We had many legendary stories about Ben 10 and his adventures across the Cosmos: Battling Vilgax the Conqueror, halting the Highbreed's galactic genocide, thwarted Eon's Omniversal Takeover, defeated the Fractions, clearing his good name from the Rooters; and even won the Time War against Malturent. But Ben is not the only one who wields the Omnitrix.
There are many warriors who wields the legendary weapon in different universe such as: Ben 23, who used the Omnitrix for fame and fortunes, Arsenal, the evil version of Ben who used the Omnitrix for destruction, or Argit 10, who used the Omnitrix to protects the aliens of the Solar System from the misguided tyranny of Humans.
So many ways to tell a story. Some ways are good, some are bad, some are funny, and some are very, very scary. But here's one way to tell the story of a young man named Ryan McCrimmon, whose life changed in one fateful summer season…unlike any others…
The scene opens up in the California High School, where we found Ryan McCrimmon sitting on his desk, folding a paper airplane. Despite being an adolescent around the age of 17 through 19, he still have a mind of a child as he threw it at the teacher's head. The teacher, however, displayed to have a sixth sense of sort as she shrugged it off before it hit her.
Brriiiiiing!!*
The school bell rang, announcing the class period had ended. All students stood up and gather their school materials then exchanging good-byes and comments on activities for it's the end of school year; and the start of summer vacation.
"Yeah, it's summer time!!" beamed Ryan with his fists threw in the air. He grabbed his backpack and began to exit the classroom. "Ergh!" he winched, having got hit in the back of the head by something and nearly cause his glasses to fall out of place.
He turns as he adjusted his glasses and look down to see the paper plane then looked up to see his teacher giving him a teasing wink. "Of course." groaned Ryan with a smirk on his face. He waved at her then left the classroom.
Ryan McCrimmon stands around 5'7" and he has the traditional anime hair style, which he had combed his hair with gel to give spikes on the stands. His irises are brown, his skin is tough but less pale as he's Caucasian. He's wearing the formal school uniform: white shirt with dark-gray cuffs on the elbows, folded collar and two buttons on the neck; and black silk pants with a pair of black formal shoes.
As soon as he exited his classroom and makes his way to the school gate, something was caught in his eyesight: two thugs picking on one of the young kids. It sparks a sense of justice in his mind as he arches his eyebrows down in anger and disgust. He then approached them with haste but maintain his cool.
"Hey!" he shouted, calling the thugs' attentions. "Lay off him." he ordered.
"Or what?!" barked one of the thugs as he cracked his knuckles.
"Or I'll be forced to be the kid's hero." Ryan retorted as he tossed his backpack aside and cracked his own knuckles. "Seriously Miles, lay off." he warned him.
"Make me, McCrimmon!!!" Miles charged at Ryan and threw a punch but Ryan swiftly sway his upper body to the left, evading his punch before clasping his hand on his wrist, used the charging speed of Miles to his advantage as it gave him the momentum to lift and judo slam him against the floor. "Ugggh!!" groaned Miles as he rolled over then clutched his spines as the combined gravity and the speed of colliding on the pavement did some hurting on his spines.
"Whoa!" Ryan breathed at his own reflexes and strength. "Guess those classes I took really did pay off…" he mouthed then approached the fallen bully and offed his hand.
"I'm usually not a fighter…" He held out his hand, Miles took it and he pulled him up on his feet. "But if I see you picking on this kid or any other lower graders again, it's gonna get ugly." he frowned.
"Ugggh… Fine… I'll let the kid off… But if you try to defend all the kids, we are gonna have a problem." Miles scowled as he walked away with his friend. Ryan glanced at the kid and gave a single nod, grabbed his backpack and walked away alone.
He continues walking down the street as his phone ranged so he shuffled his pocket and held up his cell. The caller ID reads "Jack" and he flipped it then held it over his ear as he answered.
"Hey, Jack. It is time." he smiled.
"The time for you to grow up?" teased a tough, feminine voice.
"Oh ha ha, you're not as funny as my relative." complained Ryan.
"Ha ha ha, but you're still cute when you're angry. Yeah, it's summer time." she said with a sad tone.
"Grandpa Charles is scheduling the road trip tomorrow so today, it's BBQ at 6 pm! Wanna join?" asked Ryan.
"…Yeeah… Sorry. I…got my own plans. Sorry. Maybe we'll meet up during your road trip." said Jack sincerely.
"It's okay. Enjoy the summer, Jack." smiled Ryan then they end the conversation. Suddenly the cellphone vibrated and he halts before the red light as he checks. It's a voice message from his cousin Melody. "Hmm… Wonder what she has to say." Ryan mused as he played the message.
"Hey, Doofus." Melody's voice began to play and Ryan rolled his eyes at her name-calling. "Just reminding you our annual start-of-the-summer barbecue is today, at 3:30 pm."
"WHAT!? I thought it's at 6!?" exclaimed Ryan before looking up to see the traffic light turns green. "Dammit, now I'm running late!!" he cursed.
He was glad he had stopped to prevent Miles from beating up someone but that and chatting with Jack, as well as believing it'll start at 6, took a chunk of time he could've used to get his bike and go home. He put his phone away and pumped his legs as fast as he could.
Minutes later, Ryan arrived at his home, which it's located at the hill slope among the others. He dash inside, quickly undress and made a quick shower. He then walked out, dressed up then head out to reach the bus stop.
Ryan now wears his casual clothes: a black hoodie jacket over his black-with-brown T-shirt that has "#10" on the center, tan cargo pants and a pair of brown/black sneakers. He wears a brown digital wristwatch on his left wrist and wore a shade that doubles as sunglasses and eyeglasses. The bus arrived and he hopped in, told the destination and takes his seat.
Soon, the bus arrived at the neighborhood at the outskirt of the city and halt near the bus stop; Ryan hopped out and sprints to the nearest house, which it's his grandfather's. He went around the house and arrived at the backyard, where there's barbeque activity takes place.
"Sheesh, Melody! Did you have to send that message after school?? Had I known earlier, I would've just stopped Miles from hurting a kid sooner and take my bike." complained Ryan, though he's still proud of what he did. Grandpa Charles and Melody turned to see Ryan as he hopped over the fences.
"Awwww, the big boy defends the wittle boy!" teased Melody.
Melody is around the age of 10 but she is about a head taller then a common 10 year old, her hair is dirty-blonde tied into a short ponytail and held by her tiger-like hairpin. She has round eyes and brown irises. She wears a casual yellow T-Shirt that has the pink cat logo and lemon-yellow inner sleeves that stops at her elbow, wears a orange checker-pattern skirt with red waistband and short black pants underneath it; and a pair of white sneakers. She's wearing a cat-ear headband.
"Nah, he's doing what his father do: protecting innocent." smiled Charles.
Charles is at his age of 59 but it was shown to have minor body build. He wears a tan vest over red buttoned shirt, navy jeans and a pair of brown work boots. He has short hair that's neatly comb and gain greyish-white as part of his age and has well-shaved moustache linked to his goatee.
"Ryan doesn't even have a brain of a cop." mocked Melody.
"Watch it, Dweeb." warned Ryan. "You could be next." he said.
"Hey, I learned a few tricks from watching Tokyo Mew Mew." she grinned as she enters in a monkey-stance.
"That lame show?" Ryan asked, disgusted. "Please, Fairy Tail's the best anime show to learn moves from." he boasted.
"WHAT?!? RRAAH!!" Melody pounced on her cousin and start biting his head comically." Takeitbacktakeitbacktakeitbacktakeitback!!!" she growled like a cat.
"GET OFF ME!!" yelled Ryan as he struggled to pull her away, with Charles chuckled nervously.
Suddenly, a whooshing sound echoes the sky and Charles looked up to see a meteor entering the air space of San Francisco. It was moving at the subsonic speed before shattering the sound barrier, which cause a booming sound and forced everyone, even the McCrimmon, to shield their ears while all glass materials shattered into pieces and the cars' alarms start wailing. The meteor suddenly changed direction, zoomed into the neighborhood before it began to slow down its speed then dropped down, impacting the street and produced an explosion that leveled the street and the shockwaves tossed all the cars aside and windows shattered with the structures fractured.
The McCrimmons got blown into the grass of their backyard by the shockwave and stumbled over while the grill knocked over and the flames snuffed out by the blast. With groaning and grunting, the McCrimmon recovered slowly and cautiously stood on their feet then gasped at the massive crater, emanating a brown-like glowing aura.
"Whoa…" Ryan marveled.
"We're lucky to be alive and in one piece…" panted Charles.
"This…is…so freaky!!" said Melody, half-amazed half scared. Ryan then jumped over the fence and sprint toward the crater. "Ryan, what are you doing!?!?" panicked Melody as she and Charles quickly followed him.
"Checking it out! Duh." he replied as he stands near the crater.
"Well, is it a meteor?" asked Charles.
"Can't see when it's burning." said Ryan. Suddenly the ground received a nudge and crumbled beneath Ryan. "WHOA!!" he screamed as he fell down. "OOF!!" grunted Ryan as he landed inside the crater.
"RYAN!!" panicked Charles and Melody as they ran up to the edge and look down to finds Ryan dusting himself.
"I'm okay. Don't worry." he reassured them as he stood up. "Huh?" Ryan noticed the object finally ceased glowing/burning and reveal itself as a small metallic sphere. "Doesn't look like a meteor to me. It's some…kind of metallic sphere. And it's small." he said.
"How a small sphere can survive such a collision? Furthermore, how did it change direction!?" asked Melody in confusion.
"Feeling ill?" asked Charles.
"No. Though I never felt radiation so how would I know?" shrugged Ryan.
HIIIIISSSSSS!!*
The sphere ejects steam then it opens up. Ryan glanced over then the brown aura appears again, revealing the object to be a bulky wristwatch-like device with white couplings and brown buttons: big one on the right side and four around the bezel. The interface is brown with hourglass shape. It brighten greater with neon-brown glow and make a beep sound.
"What is it?" asked Charles.
"It's a watch…" Ryan baffled as he didn't expect that. "It's a watch from outer space." he added.
"Did you say a watch??? What's a watch doing in outer space??" asked Melody.
"Better not touch it. Who knows what it can do." warned Charles.
"Grandpa, it's just a watch." said Ryan, not taking his word seriously and reached out to grab it.
"Ryan, do—" Melody's warning failed when Ryan reached out his right hand over the watch. The watch suddenly unstrapped itself, jump up and strapped onto his right wrist. It gave a surge of brown lightning and end with a zap, then a beep of confirmation.
"YEOW! Hey, let go!" complained Ryan in pain as he swung his arm, trying to shake the watch off. "Get off! Get off!!" he start tugging the watch off but its grip was so strong; it didn't budge a single inch. Ryan gave a groan of defeat, climbed out of the crater and stood before his relatives. "This freaking watch just jumped on my wrist!" he cried, showing it to his grandfather.
"Told you so. Now you're doom!!!" cried Melody.
"Oh shut up!! All it did is zap me!" scoffed Ryan.
"Stay here. I'll get some tools. Melody, with me." said Charles as they head back to the house while Ryan struggled to tug it off.
"Maybe there's a release button… Huh?" Ryan had just noticed the big button on the front of the watch then, believed to be the release button, pressed it. Instead, it cause the interface to pop up. "Whoa!" The interface then switches the face from hourglass to diamond shape and displayed the fiery humanoid figure.
"Wow, cool!!" Ryan stated. He glanced around to make sure no one is around then held up his finger over the core then pressed it down.
BWOOSH!!
"AH!! W-What the—!" exclaimed Ryan as the watch produced a flash of brown light then began to painfully sink into his wrist while producing charcoal rocks around his wrist. "W-What's happening…? My hand!!" panicked Ryan as he clutched his arm and struggled to shove the rocks off his wrist, just to notice it began to spread across his arm. "GYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" screamed Ryan in horror as the rocks consumed his whole arm and reached across his face. His eyes glowed amber and swung his head away before he was consumed, tripped over and fell into the crater as everything went black.
A burst of fire erupted in the crater then a 7 ft. tall figure jumped out and land back on the street before standing up tall. It's a lava-like humanoid known as a Pyronite. He has bulked magma rocks across his body with mini-volcanoes formed on the shoulders and forearms, his lower anatomy was coated by a black bodysuit-like pant with brown waistbands that ascend up as square on the center and brown soles beneath the shoes. He has rock-structure behind his head that reflects his hoodie and has lemon-yellow flames. He open his eyes then squints them as he swung his arms out.
"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!" roared the Pyronite then he slammed his arms against the ground, sending out fiery shockwaves that fissures across the street and impacted the building, destroying it in an explosion of fire. Many civilians ran out of the nearby buildings in complete panic. "RRRAAAGGH!!" The Pyronite swung his hands up, the mini-volcanoes and the hands began making shoom sound then fired fire bolts out, destroying everything in sight; inanimate objects, vehicles, buildings and street.
One fireball struck the backyard and set it ablaze. Melody ran out by the sound of roar and explosion then saw the flames. She grabbed the fire extinguisher and blew it out.
"Where did that fire com—" Melody looked ahead and saw the Pyronite, causing her to gasped. "Where did that monster come from!? Where's Ryan!?" she screamed. The Pyronite heard her, turned his fiery glare at her and make a growl as he forged a fireball and threw it at her.
"EEK!!" she ducked down as it flew over her then she grew angry and scared as the Pyronite approached her. "You ate Ryan!? Did you?! Tell me!!" she cried as she spray him with fire extinguisher.
"AARGH!" gagged the Pyronite as he staggered back and his flames got extinguished. He start coughing fumes out of his mouth then shook his head and glared at Melody, which his head ignited in flames once more. "Grrr…" He held up his hand, it starts surging with flames then forged into a saber.
"EEP!!!" squeaked Melody as she wet herself. Suddenly police sirens filled the air and the police forces arrived at the scene, originally meant to investigate the meteor but armed themselves when they saw the Pyronite.
"Halt! Put your weapon down!" ordered the police as he fired his gun, which instantly melt by the Pyronite's aura before the bullet struck his head. Regardless, it caught his attention as he glared at them. "Stand down, whoever you are! And put your—"
"RRRAAGGH!!" roared the Pyronite as he swung his saber and produced a heat wave, which they ducked and it sliced their police car's roofs off.
"Fire!!" they all return fires but it was no use as it melted before it touched his body.
"You…call that bullet? This…is a bullet!!" The Pyronite held up his hand, the pavement fissured by the heat wave and debris gets levitated by flames then he gestured his hand into a gun. "Bang." he mimic the gun fire movement, which commands the debris to jet toward them and crippled the vehicles while nicking some cops, giving them serious burn. The Pyronite then thrust his hands down, exploded in a burst of fire before propelling himself across the sky, using his fires as rocket boost.
"What the hell was that thing!?" one of the cops shouted.
"Melody, what happened?!" asked Charles as he returns with a cutting torch.
"A…A…A fire monster…" she panted.
Meanwhile, the Pyronite was wreaking havoc on the town, firing fireballs at every direction and set the buildings in flames and many people fled from his inferno presence.
"Ahhh…graah…H…Home… Must make…home." he snarled.
"Hey! Settle down, you pyromaniac nuisance!" shouted a voice.
"Huh!?" grunted the Pyronite as he ceased advancing and search around in anger.
"Down here." said the voice. The Pyronite looked down to see a small Galvan with brown eyes and brown tunic. He seems young and matured.
"A…Galvan?" growled the Pyronite.
"Nice to see you know my tongue. Obviously, you're suffering disorientation. This is not Pyro." he said.
"Then I'll…make it…Pyro!" he growled.
"Such a low-intellectual beast. Torching a small planet to become Pyro serves nothing. All you do is making a complete fool of yourself." scoffed the Galvan
"Grrrhuh!? GRRAAAAAAAAH!!" roared the Pyronite as he let out a massive aura of fire. "I WILL MAKE IT PYRO!!!" he roared as the pavement began to melt and the Galvan dart back.
"Yeesh!" the Galvan held up a cube then it opens up and encased him inside.
"BLLLAAARRRGH!!" The Pyronite vomit a wave of magma, consuming the Galvan but the lava got instantly harden by cold temperature before shattering and emerged a battle mecha version of a Mechamorph but the digital frames are brown.
"That's enough!!" roared the Mechamorph with the Galvan's voice but filtered into a deep, menacing voice. He constructed his hand into cannon and blasted directly at the Pyronite's face, producing a burst of explosion and he went flying, stumbled over and slide to his side before stopping, collapsing to unconsciousness. "Hmph…" the Mechamorph stomped forward and tower over the defeated Pyronite then placed his foot on his shoulder and turn him over. The optic scanned around, searching for something before spotting the watch's symbol that rested on the naval.
"Now to fix it. At least now I know the DNAs are still sentient and will take over one's inferior minds instantly without mastery the form." he scoffed as he constructed his hand into a device with a gap meant for the watch. He kneels down and linked it over the symbol.
Unbeknownst to him, Melody had just arrived with her grandfather, armed with steel pipe and fire extinguisher to combat the Pyronite. However, they stopped to see the Galvan-piloting-Mechamorph standing over the unconscious Pyronite.
"Done. Fail-Safe Limiter activated." said the Galvan as he disconnected his arm away from the watch's symbol. "…Ha, I should leave the Omnitrix to this foolishly boy." smirked the Galvan as the watch, known as the Omnitrix, start blipping orange light and made a dying beep before the Pyronite exploded into a surge of brown light.
Melody and Charles watched in great amazement and the Galvan stepped away as they witnessed the Pyronite transformed back into Ryan McCrimmon and the Omnitrix is still on his right wrist but the brown color texture is now orange.
"R-RYAN!?!?" gasped Melody.
"Ugh… Wh-What happen?" groaned Ryan but he blacked out before he could be told. The Galvan activated his rocket boots and flew across the sky before Melody can whack him. She then ditched her weapon and check on her cousin.
"Ryan?!?! What just happen?!? Ryan!??!" asked Melody as Charles remained in awe and confusion.
A Day Later=
"GAH!!" Ryan woke up suddenly and gasped as he shot up from the sofa. Charles and Melody had brought him back to the house. "What happen?" he groaned as he rubbed his head. Melody enters the living room and brought him some water. Charles joined in.
"We were gonna ask you the same question." said Charles as he sat down on the sofa.
"All I remember was I pressed the watch's dial down, and after that…. I blacked out." Ryan said as he cannot even remember the part his arm is being consumed by living rocks. He then looked out the window and saw the backyard's grasses are burnt and the fences are melted. "Guys, what happen?" he asked again.
"Y-You…" began Charles but couldn't continue as he was worried of his reaction.
"You turn into a fire monster and start burning everything!" Melody told him. Ryan gave a stare and raised an eyebrow.
"I'm serious, Mel. What happen?" he repeated in annoyance.
"No, I am serious!! You turn into a fire monster and start burning everything!" she repeated with her arms swinging in anger.
"What, really?" he asked. "How? And why?"
"Best you see the news." said Charles as he turns on the TV and, on cue, the news shows the black box from the police car, which it shows the Pyronite torching everything in sight. Even innocents got hurt.
"That was me!?" cried Ryan in shock.
"Unfortunately yes." said Charles.
"How did you turn into dat!?" asked Melody.
"Wait, hold on!" Ryan began. "I don't remember any of that! And if I suddenly turned into a humanoid ball of magma, I'd clearly remember." he said.
"Well, we saw a large, mechanical creature turned you back to normal." added Charles.
"Huh?" asked Ryan then looked at his right wrist, just to see the Omnitrix sitting innocently on his wrist. "You think this thing turned me into that monster?" he asked.
"Well, that monster appears right where you standing when we heard you screaming and you said you pressed the button down." Melody concluded the possibility.
"Not monster, alien." said Charles seriously. Both cousins stares at him. "U-Uh, I mean, it's obvious. A watch fell from space and it turns you into a humanoid volcano. That's something alien, no?" he stuttered.
"Sure…" Ryan said. "Well, that was weird, if anything. At least…I didn't hurt anyone too seriously…" he muttered.
"Best not to touch it. It seems you have no control of its powers." warn Charles. But as soon as he left, Ryan started twisting the Omnitrix's dial.
"Hey, he said don't touch it!!" yelled Melody.
"I'm just wondering what happened." Ryan told her.
"There's the news. And Tweeter gone nuts as well." said Melody.
BEEP!!
Ryan just pressed the big button and the dial popped up once again. "I figured out what I did!" Ryan beamed happily.
"Don't press it!! It's my favorite sheet!" yelled Melody. Ryan just stood up and stands in the center then slammed his palm on the core, engulfing his body with bright light.
Ryan held up his hand as his skin becomes whitish-silver then his whole arm got encased by organic crystalline matters and molds into a durable, bulked arm with muscular tone then he lowered his arm. His whole skin was glowing then his head got encased by the crystalline matter then his eyes got encased by brown crystalline matter before producing a flash of brown light. Camera rotated around before slowing down as crystal shards grew out of his back then he rotated around and swung his arms as he concluded his transformation.
He's now a Petrosapien with his crystalline body colored with dark teal and grew crystalline elbow blades; his body was suited up in a full-body black uniform with a hoodie, has a brown stripe that goes down to his navel and the brown-with-black belt, has brown shoes beneath the boot and the Omnitrix symbol is on the center of his chest.
"Whoa…" said the Petrosapien as he scanned his body then glanced at his hand. "Huh… Odd, I still feel like myself but…at the same time I don't feel like myself." he comments.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" screamed Melody as she starts throwing random objects at the Petrosapien.
"Ouch!" he cried as he shields his face. "Hey dweeb, it's still me!" he argued.
"Right, and I'm Zoey of Tokyo Mew Mew!!! Just stay where you are or I'll break your head!!" she growled.
"I'm now a living crystal! I doubt you can break my head now!!" shouted the Petrosapien. "And stop mentioning that show! I hate it!! Fairy Tail's the best show ever, period!!" he added.
"…WHAT!??!" Melody grabbed a hammer and prepares to whack his head but stop. "Huh?! Y-You are yourself… Then why you went berserk as the pyro guy?" she asked.
"Something must've been wrong with the watch before. Now it fixed itself somehow…" The Petrosapien mused.
"Maybe that mech alien fixed it. But why he left it on you instead of taking it away?!" she wondered.
"Wait what?!" asked the Petrosapien. They were interrupted by a beeping sound from the Omnitrix symbol before he exploded in orange light and morphed back into his human form.
"Awesome!" beamed Ryan.
"Not awesome!" countered Melody then Charles came in.
"Did you just activate it?" he groaned.
"No…" Ryan lied. "Anyway, I have superpowers now!!" he cheered in excitement.
"You did activate it." frowned Charles.
"But now he has control. The alien must've fixed it." said Melody.
"I'm a Power Ranger basically!" Ryan said enthusiastically. "Awesome!!" he beamed.
"Well, guess we better get you used to your powers for now. Just don't use the pyro one." said Charles, giving a smile.
"It's morphin' time!" Ryan shouted. "That's not my permanent catchphrase, but it's gonna stay for now." he added.
"Like a wittle kid!" Melody coos in mockery.
"Careful, Melody." frowned Ryan.
"Just like Happy!" she cooed.
"Seriously, stop!" Ryan was annoyed now. "So Grandpa, when are we going to start the road trip?"
"Guess it's today since BBQ is out yesterday." he shrugged.
"Whoa, I was out that long? Anyway, I can't wait!!" Ryan said ecstatically. "Especially with the watch! I'll be the best hero ever!"
"Actually… Mom and Dad wants me to tag along with you guys." Melody said, eager to see Ryan's reaction.
"What!?" Ryan screamed. "Grandpa, why?!" groaned Ryan.
"Hey, I can't argue and win against my daughter." shrugged Charles innocently.
"Ugh, whatever." moaned Ryan.