Chapter 183: Chapter 183: The Party Crasher
(Saturday night, the adults were sitting around a table, proposing a toast to the happy couple while Jen was by the stage with her guitar in hand and Ben sitting next to her as she directed the band towards her with a smile.)
(She then played her guitar as she motioned to the violinist and the drummer to play on her cues as Ben followed her cues on her own guitar.)
Jen: "The place that I was trying to reach, Was you, right here in front of me."
(Jen sang as she motioned to Ben.)
Jen: "You harmonize with me on the chorus, Ben."
Ben: "Okay."
(Ben said as he gently sang after her words.)
Jen: "And I wouldn't change a thing, I'd walk right back through the rain."
(Jen sang with Ben backing up.)
Jen: "Great. Just keep following my cues and we're going to kill it."
(Meanwhile, Gwen, Becky and Allison saw as Camille's little cousin Lucy Mann was smiling by them.)
Lucy: "I'm so excited about being the flower girl! Do you know we get to dance in front of everyone? Isn't that great?"
Allison: "Yeah, great."
(Allison said as she rolled her eyes and scoffed.)
(Lucy skipped away as Ben looked to her and gulped nervously.)
Ben: "Please tell me you'll teach me to dance by tomorrow's reception!"
Jen: "Definitely. A promise is a promise, bro."
(Ben smiled as they hugged before getting back to work.)
(The chef from before glanced over to Joel and Camille who smiled and blushed at each other.)
(He angrily flipped the table over and faced everyone in the room.)
???: "Camille!"
(he shouted.)
???: "I am not letting you marry any filthy human without a fight!"
(The chef then degenerated into solid mud and grew giant, forming the same monster from the previous night.)
(Camille gasped in horror.)
Camille: "It's my ex-boyfriend! How did he find out about the wedding?!"
(The ex-boyfriend shouted out and swatted the tables in the area away and shouted out towards Joel.)
Ben: "That's the thing that attacked us last night!"
(Ben shouted as he and Jen nodded to each other while Gwen, Becky and Allison nodded.)
(They all ducked under a table and activated their watches, suiting up.)
Jen: "It's Hero time!"
(Jen shouted as she and Ben slammed down the Omnitrix cores.)
(Ben's Omnitrix sank into his wrist and it became encased in green diamond before it covered his other arm and his head before it closed around his eye and it became fully golden.)
(Four spike-like diamonds, the lower pair smaller than the upper pair, grew out of his back and his clothes morphed into a bodysuit, black on one side, white on the other.)
(The watch symbol appeared on his upper left bicep and he struck a pose as the transformation ended.)
(Jen's Omnitrix sank into her wrist before brown fur spread up her hands and then spread all over her body.)
(Her eyes turned yellow with green sclera and her hair hardened itself into quills before it grew out into several spikes and grew down her back.)
(Her front teeth grew larger and her hands and feet grew claws and pads before she spun around like a ball before the transformation ended.)
(The ex-boyfriend continued his rampage through the reception area and Gordon and Betty Jean stood up.)
Gordon: "Without our gear, we're sitting ducks!"
(The ex-boyfriend then shot his arm out and grabbed Joel and reeled him up to his face.)
The ex-boyfriend: "If I can't have Camille, then neither can you, you meat puppet!"
(Suddenly, a large crystal and a few quills came soaring out of the blue and sliced his arm off.)
Needle Mouse: "Back off, slimeball!"
(Needle Mouse shouted as Lucky Girl, Huntress and Matter girl stood beside her and Diamondhead.)
Huntress: "Prepare to face the Omni-Team!"
(Huntress shouted.)
the ex-boyfriend: "A Petrosapien and a Hedgesapien?"
(the ex-boyfriend asked.)
the ex-boyfriend: "What are you doing here."
Diamondhead: "Um..."
(Diamondhead began.)
Diamondhead: "Friends of the groom?"
the ex-boyfriend: "Then you're no friends of mine!"
(he shouted as he shot his arm down towards them and they all dodged out of the way as Diamondhead, Needle Mouse and Lcky Girl all shouted out and fired their crystals, quills and fireballs towards him, sending him back, but the crystals and quills merely sunk into his mud form.)
Matter Girl: "Uh-oh."
(Matter Girl said.)
(Soon after, our heroes were swatted around by this monster's powerful form and were sent flying into various sections of the reception area.)
(Huntress and Diamondhead crashed through the wall into the spa area as the ex-boyfriend walked through to them.)
(Huntress took out her spear and prepared herself as Diamondhead prepared his blade arms.)
(But to their shock, they saw that nothing was there and they both paced around nervously.)
(Huntress nervously rapped her fingers around her spear and then felt a presence behind her and she shouted out and pointed her spearhead right behind her with a shout, only to see a woman with a mud mask and cucumber slices on her eyes.)
(She gasped in horror.)
Huntress: "Sorry, ma'am."
(Huntress said.)
Huntress: "I thought you were a butt-ugly alien."
(The woman huffed in anger and tossed her pillow into the young hero's face before walking away.)
Matter Girl: "Well, that could've gone better."
(Matter Girl said as she and the others walked into the hole, crossing her arms.)
(Suddenly, a slimy purple tentacle rose around and wrapped around Needle Mouse's body and yanked her back screaming.)
(Matter Girl gasped and absorbed the linoleum from the floor, morphed her hands into mallets and slammed the Lenopan in the head, causing him to let go of Needle Mouse and Diamondhead ran in and tackled him into the hot tub.)
(The pair of aliens struggled for a bit before the ex-boyfriend, being literally made of mud, began to dissolve in the water.)
(The girls watched in disgust as they saw the water turn purple as Diamondhead rose from the muddy water, dripping with mud as the girls looked on.)
Diamondhead: "Ew!"
Needle Mouse: "Gross, gross, gross!"
(Needle Mouse agreed.)
Max: "It was a dirty job, guys."
(Max said as he walked into the area.)
Max: "But somebody had to do it."
(They looked down to see the ex-boyfriend's eyes glowing in the water before fading out.)
Camille: "We are not cancelling my wedding!"
(Camille said as she put her foot down as the group met outside of the chapel.)
Gordon: "Civilians will be at the wedding tomorrow!"
(Gordon protested.)
Gordon: "What if there's another alien attack?"
Camille: "Then there's another alien attack."
(Camille said.)
Camille: "We've planned too far."
Ben: "Well, maybe you can just postpone the wedding until, say, the end of the summer? That should give you plenty of time to find a new ring bearer."
(Ben begged before Jen nudged him in the chest, shutting him up.)
Betty Jean: "If you're going to continue on with the wedding, at least let us bring our Plumber gear."
(Betty Jean begged.)
Joel: "No. No weapons."
(Joel said.)
Gordon: "Fine."
(Gordon said.)
Camille: "More bad news."
(Camille said.)
Camille: "After my ex-boyfriend attacked, my bridesmaids quit. How am I going to find more by tomorrow?"
(This perked up Gwen and Becky and they grabbed Allison and whispered to each other very quietly before nodding in confirmation.)
(They walked up to Camille.)
Allison: "Camille, me, Gwen and Becky would be honored to be your replacement bridesmaids."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "We already have our dresses ready and are familiar with our duties."
Camille: "The wedding's tomorrow, so I guess I don't have much of a choice."
(Camille said.)
Camille: "You're in."
Gwen and Becky: "Yay!"
(Gwen and Becky said as they hugged and Becky spun her sister around in the air.)
Gwen: "This is so much better than being the flower girl!"
(Gwen cheered.)
Mrs. Mann: "For now, everyone just relax."
(Mrs. Mann said.)
Mrs. Mann: "It's all over now."
Max: "...I wish I could believe that."
(Max said to himself.)
(In the Rust Bucket, Ben and Jen were playing on their guitars and Jen stopped.)
Jen: "Okay, I think you got it. Now, to hold up my end of the bargain."
Ben: "Are you sure?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "You're not just going to make me look like some dancing doofus?"
Jen: "Bro, you don't need my help to dance like a doofus. Now give me your hands."
(Ben sighed and took his sister's hands and she smiled.)
Jen: "The most important thing is to not step on her toes."
Ben: "Oh, this is so awkward."
Jen: "Yeah, I know."
(Jen sighed.)
Jen: "Now, I'll lead, you follow. 1, 2. 1, 2. Forward, back, forward, back."
(Ben followed his sister's movements and she at him as they moved along the floor.)
Ben: "Hey, I'm dancing!"
Jen: "I told you you could trust me."
Max: "Aw, isn't that sweet?"
Ben and Jen: "Grandpa?!"
(the twins gasped as they saw their grandfather smiling at the doorway.)
(Jen hurriedly shoved her brother into the bed and then crossed her arms with a humph.)
Jen: "I meant to do that."
(Jen said.)
(The next morning, the wedding was in full swing as the doves flew by and the swans swam on the lake.)
(Everyone had changed into their tuxedos and dresses to celebrate this momentous occasion.)
(The piano in the corner played Here Comes the Bride as Mr. Mann led his daughter down where the rabbi and Joel were waiting with a smile as Lucy walked down the carpet leaving flowers along the way while Gwen, Becky and Allison stood on the right side of the gazebo as Allison tugged at her off-the-shoulder black dress and Becky and Gwen looked on in their red and blue dresses respectively.)
Becky: "Never been a maid of honor before?"
(Becky asked.)
Allison: "Maid of honor? I've never participated in a wedding before, let alone be a made of honor."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "I just went to my mom's wedding when she remarried my stepfather."
Gwen: "You would have a wedding story, wouldn't you?"
(Gwen asked her.)
(When Camille reached Joel, they both took each other's hands and smiled lovingly into each other's eyes as Mr. Mann took his seat.)
(Ben stood by his cousin, carrying a pillow with the wedding rings on it and tugged uncomfortably at his tux as Jen and Max smiled and gave a thumbs' up to him.)
Max: "I am so proud."
(Max said.)
Max: "Just look at that tux."
the priest: "Dearly beloved."
(the priest began.)
the priest: "We are gathered here today to witness the union between Joel Tennyson and Camille Mann. This young couple are an inspiration. They remind us that love conquers all. If anyone has a reason why these two should not wed, speak now or forever hold your peace-"
(As the priest said that, he was suddenly nailed in the face by a mud ball.)
(Everyone gasped as they saw Mr. and Mrs. Mann standing up with their arms morphed into muddy tentacles.)
Mr. Mann: "Yeah, we have something to say."
(Mr. Mann said.)
(Their bodyguard stood up as well and sent out a muddy blast towards Gordon and Betty Jean, trapping in the mud.)
(The guests, priest and groomsmen all ran away screaming as our heroes, Joel and Camille all stood by and glared at the Lenopans as they stood before them.)
Mr. Mann: "This wedding, and every human here, are about to be cancelled!"
(Mr. Mann said.)
Camille: "Mom, Dad, what are you doing?!"
(Camille shouted.)
Mr. Mann: "Putting an end to this nonsense once and for all!"
(Mr. Mann said.)
Jen: "Oh, my God."
(Jen said as she glared.)
Jen: "It was her mom and dad behind the dirty tricks all along!"
Allison: "I knew it!"
(Allison shouted.)
Betty Jean: "What did I tell you guys? Once a sludge, always a sludge!"
(Betty Jean glared.)
Max: "They must have set up the ex-boyfriend to take the fall and keep suspicion off of themselves."
(Max said as the team all got ready to fight.)
Mr. Mann: "There will be no wedding and no truce!"
(Mr. Mann shouted as he stretched his muddy arm out, expanded it and grabbed Joel and held him in the air with a smirk on his face.)
Joel: "But you said you liked me!"
(Joel said.)
Mr. Mann: "We lied."
(Mr. Mann slyly smiled.)
(Camille ran up to her father and got onto her knees to beg him to stop.)
Camille: "Stop it! No!"
Mrs. Mann: "Stay out of this, Camille! This is for your own good!"
(Mrs. Mann shouted as she swatted her daughter aside to the ground.)
Gwen: "That does it."
(Gwen said as the team assembled and showed their watches with a glare as they all glared and suited up into their hero suits.)
Huntress: "It's hero time!"
(Huntress said as she took out her spear and Omni-Green and Omni-Pink nodded to each other.)
(Mr. Mann smirked as he held Joel in his grasp until a combo of an energy blast and fire blast flew outwards and blasted into the Manns, causing Mr. Mann to drop Joel.)
Lucky Girl: "Oh yeah!"
(Lucky Girl said as she blew the smoke from her hand.)
Lucky Girl: "I'm all fired up!"
(Camille ran up to her fiancee and looked at the heroes as they smiled to her.)
(Then, the smoke cleared, revealing Mr. and Mrs. Mann standing there, parts of their bodies blown away from the blast.)
Mrs. Mann: "More wedding crashers! Why did we even bother with invitations?"
(Mrs. Mann asked.)
(The two then degenerated their bodies and reformed themselves into their true Lenopan forms, revealing two hulking monsters made entirely out of mud, with Mrs. Mann having four tendrils growing from her face and bigger glowing purple eyes than her husband.)
Omni Twins: "Oh, sludge."
(the Omni Twins said as they were blasted back by a mud ball to the face, slamming them into the gazebo.)
(However, they noticed the Omnitrixes beep and start to glow yellow as the mud slid off of them, indicating a new form ready for use.)
Omni-Green: "Okay, Sludgepuppies."
(Omni-Green said.)
Omni-Pink: "Let's fight mud with mud."
(Omni-Pink agreed as the two nodded and slammed down the cores.)
(The screen split as the twins bodies dissolved into mud and splatted on the ground before they cycloned around and reformed, revealing two humanoid Lenopan forms that resembled their human forms with a brief outline of their clothing in a purple sludge-like form and glowing pink and green eyes and four tendrils growing from Jen's face and a slight growth from the top and back of their heads, resembling hair.)
(The two struck a pose as the transformations ended.)
Ben: "Make way for Sludgeshifter, freaks!"
(Ben shouted as Jen nodded to him.)
(Mr. Mann loomed over them and swatted the two back into the lake before slithering off to them and shouting out.)
Jen: "Let's do this, bro!"
(Jen said as she leaped up and helped her brother up.)
[To Be Continued...]