(The kids wandered to the bunk beds and sighed.)
Ben: "Oh man."
(Ben said as he and the others had heavy sleep bags under his eyes.)
(Ben took the top bunk while his sister took the bottom.)
Ben: "Chasing down a mummy sure takes a lot out of you."
Jen: "Wake me up after three weeks."
(Jen said as she sighed.)
(Literally, the minute that they actually managed to fall asleep, Joan then sneaked up on them and turned on the light.)
Joan: "Rise and shine, sleepy heads!"
Jen: "Gah!"
(Jen shouted as she and Ben fell out of the bed and groaned on the floor as she covered her face with the pillow and then screamed into it with all of the breath in her lungs.)
Gwen: "You have got to be kidding me!"
(Gwen shouted.)
Gwen: "It's 5:00 in the morning!"
Joan: "And those cows aren't going to milk themselves."
(Joan said.)
(Max then went out of bed and groaned as he stood up.)
Max: "Now, aren't you kids glad you went to bed early?"
Jen: "Ben, could you please go Heatblast and kill me?"
(Jen begged.)
Ben: "Not happening."
Jen: "I know."
(Jen whimpered as the kids looked to each other.)
(Now even Allison and Becky, who were accustomed to doing hard work, were now practically going insane.)
(In the barn, Todd was showing the others how to milk the cows as it gently pulled on one of the cows' udders.)
Todd: "Just squeeze and pull. Squeeze and pull."
Ben: "Don't they have machines for this kind of stuff?"
(Ben asked.)
Todd: "Mom doesn't believe in them. She says they spook the cows."
Jen: "Isn't there something else we can do?"
(Jen asked.)
Todd: "Well, the manure needs to be shoveled."
(The kids then looked over to the pile of cow feces with flies hovering over it and they instantly grew disgusted.)
Everyone: "Milking."
(they all chorused.)
(As Todd and Max left them in the barn, the twins then instantly went for their Omnitrixes in a hurry as they dialed in the proper alien.)
Becky: "What are you doing?"
(Becky asked.)
Jen: "What does it look like we're doing?"
(Jen asked.)
Jen: "This thing is going to take forever unless we get a little special help."
Allison: "You know what Max said to you guys."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "You two aren't supposed to go alien to do the farm work."
Ben: "Fine."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Then I guess you want to milk all these cows with us!"
(They then looked at the huge number of cows inside the area as Gwen, Becky and Allison gulped.)
Gwen: "As you were."
(Gwen said.)
(The twins smirked as they slammed the cores down in a flash of green and pink light.)
(Later, Gwen laid back and relaxed as Becky and Allison still milked their cows while Ben and Jen as Four Arms lifted up the cows with their strength and chased after other ones as Becky and Allison groaned at their antics as they milked.)
Ben: "Hold still, will ya?!"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "I don't like this any more than you do!"
(That was when a bucket of milk came flying across the area before it landed on Allison's head as she removed the bucket from her head with a groan and tossed it aside, now drenched with raw milk.)
Jen: "Hey, that one was almost full!"
(Jen shouted.)
Jen: "Hold it!"
(Gwen sighed as Ben stumbled and crashed into the wall, dropping the cows.)
Joan: "How's it going in there?"
(they heard Joan's voice call out and the twin Tetramands immediately ducked and hid in the hay bales as the door opened.)
Gwen: "Just milking away!"
(Gwen lied as she and her sister and friend continued to milk.)
Joan: "Where are those cousins of yours?"
(Joan asked as Allison crossed her hands over her throat and shook her head.)
Allison: "They..."
Becky: "Went to get more buckets!"
(Becky piped up as she and her sister smiled nervously as her eye twitched.)
Joan: "Well, when you guys are done here, find Todd. He'll show you your other chores for the day."
(At that, she left the barn and closed the door as the twins stuck out from the hay bales with a groan.)
Jen: "We won't survive until the end of the week!"
(Jen practically cried outwards.)
Ben: "Not without these anyway."
(Ben smiled.)
(Later, we get our montage of chores that we always seem to get in any show.)
(Todd showed the guys that they needed to slop the pigs and dumped the slop into a bay, and then handed the bucket to Ben and they looked over to see the huge amount of pigs and he smiled at Jen and Gwen and they smiled as Gwen rolled up her sleeve, revealing her tattoos while Jen's hands glowed pink and she smirked.)
(Ben slammed his core down and transformed into Wildvine and he stretched out his arms with bags in both hands and slopped the pigs while Jen and Gwen used their telekinesis and levitated their bags over and slopped the other pigs.)
(This difficult chore suddenly became a light breeze.)
(Later, Todd was in the henhouse and told the kids to pick out the eggs that the hens laid and the twins smirked and ducked inside the hen house before transforming into their XLR8 forms and quickly chased the chickens, collecting as many eggs as they could as fast as they could.)
(Later, Todd gestured to two plows drawn by a horse in an open field and walked away while the twins smiled and transformed into Wildmutt and Wildcat and pulled the plows respectively and plowed the fields in record time with only their jaws.)
(Finally, Todd told them to dig holes in the dirt and then stab a large wooden stake into it.)
(When he walked away, the twins transformed into their Diamondhead forms and Allison absorbed the material from the shovel and the three of them formed their arms into blades, stabbing a hole into the ground before planting the stakes in the ground, their chores done.)
(As the sun set on the horizon, the kids followed Todd back to the farm.)
Ben: "So."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Do you and your mom have to live like this every day?"
Todd: "Nah."
(Todd said.)
Todd: "During planting and harvest seasons, we don't have it so easy. But to tell you the truth, that keeps you busy. It's usually pretty boring here in Dairyville. I mean, it's not like every day a mummy appears in a flash of purple lightning."
(As those last two words left Todd's lips, the kids immediately froze where they stood and Todd walked away from them as they all turned to each other.)
Everyone: "Purple lightning?"
(they all chorused.)
Max: "Purple lightning?"
(Max asked as he shoveled manure into the back of the pickup truck.)
Jen: "Just like when we crossed paths with that alien werewolf in New Mexico."
(Jen said.)
Gwen: "There's no way that it's just a coincidence, Grandpa."
(Gwen said.)
Max: "I don't know."
(Max said, planting the shovel in the manure.)
Max: "But it can't be good. Let's go. You guys fill me in on the rest while I grab some gear from the Rust Bucket."
Allison: "You got it."
(Allison nodded.)
(Later, when the kids led Max to the still hogtied mutant cows, he brought a scanner up to them that picked up on their readings and he nodded.)
Max: "Well."
(he told the kids.)
Max: "That would explain your mutant cows, kids. But I'm afraid that we've got an even bigger problem."
Becky: "Really?"
(Becky asked.)
Becky: "Bigger than a rampaging mummy and mutated cows trying to kill us? I shudder to imagine."
Ben: "Explain."
(Ben said, crossing his arms.)
Max: "I'm picking up trace readings of corrodium from them."
Allison: "Corrodium?"
(Allison asked.)
Max: "It's a high-energy mineral, not naturally found on Earth. My guess is that a meteor crashed down here a few thousand years back and it scattered debris all over the area. This farm and Dairyville must have been built right on top of it."
Jen: "No way."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "The mummy is a rock collector?"
Max: "Not exactly, Jen."
(Max said.)
Max: "Corrodium is a powerful energy source that's very unpredictable. That must have been what mutated these cattle."
Gwen: "So."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "If that mummy gets more of the stuff..."
Max: "Then he can turn every living creature on the eastern seaboard into the same kind of monsters."
Allison: "Oh no!"
(Allison said.)
Becky: "We've got to stop him!"
(Becky said.)
Ben: "And stop him we will."
(Ben nodded.)
[To Be Continued...]