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Chapter 15: Bellwood Brawl

The next day, everyone was at After Academy, awaiting Megumi’s rift. As they waited, Megumi was thinking about a rousing speech when someone grabbed her arm. She gasped and whirled to see Kaede and Kaitlyn’s concerned faces. “You ARE gonna remember your team, right Okaa-san?” asked Kaede.

“…Your father told you,” said Megumi.

“Mama, that was reckless!” snapped Kaitlyn.

“The risk was well calculated!” Megumi snapped her arm out of Kaede’s grasp.

“Sorry to say, but you were terrible at math at that point,” remarked Kaede.

“You said it was for our freedom, well it would have been worthless without you,” said Kaitlyn. “I understand the sentiment and I’m glad you want to keep us safe, but you have friends that want to keep you safe as well. At least take someone with you if you’re planning on doing that again, please. Promise us.” Megumi’s eyes misted.

“…All right, girls. I promise.” She hugged her daughters. The embrace ended in short order. “Now, Kaede, we got work to do.” The rift then opened. “Minna! Ikuze!” called Megumi. Her teammates then gathered. “I’ve missed saying this! CHARGE!” The team charged straight into the rift, giving off various battle cries.


The rift deposited the team in a 21st century American town. Optimus, Glyph, and Sky Runner connected to the internet and got the location. “We’re somewhere in the American Southwest,” remarked Glyph, “but that doesn’t explain the coastal city temperatures around here.”

“Looks like electric cars are just beginning to take off here, but gasoline engines are still the norm,” reported Sky Runner. “We should scan earth vehicles, Daddy.”

“Not a good idea at this time,” said Megumi. “We’d lose precious time in finding vehicles to match your frames. We need to move quickly. Besides, it wouldn’t be the first time aliens came here, if I remember the universe’s identifier string right.”

“Really?” asked Optimus.

“Check the name of the area.” Optimus’ optics flickered, then he looked it up. His optics then widened.

“Bellwood?!” he asked. Megumi grinned. “You mean we’re-?!”

“LOOK OUT!” cried a woman as she ran, bringing other townsfolk with her.

“INCOMING!” warned Sora as he pointed to the sky. A big yellow ball was hurtling towards them. Megumi and her team dove out of the way as the ball hit the pavement hard, making a small crater. The ball bounced a bit before it unfolded into a broad-shouldered creature with a face set between his shoulders, an armored backside, and claws on his hands and feet. He had a black circle on his chest with a green hourglass symbol in the middle. The creature picked himself up and dusted himself off.

“You try and enjoy a Mr. Smoothie and then an alien warlord shows up!” he grunted. He then glared at the symbol on his chest. “And you’re stuck with a watch that has a mind of his own! Omnitrix, I was trying to disable his suit! I really wanted Gray Matter!”

“BEN!” called Megumi. The creature looked up and saw Megumi and her team.

“Megumi!” he called back. “Long time no see! How’re you doing?”

“Doing fine! Who are you fighting?”

“TENNYSON!” roared a voice. The owner of the voice then landed, making a crater on impact. It was a burly humanoid with green skin, a bald head, and a tentacle beard. He was dressed in alien armor and his red eyes were blazing with hatred.

“Never mind, I can guess,” said Megumi.

“Villy, we really gotta do this?” complained the round creature, Ben Tennyson as Cannonbolt. “It’s dull now. You show up and say you’re gonna kill me and take the Omnitrix, I fight you, I win, you get thrown in prison, you break out, rinse and repeat!”

“This time will be different, Tennyson!” snarled the alien warlord, Vilgax.

“Mr. Vilgax, you ever heard of the definition of insanity?” asked Optimus. Vilgax got a good look at the group, then focused on the three Autobots.

“More Transformers?” he rumbled. He then grinned. “Good! One of my partners will be eager to see you!”

“Well, that’s disconcerting,” muttered Optimus.

“Want some help, Mr. Ben?” asked Arsha.

“Sure!” replied Cannonbolt. “What’s your name?”

“I’m Arsha Royana, Queen of the Mid-realm.”

“Nice to meet you! Now, let’s kick some squid butt!” Cannonbolt folded into his ball form and launched himself at Vilgax. Vilgax caught him, but Megumi and her fellow Riders fastened their belts on.

“Vortex Driver!”

“Crysta Driver!” Charline and Amelia each pulled out a phone and keyed in a code. The phones spoke the codes aloud.

“Zero! Zero! Zero! Orange!”

“Zero! Zero! Zero! Green!”

“Henshin!” the Riders announced. Charline’s change consisted of orange light surrounding her before black Roman Soldier armor materialized around her. Amelia’s was the same, but the light surrounding her was green instead of orange.

“And the Vortex Riders arrive! Good!” chuckled Vilgax as he shoved Cannonbolt aside. “Another associate of mine would like to meet you again! One I’m sure you’re familiar with! Wish to speak your catchphrases?”

“We’ll humor you this once, Vilgax!” hissed Royal. “Kamen Rider Royal! Evil will ultimately bow to me!”

“Kamen Rider Seeker!” called Xiomara. “It’s not gold I seek, but your end!”

“Kamen Rider Shade,” said Kaede. “You will be blinded by shadows.”

“Kamen Rider Herald O!” called Charline.

“Kamen Rider Herald G!” announced Amelia.

“We bring news of your defeat!” they said together.

“Get him!” called Royal. Everyone charged at Vilgax. He fired lasers from his eyes, but it did no good. Everyone got out of the way. Optimus then grabbed him and threw him in the air. Arsha summoned her armor and leapt into the air before firing a magic blast at his back, sending him down. Cannonbolt then slapped the Omnitrix symbol, and he changed into a different creature. This time, he was a twelve-foot-tall, humanoid, dinosaur-like creature with brown scales and a tail.

“HUMUNGOUSAUR!” he shouted. He then grew and expanded to nearly three times his original size and gained stegosaur plates along his back, then he punched Vilgax into the pavement a few times. When he stopped, Vilgax groaned in defeat. “And that, as they say, is that,” rumbled Humungousaur.

“Still calling out your alien names, huh Ben?” muttered Royal.

“Actually, that’s the result of the Omnitrix,” replied Humungousaur. Speaking of which, the Omnitrix symbol flashed red. “That’s what I call timing!” He then shrunk down into a young man with brown hair and green eyes. He wore a square-faced wristwatch on his left arm and his face had his usual cocky smirk. “Back to Incarcecon with you, Squidhead.” He slapped a pair of handcuffs on Vilgax’s wrists. Vilgax then chuckled. “…Okay, that’s always a bad sign!”

“It won’t happen now,” remarked Vilgax, “but my allies will come for you soon! You’ll see!” The cuffs then activated a teleporter and took Vilgax away. Ben then used the Omnitrix to call his friends in the Plumbers.

“Plumber HQ, Vilgax mentioned something about a future breakout,” he warned. “Better conduct all sorts of security sweeps.”

“This is Rook, message received, and I am preparing security sweeps,” replied a man on the other end of the call. “That means you will be searched at times.”

“Good idea, Rook. Can’t risk bringing in anything Vilgax could use. I’ll be bringing in some old friends from other universes.”

“Understood.” The call then ended. Ben then turned to Megumi’s group with his usual grin.

“Enough about that, let’s get some Mr. Smoothies!”


Unbeknownst to the team, they were being watched. A strange, purple sports car was idling in an alleyway. The driver, shrouded in the shadows of the cockpit, switched a radio on. “My friends, Vilgax is currently in Plumber HQ.” he said in a rather young-sounding voice.

“Good,” replied a man on the other end. “Then the plan is working. The breakout will keep our enemies out of our hair long enough for us to snatch and grab Life! Make your way to Plumber HQ at once!”

“I’d advise you to remember that we’re partners,” warned the driver, “not master and flunky.” He hung up and drove off.


Khan saw the whole thing. He grimaced as he saw the car drive off. “Oh dear,” he muttered. “Maybe I shouldn’t have sent them here. …Nah, it’ll still work out in the long run.”

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