Hey guys welcome to a new series. This story is based off of a character from a chapter of Arsenal. If you haven't seen it before I recommend it, but you don't need to read Arsenal before this, so you can read both at the same time. Lucky you. Well enough talk, let's get started.
How it all began
Kosta Blake was your average sixteen year old boy. He went to a prestigious school for rich kids, because of his parents who were too busy traveling the world because of his dad's, work to take care of him. He also has a crazy uncle in charge of a corrupt company called Thawn Industries. Oh and he has a high-tech watch that can turn him into all these different aliens that help him save the world. Like I said ordinary.
But seriously I can tell you're confused, so how about I start at the beginning. The day Alienate was born.
AN: Kosta- black hair. Casual clothes, jeans, orange sleeveless jacket with a white long sleeve shirt underneath.
Hey guys, Kosta here as your personal narrator.
So it all started in seventh period, where I was wishing that the last couple of minutes could just go by. Between the boring lecture and the uncomfortable school uniform, which were blue pants and blazer with the school's crest, a white dress shirt and a red tie, I couldn't wait to go home. I looked over at my best friend Aiden. He was African American and had a kind of afro Mohawk thing.
He was doodling who knows what, not listening to a word the teacher, Mr. Matnek, said. Which was understandable since Aiden knew all of this already, so unlike us normal people who had to write notes, Aiden got to just mess around during class. Anyway soon the bell rang and everyone got ready to leave.
"Don't forget, tomorrow I'll be giving you your assigned partners." Mr. Matnek said in his usual monotone voice. I just put that in the back of my mind and walked out. When I was in the hallway I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around and saw Aiden smiling.
"Man Kosta, you looked half asleep during the whole class."
"It's not my fault, that teacher sounds like he'd rather pick up horse shit, with a spoon."
"I would too, teaching looks like it sucks." I had to agree with that. We went to our lockers, which were both conveniently next to each other, and took out what we needed for home and put away the things we didn't need. I was just about done when someone called our names.
"Kosta, Aiden, hey!" We both turned around and saw a girl our age, brown hair. She wore the school's girl uniform, a white blouse, a blue vest, with the school's crest, and a blue skirt. She walked over to us and opened her locker, which was just two lockers away.
"Hey Mayta." I said. Mayta is my other best friend and the girl I kinda sorta have a crush on.
"So anything planned tonight?" She asked.
"Yeah, going over to the store to get hot fires, Gatorade, then I'm gonna play Quantum Break all night. It's gonna be great." I looked back at Mayta.
"Yeah, I got nothing special either." Aiden glared at me, and Mayta laughed a little, making me slightly blush and do this stupid twitch where I scratch the tip of my nose when I'm nervous. I doubt she noticed it thou… I hope.
"So uh, what about you? Anything life changing happening tonight?" Her eyes lit up.
"Yeah, I'm starting my job at, eep!" She yelped and covered her mouth suddenly. I raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Nothing." She answered quickly. Me and Aiden looked at each other, and then back at her.
"What you did just now meant the opposite of nothing." Aiden said. She looked away from us.
"I told you it's nothing." I crossed my arms.
"Mayta." She acted like I didn't say anything. I just continued to glare at her, until she finally cracked.
"Alright, I'm going to start working somewhere today." I smiled.
"That's great! Where?"
"Thawn industries." She mumbled.
"What?" Aiden asked, cupping his ears.
"Thawn Industries." She mumbled again.
"Mayta we can't hear…"
"Thawn Industries!" She blurted out while effectively cutting me off. I widened my eyes.
"What?" I asked.
"Now Kosta…" "
"Thawn Industries? The Thawn Industries that is owned by my uncle? The same uncle that hates my dad's guts and no doubt my guts too?"
"If it makes you feel better, I'm only an intern." I face palmed.
"Oh great, you're working for my crazy uncle, for free." Mayta sighed.
"Look, I know you and your uncle are not exactly on the best of terms," I scoffed. Yeah that was an understatement. "But this is a chance of a life time. Not a lot of people get into this program. So can you please just look past the whole uncle part?" The whole uncle part? That part is the owner of the company! Sigh, but I could tell she was serious about this, and it'd be wrong to get in her way.
"Sigh, alright fine. I can tell this is important to you, so I won't try and stop you. B-but maybe I should at least come and check the place out, make sure it's alright."
"Uh, no."
"Wait what?"
"I know I said that your uncle being the owner of the company wasn't a big deal, but there is still the fact that your uncle hates you. I might get fired on the spot if I'm seen anywhere near you. So please don't come over."
"But…"
"Ever." It was her turn to give me the stare and of course I cracked.
"Sigh, alright, I won't."
"Promise?"
"Yeah." She sighed.
"Thank you." She gave Aiden a hug then me, which caused me to blush slightly. After that she ran off to go work for the worst person on this planet. I shook my head.
"When are you going to tell her man?" I looked at Aiden.
"I don't know. If she says no, it might ruin are friendship."
"But if you don't, you might regret it, forever."
"But I don't wanna risk it and it's not like she's leaving any hints."
"Then you have to." He said poking me in the chest. I raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Aiden sighed.
"Do I have to explain everything?" I gave him a deadpan look.
"Dude, we've been friends for a long time. You should already know the answer to that when it comes to stuff like this." Aiden nodded.
"Yeah your right. Alright you need to stick out more. Make her start looking at you in a different way."
"How?"
"Do something romantic that she wouldn't expect. Like… I got it! Go to her today at work."
"But I promised I wouldn't. Wouldn't she be mad?"
"Maybe at first, but if you said something like 'I know I shouldn't be here, but this was your first day, and I wanted to make sure you were all right.' Or something."
"Wow, that's not bad." Aiden smirked.
"Of course. Now hurry dude." I nodded and started running towards Thawn Industries. Heh now that I think about it, I never even had a chance to actually see her that day with everything that happened next.
'She's gonna hate me if I get caught.' I thought as I hid in the bathroom of the third floor. I was close. I just needed to get to the third elevator on the right side of this floor. I looked out again, to make sure the coast was clear.
'Clear!' I walked out and quietly towards the elevator. A while ago, back when the relationship between my family and my uncles wasn't as bad as it was now, my uncle took me and his son here for a tour. It was boring and I wanted to throw my cousin out of one of these windows for being so annoying, but it did tell me that on Wednesday, this whole floor was completely empty of workers, and the only thing I needed to worry about where the guards.
I continued to walk until I suddenly heard something to my left. I turned my head and saw the wall at the end of the hallway was separating, sort of like an elevator.
"That wasn't in the tour." I started to see human figures and quickly hid behind a cubical. I poked my head out slightly to see what was going on, and saw my uncle, a man who had black hair and beard. He wore a red and black suit (Which screamed evil) and had a serious intimidating face. Next to him was a timid looking scientist. He had a lab coat and round glasses.
They walked out of the elevator and walked down the hallway towards me.
"So everything is ready for testing Octavius?"
"Yes and I have no doubt it will be successful."
"Excellent. With this Thawne Industries will grow larger than anyone, even I, could ever imagined, and when it does, I will be the one on top." Octavius just smiled and nodded. When they were out of sight I looked at the now closing elevator door. 'I probably shouldn't.' I got up.
'I got to go to that whole thing with Mayta.' I started running towards the door. 'I'm an idiot.' I slid in before it closed and took a deep breath. 'Alright, I'll just check out what he's talking about and get the hell out.' I looked at the elevator floor numbers. They all said sub level.
"I'm guessing all the things under this building isn't exactly legal." I knew this guy was crazy, but actually evil too? I mean, I knew he was suspicious, but, all these levels, this secret elevator, this looked a lot bigger than I thought. I noticed one button was different from the others. It didn't have a number, but instead a sign. It looked like a yellow hourglass. I decided to press it, and I started to descend.
After a few minutes there was a ding, and the door opened up into an all metal room. The floors were metal, the walls, the ceiling. I started to walk down the hall and hid when a scientist or guard walked by. Finally after what felt like an hour, , I found a room that looked different from the rest. It was the same hourglass I saw on the elevator button.
There was a hand print security system, and I had no idea how I was going to get in. 'Maybe there was some kind of crazy acid experiment that can get me in here.' Luckily I didn't need to find one because the door suddenly opened. Nowhere to go, I put my back against the wall. A scientist, who was focused on papers he was reading, walked out.
Before he could look up I tripped him, making him land on his face. He turned to look at me, but before he could see me I punched him in the temple, knocking him out.
'Thank you five day karate class.' I dragged his body into the room and put his body against the wall as the door closed. The lights turned on, and all around me, science stuff. I looked around and saw monitors, computers, holo screens, and wires, all plugged into a podium that held something in a glass case. I walked up to it and saw something I wasn't expecting
"A watch?" I took off the glass case and picked up the watch. It looked very high-tech. it was a yellow and black watch. (Omniverse style watch) I put it on and it seemed to shrink to fit my size. "Is this what's gonna bring this company to the top, an adaptable watch? Pretty lame." I touched the face of it and a green holo-wheel appeared.
"Okay, I take it back." I spun the wheel a few time, looking at different faces of creatures. "What are these supposed to be, apps?" I pressed on one and the hologram suddenly disappeared and the face of the watch opened up revealing a button with the same yellow hourglass. The button popped up. "Okay, this is getting weird. What exactly are they doing here?"
There was only one way to find out. I pressed the button and a yellow flash appeared. I blinked and immediately noticed something different, I had one eye!
"Ahh, it took my eye!" I said running around the room. That's when I realized my second problem. I wasn't running, I was gliding, in the air! I looked down and saw a gray body and ghostly tail. I widened my eye and quickly went over to a dark screen to look at my reflection. I-I was a ghost! A one yellow eyed ghost with the same hourglass on his chest.
"What kind of watch was that? What the hell am I?!" I suddenly heard running footsteps coming towards this room, no doubt me taking this watch raised a silent alarm. I had to get out of there, but how? I face palmed. "Right ghost." I flew towards the ceiling.
"I hope this works!" And it did! I went through the ceiling and a couple of floors, soon I was on floor one. I scared a few random employees, but at the moment I didn't care, I needed to get out of there. I flew through the glass walls of the entrance, and flew out of there.
I landed on a rooftop. It was late, but I had to process what just happened. One minute I was me, then I was suddenly Danny Phantom, and it had something to do with that watch, but I couldn't find it on my arm anymore. I kept thinking, when suddenly I heard a scream. I looked over the edge at an ally. I saw three men and a woman in her twenties.
Her back was against the wall as the three men surrounded her.
"You know guys," Guy 1 said. "When I first saw her, I just wanted her purse, but looking at her now mmmhh."
"I know what you mean." Guy 2 said. The third guy didn't talk, but instead pulled out a switch blade. I frowned.
"I have to do something, but like this." I sighed. "If I don't stop these guys, that woman's as good as gone." I launched down behind them. "Excuse me." They turned around and widened their eyes.
"The fuck is that?!" Guy 3 shouted.
"Is that how you greet people? Didn't your mother teach you any manners?"
"Fucking waste it!" Said Guy 1 pulled out a pistol and shot. I closed my eye, but felt no pain. I opened my eye and face palmed again.
"Oh yeah, ghost." I looked at the three idiots "Great job guys, you just alarmed the whole block. You really aren't good at this are you? Now I'm only gonna tell you once, step away from the girl." Guy 3 ran towards me and swung. I dodged the swing, and he swung two more times. I summer salted over him and tapped his shoulder.
He turned and I punched him in the face, knocking him out. I looked at my hands.
"Strength upgrade, cool." I whispered. Guy 1 pulled out a big wrench and came at me. I heard him coming and went intangible. He went through me, and before he could get far, I grabbed the back of his collar and slammed him into the wall. He stumbled around, giving me the chance to sock him in the jaw, sending him flying a little. He landed in the dumpster, closing the lid on his way in.
Guy 1 looked terrified, the guy looked ready to piss his pants, which meant I was doing a good job. "So, you gonna use that, or are you giving…" I didn't get to finish because he started firing like a maniac. The women, slowly backed away from the insane Guy 1 and I just confidently floated towards him, going through all the bullets.
He pulled the trigger for the sixth time and by then I was right in front of him. "You're done? Good. You lost but I'll still give you a consolation prize. I opened up my chest. Tentacle, images, ect. All of it, that guy saw. It was too much for him and he fainted. If I could, I would have smiled. Instead I turned to the woman who was cowering in the corner. I offered my hand. "Are you okay?"
She was hesitant at first, but she took my hand and got up.
"I-I'm fine. Thank you f-for saving me."
"No problem."
"What's your name?"
"K-Uh, just someone who wanted to help." I turned towards the entrance and heard sirens coming fast. I turned back to her and gave her a mock salute. "Until next time, but let's hope that never happens." And with that, I flew out of there.
I landed on a different roof top and by then I was a little frustrated. "Alright, it felt good helping that woman and I had a lot of fun using my powers, but I REALLY want to turn back!" I pressed the hourglass and a yellow flash appeared. When it faded, I was back to normal. I looked at my hands and my clothes.
"Huh. That was… simple. I sat down on an air conditioner and looked at the watch. Now that I was back to normal, I had a chance to calm down and think. This watch was made by my uncle, for a reason I don't know. It was something that was supposed to make him, what? More rich, more famous? Something told me he wasn't going to just sell this.
This kind of power, to turn into that ghost and, I turned on the holo-screen and scrolled through, and much, much more. "Is there an instruction manual for you? Something that can at least tell me what you are?" I wasn't expecting an answer but to my surprise, I got one.
"Request understood." "AHH!" I fell off of the air conditioner in shock. I got up and stared at the watch. "This is the omnitrix. A device originally used for peace and the unification of other species, but a recent analysis shows that it was redesigned for other purposes unknown."
"Okay, wasn't expecting an answer. Thanks?" It didn't answer back. "Okay, how about this? Omnitrix, can you tell me how you work?" "Certainly. Are you ready for a two hour explanation on the functions and uses of the omnitrix and the alien DNA samples inside of it?" "Uh, sure?" "Starting tutorial."
The tutorial told me the basics of the watch. How to transform. It also told me about the twenty transformations I had unlocked, and their abilities. I yawned. It was really late by then and I knew if my parents were home I'd probably be dead. I stretched and turned on my omnitrix. I scrolled until I got to a specific face. I touched it and the button appeared.
I pressed it down and a yellow flash appeared. When it left, in my place was a red humanoid, manta ray alien with two black lightning bolt-like stripes coming down from my shoulders to my omnitrix symbol. I also had yellow horns that extended from my nose, gills underneath my arms and yellow patagia. I was about to fly home when I suddenly saw an explosion. I widened my eyes.
"That's in the direction of the big city bank." I said out loud. So instead of flying home, I flew towards that direction.
When I got there I could see two armored vans and people in some pretty impressive body armor. There was a fresh hole where the door no doubt use to be. The people were taking sacks of money from the bank to the vans. I frowned and rocketed to the floor. I landed, creating a dent on the street, and got up.
"Alright, obviously no one thought you how to make a deposit. So I'm gonna give you this one chance to put the money back, so you can all learn the basics from a nice comfy cell." All the bank robbers stared at me.
"What is that?" One whispered to another, who must have been the leader. The leader growled.
"I don't know what that is, but the cops are coming! Kill it so we can leave!" I looked around.
'Twenty five guys. That's a bit more than three, but…' The bank robbers raised their guns and fired at me. I quickly flew up and they continued to shoot me as I flew around the bullets. My eyes glowed yellow and I shot lasers out of my eyes. I shot three men down, knocking them out. I smirked. This was great. I was taking out bad guys, flying around, I really never felt so alive, but I knew I was starting just dodging, and that I needed to go more into the offensive.
I landed behind the van and slapped the omnitrix, transforming into a human looking alien. He looked about my age, had blond hair and blue eyes. He wore high black boots, a black collared shirt, which was under a white army coat. He also wore white pants and cape with a hood. (Mika from Seraph of the end) On my chest, under the cape, was my omnitrix symbol and strapped to my side was a sword.
The bank robbers aimed their guns at the van.
"The second it comes out, waste it!" The leader ordered. Everyone nodded and got ready. Suddenly I appeared on top of the van, looking pretty bad ass and the robbers were confused.
"What happened to the other guy?" Instead of answering I pulled out y sword.
"The better question is, 'How many seconds do I have before this guy kicks my ass?'" The leader growled.
"Fuck it. Just kill him!" They started shooting and I quickly blocked the bullets with my sword. After blocking a few, I jumped into the air, did a few flips and landed next to a women bank robber. So takes out an army knife and swings at me. I quickly block it with my sword and pushed her knife out of the way. I then gave her a spin kick to the head, knocking her out.
More bullets were shot at me and I blocked all of them. A bullet ricocheted off of my sword and hit a man in the knee. He bent down and I kneed him in the face. I slapped the omnitrix and I turned into a big red alien with four arms. I had a black and yellow tank top and black pants and fingerless gloves. I also had a yellow and black belt with the omnitrix in the middle.
I roared, and started taking down a lot of them. I swung all four of my arms, knocking out any one who got in my way. Four men jumped and hung on to my arms. I smirked. "Hold on tight." I spun around, spinning the robbers with me around and around, and knocking down anyone near me. After a few seconds, they couldn't hold on any more and let go.
All of them cashed into something and lost consciousness. I pretended to clean the dust off of my hands, while smirking. Suddenly I heard one of the vans start up. It drove away and I slapped my omnitrix turning into a blue and black alien, with black pincers and a black and blue tail. I was wearing a yellow and black suit, a black helmet with a visor, and two balls on my feet.
My visor covered my face and I ran after the van with non-human speed. I easily got in front of the van and slapped my omnitrix again. This time turning into a big diamond man with humanoid figures. I wore a black and yellow tank top and had a black pants and black and yellow boots.
"Sorry, but this road is closed." I placed my hands on the ground and a diamond wall grows from the ground, and got in between me and the van. The van crashed into the van, making me cringe slightly.
"I really hope they aren't dead." I ran over to the van and saw that they were all dazed. I sighed in relief. I made three more walls all around the van and turned back into the running alien.
I ran back to the bank and saw that everyone was still unconscious and there were news vans everywhere. Reporters all got out of their vans and immediately started talking into their cameras.
"If you look around you can see the unconscious bodies of the notorious Exon gang. A gang that has been hitting no hero town big banks like this all around the United States."
"The Exon gang seemed to have been stopped by that blue creature over there. I'm going over there for an interview." Said another reporter. She seemed to not have been the only ones because a bunch of reporters crowded around me and started asking questions. There were so many questions I didn't even try to answer them. Instead I sighed and took a deep breath before shouting.
"Alright, shut the fuck up!" Everyone stopped talking and looked at me, shocked. "Alright, now," I pointed at one random reporter. "You, talk and ONLY you." She nodded.
"Well, what we all want to know is. Who are you, and what are you doing here?" I looked around. What should I say, I just got this watch and I didn't know what to do with it. Plus my uncle no doubt knows about the stolen watch and is hunting me down as we spoke, but, it felt good helping that women and stopping those bank robbers.
Maybe I could make it a regular thing, become a superhero, like the Justice League. I made my decision.
"All you guys need to know is that I'm here to stay and protect you guys when you need help."
"What is your name?" Asked another reporter. I held my chin in thought.
"Hmm, Alienate, yeah Alienate, and like I said I'm here to protect this city." It was then I heard sirens coming fast. I turned my head to the right and left and saw that on both sides the police were racing to the scene. They stopped, creating a makeshift barrier with their cars. The police then exited their cars and ran towards me.
They pulled the reporters away from me before aiming their guns at me. I put my hands up.
"Whoa fellas, same team."
"I don't think so. Out of the crowd of police officers came a man I knew well. He had brown hair, wore a dressed shirt, and brown pants. Over it was a brown trench coat. Tom McCarthy, Mayta's father. "Were gonna need you to come with us." I frowned.
"I just stopped all of these guys for you. Instead of arresting me, you should be thanking me."
"Stopping criminals is the police's job…"
"And they've done so well at it." Tom growled.
"That's enough! Stop resisting and come with me."
"I would, but handcuffs aren't really my thing." I ran for Thomas took his belt and went past him. I stopped and whistled to get their attention. "But if you want to catch me you more than happy to try, but you'll probably have some trouble." They all looked down at Tom's pants that were down to his ankles. Tom looked at his pants with shock before bringing them up and holding them.
"Get him!" Three cops ran towards me and I threw the belt at them, making them fumble and gave a mock salute to Tom and ran out of there.
'Sigh Mayta's not gonna be happy.'
The next day during homeroom, I was talking to Aiden.
"I can't believe our city has a superhero. We're gonna be like Gotham!" I raised an eyebrow.
"You want this city to be run by crime?"
"Okay, how about Metropolis?" I nodded.
"Better."
"Anyways the point is that this guy is awesome. He can turn into all these different aliens and he has this cool name and…"
"You really think this guy is cool?" I asked.
"Yeah. Don't you? Hey, he might even bring in other heroes. We might even get to meet Batman!" I chuckled. Batman was Aiden's favorite. I don't know, he always seemed to… serious for me.
"Well, if you think he's cool, there's something I want to show you and Mayta after school. We'll go over my house…" A newspaper was suddenly slammed on my desk, making me jump a little. We both turned and I saw Mayta looking very not happy.
'Oh boy.' "H-hey Mayta. How was the first day?"
"It was great, thanks for asking, but that wasn't what I wanted to show you. Look at this headline." I looked at it.
"Alienate, Bellwood's new hero, stops big bank robbery while catching police with their pants down" It showed me in my fast alien form, a form that I now call XLR8. I thought up names for my aliens all night, so yeah, I was pretty tired. The paper also showed Commissioner McCarthy with his pants down. I snickered, before getting a slap in the head from Mayta.
"That's not funny! My dad was humiliated by this jerk when he was just trying to do his job. I swear whoever this Alienate guy is, I hope the police arrest him soon."
"Hey Mayta, Kosta wanted to show us…"
"No I didn't, no I didn't!" I said covering up Aiden's mouth. Mayta raised an eyebrow.
"Are you two okay?"
"Uh, yeah just tired from playing online all night." Mayta nodded before the bell rang.
"Well, see you guys later." I waved at her, with the hand I wasn't using to cover up Aiden's mouth. When she was gone I let go of my best friend.
"Dude what the hell!?" He spit on the floor.
"Anyways we never played online last night. I tried calling you but…"
"I know, but I couldn't answer. I'll explain everything in my house. Got it?" He nodded confused. We both got are bags and went to our classed.
No one's POV
Charles Thawn was sitting at his desk, still trying to fix the mess with the omnitrix. Whoever stole his most prized possession was as good as dead. He just needed to find out who. Unfortunately they were not able to put a tracker in the omnitrix. They wanted to wait until they finished. Charles slammed his fist onto his desk, remembering his foolishness.
His door suddenly opened and his sun Victor came in, looking equally, if not more upset.
"Father, how have you not found the omnitrix?!" Charles pinched the bridge of his nose.
"We are in the process of looking for it. Whoever took it is now running around playing hero. We'll need to find a way to draw him out."
"But…" Charles' phone suddenly rang and he pressed the speaker button.
"Speak."
"Sir… one of them is on the line." Charles sighed.
"Victor, leave."
"But I was promised power!" Charles, having enough, slammed his fist on the desk again, this time causing a dent.
"I do not care! You are wasting my time and this companies' time with your whining! I will only tell you once more, leave." Victor gulped and quickly left. Charles sighed and fixed himself before he pressed a button underneath his desk and a holo screen appeared, revealing a silhouette of a man.
"So, have you found it?"
"Not yet, but I believe I know just the thing to sniff out our little thief. If this character wants to play the hero, it's only fair we bring him some villains to make his experience more, realistic."
"Good, we wait to hear about your success. Happy hunting." And with that, the holo-screen was turned off. Charles turned around and looked out the glass wall behind him, with his hands behind his back.
"Happy hunting indeed. Let the games begin, hero."
Alright first chapter done.
Who was that man Kosta's uncle was talking to? What exactly is his plan? You'll have to keep reading to find out.
Really nothing more to say except review and tell me what you think and also I'll be putting Kosta's roster on my author page. Don't forget to also check out YoungTezzy's Ben 10 story Arsenal, and I'll see you next time.
Until then
Bye.
