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Chapter 142 - Chapter 142: The Squires Are Robots!

(Ben and Jen smiled and hugged each other at their handiwork with a smirk as they heard a throat clearing and they saw Allison walk by with a scoff and a glare.)

Allison: "Ben, Jen."

(she said.)

Allison: "Don't think I don't know what you two did back there."

Ben: "Yeah, you got us."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "We did kind of use our powers to mess with the Squires. I hope you're not mad."

Allison: "Oh, I'm mad alright."

(Allison said before smiling.)

Allison: "Mad that you didn't tell me that you were going to do it! I would've done the same thing myself! You two are geniuses!"

Jen: "Really?"

(Jen asked.)

Allison: "Sure."

(Allison said.)

Allison: "Those guys had it coming all season. You're amazing."

(Jen smiled deeply before they heard Cash and J.T. approaching and they ducked.)

Cash: "Hey, hey, hey!"

(Cash said.)

Cash: "Who rules? Let me tell ya! The Cashter! The Cash Man! Sir Cash-a-Lot!"

(Suddenly, they found themselves surrounded by the Squires and they all glared at them.)

Squires: "Come with us!"

Cash: "Out of my face, weirdo!"

(Cash shouted as Ben, Jen and Allison ducked for cover.)

(Cash prepared to whack him across the face with his aluminum bat before it was grabbed by another player, who bent it with only his bare hands, which caused J.T. to faint.)

Cash: "You guys need to lay off those new energy drinks!"

(Cash shouted as he looked into the players' eyes and they started to glow with a golden light.)

Jen: "Oh man!"

(Jen shouted as she and Ben fiddled with their watches.)

Jen: "Why is it that sometimes doing the right thing feels so wrong!?"

Ben: "I don't know, but we can't let them take those two... no matter how much we hate them."

(Ben said as Allison glared.)

Allison: "I need to get dressed for work. I'll be right back with you."

(she said as she ran for the Rust Bucket.)

Cash: "Hungry?"

(Cash said as he reeled his fist back to the unflinching team.)

Cash: "How about a knuckle sandwich!"

(But went Cash went to punch the player in the face, he just caught it and punched Cash with his own fist, knocking him out.)

(The Squires then picked up the two unconscious players and Ben and Jen groaned.)

Jen. "Let's go!"

(she said as they followed them.)

(Little did they know, Simone and Casey were also watching this exchange from their area in the park.)

Simone: "Did the Squires just kidnap J.T. and Cash?"

(Simone asked.)

Casey: "I think so..."

(Casey said.)

Casey: "Something's definitely going on here. But what is it?"

Simone: "I think we'll find out."

(Simone said as the camera transitioned to Caitlyn getting on her motorcycle and driving away, following the Squires as well.)

Gwen: "I knew it!"

(Gwen shouted from inside the Rust Bucket as she, Becky, and Max were inside of the Rust Bucket and Gwen replayed the footage she recorded on her camera.)

Gwen: "Guys, look. This is super, super, super slow motion."

(She then showed her sister and grandfather the camera and showed the frame-by-frame recording showing the ball moving before XLR8 caught it and then later, showed another recording of the ball glowing in a pink aura.)

Max: "XLR8."

(Max realized.)

Max: "And that's the same aura as Jen's powers. The twins should know better! You don't cheat in baseball! They'll be grounded for this."

Gwen: "Um."

(Gwen said.)

Gwen: "Grandpa, normally I would be doing backflips at the thought of Ben busted. But I think he and Jen had good reason for going hero."

Becky: "I agree."

(Becky said.)

Becky: "Something is seriously up with the Squires."

(Max then looked over as Gwen typed in on her laptop.)

Gwen: "Speaking of which, I just found out more about the Squires online. When you cross-reference the Squires roster with the Baseball Hall of Fame database, it turns out that the Squires have the same names as a bunch of old time players. And there's no proof that these kids exist. No report cards, no medical records, no nothing."

(That was when Allison walked inside the Rust Bucket and grabbed her super suit before ducking in the bathroom.)

Allison: "I'll be right back."

(she said.)

Allison: "Me and the twins have some business to take care of."

Gwen: "Business that requires Matter Girl?"

(Gwen asked as her friend stuck her head out of the bathroom door.)

Allison: "Um... yeah."

(she said as she closed the door before she finished changing and ran out of the Rust Bucket.)

(Max then glanced out of the door and noticed the Squires coach was looking at the Secret Service agents talking with each other before he raised an eyebrow.)

Max: "Now, why would a coach be more interested in the Secret Service than his own team before a game?"

Becky: "I don't know."

(Becky said.)

Becky: "But something tells me we're about to find out, right?"

Gwen: "Definitely."

(Gwen said as she crossed her arms.)

(Omni-Green, Omni-Pink and Matter Girl followed the Squires across the hills before following they stumbled upon a warehouse at the train yard and Omni-Pink gulped.)

Omni-Pink: "Warehouse. That's never a good sign."

(They then followed them by ducking past the nearby train cars before they walked inside the warehouse with J.T. and Cash in tow.)

(The door closed automatically and the Omni Twins and Matter Girl ducked inside the warehouse just before it shut on them.)

Matter Girl: "Hide."

(Matter Girl whispered as they then ducked behind a nearby generator.)

(Omni-Green then gulped motioned upwards and they saw robot spider creatures crawling on the ceiling as the Squires placed Cash and J.T. onto two slab tables and strapped them into metal shackles before activating two slabs opposite to them that had two robots with identical clothing.)

Matter Girl: "No way."

(Matter Girl said.)

Omni-Green: "They're robots."

(Omni-Green said.)

Omni-Pink: "That's why they're so good."

(Omni-Pink said.)

Omni-Pink: "It makes perfect sense!"

(The trio then heard the door sliding open again and they ducked inside of the grating next to the generator as the coach came in with a glare as Max, Lucky Girl and Huntress followed him, but they were too late as the door closed.)

Lucky Girl: "Dang it!"

(Lucky Girl said, crossing her arms as she groaned.)

Lucky Girl: "How are we supposed to get in now?"

???: "I can help."

(a voice said as they looked to see Caitlyn get off her motorcycle and take off her sunglasses before she plopped a large purple and yellow-striped hat and she now sported a belt with two pistols and two automatic pouches filled with bullets as well as a rifle slung over her back.)

Lucky Girl: "Let me guess."

(Lucky Girl said as she motioned to them.)

Lucky Girl: "You work for Scarlett?"

Caitlyn: "Correct."

(Caitlyn said with a glare.)

Caitlyn: "My name is Caitlyn. I'm the sheriff of the capital of Scarlett's Kingdom, Cinnibar City."

Huntress: "Nice to meet you."

(Huntress said as Caitlyn motioned to the windows up above in the warehouse with a ladder underneath them.)

Max: "Hang on."

(Max said.)

Max: "The twins and Allison are probably still in there. We don't want to blow their cover."

Lucky Girl: "Good point."

(Lucky Girl said.)

Lucky Girl: "Let's wait until a fight actually breaks out?"

Huntress: "How will we know if we're still out here, though?"

(Huntress asked.)

Lucky Girl: "We'll know."

(Lucky Girl told her sister.)

Lucky Girl: "It'll be obvious. It always is."

the coach: "I don't know how they took control in that last inning."

(the coach said from inside the area.)

the coach: "But we cannot risk it happening again. Scan them."

(A laser scanner came out from the ceiling and J.T. stirred awake.)

J.T: "Ugh."

(he said.)

J.T: "I just had the weirdest dream. We were kidnapped by the Squires."

Cash: "Huh?"

(Cash asked as he woke up, only to find himself face-to-face with the scanner.)

(The scanners then activated and a red light moved up the duo's faces as the Omni Twins and Matter Girl sneaked below and witnessed the area as two metal plates attached to the robot's faces and a blue liquid traveled down the tubes attached to the plates.)

(The plates detached, revealing that the robots' faces now had the same colored-skin as Cash and J.T.)

Omni-Green: "This would be so cool if it weren't so... freaky."

(Omni-Green said.)

Matter Girl: "I know, right?"

(Matter Girl said.)

Matter Girl: "I feel like we're in one of those weird horror movies."

(The laser scanner finished working on the robots' faces, revealing that they were now identical to Cash and J.T. Finally, a robotic arm came by and gave the robot J.T. a pair of glasses.)

the coach: "These players will be our insurance policy."

(the coach announced.)

the coach: "Dispose of the originals."

(Cash and J.T. gasped as they saw the Squires undid their shackles.)

the coach: "...and the spies while you're at it."

Omni-Pink: "Oh crap."

(Omni-Pink said as she and the others got out of the grating as the Squires tossed baseballs at them.)

(Matter Girl ducked as the balls blew holes in the wall behind them as she gulped.)

Matter Girl: "Hey!"

(They then ducked again as Omni-Pink surrounded them in a forcefield as on the outside, they others gulped.)

Lucky Girl: "Okay, now we can go in."

(Lucky Girl said as Caitlyn took out her gun and blasted the window above open before she, Lucky Girl and Huntress climbed up onto the ladder.)

(The Squires tossed wooden bats at our heroes as they gulped and Matter Girl sliced them apart with her blade hands after absorbing the metal from the wall.)

J.T: "No way."

(J.T. said.)

J.T: "Was that Matter Girl?"

Cash: "Here? Not possible."

(Cash said.)

[To Be Continued...]

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