He was: "SSSSSSSNAKEPIT!"

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"Is it just me or do these people have way to weird lives?" Megaman said aloud once he went through the portal...agian. "you know, just wake me up when this is over, until then, just fight that big shark thingy, or whatever you call it." megaman commanded ben, and zappy, then fell asleep on the ground, waiting for it to be over. since he was a robot sleeping was differant for him, he just had a program that simulates sleep well he turns off and heals.

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"Don't do that, you won't be attractive enough!" Lodestar said to Megaman. Lodestar fired electromagnetic waves at a Sky Box. The Sky boxes crashed into each other. "Make sure that AirShark doesn't kill me, otherwise it will create a notsoattractive Time Paradox that will extnguish you!"

 

In no time, the Sky Boxes were destroyed. Almost at least. "Son, what can you do? This seems like child's play for an Alien."

 

"Like father, like ssson," Zappy said in Snakepit's accent.

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suddenly megamans sensors went off from the noise, automaticly disabling sleep mode. "what are you talking about 'not atractive enough, or not so attractive?" megaman asked rubbing his eyes. "And how hard is it to destroy a robot like that, he's weaker then toad man." Megaman said and shot a metal blade to cut straight through the shark and make it blow up. "My blades should be able to kill it, just watch." Megaman said as his blades flew through the air

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"I've come you help you. We need to sssssave the video game worlds. We to closssssse the portals. Forever." Snakepit said. Snakepit changed back to Kenny. "I've come back in time to help you close the portals, Dad. The portals reck havoc in the future. The portals are so bad, you went in one and came out over lava. You died." Kenny said. "I don't want you to die."

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suddenly megamans sensors went off from the noise' date=' automaticly disabling sleep mode. "what are you talking about 'not atractive enough, or not so attractive?" megaman asked rubbing his eyes. "And how hard is it to destroy a robot like that, he's weaker then toad man." Megaman said and shot a metal blade to cut straight through the shark and make it blow up. "My blades should be able to kill it, just watch." Megaman said as his blades flew through the air

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"Oh, sorry, that's Lodestar's catchphrase, he uses that A LOT!" Zappy said, as she put her hair over one eye.

 

The Airshark, however, was indestructable. Not even the Attacks of an Elite could destroy it. The only way to get it to Gee Tee Eff Oh was to destroy 200 sky boxes.

 

"Yup, its that strong, it comes back often," Zappy said as she fired a Solar Ray at the last few Sky Boxes. "He's left." Ben turned back. Barton Town was back to Normal.

 

Ben and Zappy went into a portal. Zappy changed into her true form- a real world boy. The portal led to Julie's house.

 

"Astonishing Ben. For me," it was Julie.

 

"Hello Julie! This is my friend Alexis and I would like you to meet someone else... Kenneth Tennyson! Ken-dear? Tis' yar mon."

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"MARCUS, WAIT!!!" Bayonetta, Ratchet and Park Panther ran after MarcusVicktor as he was running out of the PSA building and toward the edge of the iceberg.

 

"I'm not letting some damn penguin touch me!" Marcusvicktor shouted back, each of his footfalls making a loud metallic thud as he ran.

 

"Marcus, why the hell are you so sensitive about being touched?" Bayonetta chided. Ratchet laughed at Bayonetta's comment. Marcusvicktor groaned as he skid to a halt, sliding a few feet.

 

"Look, I just wanna use this Omnitrix for a little while longer," he said to the group. "I just got this thing, you know."

 

"Oh, you boys and your toys...," Bayonetta sighed.

 

"Well, what do we do now?" Ratchet asked. "You know, about Garlandolf--"

 

Suddenly, a large form burst out of the water and flew up a few feet before falling down and landing with a comical "FWUMP!!" The figure resembled a large, blue, bushy-browed penguin wearing a tuxedo jacket and top hat. It laughed with a loud, squawking cackle.

 

"It's Nightmare Penguin!" Dark Panther gasped. The group got into battle stances.

 

"So sorry, but I'm afraid one of you will have to leave," Nightmare Penguin crowed, before inhaling sharply, its large, rotund belly expanding as it sucked in air. As this was happening, a portal opened up behind the group, more specifically, behind Bayonetta.

 

"What in the...?" Bayonetta exclaimed when she turned to look behind her, but as her back was turned, Nightmare Penguin suddenly let out a burst of frigid air from its mouth which struck Bayonetta and forcefully pushed her into the portal. She had just enough time to look back at the others with a shocked look on her face before the portal disappeared.

 

"Bayonetta!!" Ratchet screamed out, running forward in an attempt to reach her before the portal closed. Having failed that, he turned to Nightmare Penguin and shouted, "What did you do too her?!"

 

"The same thing my buddies are gonna do to you guys!" Nightmare Penguin cackled. "Penguin Soldier!" Another penguin shot out of the frigid water, this one wearing only shoulder armor and carrying a small sword. "Please escort Ratchet and Dark Panther out of Club Penguin," Nightmare Penguin commanded.

 

The Penguin Soldier slid forward on its belly and into Ratchet and Dark Panther. It smacked right into them, sliding the pair into another portal that opened up in time to let them in, and immediately closed as Ratchet yelled out, "MARCUS!!"

 

MarcusVicktor decided to retaliate by slamming an electrified fist down on Penguin Soldier, instantly destroying it. "And that, Nightmare Penguin," MarcusVicktor said as he turned to the large tuxedo-wearing penguin, "is what I'm gonna do to you in about the next thirty seconds, you f**kin' fatass!"

 

"How dare you bring my weight into this, Mr. Fenix!" Nightmare Penguin angrily retorted. "I'm just big-boned! Besides, I'm the one in control here, so I'm calling the shouts, see?!"

 

"We'll see about that!" MarcusVicktor roared as he let loose a massive electrical blast toward Nightmare Penguin. Before the surge struck Nightmare Penguin, another Penguin Soldier jumped in front of the attack and took the blast. Nightmare Penguin roared with laughter as two more portals opened up; one behind Nightmare Penguin, and the other behind MarcusVicktor.

 

"Sorry, I'm afraid we'll have to cut this meeting short," Nightmare Penguin cackled as both it and MarcusVicktor were sucked in by their respective portals.

 

~Bayonetta's portal took her to Ecruteak City, depositing her inside the Kimono Dance Theater.

~Ratchet and Dark Panther's portal sent them to Bellwood, depositing them near Julie Yamamoto and Ship

~Marcus Fenix's portal transported him to Hyrule, depositing him in front of the Temple of Time. He's also reverted back to his normal form.

~All four of them are knocked out.

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"So you're saying that Kenneth is our son? FROM THE FUTURE?" asked Julie. "Yep, he looks just like you and me," said Ben. Just then, they noticed Dark Panther and Ratchet. "Dark Panther! Ratchet!" Ben walked up to the two Aliens. "Uncatalogged DNA detected," the Ultimatrix said. It scanned Dark Panther. "What happened?" asked Julie.

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this was the first time Megaman was unsure if he should follow them agian. But seeing as how kenny has knowlodge of the future, megaman could use that intelect, and went through. "Kenny can you tell us a little more about the portals, since your from the future?" Megaman asked. He was looking straight down at kenny and didnt notice Julie yet.

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"Hiya Mom! Guess what I have?" Kenny said rasing the Omnitrix up. "Now wheres Ship the Family Pet?" Kenny asked. Ship jumped outta nowhere. Megaman asked Kenny the question. "Well Hex and Charmcaster broke out of jail and teamed up a polar bear. Hex's magic controlls the portals. What I found out was that the polar bear broke Hex and Charmcaster out. The day when the polar bear did so is tomorrow. We need to find a way to close the portals. Forever." Kenny explained. "That would mean all the video game worlds won't be conneted ever again." a voice said. Gwen and Kevin walked in. "Devlin's Mom and Dad!" Kenny yelled. Then robots fell from the sky. "I got this! Time for Sandbox!" Kenny yelled. He slammed the Omnitrix. His body grew tiger like. He grew claws. He was: "RATH! Whoa! A new alien! Lemme tell ya something, Benjamin Kirby Tennyson! We new to stop those robots!"

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OOC:wouldnt that defeat the RP's concept though?

 

IC: "FINNALY someone that I can fight, you guys just stand back, I'm a proffesional at killing robots" Megaman told kenny, ben, and everyone else. Megaman shot three metal blades in the direction of the robots, jumped behind some, shot them agian, he shot into the air at some still in the sky. "Okay running low on metal blade energy, time to switch." Megaman said aloud. He turned into energy, shot into the sky and came down as blue energy, and turned normal blue megaman agian. "GO RAPID FIRE ENERGY BULLETS" Megaman screamed as he shot energy at every robot he came across, then he jumped on the house. He charged a full energy blast and shot it in the middle of the remaining robots. "I'll be suprised if they survived that" Megaman asked as the smoke was still clearing.

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Ratchet stirred a bit when Julie approached him and Dark Panther, opening one of his eyes just a crack, then closing it, muttering, "Five more minutes, Clank...." He then suddenly sat straight up as he shouted, "PENGUINS!!!", scaring Dark Panther awake. Both looked around at their surroundings before noticing Julie and Ben.

 

"Holy crap. Ben, is that you?" Ratchet said as he and Dark Panther got up from the ground.

 

"Wait, I don't see Bayonetta or Marcus anywhere," Dark Panther said. "Do you think that, maybe, they were sent elsewhere?"

 

"Son of a b!tch!" Ratchet swore. "That damn penguin's gonna get his!" He then turned his attention to some of the robots that had appeared and fired off his gun at them.

 

"Ratchet, calm down... and he's not listening," Dark Panther sighed as he looked to the sky and wondered where Marcus and Bayonetta were....

 

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"... Miss, please, wake up."

 

Bayonetta awoke to find herself in the middle of a stage. Two young women dressed in kimonos were kneeling on either side of her. "Where am I?" she asked the two women.

 

"You're in Ecruteak City, miss," said the one to Bayonetta's right. "If I may ask, did you arrive here by way of a portal?"

 

"Erm... Yes as a matter of fact, that's exactly how I got here," Bayonetta answered, remembering how Nightmare Penguin forcefully sent her to this place. "By the way," she added, "have you seen three other strange people around? Well actually, I wouldn't call two of them "people", exactly, but--"

 

"We understand, miss," said the Kimono Girl to Bayonetta's left. "Unfortunately, you'll have to be a little more specific; there have been a lot of odd characters coming and going ever since the portals have opened."

 

"I see," Bayonetta said quietly. "Now, where to start....". She proceeded to tell the two Kimono Girls about her companions....

 

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Marcus woke up, in slight pain from having landed on his back. He looked up and saw that he was beside a door of some sort, covered in moss. Looking around, he saw that the whole area was in ruins and overrun by the forest surrounding it.

 

Getting up, he tries to use his communicator, with no luck; all he could hear was static. "Dammit," Marcus cursed under his breath.

 

Unbeknownst to him, he was being watched....

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"Polar Bear? Herbert! Of course!" shouted Ben, "We'll need Ship to get there, but he's sick. So I guess I'll have to go Jetray..."

 

The Ultimatrix did wrong. Transformation began. Ben grew more liquidy. Nope, not complete. He changed into Liquid Metal "UPGRADE! Never knew I still had this guy..."

 

Upgrade did what Ship could do - Shapeshift into a giant Ship. "Upgrade could do that? Never knew that. Hop on guys! Where heading to the future!"

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"Man, I'm just a simple super fighting robot from 200X who was...well here I'll give you guys the whole story." Megaman said as he jumped on the ship. "A couple of years ago, in 200X I was I robot, a regular one, created by Dr. Light, my name then, was Rock, and I had a friend who was also a robot, her name was roll. Dr. Light had made many house hold robots around the world. But then, Dr. Wily took control of them for evil, so I vouluntered to become a super robot to fight, and stop the evil Dr. Wily, he put me in a machine and I was turned into the super fighting robot MEGAMAN that you see here today...well thats my story, and now I fight the robot masters, to got to Wily, and then beat him, he runs away, and I keep chasing him." Megaman explained. "So what do you guys think?" Megaman asked.

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"Thanks for the story, we'll go to the area you mentioned once we're done. Owait, we're not heading for the future. We're heading to Hex's and Charmcaster's prison cell. We have to destroy them before tommorow! Alright, I need suggestions, destroy the Magicians or the bear?" asked Upgrade in Ship Mode

 

When Upgrade heard Rath's suggestion, Upgrade said...

 

"To infinity and beyond! But on your seatbelts, Its a prison break" Upgrade was excited. With lame puns.

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"Sounds good, Ben," Dark Panther said, "but Ratchet and I have a previous engagement to get to. Ratchet, come on!" Dark Panther called to the lombax as another portal opened up. The two jumped inside.

 

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Bayonetta and the two Kimono Girls exited the Dance Theater. "Very well, Miss Bayonetta," said one of the Kimono Girls. "We will keep a lookout for your three friends. By the way you've depicted them with your hair rather well."

 

"How are you able to do that?" asked the other.

 

"Trust me darlings," Bayonetta replied, waving a hand, "you don't want to find out for yourselves." As she said this, a portal opened up beside her. "Here's my ride. Of course, wherever it's going to take me is anyone's guess."

 

"Very well," both Kimono Girls said in unison. "Good luck!"

 

"Thanks," the Umbra Witch said as she stepped into the portal. "Now, where are my new best friends?" she asked herself. "I suppose one of them is mature enough, so they should be okay...."

 

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(((OoC: I know I'm already at the recommended limit, but I was wondering if I can bring in another character.)))

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Rath changed back to Kenny. Kenny looked at a book and gasped. "OPPS! I misread the date! The polar bear breaks them out today!" Kenny yelled. "When he do it?" Julie asked. "About an hour ago." Kenny said. "Oh! You guys meet me at a place called Club Polar Bear, kay." Kenny said. Kenny's Omnitrix then senced Ben's Ultimatrix. "Alien DNA tecited. Downloading, downloading. Download done. All 10,000 alien unleashed." Kenny's Omnitrix said. Ben's did the same. Kenny slamed down the Omnitrix. He grew sick. His body greened. He was:

[spoiler= "COMMON COLD!" ]

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Common Cold shot snot from his hands. "Cool!" Common Cold said.

 

OcO: Common Cold is another one of my brother's aliens!

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OOC: could you at least try to set up a decent plot besieds OH NO I MESSED UP TEH DATE OOPS, OWAIT NOW I GOT ABUNCH OF ALIENS, and then getting all the aliens, isnt that amazing, now your just a perfect mary sue.

 

IC: "people transforming into aliens...this is all just too much, infact, why am I following you guys, I got the info I needed, and I see a portal right below here, so SEEYA!" Megaman said as he jumped out of Upgrade and fell into the portal. "mmm this place looks nice, so mechincy, sandy, and just nice...wait, sand and robots...THIS IS PHAROH MANS PLACE!! AWSOME!!" Megaman noticed as he landed in the area, and he decided to start on the level, he just got to the undergroudn pyramid when...he fell asleep.

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"Kay bye." Common Cold said. Common Cold walked up to Upgrade. "I'm going to Club Polar Bear, Dad!" Common Cold said. A portal opened to Club Penguin. Common Cold jumped in and the portal then closed. "Good luck.... son..." Julie said.

 

Common Cold walked around Club Penguin. "Penguins.... everywhere... isn't this Club Polar Bear?" Common Cold asked himself. "We end up here for a lot of wierd reasons, don't we Ben?" someone said. Pikachu walked up to Common Cold. "Ben is my father." Common Cold said. Common Cold changed back to Kenny. "I came from the future." Kenny said. "I'm Pikachu! One of Ben's old friends. We defected Herbert together!" Pikachu said. "I'm Kenneth. But you can call me Ken or Kenny." Kenny said. "Now you said something about Club Polar Bear?" Pikachu said. "Yes! This where it is in the future!" Kenny yelled. "Herbert...." Pikachu mumbled. "We need to close the portals. Forever." Kenny said. "Let's see who else I have in this watch!" Kenny said slamming the Omnitrix down. His body grew horse like. His eyes formed into one. He was:

[spoiler= "OVERKILL!" ]

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"Alright fellas. Bad news... CRASH LANDING! I CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF!" shouted Upgrade.

 

"Alright, I never liked Autopilot Mode..." Kevin said as he started to pilot the ship. Autopilot Mode is never good... "Alright, I see Charmcaster and Hex, and Vulkanus. FIRE YOUR LAZER BEN!"

 

Ben fired his lazer at the trio. A green lazer is strong enough to blow them away. "I think we need Pikachu. Good'ol Pikachu. He knows what to do..."

 

Upgrade landed on snow safely, then turned back into Ben. "Some people who could help us are missing, I'm going on my own," Ben said.

 

He walked up to the 3. Next thing you knew, a green being with a black cloak appeared. "ITS DOCTA SLOTH!" said Alexis. "Uncatalogged DNA detected," the Ultimatrix said. "I've heard so much about you, Tennyson," Dr. Sloth said.

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Why are we being locked?

 

IC: Overkill and Pikachu ran up to Ben. "Hey Dad! My Omnitrix unlocked all aliens!" Overkill said. Pikachu walked up to Ben. "What's up Tennyson?" Pikachu asked. "Kenny here, told me all about closing the portals and the 'polar bear' breaking Hex out." Pikachu said. "Lemma tell ya something, Docta Sloth! Oh crap, I'm starting to sound like Rath..." Pikachu said. "Let me handle this. I'm Overkill. I can cut through anything!" Overkill yelled cutting the cloak of Docta Sloth. Hex and Charmcaster walked up to Ben. "Hello Tennyson! I see your son has the Omnitrix too." Hex said. Herbert walked up to Charmcaster and Hex. "Did ya miss me, Benny?" Herbert said. "Herbert P. Bear Esqurie! You're under arest for crimes all over the video game worlds!" Pikachu yelled holding a badge up. It read EPF. "You're in the Elite Penguin Force!?!?" Sonic Chick said walking up. "No. I'm in the Elite Pokemon Force." Pikachu said. "Oh little Pikachu! You own me an ear." Herbert said pointing at two band-aids on his head where his right ear is supposed to be. "And Benny got a kid! WoW!" Herbert laugh

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