14 CH 13: Za Krakken (E3)

(A/N: It's my birthday today!)

"I am Jonah Melville, the founder of Friends of Fish." And on the boat, a man spoke up with a friendly smile :"We've closed this section of the lake for an environmental study. You'll have to turn your boat around."

"*Sniff sniff* Smell that?" Alistair mumbled to Ben and Fisk, eyes narrowing in suspicion :"It's the bull crap. And I don't even need my heightened sense of smell to smell that."

Drew raised an eyebrow :"You've closed it off? With what permit?" And the man took out a piece of paper. Seeing the necessary words on the paper, she mumbled to herself :"With that permit apparently."

"But-" Doc was about to speak up, but Max interrupted :"Doc, as much as I don't like to say this, I don't think we should push this when they have a legal permit. We don't want things to get ugly when it can be avoided."

"I-" Doc wanted to argue, but when Max glanced at the children meaningfully, he sighed in defeat :"Huuuh, I suppose. Alright, let's turn back for now." While he returned to the cockpit, Ben looked reluctant :"But what about the Krakken?!"

"The Krakken?" Jonah laughed with his coworker beside him :"Not that old fish story. Look, I'm a marine biologist, and anybody who tells you they've seen a monster in this lake is casting without a hook." And returned to their own boat's cockpit.

"That's what everybody says." Drew scoffed :"It's at times like this where I wish our secret work wasn't so secret." Alistair beside her nodded :"Right? Makes you want to rub the truth in their faces." 'I wanna rub a certain something on a certain somebody's face.'

"So what now?" Gwen asked :"Do we just leave the monster to some environmentalists who don't even know what's in the lake?"

"No, we can't do that." Doc shook his head :"Not only because these people are way too suspicious, but also because dealing with cryptids is our family's job. No other group or such can deal with them."

"What should we do then?" Alistair asked, and Drew answered :"First things first, we must do a little more research on these people and see if they're telling the truth. But even if they are, we can't just let the Krakken remain here, in a tourist spot. You've seen how many people visit here. And with Ben saying it just randomly attacked him, imagine what would happen if it suddenly attacked in broad daylight!"

Suddenly, Alistair felt the same tingling sensation in the back of his head. Looking back, he saw a giant fin sticking out of the surface of the water. Causing him to sigh :"You just had to jinx it, huh?"

"The sonar! We found something!" The sonar began to react, and Ben pointed at what was following them :"Or something found us. Look!" Its fin disappeared as it dived deeper. And below them, they saw the shadow of the massive beast.

As it passed them, the boat began to shake. "Hold on!" Drew shouted and everyone held onto something or someone. Worried about the boy beside her, she quickly hugged him so he wouldn't go flying away from the boat.

'O.M.G...' Alistair, with his head buried in Drew's big breasts, basically went limp. The softness he experienced in his face and around his head was something he could have only expected from a milf built like a Pixar mom. He didn't even give a damn about the lack of oxygen. When the boat stabilized and she let go of him, he had the face of bliss that only a man who had visited heaven and paradise would have.

"Is everybody alright?!" She asked hurriedly, turning to see that Max had guarded Zak and Gwen while Fisk had kept Ben on the boat. "Yeah, we are!" Gwen said, but Ben looked at where the Krakken was heading :"But not them for long!"

"It's heading for the docks!" Doc shouted, blowing the horn of the boat to signal the danger. But unfortunately, the people just gawked at what was approaching. And they paid the price by the giant beast with two giant tentacles coming from its mouth attacking them. As it destroyed the docks, the people fell into the water. Prey ready to be hunted.

"Damn it! Zak?!" Drew looked at her son, who had already taken out his equipment. A claw of a problem huge bird, and pointed it at the giant marine beast. As his eyes glowed orange, the talons of the claw spread and glowed the same color.

But he frowned after a moment, shaking his head in panic :"It- it doesn't work! That cryptid is way too huge and powerful for me to control!" Gwen raised an eyebrow at him :"Control?" Thankfully, he wasn't immature enough to boast now :"I'll tell you later, alright?! This really isn't the time for explanations!"

"And I couldn't agree more! Hey, geniuses!" She shouted at Alistair and Ben, who turned to Max :"Grandpa!" Conflicted, the veteran gave up. Sighing, he turned to the confused couple seriously :"Can you keep a secret?"

They looked at each other, before Drew raised an eyebrow :"You're asking that from the Secret Saturdays?" He nodded at the two, before nodding at the boys seriously :"Go! And be careful!"

Nodding with smirks, Ben activated his watch, unable to wait any longer to show off to his first crush :"Ripjaws to the rescue!" And in the confused eyes of the Saturdays, slammed the watch down. But when the intense light faded, instead of the marine alien, the speedy XLR8 was in his place. Rolling his eyes hard, Alistair's blood pressure rose.

"Hey, I said Ripjaws, not XLR8! Stupid watch." He cursed the alien device, while the strangers stared at him with wide eyes. Alistair, unable to hold it back anymore, barked at last while pointing at Ben accusingly :"And that's why I tell you to not slam that thing, you idiot! Huuuh, oh, whatever!"

Activating his own watch, he pushed it down to transform. And when the intense red light vanished, he stood there as the red alien resembling a manta ray :"MantAstral!" Confusing XLR8 :"Don't you think we need some muscle to take down that thing?"

"Can't, this place is too crowded for me to start a battle of the titans." MantAstral shook his head :"And my only flying giant is Flightmare, who we both know is way too gigantic. Other than that, none of them can fight in the water. Alright, here's the plan. I'll distract the Krakken, you quickly rescue the people!"

"Got it!" XLR8 said before running off, and MantAstral flapped his wings to take to the sky at a speed rivaling XLR8's. "Uhh... Max...?" Drew, along with her entire family, looked at Max in shock and confusion. The veteran smiled awkwardly :"Yeah... ahahaha... let's leave the questions for later, alright?"

Flying towards the beast, MantAstral's eyes glowed before two green lasers were shot at her head, causing her to scream in pain :"Hey, fugly! How about you mess with someone your own size?!"

"[Unidentified DNA detected, proceeding to scanning. New cryptid DNA unlocked: Krakken.]"

"Graaar!!" She roared angrily, but MantAstral shot another laser beam from his eyes and tail at her throat, causing her to gag and roar in pain, and for him to snicker :"Yeah, don't expect me to not do anything when you shout at me!"

Below, while the Krakken's attention was on MantAstral, XLR8 blitzed around on the water. Saving anybody who had fallen in the lake, and putting them on dry land.

"Graaar!" With a roar, the Krakken's huge testicles moved to strike him in the air. "Ew, keep your fetish away from me." He said in disgust, maneuvering in the air to dodge her attacks and shoot laser beams at every chance.

Of course, he held back. He only wanted to distract her, not kill or harm her. Especially not when he knew why she was angry. If not, he could have simply shot a concentrated laser beam through her eye to fry her brain. See, he wasn't so evil.

But suddenly, the Krakken looked away and roared at a boat. "Oh, no no no no no, we're still playing, missy!" MantAstral was about to stop her again, but when he caught sight of her target, he smirked instead :"On second thought, go wild, baby."

"Alistair, what are you doing?!" XLR8 shouted, before quickly sprinting to help the boat that the Krakken latched onto. 'Your mom.' The space manta ray pursed his lips as XLR8 created a water tornado to scare off the Krakken.

Which, surprisingly, worked for a moment. Before it came back to take a crate. "No, you don't!" Suddenly, Jonah grabbed on the box, and didn't let go even when he was being dragged on the floor.

"Huff, I'll do it so I won't look suspicious." MantAstral mumbled, before swooping in and shooting a more powerful laser beam at the Krakken, causing it to roar in pain before running away. Or swimming away, in this case.

"Thanks for the hand." Jonah thanked XLR8, before turning to MantAstral :"And the eyes." The speedster turned to him suspiciously :"What's so important in that crate that you'd risk your life for it?"

"Um, our lunch." He could have at least tried to make a better excuse. XLR8 narrowed his eyes :"You almost got munched for a few sandwiches?" As did MantAstral :"Must be some top cuisine crap made by a five star chef or something."

Out of nowhere, a tentacle sprung out of the water, grabbed onto the crate and took it before the others could react. 'Oh, yeah, she manages to get her children back! I had forgotten about that. Well, no guilt trips for me then!'

*Beep boop*

XLR8's Omnitrix symbol began to flash red, signaling his timeout was approaching. "Uh oh, sorry. Gotta run!" He quickly started running in the opposite direction of the Krakken. Sighing, MantAstral took to the sky. Thanks to not slamming and abusing his watch, his timeout wasn't random like Ben's.

"Almost... there..." XLR8 mumbled hurriedly, sprinting towards the Saturday boat :"I think I'm- yaaah" But he timed out. Just as Ben was about to hit the water, and bounce on it like a small rock thanks to his previous speed, MantAstral caught him midair :"Gotcha!"

"Alistair!" Ben smiled at the smirking alien :"Not Alistair! MantAstral!" Causing the boy to roll his eyes, still smiling :"Yeah, yeah, whatever! Thanks for the save, man!" Causing MantAstral to chuckle :"Anytime, bud." As he patted him with his tail.

When they reached the boat, MantAstral put Ben down, before landing himself. Smirking at the shocked faces of the Saturday family, his hand gently slapped the Nemetrix symbol on his chest. Causing a yellow light to flash, before he returned to normal.

"Whoa, how'd you do that?!" Ben grew shocked. Alistair shrugged, smiling :"A cool trick I learned recently. Transforms me back, and I can use the remaining energy to transform again since I didn't timeout because of the energy depleting. Pretty cool, right?"

"Whoaaa, so I can do that too?!" Be asked excitedly, causing him to hum :"We'll have to see if your watch has that function or not. I figured mine out while I was studying it with Brainstacean. So maybe yours has it too. If it does, it will be very useful considering how much you get the wrong aliens."

"Yes!" Ben cheered, while Alistair hummed to himself thoughtfully :'You know, it had completely slipped my mind since it was used only once or twice, but now that I think about it, wasn't there a Master Control function for the Omnitrix?

Unlimited transformation and transformation with just a thought to any alien or between aliens? If I remember correctly, didn't original future Ben's son unlock it with Grey Matter? Hmm... I don't remember completely since I watched that episode only once and so many years ago.'

With a light bulb lighting up over his head, he smirked to himself :'If a little twerp like that could do it, why wouldn't I be able to? Hahahahaha, the disrespect is going to be advanced to even higher levels.'