4"Well, well, well if it isn't my two boys," Grandfather smirked on seeing Monty and Ben walking towards his direction. "So good to see you..." Ben is about to open his mouth. "One of you, anyway."
"Aw, Pappy! That's not fair!" Ben cried. As Grandfather would have expected, his second child is still the same scared ten-year-old boy with the dirty glasses and scraped knees who was too afraid to stand up for himself. Just what did Monty do to convince his brother to join forces with him to fight their Pappy?
"Bah! Whoever accuses me of being fair?" Pappy scoffed before turning his attention to his first child, the one he mostly favors. "Oh, Monty, if you'd only been more evil, you could have been more nasty or even mildly unpleasant."
"What about me?" Ben interrupts, using both hands to point at himself. "I'm in this family too! And I'm pretty evil—I reek of evil!" It's true; he hasn't showered since before Pappy was recommissioned. "I lead evil to—"
"Why don't you give it a rest?!" Pappy yells, firing his evil fire ray from his eyes.
"Uh oh..." Ben hasn't got time to react as the ray hits him square in the chest and knocks him to the ground.
"Now, Monty, I'm only thinking of our heritage," Grandfather continued.
"You... big... JERK!" Ben had enough as he stands up from the ground being angry covered in flames, not to mention regaining his soot that was torn off by Monty earlier in order to reveal his relationship to his son, Nigel Uno aka Numbuh 1 which is being his uncle. Look at Pappy now; he really did become the coward when he's willing to stand against him. What a hypocrite. "Now you've made me angry!"
"Very...
"Very...
"Very...
With each yell, the flames grow bigger and bigger. He's a coward, but he's a coward with anger issues and it's time to let them out. It's been too long.
"ANGRY!"
Then he explodes.
"Now now, Ben. Take it easy. Take it easy," Grandfather moves backward trying to reason with his second born son, and then he tripped down from the ground. "Stop him!"
Two Senior Citizombies, Mr. Boss and Toilenator, step in to defend their leader.
"Stop this right now, Father. You shouldn't pick a fight with our new leader. Join us, or else..." Mr. Boss said threateningly.
"Or else what, Mr. Boss? You're gonna bore me to death with your talk? You should bow to me, not to this sorry excuse for a father!" Father hurls a fireball to throw him down. As the Toilenator tries to attack him with his toilet paper rolls, he immediately burned them down which lead to the fire spreading enough to toss him aside.
As he advances towards his father, more Senior Citizombies attempted to stop him. Father manages to take them down with a giant fireball he conjured with his own hands.
"Stop this right now, Ben. I command you!" Grandfather demanded, but he won't listen. He turned to his brother. "Monty, help me! Your brother is out of control!"
"I wish I could help you, Pappy, but this became my fight so you have to solve this on your own," Numbuh Zero refuses to help his father against his raging brother.
Despite attempting to stop him with his powers, Grandfather found himself outmatched by the son he called a weakling. Eventually, he loses the fight.
"Please, Ben. Stop this! I'll do whatever you want! You can rule the world with me! I can see the potential in you now! It's your destiny, right? The only person trying to stop your destiny is your brother over there. I don't wanna go back to being a normal, senile old man with no memories and powers. I'm begging you, Ben. Let me see everything through the end!" he is reduced to begging.
"Sorry, Pappy but you won't see all this through to the end," Father unveils the decommissioning device. With one zap, this great evil has been reduced to an old man who not only lost his memories, but also his powers.
"Is it time for dinner? I could use some mushi beans," the old man said with obliviousness.
"Oh, you will, Pappy," Father instantly removes his soot. "You will."
With the great evil defeated, the world is back to normal, even reverting those who were turned into Senior Citizombies.
That felt good for Ben.
"I'm proud of you, Ben. You really stood up to Pappy, this time," Monty said as their father is being carried back to retirement home.
"I finally felt peace for what he did to me," his brother smiled. "Regardless, I got my spot as the ruling villain here."
"I know."
Next, he gave him the decommissioning device.
"Now that the threat of Grandfather is over, use this to erase your memory of everything you are as Numbuh Zero," he said.
"That, I will do, but not before I record a message for my son," Monty said in return.
"Do whatever you want, brother. I'm going home to eat more rocky road, so I can get my energy back."
And so, the two brothers parted ways once again. What happened here has changed history for Benedict Uno, also known as Father.
Author's Note: I think Grandfather ironically becomes a coward when Father went berserk on him at that scene in Operation: Z.E.R.O. Therefore, he's a hypocrite.
