Chapter 20: Translucent!

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"So you're from another dimension?" Hughie asks, as Butcher drives. Normally the former SAS soldier would tell the annoying passenger to shut up, but Hughie was asking all the questions he needed answers too.

"Yes." Ben answered.

"And because of some space watch you can become aliens?"

"Yup."

"And you can be like 10 of them?"

"At least."

"How long can you stay an alien?"

"Used to be for a short time." Ben begins to reply. "But ever since I got zapped here I can be a single hero for a while. But the watch needs longer to recharge the longer I go hero." He informs glancing down at the Omnitrix.

"Ok, 20 questions is over." Butcher announces as the car pulls to a stop.

"What are we, uh...what are we doing here?" Hughie asks, seeing they stopped outside his workplace.

"Well, you got to go to work, don't you?" Butcher tells him.

"Yeah, but, um, I don't, uh..." Hughie stutters, his face deflating.

"Well, I mean, that's all I need you for right now, yeah?" Butcher explains.

"Yeah, I mean, but I-I can... I can help with other stuff, you know? I could... I could be, like, your tech guy." Hughie tries to convince, not wanting to go back to his ordinary life.

"You know? Like, I could be in the van with the thing and, like, you know, "He's down the hall to the left." Like, I can..."

"Yeah, look, son, I, uh..." Butcher begins, looking like he's about to tell a kid there's no Santa Claus. "I think it's best that I take it from here. You know what I mean?"

"Yeah, but I-I can...I can really help." Hughie say's.

"I know you can help and you did. But we got it now." Butcher explains, gesturing to him and Ben.

As Hughie get's out of the car he turns back and say's. "Oh, w... Oh, hey, wait. You ever see an asshole tear up 45K?"

"Don't do that!" Ben calls out, halting the man's action. "They see you don't cash it they're gonna wonder what's up."

"Yeah you kinda got a point." Hughie agree's pocketing the check for 45,000 before heading back inside.

"Hughie!" Butcher calls out one last time, making him turn around. "You're a good lad." He compliments, then drives off.

"Well that was a success, now what?" Ben asks.

"Hughie's fucked." Butcher simply say's.

"Wait what?" Ben ask's, not understanding.

"On our way here at least two people bumped into somethin' that wasn't there." Butcher explains. "Kid was caught and Translucent followed him."

"Who?" Ben wondered.

"The Seven's invisicunt." He clarifies. "He's the only supe with that kind of power that has access to the Seven boardroom, unless he was peeping in the John, which is also likely."

"Or he went to the girl's bathroom?" Ben suggested.

"Either way." Butcher starts. "We have a window until Hughie is alone which is when he'll strike. So let's figure a plan."

Ben shrugs. "We could hit him really hard?" He suggests.

Butcher smiles as he parks around the corner, not to far from the store, but still not within view.

Not only was there was risk of revealing his position but Translucent was invisible so there's a good chance he could get the jump on them.

"I'm good with that." He say's agreeing with Ben's so called 'plan' for stopping Translucent.

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Madelyn Stillwell was again not having a good day. First the Shifter was already making a name for himself known in New Jersey and was getting support in the African American community.

Especially since he took down two cops, blue hawk and let suspected criminals off the hook without even a warning.

To top it off he ordered food from a local food truck, boosting his reputation as someone the people can relate too.

Then Nubian Prince and Nubia's divorce got announced, by their fucking kid. So she and Ashley had to work fast to make it seem like a peaceful break up and not the shit show it was.

It was a good thing that Hugh guy came to his senses. She had to threaten to drop A-Train in order to meet the kid's demand of an in person apology.

Now she waiting for a meeting with the Mayor of Baltimore Steve Nunes. She was supposed to meet with him earlier but he had to delay it, a family emergency up.

Which was fine since she was originally gonna propose Moonshadow to go to Baltimore, but could now pitch Nubian Prince which her analysts said was gonna earn him higher approval ratings.

Ashley then announced her appointment was here and she allowed them to come in.

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With Hughie:-

It was almost the end of Hughie's shift when Translucent came in. Naturally he wanted to know about the bug and Butcher, but Hughie told him he was an Uber driver.

"We're The Seven." A voice spoke as a flat screen television was pulled from the wall and lifted into the air.

"Earth's most mighty." The voice continues as the TV got closer. "Champions of the innocent motherfucker!"

As Translucent was about to smash Hughie into submission a car drove through the store window and crashed into him, sending him flying to the wall across the room.

The driver's side door opened and Butcher stepped out. "Sorry about the mess." He apologizes casually, as if driving into a store was a normal thing.

"That was awesome!" Ben cheers as he steps out, despite having been on spaceships.

"You should fuck off, Hughie." Butcher say's pulling out a crowbar.

"Yeah cause it's Hero Time." Ben explains then slaps down the Omnitrix. In a blinding green flash he became Wildmutt and roared.

"Well fuck me." Butcher gasped in marvel.

Thanks to his senses Wildmutt easily knew where Translucent was. So charging to the right side of the store the dog like alien tackled an invisible form into the wall. "Shit fuck!" The Seven member cried out.

He didn't have long to recover as Wildmutt jumped on him and bit into his shoulder.

"Fuck off ya bitch!" The supe spoke in annoyance, since his skin was carbon the Vulpimancer's teeth couldn't pierce the skin.

So Ben settled for tossing him to the other side of the store.

"Well, well, well, if it ain't the invisible cunt." Butcher spoke (Love that line) as grabbed some spray paint he had Ben get and sprayed it.

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