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Chapter 16 - Chapter 16: The Attack On Mercenaries

(Meanwhile, Six-Six and the Predator detected the surge of energy on the radar on their gauntlets and then started advancing towards Slatterville.)

(Gwen walked into the mines with a suspicious look as she called out to them.)

Gwen: "Calling all dweebs!"

(she called out as she stared.)

Gwen: "Guys?"

(That was when a dark presence came out and phased through her as she saw a dark shadowy silhouette that started reforming into the power into its default shape as Ben smirked at her.)

Ben: "What's the matter, Gwen?"

(he asked in a faint whispering voice.)

Ben: "You look like you've seen a ghost... freak!"

(He then started laughing to himself.)

(Ben's ghost alien form, Ghostfreak, is a phantom/ghost-like alien with a gaseous appearance and claw like hands.)

(He has grey skin with black lines running all over him.)

(The watch symbol peeked out of his skin on his lower left chest and he has a purple eye.)

Gwen: "Get over yourself, doofus. You don't scare me."

(Gwen said.)

Jen: "I told him it was wrong."

(Jen said as she was leaning against a crate with a sigh as they then felt a tremor in the ground as she gasped.)

Jen: "You don't suppose there's some mine workers still working here?"

(Then, they saw a faint shape tunneling towards them as Ghostfreak grabbed the girls and flew them away as Kraab came from out of the ground and revealed his head to them as the Tennysons looked very surprised by his appearance.)

Gwen: "Okay, him, I'm scared of."

(Gwen said, shaking.)

Ghostfreak: "No problem. I'll handle this guy."

(Ghostfreak said as he flew over and glanced around, his eye traveling all across the tears in his skin as he glanced the crab over.)

Ghostfreakc "Man, you put the 'ugh' in ugly."

Kraab: "Hand over the Omnitrixes and I promise that you won't sufffer... much."

(Kraab ordered as he clutched his pincer open and shut.)

Ghostfreak: "Dream on, shell-boy."

(Ghostfreak said as his eye traveled to the back of his skin and looked at the girls.)

Ghostfreak: "What's he talking about."

Jen: "Duh! Why else would an alien lifeform track us down, bro?!"

(Jen shouted.)

Gwen: "He wants the watches, Einstein!"

(Gwen agreed.)

Ghostfreak: "You don't have to get snotty about it, Ms. Know-It-All."

(he then glanced back at the crab.)

Jen: "Sorry, crabby. But we've kind of... bonded with the watches."

(Jen said.)

Kraab: "Not for long."

(Kraab said.)

Ghostfreak: "You have no idea who you're messing with."

(Ghostfreak said as Jen dialed the watch in and slammed down the core transforming into Needle Mouse with a glare as she drew her right paw back at the ready.)

Kraab: "Funny."

(Kraab said.)

Kraab: "I was just about to tell you the same thing."

(Suddenly, the Predator burst through the doors and snarled and glared at the three as he aimed his blades.)

Ghostfreak: "Okay."

(Ghostfreak said.)

Ghostfreak: "Do you know this one?Now you see me, now you don't."

(That was when he turned invisible, leaving behind a very freaked-out looking Gwen and a Needle Mouse who was standing her guard.)

(Needle Mouse ran in and tossed her quills at the Predator, which he swatted aside with his blades and fired his blasters at her, which she spun away from using her spin dash move before she slammed into him and sent him sprawling on the floor before he stabilized himself with his blades and glared.)

(Gwen chuckled nervously and ran away as Needle Mouse curled up into a ball and spin-dashed into him as she banged around the crates like a pinball and kept slamming into Kraab, causing some damage from her quills as she then unfurled and landed on top of a crate as she smiled.)

Needle Mouse: "I never did like shellfish."

(she said to herself.)

(The Preadator recovered and glanced around as his thermal visors on his helmet shifted to his infrared vision as he glanced around to search for Ghostfreak's heat signature in order to detect him as Ghostfreak popped up behind him and attempted to phase through him before Kraab popped up behind him, surprising him.)

Kraab: "You're as arrogant as you are dimwitted."

(Kraab stated before he turned his body around again and fired a strange goo at Ghostfreak, deactivating his invisibility.)

(He then glanced around as he tried to turn invisible again, which didn't work as he looked around in a panic.)

Ghostfreak: "What happened?"

Kraab: "Your protoplasm is now solidified."

(the crab explained.)

Kraab: "making it easier to do this!"

(He then punched Ghostfreak right in the face (or would have if he had a discernible face), sending him flying into the crates behind him and he put his hands on the floor, dazed.)

(Meanwhile, Needle Mouse snuck from the Predator with a glare as she readied some of her quills to fire at him.)

(She then fired them at him as he reached around and grabbed them with his hands and crushed them as she then shouted out and tried to spin-dash into him before he grabbed Ghostfreak by the tail and swung him around at her, sending the both of them flying into the wall as Needle Mouse was stuck by her quills into it as she then gave out an annoyed "hmph" and crossed her arms.)

Ghostfreak: "Who the heck is this guy?"

(Ghostfreak asked.)

Gwen: "Remember when I said I wanted to be there when you got your butt kicked?"

(Gwen asked.)

Gwen: "I take it way back."

(The pair of bounty hunters then started to walk towards them as Ghostfreak and Gwen grabbed Needle Mouse by the arms and pulled back as hard as they could before she popped out of the wall.)

Gwen: "You two are the superheroes! Do something!"

(Gwen shouted as the two got up and started to engage the pair of hunters.)

Needle Mouse: "You two had better keep your claws to yourself, punk!"

(Needle Mouse shouted as she dodged out of the way of his swipes at her.)

Kraab: "You two are getting really annoying!"

(Kraab shouted as he fired a beam at Ghostfreak and the Predator fired a missile at Needle Mouse that managed to score a direct hit and he was sent flying.)

Ghostfreak: "You have no idea."

(Ghostfreak grunted as he stood up and the crab stalked towards him as he struggled to get up.)

(The Predator gave out a few clicks in his native language.)

Kraab: "I couldn't have said it better myself, my friend."

(Kraab said.)

Kraab: "Hardly worth the hunt."

(Gwen looked and saw that the pair had walked right onto a lift and the lever was right by Ghostfreak.)

Gwen: "Hey, Ben! Give him a lift!"

(Gwen shouted as he looked at the lever and then pulled it as the lift rose up towards the ceiling of the mine and crushed the pair bounty hunter right on top of it as Needle Mouse then tossed a quill at the lever box and destroyed it as the Omnitrixes timed out and they transformed back in a flash of red and purple light.)

Jen: "You okay, bro?"

(Jen asked as Ben rubbed his head, still covered in the goo.)

Ben: "Oh, man. That was even weirder than when I normally go Ghostfreak."

(Ben said as they looked at the crushed crab and saw his legs twitching.)

Gwen: "Come on. Let's get out of here before Crab Cake wakes up."

(Gwen said as they both ran out of the mine.)

(Unbeknownst to them, Hoverboard and Maya were watching them leave and Hoverboard's visor gave out a shine in the light as they turned away.)

[To Be Continued...]

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