Chapter 7: Taskmaster

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(Another cutaway scene shows both Ultraman Ginga and Taskmaster appearing inside the Watchtower's teleporter. While Ultraman Ginga checks the controls, Taskmaster checks the next door with his gun, checking if anyone's' coming.)

Ginga: That's it! Got control of the Watchtower teleporter.

Taskmaster: It can't be that easy...

Ginga: When my brother tried to knock me out cold, he exposed his security protocols.

Taskmaster: You stole his password. I'm actually beginning to like you. (Leaves)

Ginga: Where you goin'? The plan was to stay--

Taskmaster: I won't be long.

(Inside the Watchtower, they were not alone as Ben 10 and Frisk were monitoring the Watchtower's screen, busy talking about their doubts about the current situation while Taskmaster uses his opportunity to place some landmines in different locations.)

Frisk: I don't know... If he said it was okay, it was good enough for me.

Ben 10: Yeah... I asked myself, "What if what happened to Lois, happened to my grandpa, Karen or Julie?"

Frisk: It made sense at first. Bad people got what they deserved. But now?

Ben 10: Spider-Man's not actually gonna kill Stark, Riri or Stitch. They're just baits. To catch Danny and Bruce.

Frisk: And then what? Remember what he did to Red Robin?

(Ben 10 couldn't answer him as he just stares at him, allying his thoughts. Just then, he notice something on the screen.)

Ben 10: Dude. Something's not right. Teleporter's off-line.

Taskmaster: (Appears before them) Somewhere you need to go, kid?

Ben 10: How did...?

(Without thinking too much, he decides to catches him but Ben 10 accidentally steps on one of the landmines that Taskmaster sets up, triggering some other landmines he hits and falls down into the hole. Frisk does the same but like Flash; he too gets hit by it and falls down into the same hole. Amused as he have plan, Taskmaster drops down into the hole where the two Regimers have landed while confronting the dazed Frisk who was trying to get back on his feet.)

Taskmaster: You're gonna lose, hero.

(Thanks to the bomb he sets up for him, Frisk still feels dizzy and was easily knock out by Taskmaster without wasting some bullets.)

Taskmaster: Still just a kid.

(Taskmaster manages to enter the Watchtower's reactor core looking in amazement.)

Taskmaster: S'payback time.

(Just then Ben 10 wakes up and sees his fallen friend and knows who did this.)

Ben 10: Taskmaster...

(As he activates his Omnitrix, becomes XLR8 and runs to find him, Taskmaster was already pressing buttons on the control panel but as soon as he finishes it, Ben 10 (as XLR8) stops him too late.)

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