"I demand someone release me from this prision at once!" screamed Albedo for the millionth time in the past half hour. He again recieved no answer. He slammed his fist against the glass that surrounded him, but only succeded in hurting his hand. He sank down and sat, growling and holding his injured hand close to him. He and Benjamin had been trapped in this glass cell for two hours now, located in this blinding white lab that was deviod of life. To say Albedo was mad would be an understatement. He was furious and it was all Ben Tennyson's fault.

Albedo glared at the boy across from him who was sleeping soundly. Dried blood was on his face and brusies were forming. It gave Albedo satisfaction to know that he had put them there. The annoying boy deserved it. Albedo just wanted to reach over and choke him for thwarting his plans once again. He just wanted to go back to his own planet so he could build an Ultimatrix and rule the universe. It was a simple dream, one that Ben Tennyson seemed determined to destroy.

His hate for the human boiled to the surface and he raised his foot to slam it into Ben's stomach, just out of spite. He was getting ready when Benjamin turned in his sleep and leaned on his side. He let out a little whimper as he hit the brusie that Albedo had created. Out of pity of the boy, Albedo dropped his foot with a thud and placed his hand on Ben's body to push him so he was no longer putting pressure on the bruise. Ben's face relaxed and his breathing returned to normal.

Albedo rolled his eyes and resumed his postion of leaning agaisnt the glass. "Stupid human..." he mumbled. Though Benjamin wasn't being a complete imbecile. It seemed as though they would be trapped here for a while. It wouldn't hurt to sleep for bit.

His eyes closed and he got into a semi comfortable postion, fully perpared to get some rest, when he heard a tapping on the glass. His red eyes shot open and his swiveled around to scowl at a woman with a bun of dark hair on her head and a lab coat framing her figure. She was holding a clip board and was smiling at him like he was a small child.

"Hello, my name is Dr. Holiday." She said politely.

Albedo didn't have time for formalities. He wanted to find out where he was so he could return to where his portal was and fix it so he could go home to his planet. "Where am I?" He asked none to nicely.
"You're at Providence." she said, as if this should answer all of his questions.

"I have no idea what this 'providence' is, but I demand that you release me at once. I will not be kept in some cage like an animal. I only wish to return to my home world so if would so kindly raise this glass and let me free, I would be grateful."

Dr. Holiday shook her head. "I have orders to keep you here. The two of you seem to have some sort of way to prevent nanites from entering your bodies, and I can't pass up the chance to run some tests. If we can find the source of this resistance, we may be able to find a cure to the nanite infestation."

Nothing this woman said made any sort of sense to Albedo. All he knew is that she was refusing to grant him freedom, and that was not going to be okay. "I don't believe you understand." he hissed, his red eyes boring into hers. "I have very important things to do and I do not have time to help anyone. Release me or pay the consequences of your actions."

She apparently hadn't heard a word he said, or she acted like she didn't. Albedo's hands curled into fists. He did not like being ignored.

"We'll just put you through a few tests and then you can leave. Simple." She looked down at her clip board and flipped through some papers. "Now, I've been ordered to start with your friend first. He exibited signs of being able to some how upgrade his evo form, which White found interesting."

When she looked up, Albedo was on the other side of the box, his arm in front of Ben, blocking him in a protective stance. "You are not testing on either of us. You seem to be viewing us as some sort of experiment, and as much as I despise Benjamin I will not allow you to preform any tests on him until I get some answers. He is not leaving my side until we figure out what has happened and why my portal deposited us here. Benjamin is my only connection to where we were located. He stays with me, even though it will be a very difficult feat to tolerate him."

"I wasn't going to cause your friend any harm, I just want answers as much as you do. But I need to run some tests..."

"Do not question me!" Albedo yelled. "You are getting on my last nerve and I am mere seconds away from crushing your stupid mortal skull!"

Dr. Holiday looked shocked and ataken back by Albedo's out burst.

Woken by the loud noise, Ben shifted and cracked his eyes open a bit so only a sliver of his green orbs were visible. "Albedo..." he mumbled. "What...what's going on?"

Albedo moved his hand to Ben's neck. "I have no patience for you right now, Benjamin. I will deal with these people. You rest." He pushed down on a pressure point and Ben fainted instantly.

Dr. Holiday's mouth was hanging open a bit and she seemed at loss for words. Albedo had long ago grown bored with her. "I will not answer any of your questions nor will I submit myself or Benjamin to testing. I wish to speak with that boy that was present when we were captured."

"You want to talk to Rex?" she asked incrediously. "Why?"

"What did I say about questioning me?" Albedo snapped. "I believe he will be more helpful to my situation at the present time. Retrieve him or you will learn nothing."

With that he leaned back against the glass wall and closed his eyes, refusing to say another word. He heard the sound of heels walking away, signaling that Dr. Holiday had left the room. Albedo bid her good riddance. That woman was infuriating.

He only hoped that teenager would be a bit more helpful.

"Do you think they're part of the pack?" Rex asked as he threw a rubber ball against the wall and caught it in his hand. He repeated this motion serval times, thinking about the evos they had brought in earlier that day. "With those powers Van Kliess defintely would have made them join him already."

Bobo was leaning back in a bean bag chair, playing a video game with his feet with his arms crossed above his head. "I don't know, Cheif. Ol' skunk hair might not even know about them, you know? Whitey would 'ave found 'em by now if they had been around."

Rex let his head hit the wall behind him. Bobo had a point. If Evos as powerful as those two had been around, White Knight totally would have heard about them before now. And the boys didn't seem new to the whole evo thing, which meant they should have had their powers for a while.

The thing that Rex found most interesting about the teens was that they could transform into human forms. And it wasn't like what he or Circe could do. They transformed only part way into Evos. These guys turned into full blown monsters and were still able to go back into human form. It was incredible really. If they could get these evos to join the good side, it would be easy to take down Van Kliess.

But that brought up another weird thing about the evos. They had zero nanites. So, were they even evos? Rex had been under the impression that the only person on earth with no nanites was White Knight, and that's only because he spent his life in a room.

The whole thing was very confusing. Rex could only hope that Dr. Holiday could find some answers.

Rex shook his head and decided to think of something else. He was going to drive himself made trying to figure this out.

He soon had joined Bobo playing video games, hitting the buttons at lightning speed. Still it seemed as though Bobo was going to win. Rex smirked as he let some of his nanites slip into his game controller. Suddenly his character in the game started punching like mad and doing all sorts of amazing moves. Bobo didn't stand a chance.

It took thrity seconds for Rex to win the game. And when he did, he jumped up and did a little victory dance while Bobo sulked and mumbled about cheating. His win was cut short, however, when the door slid open to reveal a very unhappy looking Dr. Holiday,

"What's up, Doc?" Rex asked, plopping down on his bed and grinning at her. He realized something was wrong when Holiday didn't laugh and his joke, or at least smile. "Something up?"

She sighed, "It seems as though the boys refuse to talk to me. But I really need the information. So one of them, Albedo I believe, said that he would talk to you and no one else."

Rex looked at her in confusion. "He wants to talk to me?"

"Don't ask why. I'm just as confused as you are. If you could just go talk to him, Rex, it would really help. Until we answer his questions he says he won't do any tests."

Rex instanly got to his feet, pulling on his jacket. He patted Dr. Holiday on the shoulder. "Don't worry, I got this. You just don't understand our teen language, Dr. Holiday."

Holiday smiled and shook her head. "Rex, you probably won't be able to understand half of what he says. He has a very advanced vocabulary."

"Well, what about the other one?" Rex asked, pausing in the doorway.

"Albedo seems determined to keep him asleep. He's almost sort of protective of him. Though he also seemed to hate him at the same time. Very confusing. I suspect they may be siblings or something, you know, since they're twins. Hopefully he will tell you."

Rex nodded that he understood and left to head to the lab. This was a path he had walked many times before, so it gave him the chance to think about the information he had just learned. It only left him more confused. He could really use some answers.

Entering the lab, he quickly located the glass cage in which the two teens were imprisioned. He sat down in front of it and hit the glass, trying to wake the teens inside. "Hey, Al, Holiday said you wanted to talk to me."

The boy with the white hair opened his eyes slowly, revealing the bright red color beneath his lids. With his snow white hair and blood red eyes, the teen looked really creepy. "My name is Albedo, not Al." he said with a weird accent. "I assume you are Rex?"
Rex nodded. "Yeah, and you want to talk to me?"

"Yes, yes I do. But first I want out of this cage."

Rex looked around to make sure nobody else was in the room. He leaned forward. "I would let you out, but then you'd just use your powers to escape and I'll get in trouble for that. Six is already mad at me. Steal his sunglasses one time and you're in his bad books forever."

"My powers are..." Albedo glanced down at an odd looking watch on his wrist. "Acting up at the moment. And I have no wish to escape. I do not know where I am, or if I am even on the same planet. Trying to run would not help me in the slightest." The teen locked eyes with him. "Now let me out."

After searching Albedo's face and deciding that he was being truthful, Rex got up and hit a button on the control panel. The glass raised and Albedo stepped out. "What about him?" Rex asked, gesturing to the brown haired boy who was still lying on the floor.

Albedo looked down, let out a sigh, and then leaned down and yanked the boy up by the hair. The boy yelped and landed unsteadily on his feet. Rubbing his head, he turned on Albedo and began to yell. "What the hell, Albedo? You could have just asked me to wake up you know."

"Stop acting like a child, Benjamin. There are more important things to attend to than your hurting head. Rex here may be able to help us return to my portal."

Ben's eyes swiveled to look at Rex. He groaned. "Fine, whatever. Just stay away from me.. I don't want to have to deal with you any more than I have to."

They took a seat on top of an examination table and shot glares at each other. Rex followed them, pulling up a chair so he could sit. Ben was the first to speak. He held out his hand to Rex. "Ben Tennyson," they shook hands. "But you probably already knew that."

Rex had never heard of this boy in his life. But surely this boy had heard of him, the secret weapon of Providence. "Rex Salzar." he said. "But you should already know that."

They both stared at each other in confusion. Albedo scoffed. "The two of you are idiots. It is obvious that we are on a different planet, Benjamin, most likely an obscure one that has not heard of your 'greatness'." He asked the next question to Rex. "What planet is this?"

Wait, were these guys aliens? Or were they just crazy? He decided to answer any way. "This is Earth, dude."

"Then you must be from a different planet, then?"

Rex shook his head. "No, I'm from here. Not like a martian or anything."

There was silence. "Then how did you get your powers?" Ben questioned.

Rex fiddled with the googles on top of his head. What were these guys getting at? "The nanites of course. You know, like an evo. Like the big bad monsters that destory cities all around the world nearly every day. And it's my job to beat them up and turn them back to normal." he gestured wildly with his arms. "This is Providence, the people who help fight against evos."

There was no flicker of recognition in their eyes. Ben pulled out a circular looking badge and presented it to Rex. "Listen, I'm a member of the Plumbers and I want to speak with whoever is in charge here."

Rex laughed. "Dude, you're a plumber? Like the guys who fix toilets and stuff?"

A chuckle sounded from behind Rex, drawing the attention of the three boys in the room to a huge screen that was on the wall. "No, Rex," said a smirking Van Kliess. "Not those type of plumbers. The group he speaks of is an incredible , very important." Van Kliess looked over to Ben and Albedo. "Just like you two."