Chapter 178: Chapter 178: The Omni Toddlers
(In the Rust Bucket, while Ben, Jen, Becky and Max were playing Sumo Slammers on the game station.)
Gwen: "No."
(Gwen said as she and Hope looked through their spellbooks.)
Gwen: "That won't work either. Wrong spell. Only works on armadillos?!"
Max: "You're toast, Ben!"
(Max said as he used his character to smash Ben's Ishiyama into the ground while Jen's ninja character walked away with a sword.)
Hope: "I've got nothing, guys."
(Hope said as she closed her book.)
Hope: "At this point, I seriously doubt that my uncle had anything to do with turning Max into a 10-year-old."
Gwen: "Well, if he didn't, who did?"
Korra: "Not who."
(Korra said as she walked into the RV.)
Korra: "What."
Allison: "That game booth guy did seem to be keeping something a pretty big secret."
(Allison said.)
Becky: "Maybe there was something in the water?"
(Becky suggested.)
Jen: "The water was what Hex was after, wasn't it?"
(Jen told Korra, who chuckled.)
Korra: "You've got a pretty wild imagination, kid."
(Korra smiled.)
Korra: "That can be a dangerous thing."
Max: "We could use the elemental breakdown meter to test a core sample."
(Max suggested.)
Max: "...Right after the twins and I go skateboarding."
Ben, Jen, Gwen, Becky, Allison and Hope: "Grandpa/Max!"
(Ben, Jen, Gwen, Becky, Allison and Hope shouted.)
Max: "Okay, okay."
(Max said as he went to a kitchen cabinet and pulled out some kind of machine.)
(He picked it up before he fell over onto his back.)
Max: "I never realized how heavy this thing was."
Korra: "Hang on, this is a woman's job,"
(Korra said as she hefted the machine onto one arm and exited the vehicle.)
Korra: "Come on. Scarlett's waiting for us."
(At the site of the accident, Scarlett lifted the breakdown meter as Max examined the water with the machine.)
Becky: "Well?"
(Becky asked as she and the kids stood by.)
Max: "The meter's picking up 12 times the amount of oxygen in the water than hydrogen."
(Max said.)
Allison: "So instead of H2O, it's HO12?"
(Allison asked, raising an eyebrow.)
Max: "Yes."
(Max said.)
Max: "And it's also registering high levels of carbon."
Becky: "Hold on."
(Becky said as she examined a piece of stray wood in the wreckage and picked it up.)
Becky: "Amazing Amusement Company, 1257 Northfield Lane, Jacksonville FL."
(That was when two security guards came over with handcuffs.)
security guards: "This is a crime scene! Drop the weapon and everyone come with us!"
(Scarlett dropped the meter and glared at them as the twins stepped up.)
Scarlett: "You know, we should give these guys a hand. Or better yet, four of them!"
(The twins slammed down the cores and transformed into Four Arms, but something was clearly off.)
Korra: "Oh no."
(Korra said, facepalming.)
Gwen: "Not you two too!"
(Gwen said.)
(The twins Tetramand forms were much shorter than normal and had much less muscle mass.)
Scarlett: "You guys get out of here! We'll catch up!"
(Scarlett said as she and Korra raised up a rock wall between them and the guards before Scarlett used her Keyblade to open a portal and out stepped her alicorn, Oleander.)
(She and Korra got onto the winged unicorn and she flicked the reigns, setting off into the sky towards the address.)
Allison: "The RV wasn't going to fit all of us anyway."
(Allison said as Jen picked up the meter and they ran for the Rust Bucket.)
Ben: "So what do you think happened to the Omnitrixes?"
(Ben asked.)
Becky: "Nothing."
(Becky said.)
Becky: "It's the water."
Allison: "It splashed all over you and Jen when the booth smashed, too."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "That means that you and your aliens are younger just like Max."
(They went into the Rust Bucket and started up the machine.)
Gwen: "We need to go to that address in Jacksonville."
(Gwen said.)
Hope: "Allow me."
(Hope said.)
Hope: "I'm 16 and I have my license."
Max: "Hey, no one drives my baby but me!"
(Max said.)
Jen: "You're too young to drive right now!"
(Jen said, placing the meter in the cabinet again.)
Jen: "Give her the keys."
(Max groaned and handed Hope the keys and she started up the RV, driving off as Allison typed in the address into the GPS.)
(The Omnitrixes timed out, leaving the twins back in their human forms, now being reduced to four-year-olds with their clothes baggier as well while Jen gasped and Ben glared at Gwen.)
Ben: "This isn't funny."
(Ben said.)
Gwen: "I knew I was more mature than you."
(Gwen smirked as Becky squealed in delight and hugged Jen.)
Becky: "Oh my gosh, you're so cute!"
(she said as she cuddled her to her chest and Jen glared and pushed her away with an energy pulse, only it was much weaker than normal.)
Jen: "Try not to do that."
(Jen said, crossing her arms.)
(Outside, Scarlett and Korra flew on Oleander as they noticed the RV driving along.)
Scarlett: "We have to follow them."
(Scarlett told her friend, who nodded in response.)
Scarlett: "They know what to do."
Korra: "I agree."
(Korra said with a smile.)
Scarlett: "Come on, Oleander!"
(Scarlett said, flicking the reigns and Oleander flew after them.)
(The team arrived at the Amazing Amusement Company warehouse in an open farmland in Jacksonville with Scarlett and Korra shortly behind in the sky.)
Allison: "We're here."
(Allison said as they all left the RV, Max having changed into one of Ben's spare shirts.)
(The team then walked through the fields of Florida orange trees as Becky looked up to see the flying unicorn in the sky with Scarlett giving a nod as she flew ahead.)
Ben: "My feet hurt."
(Ben whined.)
Ben: "I don't wanna walk anymore! I'm tired!"
Jen: "Quit being such a baby, Ben."
(Jen said to him.)
Ben: "In case you haven't noticed, Jen, I am one!"
Jen: "Well I don't want to listen to you whine all day!"
Ben: "Well I don't want to hear you complain all day!"
(This whole thing eventually devolved into a shouting contest between the Omni Toddlers as they shouted arguments and insults to each other with Allison groaning.)
Becky: "Didn't we used to do this when we were 4-year-olds?"
(Becky asked her sister.)
Gwen: "Don't remind me."
(Gwen said.)
(Hope groaned and separated the two with her magic.)
Hope: "Will you two please stop?"
(she asked politely.)
Hope: "I don't want to hear you argue any more than you guys want to argue."
Ben: "Fine."
(Ben said.)
Jen: "Fine."
(Jen said as they both turned their backs to each other with a scoff.)
(The group continued and made their way to the back of the shack and saw Hector tied to the roof.)
Max: "I have a feeling that we're too late."
(Max said.)
Hector: "I warned you not to get in the booth."
(Hector said.)
Allison: "Where's Hex?"
(Allison asked.)
Hector: "You just missed him. I had no choice. He forced me to tell him."
Jen: "Tell him what?"
(Jen asked.)
(Meanwhile, Hex was spying on them in the shed of the farm and his eyes gazed over to a tractor parked in the garage.)
(Hex then glared and used his magic to cause the tractor to mutate into a Transformer-like creature that burst out of the garage and growled at our heroes.)
Max: "Move or get turned to pulp!"
(Max shouted and they all took off in different directions as Scarlett and Korra zoomed in overhead and dropped down in front of the beast.)
(Scarlett bared her sword while and pointed it to the monster as it brought down its wheel mace and opened its mouth, revealing its flaming engine.)
Jen: "Going hewo- I mean hero!"
(Jen shouted as she and Ben slammed down the Omnitrixes, transforming into younger versions of Wildmutt and Wildcat.)
Allison: "Oh great. Wildpup and Wildkitten."
(Allison said as Wildkitten mewled up to her and nuzzled her leg.)
Becky: "Aw, she's so adorable!"
(Becky said before snapping out of it.)
(Wildpup and Wildkitten then growled and ran towards the mechanical monstrosity and flipped over and hissed and growled at it as Scarlett and Hope blasted up magical spells at is as the battle ensued.)
(Korra then used her waterbending to cut the rope that Hector was attached to and caught him before setting him down.)
Becky: "What does Hex want?"
(Becky asked.)
Hector: "He's after the water. You see, I have been a protector of the Fountain of Youth."
(Hector said.)
Scarlett: "So, the legends of the Fountain are true."
(Scarlett said as she leaped out of the way of the mace.)
Korra: "Indeed."
(Wildpup and Wildkitten leaped out of the way as Korra fired two flamethrowers from her hands towards the machine as Wildpup whimpered.)
(Hope smirked as she caught the two aliens and lifted them up to the back of the tractor.)
(The two then clawed and bit off massive pieces of the machine before leaping off as Korra glared and sent out a whirlwind, blowing the machine onto its back.)
Max: "Way to go, guys!"
(Max said.)
Becky: "Good boy."
(Becky said as Wildpup yipped and licked her.)
Becky: "Ew! Alien slobber!"
Scarlett: "We must gather and find the Fountain."
(Scarlett said as she looked towards Hector.)
Scarlett: "As the protector, you know where it is. Show us."
Gwen: "We're trustworthy."
(Gwen said.)
Hector: "Very well. Follow me."
(Hector said as he led the way with the others following.)
(Meanwhile, Hex was levitating through the forest and found himself in a bog.)
Hex: "They're going to be going after me. Let's slow them down a bit. Awakatelo Foligeto!"
(He separated his glowing hands and sent out a mist before flying away, the trees coming to life around him.)
[To Be Continued...]