"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer." - Denis Waitley
The Ultimate Titan
Chapter 1: Go! Pt. 1
Somewhere in Space
Earth, floating forever through the vastness of space, was now being approached by an ominous red spacecraft. Its fuselage in the shape of a large rounded disc, with a narrow spindle topped by a circular projection standing dead center on the upper surface, which appeared to be the bridge. Several spikes extended from the diameter on either side, while two larger ones pointed straight ahead to flank the main gun.
Inside the ship, the sound of a drawn-out, muffled, blood-curdling scream could be heard.
A closed steel door slid open, exposing a corridor where two winged reptilian humanoids with long tails, and armed with a long spear, marched through. These creatures had a face that resembled that of a skull, with narrow red eyes, and red lines that ran across the edges of their faces. They were covered in dark green scales, and wore faded gold colored armor.
It didn't take long for the two to approach a closed door at the far end of the corridor, the sound of a feral growl and pounding of distant fists against a wall was heard.
The two reptilian creatures reached the door; it opened to reveal two more reptiles posted at a steel-fronted cell with spears crossed. There was a glass slot that allowed the guards to look through the door at the captive. The screams came louder and more intense as they got closer, and the pounding growing ever stronger.
"Will the door hold?" one of the reptilian aliens asked the two guards.
"It must." one guard responded as more screaming and banging was heard from behind the cell.
"The alien will be delivered on schedule." the other guard added as he straightened his spear.
The pounding became even greater against the cell door as it slowly gave way to the constant banging it was receiving. Out of fear, the four reptilian guards turned to see the steel door. "And if this thing gets loose?" the fourth alien asked, noticing that the glass slot on the door cracked.
"Then Zorg help us all." one of the reptilian aliens who were guarding the cell answered.
At that moment, one final piercing scream rang through the corridor, the glass slot on the door final breaking, and two burning green eyes rose into view behind it.
Stepping back a few steps, the guards held their weapons tightly, bracing themselves for anything and everything. One last yell rang out and the door blew outward off its hinges, blowing back with enough force to be sent flying at the four guards and crashing down the corridor. They moved the door and looked back at the now open prison cell.
At first they saw nothing but total darkness, but soon after, the green eyes ignited again and their owner stepped out into the light.
The light revealed a young orange skinned female, with long auburn red hair. Over her forehead and around her face, she wore a vaguely M-shaped face guard that reached around her jaw.
Around her neck she wore a silver pauldron with a black broach-like object above her chest. She also had silver shoulder pads, and her arms, stomach, and thighs were covered in purplish-segmented body armor. She wore a black form fitting tank top that stopped above her where her midriff would be, a black skirt with a silver belt, and thigh-length boots with silver trim around her thighs as well as her soles.
In addition to all this, her hands and forearms were encased in thick, rigid, bulky white and black-trimmed cuffs, leaving her elbows free and held in place by a bolt that met at where her hands would be. With this device being the only thing standing between the guards and utter annihilation.
"Zengtha ru maka!" the orange skinned prisoner screamed, "Kek zengtha ror!"
Before the guards even knew it, the enraged female rushed them, ready to pulverize them into oblivion.
Quickly, all four reptilian aliens readied themselves with their spears, but it was too late, as the obviously enraged prisoner swung both forearms in a wild roundhouse, knocking one of the guards against the wall, leaving a crater in it as he slid to the ground.
"Zengtha ru maka! Kek zengtha ror!"
She roared once again as she swung wildly again, this time dispatching two more of the guards. The prisoner then tried an uppercut against the last guard, but the reptilian guard was able to block the attack with his spear, knocking her back.
The guard swung his spear to counterattack, but the red-haired female swung her cuffs again, perpendicular to the spear, breaking the shaft in two. She followed up with a kick to the head of the final guard, knocking him back into a control panel on the wall.
As he slid down, red lights and sirens started going berserk, triggered by the breaking of the panel.
"Heska vo." the female prisoner whispered viciously as she ran down the now open door.
From the outside of the ship, a section of the lower hull blew apart while the escaped prisoner flew out through the smoke and flame. An instant later, she put a lot of distance between herself and her captors, making a beeline to the blue planet the ship was passing by.
~o0o~
Near Jump City
Lying on the ground was a young man around seventeen years old with shaggy brown hair and wearing a pair of jeans with a black t-shirt while the green jacket he was wearing had the number ten stamped on the left side of it.
Just then, the eyes of the young man opened, revealing a pair of dazed and confused emerald eyes.
Feeling a massive headache, the teen slightly sat up and placed his hand on his head, trying to nurse the immense amount of pain he was in at the moment. Finally sitting up, it was here the young man looked around his environment, wondering where he was right now.
The scene didn't look familiar to him, it was made apparent by how his eyebrows scrunched up in confusion as he kept looking around. It was made clear that something was wrong, and the teen was certainly not enjoying this right now.
Deciding to try and remember, the teen tried remembering what lead to him being here, in the middle of nowhere.
However, that was the issue, he couldn't remember anything that had happened to him in the last few hours or so, a problem that would make most people go into hysteria, while the young man merely groaned as he fell back onto the ground, realizing that he was lost and had no idea what lead to him being here.
This wasn't how he wanted to enjoy his time.
All he could remember was hanging out with his cousin and his best friend. Scenes of them laughing while enjoying a smoothie was all he could gather from the last few hours or so, but as to what may have lead him here, that was a different story entirely.
Getting up from the ground, the young teenager looked around and saw nothing for miles in every direction.
"What did I get myself into now?" he asked himself, not taking the situation as serious as the average person might. Though there was nothing ordinary for the young man standing in the middle of nowhere and unable to remember anything.
The young man's name was Ben.
A very well-known person from where he was from, and someone who was different than the ordinary person. It was noticeable of a watch-like device on his wrist, a combination of black, green, and white colors decorated the device in numerous ways. The device didn't seem all that special to those that didn't know Ben, but to those who knew him, it was what made him different.
Raising his wrist up, the young man played with the device for a few moments before a green holograph appeared.
Cycling through the various icons available to him, the young man soon found the one he was looking for and tapped on it. Just then, a small, black core appeared from the middle of the device. Without even hesitating, Ben slammed the core inside, causing the familiar emerald light to surround him.
'Well, if there's one thing to be happy about, the watch hasn't changed on me.' the young man thought, realizing that this was better than nothing.
Once the light died down, instead of the familiar human known as Ben, it was replaced by a strange creature. He was now a red, humanoid, manta-ray like alien with two, black lightning bolt-like stripes coming down from either shoulder, and converging on the familiar green hourglass symbol on his chest. It had yellow lips, which connected to yellow horns right above it's eyes that somewhat resembled large eyebrows pointed upwards.
The alien spread his arms, revealing the yellow patagia underneath them.
"Jetray!" the creature yelled.
Crouching down, Jetray soon launched himself into the air, hoping to get a bird's eye view of the scene around him. After a few moments of scanning the area, the alien caught sight of a city a few miles away from him.
Just as he was about to start flying towards it, the alien heard the sound of something behind him.
Wondering what it was, the alien turned around and was surprised to a streak of green flying through the air. The flying creature moved out of the way as it wanted to avoid being it, seeing how fast it was going since it went by in a blur.
'...What just happened?' Jetray thought to himself.
Deciding to check it out, the alien shapeshifter started chasing after the green streak, still trying to figure out if it was friendly or not.
"Man, what did I get myself into?" the manta-ray-like alien said in an exasperated tone.
~o0o~
Somewhere Else
Jump City; a large U-shaped metropolis with both ends connected by a large red bridge. The city reached the shoreline of a bay that fed out into the ocean, with a large single island some odd meters from the shore jutting out of the water.
On one of the streets in Jump City, sirens wailed in the distance.
A figure, wearing a large coat and a ski mask was running along the sidewalk, with a bulging sack in hand; a burglar running from the police. He quickly ducked into an alley just as a squad of cop cars raced past. The burglar sighed in relief as he smugly eyed the sack, opening it to reveal a good amount of money.
He began walking further along the alleyway, but before he got too far, a shadow passed quickly over him, stopping him in his tracks.
"Huh?"
The burglar muttered, a bit alarmed at thinking he heard someone.
With his free hand, he pulled out a crowbar from his coat and brandished it with uncertainty.
Looking up towards the sky, the burgler started scanning the two buildings to see if something was there. He received his answer when something flashed down from the rooftops at the last moment and struck his hand, sending the crowbar across the ground.
The object in question looked to be red with some hint of yellow and in the shape of a crescent but with a handle on the middle for throwing. The item flew back into the shadows. "I don't want trouble, okay?"
The burglar stammered as he took a few steps back, looking around in a panic.
A black blur dropped down behind him, at the far end of the alley.
The burglar turned to the shadows and found a pair of pinpoint eyes staring at him. A large bat flew toward him, startling the burglar. Throwing his arms up to protect his face, the burglar stood his ground as the bat flew past. Once the nocturnal creature flew away, the burglar lowered his guard and scoffed, believing there was nothing to worry about. That feeling didn't last long as something else sent a whole new scare into him.
"You should've thought of that before you committed the crime." a voice said in a serious tone, revealing the shadow to be male.
The burglar quickly turned around and was greeted by a high kick to the chin; knocking him about five yards back. The man steadied himself before running toward the interloper, still hidden in the shadows. The shadow backed up a bit and blocked the wild barrage of punches arching toward his head before delivering a chop to the burglars throat followed by a kick to the chest, knocking the burglar back again.
The shadow then bounded up a wall, pushing away at the apex of the run, and vaulting into the air. This move carried the shadow over the criminal's shoulders before grabbing them and then slamming the burglar to the ground in a solid body slam.
However, this was not enough, as the shadow dragged the human punching bag up off the ground and threw him against the wall.
Sliding down, half knocked out, the burglar looked up and recognized the shadow as it stepped into the light. The shadow revealed a male teen with spikey black hair, most likely swept back by hair-gel. The young man wore tight green leggings held up by a yellow belt that had segmented pouches with numerous compartments and a circular black-trimmed belt buckle.
He also wore black boots with metal tips on the toes and heels, a red vest with green sleeves and a yellow R over a black circle over the left side of his chest and three yellow clips down his sternum, a black cape with yellow lining around his neck and shoulders, and had green gloves that came up to just before his elbows.
His eyes were hidden behind a domino colored mask.
Within moments the burgler realized that this was Robin, the sidekick of Gotham City's 'Caped Crusader.'
"Hey!" the burglar yelled, albeit weakly, "This isn't your town! Aren't you supposed to be with-" he was cut off by a punch to the face, knocking the criminal unconscious.
"Just moved here." the boy wonder replied. "And from now on, I work alone." he added as he turned away from the unconscious criminal.
The sound of something zooming overhead drew his focus to the skies. The teen took notice of a bright green streak slicing through the night sky above the buildings. The streak traced an arrow-straight path parallel to the alley and disappeared behind the buildings on the far side of the street. The sound of a muffled explosion was heard after it fell out of the spikey-haired teens sight.
Turning to face the knocked out criminal, Robin wanted to make sure he wouldn't be getting away before the cops could get here.
He pulled out a rope and tied the unconscious criminal securely and hanged him upside down from an overhead fire escape before running to the dead end of the alleyway, shooting a grapple to the top of the building to hoist him up, and followed the green streak.
~o0o~
Somewhere Else
Same Time
Downtown Jump City was quiet as the people of the fair city went on doing their business, not seeming troubled by anything in particular.
That would soon change as some of the people noticed a bright green neon streak flying towards them. Within moments, the people were already wondering what it was, made apparent by how the people seem to gravitate towards it like moths to a flame.
The crater emitted a thick cloud of glowing green smoke, hiding whatever it was that crash-landed a few moments ago.
Several curious onlookers stopped their cars and got out for a better look.
As the smoke dissipated, it revealed the orange skinned prisoner at the center of the rubble, a hostile look on her face and eyes burning neon green.
"Slopforn ivortmat!" the female screamed as she walked out of the crater. "Slopforn! Ond gudshik zerrole!"
Her vicious attitude was beginning to scare people off. A pedestrian tried holding his camera to take a picture of the girl, but when the flash went off, it startled the alien girl, causing her to recoil and squeeze her eyes shut.
A moment later, she reopened them, still blazing neon green, and started swinging her arms every which way with a fresh yell. Most of the onlookers backed up even further than they already had as the girl started pounding the pavement hard enough to put potholes in it; the pedestrians now ducking for cover.
The girl then yelled, and in a flash, she rendered an unfortunate taxi fit for the junkyard with one blow. In her rage, she continued to destroy a bank of pay phones, a bench, and a streetlight. Several of the pizza joint customers stared from the relative safety of the second-floor balcony as it trembled under their feet.
When the assault finally stopped, the red-haired alien stood quietly amid the havoc she had just created in this end of Jump City.
The girl glared at the people who were still around her, causing her anger to spike to new levels as she prepared to smash the bulky gauntlets into the ground. Many of those who still stuck around were terrified that she was going to kill them all until a beam of green energy hit the girl in the side, pushing her back a couple of meters.
"Hey!" called out a voice, "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!"
Looking in all directions, the prisoner wanted nothing more than to get back at who it was that attacked her. She then noticed something in the air, flying right above the area, and the prisoner seemed somewhat surprised to see the creature above her.
It looked like nothing she had ever seen before, and that was saying a lot.
Above her was a creature that resembled a manta-ray with yellow patagia under it's arms, acting like it's wings. Whatever this strange creature was, the girl wasn't about to let up now, especially since she got away from her captors.
Letting out another yell, the girl used her ability to fly and attempted to smash the creature who had shot at her.
Using his superior speed, Ben moved out of the way and fired off another blast of neuroshock from it's eyes. The blast of energy smacked the girl in the back, throwing her back towards the ground, smashing into the street and causing a massive crater to form around her.
Thinking that it was safe to approach, the Aerophibian landed on the ground, and upon a closer look, seeing it was a girl around his age. He narrowed his eyes, feeling that something was off, and he was right when the girl's eyes snapped wide open, revealing the neon green color.
"Uh-oh... I think I made her mad..." Jetray muttered as he used his speed and put some distance between him and the girl.
Realizing that Jetray was going to be heavily out-matched because of the only real advantage he had at the moment was his incredible speed, but even the alien hero knew that it was a longshot to believe such a thing. Once he saw the girl, taking notice of her state of confusion and anger, meaning that she wasn't focused as she could be on the fight.
The girl once again rushed him, planning on using her cuffs to smash the creature.
Avoiding the deadly strike, the Aerophibian didn't count on her incredible recovery speed and felt something incredible hard hit him from behind. The sheer force of the alien girl's swing had thrown Jetray into one of the buildings nearby, making contact with it, and falling towards ground, causing a few cracks to form in the sidewalk when he hit the ground with a thud.
Letting out a groan, the manta-ray like creature was certainly tougher than it looks, but it was the first time in quite a while that Ben was hit that hard.
Getting up from the ground, he saw the alien girl approaching him, yelling at him in some unknown language.
However, the alien hero slammed down on the hourglass symbol on his chest, causing an emerald light to surround him once more. Using the shackles to block the light, the alien girl was curious about the light, and just as she saw the light fade away, she was preparing to deal with the flying creature once more, or so she thought.
The girl looked utterly confused at what was in front of her.
Standing before her was a creature made of a silicon and seemed to be made of extremely durable crystal. His body was overall purple, with several dark lines and spots. His hands and face were magenta, and he also sports six magenta shards on his back, two on his chest, and one on the top of his head that resembles a horn. His face consists of a mouth and one large green eye at the center.
"Chromastone!" the new creature yelled, making the girl wonder what this could do.
The creature crossed his hands over his chest, "Look! I don't want to hurt you, but if you keep doing this then people will seriously get hurt in the process!" tried reasoning the Crystalsapien, not wanting to fight this girl and hurt her.
Without even a moment to pass, the girl yelled another set of words the crystal-like alien couldn't understand.
Rushing at the new creature, the girl thought she was going to be able to overpower this creature and raised her shackles and brought them down in a downward motion, but was shocked when she saw it was holding it's ground against her.
"See! You people never listen, do you!?" the creature yelled as he pushed off the shackles and threw a right hook, throwing the girl back a few meters.
The alien girl lifted her head and faced the pizza joint. She noticed a pillar that was supporting the leading tip of the balcony.
She quickly got up, hurled herself at the pillar, and struck it hard enough for it to buckle back and crack; the spectators at the railing could barely stay on their feet due to the resulting vibrations. The tanned-skinned alien continued to hit the column, "Zop! Yark! Mesnef!" she yelled with each swing into the column.
Seeing the cracks on the column, the Crystalsapien's eyes widened at what she was doing.
"Don't!" he yelled as he fired a blast of ultraviolet-colored energy at the girl, causing her to fly into a nearby taxi, crushing the vehicle like it was aluminum foil.
The Crystalsapien sighed in relief, however, it was short-lived as he heard something flying through the air. Looking up, he saw that the taxi he launched her into, was now being thrown right at the alien at the moment.
"Ah man!" the alien exclaimed.
Without a moment to spare, the teen hero fired off another blast of ultraviolet energy, blowing up the car in the process.
Soon the two aliens were facing one another. The girl seemed far too dangerous, there was no way he could beat her without hurting too badly. Chromastone was pretty durable and could pack a mean punch, but it couldn't provide the kind of strength that Humungousaur or Fourarms provided, but he knew they could potentially injure her.
"I'm gonna have to make do with this one." the Crystalsapien decided, knowing that this fight wasn't going to be easy.
The girl used her flight ability and flew right at the crystal-like alien, throwing him into one of the nearby shops. Feeling the strength behind that strike, Ben got up from the ground and saw the girl glaring at him, most likely due to the kind of damage he's done to her.
Firing off the same green energy from before, this time Chromastone could only smirk. He began absorbing the energy that the girl was firing at him, making her stop and seem a bit confused since nothing was happening.
Chromastone was now brightly lit up in a rainbow of colors, he looked at the girl and couldn't help but chuckle, "My turn sunshine!"
With those words, he launched a very powerful beam of ultraviolet lights, hitting the girl square in the chest and sending her skidding across the ground, which she was tearing up in the process. Once the Crystalsapien got out of the store, he saw the girl was getting back up. It made the young hero wonder what this girl was? She was able to take a powerful blast from Chromastone and get back up.
It made him wonder what world she came from because the Omnitrix wasn't picking up on the DNA, meaning that he either had her race's DNA locked inside the device, or it was just broken, which could be a possibility.
Though the hero looked closely and saw she was starting to slightly fatigue at this point. While the only reason why Ben wasn't as tired as she was is due to his own endurance from the years of battling enemies far more powerful than him on a constant basis.
She was breathing heavily since the battle with this being had started to wear her out at this point. As she caught her breath, the Crystalsapien glared at her with it's narrowed eye, still holding it's ground against her. She knew this being was dangerous and with it being able to absorb her energy, it made it imperative that she deal with it. The girl sensed the strange being as a threat and charged it, raising her arms for another swing.
"They never learn do they." muttered the alien as he prepared to defend himself against another onslaught from the girl.
Before she reached Ben in his current form, an airborne red and yellow object flew in her direction, a birdarang hitting squarely into the side of her crown, knocking her completely off balance. Stopping near the crystal-like alien, she glared back toward the source of who threw it with a threatening growl and a pair of eyes that could double as lighthouse beacons with their brightness.
Curious as to what happened, the Crystalsapien also looked over to see who stopped the rampaging alien captive.
Both of them glanced across the street to see the spiky-haired deadeye that was able to hit the alien standing on the roof of a parked car. His arms were tucked under his cape, which draped around his shoulders. Leaping off the car, Robin threw his cape back and posed himself in a fighting stance.
"Who are you?" he questioned in a demanding tone as he took a martial arts stance.
However, instead of receiving an answer, the orange skinned girl came up into a leap that carried her all the way across the street, leading into an asphalt-wrecking downward swing. Robin was able to jump clear in the nick of time and touched down in a backward skid along the asphalt, but numerous roundhouse kicks from the orange alien forced him to keep bobbing and weaving.
The spiky-haired teen was able to keep up, until he stepped into a pothole, made earlier by the girl Ben was fighting.
He was about to get hit by the shackles on the red heads arms, but she was shoved to the side at the last second when Chromastone bowled into her with his shoulder. Robin quickly regained his balance and looked at the crystal-like being, who was standing over him, rainbow-colored energy still flowed across his body from earlier, "I think we might be dealing with something a little tougher than even I expected." Ben said as the energy dissipated.
Robin looked at the creature Ben was at the moment, "What are you?" he asked, trying to deduce what the creature was.
At first, the Crystalsapien seemed surprised, "You're kidding me? Right?" he asked, wondering how the boy dressed in the colorful costume didn't know who he was until a sudden thought hit him. The more he thought about it, the more nothing seemed familiar to him.
With the new-comer's question making it more painfully obvious, "Not again universe!" groaned the crystal-like alien.
The boy-wonder looked at the creature, making sure he was ready in case it attacked him. However, that wasn't he case as it looked him with a sigh, "Look, how about we deal with the girl ready to tear us to pieces then I'll explain what I am, or who I am, deal? By the way, name's Chromastone, for now."
Chromastone stretched his hand out, waiting for the guy in the costume to shake.
Deciding that the girl was a bigger threat, the boy-wonder shook the Crystalsapien's hand, "Robin." the boy answered in a professional manner. Soon both of them heard sounds of people screaming, letting them know that the girl was back at it already.
The two hero rushed to the scene, hoping this temporary alliance for the meanwhile.
(X)
Downtown, Jump City
Five Minutes Later
Just inside the mouth of an alleyway was a figure draped in a blue cloak, with their hood up, who was watching the fighting between the girl wearing armor and the boy dressed in the colorful costume, who was being supported by the strangest of them all, a creature that stood taller than the average man and seemed to be made out of crystal.
As Ben was locked into close fighting with the girl, especially since his body was capable of taking the hits, but that didn't mean it could be felt.
Robin jumped over the two aliens fighting and slung a couple of grenades in the direction of them. The grenades exploded when it touched the ground, creating a smokescreen between Ben and the girl.
"Hey!" yelled Chromastone, "Watch it with those Traffic Light, you almost hit me!"
With this small moment of being distracted, the girl in shackles used the heavy cuffs and landed an uppercut on the Crystalsapien, throwing him some distance away from the fight. The attack sent him into the alley where the familiar blue cloaked figure was currently watching from.
Landing in the mouth of the alley, Chromastone got up, but not before noticing the figure draped in the blue cloak. Immediately, he was able to tell it was a girl due to the slender frame hidden by the cloak, but what caught his eyes, or only eye, was the impassive, ashen-gray face, barely visible in the shadows, looking down at him.
"Cheap shot, I tell ya." Ben said rubbing his chin, or crystallized chin.
While he didn't really feel all that much pain from the sudden strike, it was a force of habit since he was human anyway.
He glanced over his shoulder and looked at the person in the cloak from his shoulder, "I suggest you get somewhere safe, this place might get ugly and I'd rather not see a girl get hurt by a careless mistake of mine."
The person took notice at the words of the creature, wondering how it was able to tell she was a girl.
Without saying another word, the Crystalsapien used his limited flight ability and got onto the roof of the building, hoping he could catch up to where Robin was. The girl clad in blue, merely stood there, wondering about the strange creature.
A few questions stuck out for her, like why was it concerned about her safety? Or, how it felt different than other beings she's come across?
Instead, the girl merely moved her hand, causing a black energy to form around it, and opened a portal. She walked through it, disappearing completely from the alleyway, almost like she was never there in the first place.
(X)
Somewhere Else
Two Minutes Later
Out on the street, the smoke from Robin's grenades began to dissipate and the luminous green pinpoints of the fighter were the first things he saw.
The girl seemed to be completely unharmed. This detail caused Robins' eyes to suddenly bug out in surprise as he gasped softly. The captive then hooked one foot under the chassis of a nearby car and effortlessly kicked it up several feet to which it rotated to point its nose toward the ground.
When it was an inch short of splattering the boy wonder across the asphalt, the alien booted it towards the black haired teen, who threw himself flat to avoid catching the car with his face. The car sailed in a low, leveled, lightning-fast trajectory down the block and exploded against the building at its end.
"Hm. Stronger than she looks." he said as he stood up to see the aftermath.
"What the heck!" he heard a voice call out, "What was in that car? Nitroglycerin?" Robin turned to see Chromastone was back and looking at the explosion as well. "Hey! watch out!" warned the alien, making the boy wonder look back.
Robin quickly faced forward and was greeted by the tanned skin alien swinging her shackles and hitting him hard across the jaw.
The force of the hit sent him sliding all the way to the trashed pizza joint. The alien jumped in for another hit, even before he could get to his feet. Before she landed, the masked teen quickly dove away and pulled out a metal rod the length of his fist.
He clicked it with his thumb and it extended into a much longer bo-staff. This time on the offensive, Robin swung his staff and landed a head shot that propelled his adversary into a car parked roughly fifty yards away. He stepped towards the girl as he brandished the staff again, but it suddenly crumbled in his hands, apparently having been shivered by that crushing hit.
"Huh?" he questioned, absolutely befuddled at how his titanium rod could have been destroyed so easily.
Robin looked to his left and saw Chromastone next to him, looking confused as to how hitting her was able to break that staff of his, "I tell ya, the first thing I have to see and it's this girl trying to break me in half. What is she? I've seen strange things, but man... a girl who can throw me around like a rag doll was not on the list... until now."
Looking at the creature, Robin could only wonder what he meant by that, "I don't know either."
The sound of the alien girl freeing herself from the wreckage could be heard by the two teens. The girl threw a malicious little smile while working her head around to loosen up her neck, a resounding crack was heard as she did so.
"But I think we're about to find out." the boy wonder said, readying himself in a martial artists pose.
"Zota." the alien girl said as she came for another jumping strike.
Without even hesitating, Ben moved to intercept the strike from the girl. However, the girl seemed to have prepared for such a thing and quickly moved out of the way, heading straight for a Robin was ill-prepared to deal with the girl. Seeing this, Chromastone called out to Robin, "Look out!"
But before she could reduce the boy wonder's skull to powder, a green bighorn sheep bound into view and completely rammed the mysterious fighter broadside at full speed.
What was really surprising was not that the bighorn sheep was green, but that the animal transformed into a little green-skinned teen male. His outfit was a black and magenta bodysuit with a gray belt and circular buckle, gray gloves, black boots trimmed with magenta, and a magenta and gray hood and mask with eye holes, leaving his green face exposed beneath his eyes. The greenling also had overly large pointed ears, much like an elf.
"Ex-Doom Patrol member Beast Boy, sir! How can I help?" he said with a salute. The greenlings eyes went wide, though, when he noticed whom he just saved, "Wowzers! You're Robin, aren't you, sir?" letting the salute slip in his excitement, but now reestablishing it.
"Well, you can start by not calling me that." Robin answered, 'Great, already twice I've been saved in one night. I'm almost certain that Bruce would have my head.' the masked teen sighed.
The green youth's eyes went wide as saucers and shined with the purest admiration; sparkles hovered around his face, with his hand still glued to his eyebrow in a salute.
"Well, let me just say that it's a real honor to be-" the young big eyed boy began.
"Beast Boy, was it?" the object of the young green teens' admiration asked, cutting the changeling short.
"Yes, sir?" replied the green-skinned teen, standing straight. Robin pointed off to the side of them, where the orange alien had recovered from the bighorn charge and was getting ready to charge them.
Just as she was going to charge them, a familiar purple and magenta colored crystal being intercepted her. His right fist landing on the side of her head, with the size of the force throwing her into a nearby bus.
Beast Boy was the first to speak, wondering what that thing was, "What is that?" he asked, getting an unexpected answer.
"I don't know either, but it's helping us right now, and that's all that matters." Robin responded with, trying to wrap his head around the being who was helping him to deal with this girl going on the rampage.
The alien quickly regained her bearings and began picking up the bus she crashed into. When she lifted it over her head, the alien fighter quickly hurled the large automobile toward Chromastone, the masked teen, and Beast Boy. Realizing that he was going to need a bit more speed for something like this, he slapped the symbol once more and a green light encased the area.
Instead of the purple and magenta creature, it was now replaced by a creature that resembled an semi-armored velociraptor with black wheels on it's feet and wore a black helmet that covered most of it's head except for it's face, which was without it's faceplate at the moment. While most it's body was covered in black with a green stripe running down from the neck to the waist area, and all that remained was it's blue arms and feet wrapped around the balls with a few stripes of the blue color on it's tail.
"XLR8!" the new alien announced.
The bus was mere moments away from crushing them until Beast Boy and Robin found themselves a feet away from the direction in which the bus was sent on.
Both teens were confused by the appearance of the new creature until they saw the green hourglass symbol, with Robin remembering that he saw a symbol like that on Chromastone's chest, meaning that this was the same person.
However, they failed to recognize a broad figure in a gray hooded sweatshirt and black pants.
Even through the baggy clothing, one could tell that this figure was extremely tall and extremely muscular for his age. The bus bounced in his direction; but instead of being flattened by the flying metal death box, the gray hooded figure extended his arms and caught it.
Digging its black combat boots into the ground to brace the impact, the figure slowly brought the vehicle to a stop and lifted it by the bumper. The figure then heaved the bus off to one side, making a plume of dust that cleared to reveal that the gray hooded figure was also wearing dark gray gloves and pants.
The hood over his head covered the top half of the figures' face, but a glowing red eye was still apparent, and the lower half of the face showed the figure to be an African-American.
"Yo!" the voice shouted, sounding like a male African-American teen, "Who's here messing up my neighborhood?" he called out, a bit of anger in his voice.
Beast Boy quickly slid up next to Robin, "She started it!" he said, pointing to the cuffed alien girl in the distance.
Robin and the Kineceleran quickly made their way back to the other two teens.
The hooded male turned and saw the alien standing amid the new stretch of debris and walking up after a moment's pause. The old resolve returning to her stems and face as she approached the three boys and XLR8. She brought both arms up and delivered a thundering blow to the pavement; all four of them nearly dumped flat by the tremor caused by the crash, with every car and broken piece of debris bouncing off the ground.
Regaining their balance, the four boys looked up at the orange skinned girl, realizing the hand ends of her restraints fell off, dented and smoking.
The forearms of her cuffs were still firmly locked on, but with her hands free, the alien girl gave a malicious smirk and pointed her hands straight ahead.
Her hands began to glow with energy the same color as her eyes. The four boys stared in surprise, "Hr-RAAAAAAA!" the alien captive shouted as she unleashed a mini-gun barrage of green energy blasts from her hands, causing a very thick smoke cloud to hide each of them from view.
After a long, tense moment, the four of them charged out of the haze toward her, alarming the girl to start firing energy balls all around the block.
One by one, the boys raced through the hail of green blasts, Beast Boy nearly getting his foot shot off in the process.
The energy blasts ripped into the surrounding buildings, parked cars, a neon billboard, and everything within at least a half-mile radius. The final salvo filled the area, causing more smoke and flames to rise. This left the alien fighter breathing heavily as she tried to catch her breath.
She was caught by surprise by a quick punch to her left side, below the ribs, by the Kineceleran, who was traveling at a rate she couldn't keep up with. The alien coughed in agony as a follow-up roundhouse kick to the face sent the girl flying back.
'This doesn't seem right.' the speedster thought as he brought his leg down, 'She's not focused on the fight at all.' he glanced back in the direction he sent the alien girl, and noticed she tried to stand, but then fell to her knees, still struggling to break the cuffs on her forearms.
'So then it must be that...'
~o0o~
Somewhere Else
Same Time
Beast Boy and the hooded figure were hiding behind the smashed bus, Robin quickly vaulted behind it to join them. "Girl's gonna wreck the whole city." the figure said, looking over the bus just as the Kineceleran connected his attack with said girl.
"I won't let her." Robin said, punching his right fist into his left palm, "I won't lose this fight."
Beast Boy and the hooded figure nodded in agreement. The three of them ran out from behind the bus toward the brunette and the orange skinned girl, but the three of them barely got ten yards down the street before a wave of black energy blocked them from moving forward.
The trio turned to see what caused it: a gargantuan, screeching bird-shape, black energy raven that wisped away quickly and resolved into the form of the blue-cloaked figure with the hood up.
"Maybe fighting isn't the answer." the voice from the blue-cloaked figure revealed it to be a female. The three of them looked at her and thought about what she said. While the cloaked girl glanced off to one side and dispelled the apparition that was blocking them.
They now had a clear view of the kneeling orange skinned girl with the alien speedster crouched next to her.
Robin looked at them, but noticed the gray-hooded figure start walking forward.
The domino mask wearing teen grabbed his arm to stop him. "Stand down." he said to the much larger figure.
"What do you think, you the boss or something?" The larger figure asked as he shook off Robins grip and turned to face him.
"Just give me a chance." Robin said walking past the large hooded figure. He continued walking forward toward the two other fighters, passing by a lot of debris and destruction caused by their fight. The speedster noticed him coming and walked to meet the shorter teen.
"You got a lock-pick or something?" asked XLR8, hoping the teen's utility belt had something that could be used.
"Why?" retorted the short teen.
"This was never a fight for her." explained Ben as he was pointing to the cuffs on the girls' forearms, "She was just trying to free herself from those."
Robin looked over to her to see she was still trying to break the cuffs. "Alright, just leave it to me." Robin said walking toward the girl again.
"Be careful, kid." XLR8 warned, still a little wary of the girl.
'I'm not a kid.' thought Robin, feeling somewhat annoyed by being called a kid. Once he got within a few feet, the alien fighter hauled herself to her feet and moved toward him with fists charged with green energy, causing the spiky haired teen to jump back a few feet.
"Gokta!" the female screamed, ready to shoot more energy blasts from her hands.
Robin tried calming her down, "Easy. My name is Robin, and I don't want to hurt you." he said, easing one hand to a pouch on his belt. "I just want to help."
"I got your back if she tries anything." the alien speedster said from behind. Robin glanced back to see a expression on his face.
Robin faced forward again and saw the extraterrestrial fighting machine holding him at point-blank range, "Gokta!" She called as she leaned into him, "Gokta buhovna!"
"Careful." warned Ben, still feeling a little anxious about getting the cuffs, maybe there was reason why she had them on, but he couldn't necessarily prove it. He was about to walk toward the two, but a hand up from Robin, signaling him to stay, stopped him from getting closer.
With the aliens' fists right in his face, the steely vigilante didn't even blink as he held up his fist, the girl still on her guard, "It's ok. Look." he said as he opened his fist to reveal a lock-pick.
After looking at the foreign object, the alien girl cooled off, the green light in her eyes and on her hands disappearing, revealing her emerald colored eyes. Robin confidently smiled as he gently pushed the visitors arms down and put the lock-pick to work.
"Now that I think about it, maybe a lock-pick won't work on alien hand..." the Kineceleran started, but was cut off by a series of mechanism noise as the shackles on the alien girl come apart and fell to the ground, leaving the alien shapeshifter surprised, "...cuffs."
Robin glanced back and gave the brunette a smirk.
He turned back around to see the girl he just freed massage her wrists wonderingly.
"There. Now maybe we can be-" was all he was able to say before the freed alien girl dragged the boy wonder to herself with one hand and kissed him long and full on the lips, causing him to drop the pick.
XLR8's face mask fell onto his face from the shock, "Free a girl of her cuffs and she rewards you with a kiss." sighed Ben as he shook his head.
Her eyes stayed closed throughout the embrace as she let Robin go. When she opened them again, they resumed their green glow. The next two things that followed surprised Robin and the alien hero even more than the kiss; one, the alien girl shoved Robin in the chest hard enough to send him back against the Kineceleran, the latter catching the boy wonder with no problem.
Two, she started speaking English.
"If you wish not to be destroyed, you will leave me alone!" She warned.
"You could speak English this whole time?!" asked the alien speedster asked a bit annoyed at her, still holding up Robin. But instead of receiving an answer, the alien girl took off, gaining altitude to disappear into the night sky.
"Hey!" Ben called out, tossing Robin to the side, "You're going to leave after all that just happened!"
Robin, Beast Boy, the blue-cloaked teen, and the gray hooded figure, all puzzled at what just transpired, gathered behind him. After a long silence, the green changeling finally spoke up, "So... I'm Beast Boy," he said to the gray hooded figure, "Who're you?"
(X)
Downtown, Jump City
Ten Minutes Later
A few minutes after the alien girls' departure, leaving behind the teens in destruction from the confrontation with her. The group finally breaks out of their stupor, the teen wearing the hoodie was the first to speak up, While the others, except for Ben, were currently looking in the direction of where she flew off.
"So, girl just leaves after making this kind of impression?" stated the teen, looking at the destruction all around them.
"Heh, I'd say we made a good impression," Beast Boy chuckled with a toothy grin, "Crazy space girl's gone. City is saved. Mission accomplished. Right, sir?" he asked, turning towards Robin.
"Seriously, stop calling me that." Robin said flatly as he turned to face the green teen.
"Roger!" Beast Boy said, saluting the spiky haired teen.
However, the hooded teen's attention was soon on the blue, green, and black alien standing amongst them. It didn't take long for the teen in the hoodie to start questioning Ben, who was still in his XLR8 transformation.
"And what are you?" he asked, pointing at XLR8.
"Well," stated the speedster, "I help out and I immediately get questioned by the man capable of stopping a moving bus."
The teen wearing the hoodie exclaimed, "But you're an alien!"
"No I'm not." stated XLR8 as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Yes, you are."
Ben couldn't help but smirk. Looking down at the Omnitrix symbol on his chest, the hero soon tapped the symbol, resulting in the emerald light to surround him. When the light died down, the four other teens saw that instead of the creature that moved very quickly, was now a boy who looked to be around their age. He had shaggy brown hair and emerald green eyes, while also wearing a pair of jeans with a black t-shirt as well as green jacket with the number ten on it.
"You think I'm an alien now?" Ben asked, a smug grin on his face.
The hooded teen looked to be in shock. It wasn't everyday that he met someone who was capable of turning into aliens, well, before today, Ben was most likely the first person they've ever encountered who could do that.
"How can you turn into those beings?" asked the girl in the blue cloak.
Ben scratched the back of his head and brought up his wrist, "Long story short, this watch can turn me into aliens from different worlds. I've been using this to help people wherever I go, so it didn't even take me more than a second to think about fighting that girl since innocent people were going to get hurt."
Many of them saw how laid-back the new teen was being about this.
"How long have you had it?!" Beast Boy asked, who was more than excited to have met someone who could turn into different aliens. Finally! There was someone who could turn into different creatures like him.
Ben took a moment to answer, "Since I was like... ten." he answered.
Before anyone could even respond to such an answer, Robin was the first to remind everyone about what had just happened as well as wanting to continue his search for the girl. There was no way he was going to leave someone like that wandering around Jump City.
"Looks like we're done here." Robin said, already starting to walk away, heading in the general direction of where the alien girl went.
The alien shapeshifter raised an eyebrow at him, "And where do you think you're going Robin?" Ben asked.
"Seeing if this girl is a threat to the city or not." Robin stated, "Who knows what kind of trouble she might cause if something else happens in the city? Or worse, she brings unwanted attention to the city."
While Ben understood his concerns, the teen couldn't but make a joke, "You probably just want another kiss from her." Ben scoffed jokingly.
The comment caused a dark shade of red to appear on Robin's face, "T-That doesn't matter." he stammered, "I'm going." Robin said as he walked down the street.
"Hey sir, I mean Robin!" Beast Boy called out to the boy wonder, "Do you maybe..."
Robin was out of earshot by the time Beast Boy said this, "Need a sidekick..." Beast Boy finished dejectedly, scratching the back of his head.
Ben then looked at the girl in blue, "So what about you? What's your name?"
She didn't answer at first until she sighed a few moments later, "It's not important." she simply said.
"Okay, that's fine if you don't want to answer that." he replied. It was here he saw that the girl was now standing on the ground, taking notice that she was shorter than him by a few inches. Though her blue cloak kept her face hidden from view, it made him curious why she did wear it.
However, Ben knew that asking such a question wasn't exactly in his best interest.
What he didn't realize was that Raven had similar thoughts about Ben, but maintained a poker face while doing so. Wondering why this boy felt different from everyone else here, it was like he didn't belong here. Thinking that he needed to change the topic, Ben saw Robin currently traveling along the buildings, giving the teen hero a sneaking supcision that Robin might be in over his head.
With the alien shapeshifter realizing that he might need to help Robin deal with this girl.
As he started walking away, the hooded teen called out to him, "Hey! What are you going to do?" he asked.
Ben turned around and gave them a laid-back response, "Just gonna help Robin deal with this girl." Ben answered, making the others wonder why he was going to deal with something that didn't concern him.
Activating the Omnitrix, Ben scrolled through the various aliens until he found the one he was looking for. Slamming the core, a green light soon surrounded Ben for a few moments until he replaced by the familiar manta-ray alien.
"Jetray!" the alien yelled.
Taking off into the air, the three of them were in awe of what they saw. They saw a boy no older then themselves, turn into another creature right before their eyes. Today was full of surprises for each of them.
Soon a thought entered Raven's mind, 'He seemed far more confident and composed than most of us... why is that?' she thought for a few moments until she realized it was pointless to do so. She glanced over to the other two teens that were still gawking at the sight of the brunette flying away.
Beast Boy was the first to break out of his trance, "So... do you guys wanna get a pizza?" He asked nervously, rubbing the back of his head.
"I shouldn't..." the cloaked girl said as she walked away, leaving the green teen and the large African teen.
"Just you and me then, huh?" he said turning to the gray sweatshirt wearing teen that began walking away, "Cool! I-I haven't had anyone to hang out with since I quit the Doom Patrol," he said as he followed the African-American teen.
"This is gonna be fun, you wanna play video ga-"
The green changeling was cut off as he slammed into the larger teens back when he stopped walking. Turning to face the green-skinned shapeshifter, the hooded teen sighed.
"There! Take a good, long look!" he said pulling away his hood, revealing the left side of his face down to his jaw to be covered in gray metal, the top side of the left side of his head, the side of his right, and the left side of his neck all featured dark and light blue mechanical parts.
"I had an accident, and now I'm a monster, all right? A cyborg." he said.
Beast Boys' eyes quickly lit up at the sight of the larger teen, "Cyborg? OOooooh! You're like Robot Man 2.0!" The greenling said happily, looking the teen over from multiple angles.
The cyborg sighed as he put his hood back on, "You're a weird little dude, you know that?" the cyborg stated flatly.
"Hehe, you called me dude," Beast Boy returned with a smile.
"Okay so, see you later. Right, dude?" he asked in a happy tone as the cyborg began walking away again.
A few seconds later, however, a massive silhouette moved through the sky, causing Beast Boy to call, "DUUUDE!" loudly to the cyborg as a red spaceship flew into view.
~o0o~
Somewhere Else
Few Minutes Later
Flying through the air, Jetray kept an eye out for any signs of destruction, just in case the girl started destroying more city blocks. The more he thought about it, the more the situation with this girl seemed strange to him.
She was trying to get the cuffs off, meaning that they were placed on her, making the Aerophibian wonder if she was a prisoner and had managed to escape. In all honesty, it was the only solid answer that Ben could come up with.
Just as he turned the corner, Jetray soon saw a massive shadow form over him.
Looking up, the eyes of the flying alien widened, a mixture of shock as well as relief. Now, he knew there was life across the stars, just like in his own world, but seeing a ship like this only made the teen feel somewhat at peace.
"Boy... things never change, do they?" he said, realizing he needed to find the others.
Quickly, Jetray started making his way to where the others were.
(X)
Somewhere Else
Couple Minutes Later
Shortly after arriving in Jump City, the large, red alien ship released a large orange-armored torch the size of the Statue of Liberty that landed on an island in the center of Jump City Bay. Making many wonder as to what it could possibly be.
"Looks like space girl has friends," The gray-hooded cyborg stated at the sight of the large alien ship; the masked changeling standing next to him.
"Or enemies." The two turned to see Robin walk up next to them.
As soon as Robin finished talking, blue streams of lightning shot out of the top of the torch, projecting a large bluish-green, fish-like, reptilian alien.
"People of Earth," the hologram began saying, "We come to your planet hunting an escaped prisoner. A very dangerous prisoner. Do not interfere and we will leave your city with only minimal damage." As the projection continued talking, the blue-clad girl walked to join the trio of boys listening to the message.
"But attempt to assist her; your destruction will be absolute."
With that foreboding warning, the torch cut off the hologram projection. The sound of metal doors opening filled the air and seemed to be coming from the torch itself.
After the announcement ended, Jetray soon found where the other teens were and landed near them, tapping the Omnitrix symbol and reverting back into his normal human form. "That's a big ship." The covered cyborg stated.
When the torch doors opened, it revealed to have more red-eyed, reptilian aliens inside.
"And those are some scary looking aliens." Beast Boy remarked as said aliens flew out of the torch.
"They told us not to interfere." The blue-cloaked girl said flatly. The swarm of invaders was quickly approaching the city.
"Let me guess," Ben guess as he looked at the boy wonder, having an idea as to what he might do, "You're still gonna fight them, aren't you?"
Robin nodded in response to the question as he turned to face the rest of the teens.
"Can we come too?" Beast Boy asked in an excited tone.
"I suppose I could team up," Robin said with a determined smile on his face, "Just this once." the other four teens smiled in response to Robin's answer.
The boy wonder began walking back through the ruined block of the city with Beast Boy, the brunette, and the gray-hooded cyborg in tow. The blue-clad girl stood back and watched them leave. She then looked down with a sad look on her face.
"You in?" a voice asked her, grabbing her attention.
She looked up to see the other boys had turned to face her, "I-I'm not the hero type." she responded, "Trust me, if you knew what I really am, you wouldn't want me around." she finished as she turned her back to the group.
Feeling a hand on her shoulder, she saw it was alien shapeshifter who had a friendly smile on his face, "I know enough." he said. The other teens gave her a welcoming smile, knowing that they could use all the help they could get.
Ben 10 and Teen Titans!
This story has been rolling around in my head for so long, I can't really remember when it truly came to be. But, now here it is, ready for all of you to see something that I wish would've happened in reality.
Be honest, if you guys want this story continued, then I will. And for those who are currently waiting on 'Ultimate Hero', don't worry... I've been really busy with school and other personal things that I haven't had the time to work on it.
Once I do start updating that story, and if you guys like this one, then both Ben 10 stories will be the focus of my attention for the meanwhile... until I get bored or some new game comes out and I become addicted to it.
So yeah, hope you guys enjoy!
Until next time, see ya.