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Retrieval Saga

The Omnitrix Ordeal

Chapter 1: Crash Stop

Nullspace Badland Sector G-51

Matt wandered around the corridors of the Shadow Hawk, bored. He'd drawn the short straw and was stuck with the night watch. It had been a week since the battle in New York and the crew had gotten back to the old routine of catching Virus clones and fighting Emperor Hamsterviel's lackeys. They did have some extra help though as Techo had decided to tag along too (though Matt suspected this was just so he wouldn't have to help repair CPS HQ).

Most of the experiments were fast asleep. Their antennas and fingers twitched a bit in their sleep. However in the room Draco and Chip were sharing with Rick, Akira, and Morph, they were both wide awake. They were trying to determine which of them was superior over the other in one of the most gruelling of all competitions. "You have to blink sometime, you rascal," said Chip. "You're not winning this one," said Draco, "I've got my eyes on you." They heard Rick mutter in his sleep, "Why yes, a vanilla soufflé would hit the spot right now," then Rick started chewing on his pillow. "Rick wouldn't know a good soufflé if it bit him," said Chip, trying to distract Draco.

Suddenly Rick let out a cry of pain and jumped out of his bed. His cry woke up the others in the room except Morph, who had a pair of earmuffs on. "What's going on?" asked Akira. "Something bit me!" cried Rick. "You mean something's biting you," said Draco. Clamped onto Rick's patookie with a leech-like mouth was a strange little red alien. "What is that thing?" asked Akira. "That's a Havoc Beast," said Chip as he grabbed onto the creature, "they like to gnaw on anything they can get their mouths around." With a little help from Draco, the Havoc Beast was removed. "How'd it get here?" asked Rick, rubbing his sore bottom. "I have no idea," said Draco, "but I know where it's going." He and Chip carried the little monster out of the crew's quarters and towards the airlock.

Matt walked into the bridge room to look at the scanners again. A small red light got his attention. "Who's calling us way out here?" he muttered flicking the switch. A male voice with a dull tone spoke over the speaker.

"Warning! You have entered a restricted sector known as the Null Void. Alter your heading immediately." it intoned slowly. Matt was up and at the controls as soon as 'Null Void' was mentioned. The place was worse then the Bermuda triangle for vanishing ships or even worse…the ships sometimes returned with what remained of the crew as gibbering wrecks.

Matt pulled a hard left, causing most of the sleeping crew to have a rude awakening as they were thrown out their beds. Chris was first into the bridge. "What the smeg are you doing, Matt?" he asked angrily, a black eye visible.

"We're in trouble if I don't turn the ship round now," said Matt and added, "I think we're in the Null Void…we set off one of the warning beacons at some point."

Draco and Chip reached the airlock and threw the Havoc Beast inside. They slammed it shut and pressed the button that opened the door on the other side. The Havoc Beast was sucked out the door by the change in pressure. "We ought to report this to Matt," said Draco. "I agree," said Chip. Then a voice made a strange noise behind them, "Me, me, me, me."

Draco and Chip turned around and saw Morph with his eyes closed and his arms outstretched. Morph snored and made the strange noise again, "Me, me, me, me." Morph walked past Draco and Chip without noticing and headed towards the wall. Instead of stopping, Morph put his foot on the wall and started walking up it. "He's sleepwalking," said Chip, "that only happens if there are spectral disturbances around." "How do you know?" asked Draco. "Remember that time we went spent a night in that haunted house?"

Flashback: Both Draco and Chip were standing in front of a portrait of a creepy old man. "You know," said Draco, "they say his spirit walks these halls." "That's ridiculous," said Chip. Suddenly the man in the portrait pulled out a hammer and whacked Chip on top of the head. Moments later, Morph sleepwalked past with a pair of scissors sticking into the back of his head. End flashback.

"So you're saying that there may be ghosts around here?" asked Draco. "Perhaps not ghosts, but something that's ghostly or undead," said Chip. "Maybe something with one eye, long arms, and an opening chest?" asked Draco. "Ha, ha, very funny Draco," said Chip. But then Chip noticed that Draco wasn't looking at him, but a porthole above his head. Chip looked up at it and saw a skull-like face with one purple eye. "Ectonurite!" they both cried and ran towards the bridge. Chip came back real quickly to grab Morph who was on the ceiling.

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Matt was busy steering through the soup-like nebula the ship was in when Draco and Chip rushed in, still holding the snoring Morph. "Yes I know I woke you up…" started Matt but was interrupted by Chip.

"We may have a slight problem," said Chip urgently. Matt wasn't paying attention as he tried to find the way out of the strange nebula the ship had gotten stuck in. "Yeah…we're stuck in one of the most dangerous sectors of the Badlands…" he said turning to look at Chip then noticing the experiment and continuing "…That's not the problem…is it," he said just as the security console lit up like a 4th of July fireworks display, every screen showing intruder alert followed by a picture of where the alerts were.

Chris got there first in time to see and an Ectonurite phase through the hull into the canteen, shorting out some of the wall lights. "It's just those Ghost aliens you met on Nocturnus…I thought they were on our side?" he said. At this point another of the Ectonurites phased in via the environmental control console causing it to explode in sparks and plunging the bridge into gloom.

The Ectonurite fired a purple beam at Chris first, knocking him over. "I don't think so," said Matt drawing his blaster and aiming, ignoring Draco's cry of "Wait!" This was said with good reason. All the energy bolts passed harmlessly through the Ectonurite, who phased though the bridge doors deeper into the ship.

Matt looked at what was left of the bridge. Given that he'd once attacked 627 when the experiment had spat on the ship's hull, his brain was in shock. Draco waved a hand in front of him. "I think his brain's broken," he said. Chris whacked Matt on the back of the head which caused Matt to yell "I'LL KILL THOSE LITTLE VANDALS!" before getting out his ion staff and running out the bridge, not even waiting for the door to open and just slicing it out the way instead.

Morph therefore, woke up to see Chip, Draco and Chris staring at the wrecked door open-mouthed from Matt's outburst. The sound of fighting as the rest of the crew were woken by the invading Ectonurites could be heard. "Erm…What did I miss?" he asked.

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The experiments and Matt were trying valiantly to get the Ectonurites off the Shadow Hawk but every attack was simply avoided and was returned with interest in the form of one of the beams, the Ectonurites being at full strength since the one on the bridge had fried the lighting controls.

Now the aliens were heading for the core room. "If they knock out the core like they're doing to everything else, we'll lose life support," said Matt to Draco, taking a pot shot at an Ectonurite chasing Reuben and for once hitting the distracted alien, the blast knocking it into a wall.

Draco used his psychic powers to cause another Ectonurite to turn solid enough for Stitch to grab hold of and beat up. "From what I hear, Ectonurites don't people invading their territory with lots of light. That's probably why they're attacking. And they're not the remorseful sort."

Matt ran into the core room first and stopped dead. "What is it?" said Chris fearing the worst and saw Techo snoring in one of the seats, apparently oblivious to the small war breaking out on the ship. "I knew he slept deeply but…" said Matt before shouting in Techo's ear "WAKE UP!" causing the sleeping merc to fall backwards. "What's going on? YAAAAH!" said Techo, screaming as an Ectonurite phased through the floor in front of him only to be blasted, psy-blasted and in Morph's case, hit with a hammer from the Tech-Pack back through the floor.

"I wish I was still sleeping," said Techo with feeling before running out the core room to find some more experiments to help.

While they waited for Techo, some more experiments appeared. They were Lilo, Stitch, and Kala. "Guys," said Matt, "I'm not sure how long it'll take Techo to get back here. But till then, we have to keep those ghosts away from the core or we're gonna die." "Ectonurites can't stand too much light," said Chip, "perhaps Contrinus could help out." "Where is she?" asked Chris. "She's trying to help Techo in the bridge," said Draco. "That's not exactly where we want him to be right now," said Lilo.

Suddenly, someone knocked and Morph peeked out. "Oh, hello 627, come on in, nice eyeliner you're wearing." "Eyeliner?" asked Stitch as 627 walked in. There were black groves around 627's eyes and his eyes had purple irises. "He's possessed!" yelled Draco and zapped him with a bolt of electricity. An Ectonurite came out of him and fled the room. "I think I know another reason they're attacking us," said Chip.

An Ectonurite, despite the efforts of the experiments, Chris, and Matt managed to touch the glowing crystals of the core, causing them to begin crackling with purple energy lightning. "Oh…smegging hell," said Matt worriedly.

The Ectonurites began to leave at speed and a shutter blocked the core room door. "Not good," said Matt, struggling to open it. The core was beginning to let out a whining noise and the air began to taste a bit like copper. Matt, who had used direct jump engines before recognised the signs and said, "Well…at least we'll get a vacation."

The crystals suddenly jolted to a stop and a purple wave of energy engulfed the room's inhabitants.

Somewhere in Nevada…

The desert sun was sinking towards the horizon when the air 10 feet above the ground began to crackle and shimmer. Suddenly a large purple wormhole appeared and spat out two humans and seven experiments onto the sand. The portal closed up and disappeared.

Matt sat up and rubbed his head, "Smegging Ectonurites." "Is everyone alright?" asked Chris. "Fine, except having sand where it's not supposed to be," said Stitch and he whacked one side of his head causing sand to come out of his ear in the form of a castle. "Don't worry," said Morph, "this anthill broke my fall." The ants swarmed all over Morph, took a few bites, and then made an unmistakable 'Bleah!' and scurried back into the ground. "I don't taste too good to bugs," explained Morph as he hopped off the anthill, "Where are we?"

Matt checked his NPI (Nullspace Position Identifier) and said, "We're somewhere in western Nevada." He looked around and was what looked like a road side pit stop not too far off. "Maybe someone there can help us," he thought as he started walking over, "or at least give me something to drink."

Inside the rest stop…

If Matt had read the dimensional code on the scanner readout more closely he might have been more cautious. The rest stop was the current headquarters of Nullspace weapon dealer and all round evil person; Auric Romanov who was busy showing General Silvia and NegaMorph around his 'Showroom' that was hidden in the storeroom of the rest stop.

"…And here we have the latest from S-125…the SKYNET universe. It's called a T-X apparently. It uses an Anti-matter reactor for power so your 'Traveller' won't be able to explode these. It also has several built-in weaponry systems and was tested to be immune to all current computer viruses," he said in a slight Russian accent, pointing to two strangely insectoid inactive droids.

"Quite impressive…it'd be more impressive if we saw what it was capable of though," said Silvia, looking over the droids. NegaMorph nodded. "Yeah…your other droids are usually ripped apart in a minute by the Resistance," he walked over to a covered NSC stasis tube and was about to pull down the cover when Romanov ran up, blocking him. "Ah, please don't…heh…that's my personal collection," he said nervously only to be pushed aside.

The stasis tube held what seemed like an anthro raptor. It had been badly injured at some point as it had heavy cybernetic modification. Both its hands were mechanical below the elbows with slots around the wrist area that seemed to cover some kind of weaponry and most of the torso was covered with heavy duty battle armour. Its left eye was also cybernetic.

"Were you holding out on us?" said NegaMorph with a smirk that had nothing to do with humour. Silvia however was looking at the creature in horror. "It's a Sy-Yong Mutant," she said before looking at Romanov. "They were all wiped out by the NSC though."

Romanov shrugged. "I find bio-organic weaponry fascinating. The NSC sanitization fleet recovered the original mutant's body and kept it in stasis to stop it regenerating…though as you can see it required a helping hand recovering from my people once I…acquired it," he said walking back and forth in front of it.

"He is called Tuatara…the perfect bounty hunter. I haven't tested him yet but he should be perfectly loyal," he continued. NegaMorph interrupted with, "SHOULD BE? Those things took out a force of the NSC's elite that outnumbered them 3 to1." Further comment was interrupted as Romanov's comm went off. "Yes? What is it?" he said annoyed.

"Erm…sir? You're not gonna believe who just walked into the bar…" came the worried voice of the 'barman' on duty…

In the bar…

Matt walked through the door into the music filled bar, ignoring some of the stares from the people drinking. He walked up to the bar and poked the guy working there. "Yeah? What can I get…You?" he said, the 'You' part coming out in a squeak. Matt watching in fascination as the guy went pale. "Er…you ok?" he said after a bit.

The barman nodded, "What can I get you sir?" he said. Matt shrugged. "I just wanna know where I am," he said before getting a glimpse of the fridge behind the bar that had several bottles of cola. "And one cola."

The barman seemed very jumpy to Matt as he got the order. He gave Matt the drink and ran down the bar to the service phone. A small mental alarm bell rang as to WHY a bar would need a service phone AND a regular one but he dismissed it.

When the barman didn't return, he pulled some more bottles out the fridge for the others and left some cash and turned to leave…to come face to face with Silvia and NegaMorph.

"The hell?" he said and turned back to see several of the 'regulars' from the bar now holding various NSC issue weapons and, grinning in the doorway to the staff area…

"Romanov? Oh…smeg. Of all the places to run into you…" he said but was interrupted as NegaMorph picked him up and threw him out the window. He slid through the dust until his head hit the gas pumps with a clang. He got up in time to see one of Romanov's men despite what seemed to be objections from Silvia, was aiming a photon pulse gun at him and barely got his plasma shield up before the shot hit, causing the gas pumps to go up in a flower-shaped fireball.

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Not too far off, an RV was speeding along the highway. The old man was humming a tune to himself when the gas station up ahead exploded in a burst of fire. "I think we've got trouble ahead," he said to his two grandchildren in the back. The girl looked up from the pocketbook she was reading and said, "It wouldn't have anything to do with those hitchhikers up ahead would it?" The boy stopped listening to his music player and started twisting the face of his peculiar-looking watch. "Looks like its hero time again," he said. "I don't think it's the hitchhikers' fault," said the grandfather. He smiled as the headlights of the RV illuminated four very familiar faces. "But I think we could use their help."

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Matt groaned as he opened his eyes. He was still in one piece, that's good. Silvia, NegaMorph, and Romanov were coming towards him in a causal, as-you-please manner, that's bad. Silvia won't allow Matt to be killed, that's good. She'll have him sent to Emperor Hamsterviel instead, that's bad.

"Well, well, well," said Romanov. "Just who we were talking about. You have knack for showing up when least expected, don't you." Romanov had two of his men drag Matt up. "Now…Miss Silvia tells me that I cannot kill you…a shame…but your crew…that's different." He glared closely at Matt. "You and your cursed sister stole NS$300,000,000 from me. Tell where it is and my men won't shoot your crew on sight," he said coldly in Matt's ear.

Matt shrugged. "Gave it away," he said and added "Well…most of it." Romanov's eyes twitched slightly and he glared daggers at Matt. "You gave…300 million away…" he said as if trying to fit his brain round the idea. He glared at Silvia "Please get this…Han Solo reject off my property," he said.

"I don't see your ship anywhere near here," said Silvia, turning to Matt. "I, uh, kinda, lost it," said Matt pathetically. "Tsk, tsk, tsk," said Silvia, "captains shouldn't lose their ships. It wouldn't do, would it? Doesn't seem to be your lucky day today, doesn't it?" "Yeah," said Matt, "I wouldn't call meeting three of the worst scum in the universe a good day." Silvia frowned and turned to Romanov, "What is it about the Traveller that makes you particularly angry?"

"Apart from the fact that he stole all my money? He is cocky with himself," said Romanov, "he never stops with insults." Silvia nodded and turned to NegaMorph, "And you?" "Besides the way he throws me around, I'd say his smart mouth," said the Shadow Clone. Silvia smiled and said, "Escort Mr. Lynch back to the ship, but feel free to amputate his voice box if you want." NegaMorph gave her an ear-to-eye grin and reached for Matt's neck with his hand-mouth.

"1 against 15?" called a voice, "Isn't that a bit unfair?" Everyone turned around and saw a 10-year old boy with brown hair, green eyes, a white shirt with black stripes on his front and sleeves, green cargo pants, sneakers, and a peculiar watch on his left wrist. Several of Romanov's men laughed but NegaMorph's pupiled eye widened as he muttered, "Oh no, not him again."

Silvia waved her hand dismissively, "Go back to your sandbox, kid. This is grown-up business." The boy twisted the face of his watch and said, "I can be grown-up when I want to." He slammed the face down and there was a flash of green light. When the light cleared, the boy was replaced by a creature that resembled Frankenstein's monster with several bolts in his torso, two lightning rods on his back, and the logo of the watch on his belt buckle. "But sideburns isn't the only thing Frankenvolt has," said the alien and his lightning rods extended and shot out green lightning at them.

Romanov and his men scattered while Silvia raised her hands just in time, causing the lightning to bend at a right angle and hit NegaMorph instead. "Thanks for that," he said angrily, gently smoking. Matt staggered up and ran for it. Silvia spotted this but already had her hands busy with Frankenvolt, ducking another lightning.

Matt turned to see Romanov's men had come back and dived for cover as they opened fire. "This just isn't my day," he said, checking the charge on his gun. Suddenly there was a cry and one of Romanov's men went by at a flat trajectory to hit the floor about 6 feet away. He peered round to see that Chris and the rest of the crew had turned up.

Chip spoke first as he spotted Ben's and Silvia's fight. "Hey…is that Ben?" he said. "Ben?" asked Matt. "He's a friend of ours," explained Draco. "How'd he turn into that Franken-thingy?" asked Matt. "Have you heard of the Omnitrix?" asked Chip. "The Omni-" Matt stopped and looked back at the two lightning-blasting opponents. "You're telling me that the Omnitrix is on the wrist of a kid?" "Yeah, everyone reacts that way," said Stitch. "I suppose I owe him a favour," said Matt as he extended his Ion staff, "keep Romanov's men busy." As he rushed off, Chip said, "I would like to, but I need a recharging after that Ectonurite invasion." Suddenly a blue lightning bolt from Silvia and a green one from Frankenvolt zapped Chip. "That's the stuff!" he said.

Silvia was being forced into the defensive by Frankenvolt. "NEGAMORPH, YOU LITTLE BLOB…HELP ME!" she shouted jumping out the way of another attack. NegaMorph, who was leaning against a rock on the sidelines, said, "Just wait."

Unfortunately a beeping was then heard. "Aw man, not now," said Ben as the Omnitrix symbol flashed red, followed by a bright flash of the same colour and he was back in human form. Silvia grinned horribly, showing off her experiment fangs. "Oh how the tables have turned," she said, drawing her Ion staff and approaching with NegaMorph. "Hello Ben," said NegaMorph, "long time no see. Looks like you've got some new forms on that watch. The Emperor will be very satisfied when we turn you over."

At that point though, NegaMorph went flying to the side like a freight train had run him over. Silvia rounded to see Matt charging her with his Ion staff out and brought hers up to block his attack just in time. "You just don't know when to quit," she snarled before kicking Matt in the chest and knocking him over.

Matt rolled to the side to avoid her slash downwards and answered, "And you seem very intent on skewering me for someone who wants me alive…" He tried another plasma orb but Silvia used an electricity force shield to send it flying into Romanov's rest stop, much to his displeasure. His men were not having a fun time vs. the experiments and Chris. Draco and Chip were sent behind a car by one blast. "Where are these guys getting these guns?" asked Draco. "I think I might have heard of Romanov, but I can't remember where," said Chip. "So do you stand a chance against these guys?" asked Draco. 627 was knocked aside by several plasma blasts. He got up, yelled, "Evil!" and fried them with several plasma and lightning blasts. "I'd say yes," said Chip.

Matt and Silvia both looked at the blasted Rest Stop and said in unison, "Oops," before turning back to the task at hand...beating the smeg out of each other. "You'd had better hope nothing I bought was destroyed in there," said Silvia. "Just put it on my tab," said Matt. Silvia managed to trip him with her Ion staff and said, "Face it, Matt. On an even playing field, I always win." Matt shrugged and said, "Yeah, that's often happened." Silvia gave Matt a confused look but then an explosion threw Stitch into the air. He flipped a couple of times before landing mouth-first on Silvia's head. Silvia's cries of disgust were muffled by Stitch's jaws over her head. She dropped her staff and tried to tug Stitch off. "That's why I have to build up my side of the field," said Matt getting up.

About that time, NegaMorph had recovered from Matt's attack and noticed Stitch with Silvia's head in his mouth. He grabbed a nearby pipe and said, "Don't worry, Silvia. I'll get him." He ran over and raised the pipe high over his head. Stitch noticed this and jumped off Silvia at the last second. The pipe landed with a clang between Silvia's eyes. Silvia gave off a dazed chuckle and fell to the ground, out cold. "Woops," said NegaMorph, "sorry." Matt quickly grabbed his Ion staff and fired a pulse at NegaMorph. The black blob flew threw the air and landed on top of Romanov.

"Time to go?" asked Stitch. "Yep," said Matt. "Everyone back to the RV!" yelled Stitch. The others stopped fighting and ran off towards the road. Matt looked confused. "RV? What R- Oof!" Matt was interrupted when Chris caught him around the waist and lifted him over his shoulder. "Explain later," Chris huffed. Once everyone was in the Rustbucket, it sped off leaving a cloud of dust behind.

A little while later, Romanov's men were trying to repair the damage that has been done during the battle. Fortunately, the door leading to Romanov's stash was solid adamantanium and nothing important was destroyed. NegaMorph was explaining the Omnitrix to Silvia, who now had a bandage on her forehead. "If you had bit him, why hasn't he come to our side?" asked Silvia. "I think they asked Kala to help him," said NegaMorph. "So his AI would still be in him and could be reactivated," said Silvia. "Hmm, in theory."

Romanov walked over to Silvia and said, "Miss Silvia, that wretch and his friends has caused great damage to my store. If you want me too, I could send Tuatara to bring them back." Silvia winced and said, "A tempting offer, but I'll have to pass. We can't risk Tuatara seeking revenge on the Traveller." "Revenge for what?" asked Romanov. "He, uh, was the one who, uh, defeated him before, wasn't he? Oh, my head hurts."

NegaMorph looked worried for a second and said, "Maybe we can send another bounty hunter after him." Silvia smiled and said, "Yes, and I know the perfect team for the job." She picked up her communicator and handed it to NegaMorph. "You call him," she said, "the leader's hard to understand and I've got a bad enough headache already."

Hello everyone. I'm back with a new story. I know I said I won't be back till fall, but I got stir-crazy. I've updated a lot of my characters onto my deviantART account if you want to see. Penname there's Cydra630.

Hope you like this chapter. It's just the beginning. I'm fully aware that Frankenvolt's official name is Benvicktor, but I must say that Benvicktor is the WORST NAME FOR AN OMNITRIX ALIEN EVER!!! And I'm sure lots of people agree with me about this. Keep an eye out for the next chapter, it's coming soon. Please review.