A/N: This story will be a retelling of the Young Justice Cartoon Series if Ben Tennyson was sent to that world with no hope of ever returning home. This story starts a month after the end of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, but Ben will have access to Omniverse Aliens. Zatanna and Rocket are both adults and they will not be part of the Young Justice team. Artemis is a Metahuman and Robin is a magic-user. Thank you very much for reading my story, and PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW!
It had been slightly less than a month since Ben's battle with Diagon, and the world had been at peace ever since. Ben had gotten used to his new Omnitrix which, despite Azmuth's hatred of the feature, still retained the ability to evolve his aliens into their ultimate forms. It now also enhanced all of his physical capabilities and senses while he was in his regular form.
But everything did not remain peaceful, for just as everything seemed to be going great a gigantic ship had appeared in the space near the Earth. Inside were a species called the Contemelia and their device the Anihilaarg, a machine built to destroy and then recreate the universe. After finding out about it the Vreedle Brothers and the Incurseans were on a race to see who could get the Anihilaarg first. Unknown to them there was a third team in the race, led by one Benjamin Kirby Tennyson.
Unfortunately for our heroes the Vreedles got their first, shortly followed by the Incurseans who started a fight with the Vreedles, and during the scuffle the Anihilaarg was accidentally activated. Luckily, before it could finish activating Professor Paradox appeared and froze time.
"Hello Benjamin," Professor Paradox said to the only other person not frozen in time.
"Professor Paradox!" Ben exclaimed, overjoyed at the sight of his long-time allie who had once again saved him. "Thank goodness you're here! What do we do now? How do we stop the Anihilaarg?"
"I'm afraid there is only one way to stop the Anihilaarg, young Benjamin." Professor Paradox said sadly. "It is for you and the Omnitrix to never have existed at all."
"What?!" Ben shouted, sounding shocked and slightly betrayed.
"Yes," Professor Paradox started, "You see the Contemelia only appear in a universe when a being to powerful to be allowed to live has reached their most powerful, and that being young Benjamin, is you. To stop the Contemelia from ever appearing in this universe you and the Omnitrix must never have existed."
"But-But," Ben stammered, "What about all of the good I've done? Stopping Vilgax, the Highbreed, the Incurseans, not to mention Diagon! Without me who would've stopped all of them?"
"Well Benjamin," Paradox began, "Without you and the Omnitrix around Vilgax and the Incurseans would never have taken notice of the Earth, and without Vilgax Diagon would never have been freed in the first place. As for the Highbreed, Gwendolyn and Kevin would have been enough to stop them."
"So, what?" Ben asked him, "Your just going to make me disappear, make it like I never existed in the first place?" Ben said, sounding completely betrayed.
"Of course not!" Paradox said, offended.
"But then-" Ben began, before being interrupted by Paradox.
"Just because you cannot exist here doesn't mean you can't exist in another universe," Paradox started, "A universe in which the Contemelia cannot enter."
"But my friends, my family," Ben said, heartbroken at the implications of never having existed.
"I'm sorry to say they and everyone else in the universe will not remember you," Paradox said, sounding sympathetic, "As I said, it will be as if you never existed."
Ben stood in place for a few moments mourning his life that, in a few moments, would be gone before saying, "Okay, let's do this."
"Of course," Paradox said gently, "But before you go I do have a few gifts for you. The first will be knowledge on the universe you will be entering, and second I will unlock the master control on your new Omnitrix. FInally, I would like you to have this." He says, holding out his hand, and there sitting within his palm is a circular charm with a strange symbol on it.
"The Keystone of Bezel," Ben says in slight awe, taking the charm. "But why give it to me?"
"You will know soon enough," Paradox says with his usual smile before losing it for a more somber look. "Now, are you ready to go?"
Ben takes one last look back at Gwen and Kevin, frozen in time. A single tear falls slowly down his face before he wipes it away, and then he nods as he says, "Yeah, I'm ready to go."
With that Professor Paradox places his hand on Ben's shoulder, and the next thing Ben knows he is standing in the middle of a forest. He feels a slight pain in his head as he suddenly gains all the relevant knowledge needed to survive in this new universe.
"So I guess this is good-bye, huh," Ben says, looking at Professor Paradox.
Professor Paradox gives him a sad nod before saying, "Alas, it looks that way young Benjamin."
"Good-Bye Professor Paradox," Ben bids him farewell sadly.
"Good-Bye young Benjamin," Professor Paradox says before disappearing with a small flash of light.
After a few moments of just standing there, looking at where Professor Paradox had once stood Ben came out of his mood and decided to get walking. Afterall, he had no idea how far away the nearest city was.
He quickly goes over the new knowledge in his head about his new home before saying, "Superheroes, huh? Guess I know what I'm going to be doing with my life."
This is where our story truly begins.
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It had been a little over a month since Ben had come to this new universe and he had yet to find a place to live permanently. He had mostly been staying in hotels, paid for with money he got for his job as a computer technician by using Greymatter to help with the work. He had also made all needed documents to become an actual citizen, including a driver's license, by hacking into the needed websites using Greymatter.
He had finally made enough money to buy his own house, now all he needed was a place to live. Ben had decided to move to place without a huge crime-rate, yet a place that still needed protection. And he found the perfect place in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island.