(The team was now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and were currently visiting a fair that was in the area by the history Museum as Ben stood by a throwing booth with a baseball in his hand and he had a look of absolute focus and concentration plastered all over his face as he glared at them.)
Ben: "Bottom of the ninth."
(he said.)
Ben: "Bases loaded. Two outs, three balls. Tennyson winds up and..."
(He shouted out and winded up his arm that held the ball in it and tossed it at the pyramid of Benjamin Franklin head statue and nailed them head-on, causing them to wobble a bit before settling right back in place, leaving the twins stunned at that as they gasped.)
Ben: "No way! This game has got to be rigged! I totally nailed Ben Franklin!"
clerk: "Knock over the Ben Franklins, you win a prize. You knock over squat, you win squat."
(the stand clerk said to him.)
Jen: "Bogus!"
(Jen shouted as she and Ben walked away.)
Jen: "You'd think that in the City of Brotherly Love, they wouldn't cheat at the carnival games."
(They walked over to Max, Gwen, Becky and Allison who was munching on the city's staple dish: the Philly cheesesteak sandwich.)
Max: "That's the way life is, you two."
(Max said.)
Max: "You win some, you lose some. Now come on, you can't visit Philadelphia without seeing the Liberty Bell."
Ben: "You know, if I could go hero here, I could win every single one of these games."
(Ben said to Gwen and Becky.)
Gwen: "Sure."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "Use the most powerful devices in the universe to cheat at whack-a-mole. It's not worth it, guys."
Jen: "I know."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "It just gets on your mind sometimes when the games are rigged."
(As Max got some cotton candy from the concession stand, the twins walked off and then, suddenly, they heard a crash as a small flatbed truck drove by, crashing through the fair grounds with the Liberty Bell on a stand on the flatbed with two crooks holding it down.)
Ben: "So not good!"
(Ben shouted.)
(Thankfully, Max took notice of this and tackled the kids out of the way of the truck's path as it drove chaotically through the streets as they glared after tehm.)
Jen: "Thanks, Grandpa."
(Jen said with a groan.)
Max: "They're getting away with the Liberty Bell!"
Ben: "Not if XLR8 has anything to say about it!"
(Ben shouted as he readied the Omnitrix and slammed it down while the others shielded him from the light.)
(Only problem... he didn't get the alien he wanted.)
Becky: "Evidently, he doesn't!"
(Becky said.)
Grey Matter: "Oh man!"
(Grey Matter groaned.)
(The truck performed a U-Turn and crashed into a toy booth while the police squad cars started chasing after it.!)
(Grey Matter then hopped onto the adjacent strength test booth and hopped onto the weight.)
Grey Matter: "Give me a lift!"
(he said as Allison walked over and grabbed the mallet before hefting it over her shoulder and shouting out with all of her might as she swung the mallet down onto the bell, which caused the weight to be slammed up before it rang the bell, sending Grey Matter flying towards the booths as the stand clerk saw her as she smiled and brushed a lock of her raven hair out of her face.)
Allison: "I'll take the teddy bear."
(she said as the clerk handed her a large stuffed teddy bear which she brought up to her cheek and snuggled with it while the others looked at her awkwardly.)
Allison: "What? Just because I'm goth doesn't mean I'm not cheerful at times."
(Grey Matter sailed through the air and landed on the truck before he took notice as the guards were completely unaware of his presence.)
(He then crawled down to the underbelly of the truck and worked his way down into the inner workings of the truck's engine, dodging the working parts that would've sliced and diced him if they touched him.)
(He then crawled his way to the engine of the truck and loosed the steering wheel's mechanism and pulled some wires out of the engine.)
(Naturally, this caused the truck to start to careen out of control and start crashing before the truck finally crashed into a nearby street light, which caused the hood to pop open and Grey Matter went sailing out of it with a shout before he landed in a replica of the Liberty Bell filled with jelly beans.)
(He then smiled at the goodies that he was now swimming in and then licked one of the jelly beans.)
Grey Matter: "Now this is what I call a sweet landing!"
(he said as he looked at the crashed truck as the police squad cars surrounded it as the thieves came out with their hands up.)
(Grey Matter smiled at his handiwork and then he turned around to see the stand poster by him advertising a contest.)
Grey Matter: "Guess how many jelly beans and win a music pocket. Way too easy for the big guy with the mega brain! Let's see... the average size of a jelly bean is 1.3 centimeters. The size of the bell is approximately 6.5 inches in diameter. We're talking 6,532..."
(he then ate one of the jelly beans whole before correcting himself.)
Grey Matter: "Make that 6,531 jelly beans."
(As Ben stood by with his music pocket in it and listened to it with a smile as the girls surrounded him.)
Gwen: "Cool music pocket."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "It looks awesome."
Jen: "How'd you get it?"
(Jen asked.)
Ben: "Let's just say a little friend helped me make a lucky guess."
(Ben said.)
Becky: "You used Grey Matter?!"
(Becky shouted.)
Becky: "Ben, that's cheating!'
Ben: "Well, I didn't see any 'No Aliens Allowed' signs. I think it's permissible."
Max: "Hey, Ben, Jen!"
(Max said as he ushered the twins over as Jen sighed and walked over along with her brother.)
Max: "Your hometown baseball team the Bellwood Cannons are in the finals of the Little League World Series! The finals are here in Philadelphia tomorrow."
Ben: "No way!"
(Ben said as he saw the news article.)
Ben: "I was supposed to be on that team!"
Jen: "Yeah, he was! He was almost qualified, but he had to drop out to go on this road trip."
(Jen said.)
Allison: "What about you, Jen?"
(Allison asked.)
Jen: "There's no girls' league in Bellwood and I'm not into sports anyway."
(Jen said.)
Ben: "Grandpa, do you think we could go?"
(Ben asked.)
Max: "I don't see why not. It's a special treat for the two of you."
(A few Minutes later...)
Max: "Williamsport, PA, the birthplace of Little League baseball."
(Max said as the Rust Bucket drove down the path towards the Sports Complex.)
Max: "That honored institution where dreams of greatness are first forged in young minds along with life lessons of fair play."
Gwen: "Hear that, Ben? Fair play."
(Gwen said to Ben, who was listening to his music pocket and not paying attention to her.)
Ben: "You know, I can let you listen to it if you're nicer to me."
(Ben said as Becky raised her eyebrow.)
(As the Rust Bucket drove up to the gates, they were stopped by security guards, who had metal detectors, German shepherds, firearms at their sides, all kinds of safe security you can think of.)
Allison: "What's with all the security?"
(Allison asked.)
Max: "The President is a huge baseball fan."
(Max explained.)
Max: "He likes to make an appearance to cheer the kids on."
Jen: "Ah."
(Jen said as she sat back and smiled.)
(As they got the all-clear to go ahead, they drove through the gate before a motorcycle pulled in behind them, carrying a young woman with a purple helmet on her head and raven black-hair and sunglasses on her head and a larger backpack on her back as she was stopped by the Secret Service before they scanned her and gave her the all-clear to go ahead as she spied the Rust Bucket up ahead.)
???: "Okay, Tennysons."
(she said with a cheeky British accent to her voice.)
???: "I don't know why Queen Scarlett's missions to this dimension always seem to involve you getting involved in the mess, but it helps, I guess. But my assignment doesn't concern you. It concerns the President.
[To Be Continued...]