A boy called Ben Tennyson waited for the last school day to get done impatiently. He folded a paper airplane to pass time and threw it. Unfortunately it sailed right into the back of his teacher's head. He quickly held up a book and pretended to be reading. Later, five minutes before class ended the teacher stood up "just a reminder, slots for summer school are still open if anymore people wish to join me."
"Yeah right, like that'll happen in a million years" said Ben under his breath. Just then the dismissal bell rang and everyone got up. Ben was about to leave the classroom when the teacher called "Benjamin." He looked back and saw that she was holding his airplane, he was in trouble.
After a severe reading of the riot acts by the teacher he saw his two buddies JT and Cash in the halls or rather he saw JT, Cash was somewhere else. "Tennyson man, how ya been?" said JT as they knuckle-bumped.
"Oh, alright, I'm really excited because I'm going on a summer trip with my grandpa Max. The whole summer in an RV travelling across the country, it'll be awesome. At least I get to get away from my family for a bit."
"Man that's awesome, I really envy you, I wish I could come."
"Maybe next time, but hey, you're the big Little League star."
Just then they walked out the doors and saw an unwelcome sight, a bully had cornered Cash and some other nerdy looking kid against a tree and was demanding money from them. "Hey" Ben said "quit picking on them." The bully walked up to Ben and then with one swift movement, punched him in the gut, "heh, barely worth the effort" then he walked away. "Thanks man" said Cash as he walked over to Ben. "No problem Cash" said Ben as he tried to get his breath back. They just sat chatting until the motor home that Ben knew and loved pulled up. A window rolled down and grandpa Max said "Ben, come on, I want to make it to the campsite before dark. Saying goodbye to his friends Ben got in the RV.
He started to exclaim "this is going to be the best vacation eve-" but stopped when he saw a certain red-headed cousin sitting at the table. With a look of utter disgust on his face Ben gestured to his cousin while complaining to his grandpa "wh-what are you doing here? What is she doing here?" Gwen looked equally upset that she was in the RV "cool it dweeb this wasn't my idea, someone convince my parents that a summer trip would be a good way for them to take a break from me and for me to have some fun."
"Grandpa, please tell me you didn't?"
Max poked his head back and smiled at the two kids, "I thought it would be fun if you're cousin Gwen came along for the trip."
"Aw c'mon" shouted both cousins angrily.
"Now that's enough arguing, c'mon I want to get to the campsite before dark."
Both kids grumpily sat down and found what little entertainment they can by glaring at each other across the table.
In outer space somewhere in the outer reaches of the solar system two ships were engaged in a game of cat and mouse. The larger one, about the size of an ocean liner, was chasing the smaller one, about the size of a small yacht. Inside the larger one, the captain was a goliath-sized squid like alien. His crew was a mixture of robots and aliens. "STATUS REPORT!" he shouted at his lieutenant, a red four-armed alien. "Our shields are down by 23%, but their hyperdrive is disabled and their shields are down 87%." The captain, feared and renowned warrior known across the galaxy as one of the only people to stand up to the Plumbers, grimaced and said determinedly "I will not be denied this opportunity, this weapon could change the tide of the war and we cannot allow it to fall into the hands of the Plumbers!"
The two ships moved closer and closer towards Earth, both exchanging blows over one of the most powerful items in the universe.
At the campsite, both Ben and Gwen were sitting and exchanging quips like a tennis match.
"Dweeb."
"Dork."
"Nerd."
"If I were you, I'd turn myself into the dog pound for the betterment of humanity."
"If I where you I'd turn myself into the zoo and present myself as an endangered species the last of my kind."
"I can't believe I'm stuck with you for the rest of the summer."
"That's the one thing we can agree on."
They both saw grandpa Max coming over with some spaghetti, at least, that's what they thought it was until they saw it was moving. As he put it down on the table Ben said "okay, I give up, what is it?" Max smiled "Mealworms, their considered quite a delicacy in some countries."
"Yeah and totally gross in others."
"Can't we just get a burger?"
"Nonsense, this summers going to be an adventure for your taste buds, I'll get some smoked sheep's tongue."
As soon as he was gone, Ben leaned in close to Gwen and said "okay, I've got a have eaten bag of chips, and some chocolate in my backpack, what have you got?"
"Some rice cakes and hard candy."
"Think we can make it last the whole summer?"
Back at the two ships playing cat and mouse, the larger one had finally worn the other one down to the breaking point. Their constant barrage of fire finally paid off. "Their shields are disabled, their engines are completely offline, their dead in space, we're closing in!" shouted the four-armed lieutenant. "Prepare to board!" shouted the captain "we must get it quickly!"
"Detecting energy spike!"
The other ship's blaster fired one last time, it was an extremely chancy shot, a needle in the haystack chance, but it connected with the bridge and an explosion racked the inside. The lieutenant saw his captain, his hero get thrown back and disappear into the heart of the fire. He, relatively unharmed, leaped up to help his captain but he heard a croaking voice say "n-no, get the c-cargo." He leapt back into his seat and saw that the energy surge had caused his ship to blast what was left of the enemy ship to kingdom come. He looked on the scanner and saw an escape pod streaming off towards the planet with an escort of two robots. He sent a heavy robot after it and set repair and medical drones working on the ship and more importantly, on his captain.
Max watched as his grandchildren sat apart from each other, Gwen on her labtop and Ben playing a video game. Their tennis match of barbs and insults continued. Max sighed and tried to intercede.
"Who wants to roast Marshmallows?"
". . . ."
"Okay . . . how about we tell scary stories?"
"Scarier then having to spend your summer with your freak of a cousin."
"I'm running an internet search on cures for extreme doofussness, no luck yet Ben, but let's not give up hope."
"C'mon kids, we can mope around all summer or have some fun."
"I vote for moping."
"I'm gonna take a walk, smell you around Gwen."
"I think their starting to grow on each other."
Ben walked through the forest commenting on his dilemma to himself.
"Man, I was so looking forward to some time away from my parents, I can't believe the Queen of Cooties had to come along to spoil everything."
He looked up at the night sky, hoping for a star to wish upon. He would've wished for a better life. However, no star presented itself.
But then what seemed like a shooting star lanced across the skies and Ben exclaimed "wow, a shooting star!"
But that observation was subsequently proven false when the glowing object did an abrupt 90 degree turn and began hurtling straight towards him. He gasped and ran. The object just missed him and carved a gigantic trench in the ground. After a few minutes Ben poked his head up and peeked at the object. I was shrouded in vapor, still hot from a minutes-long entry through the planet's atmosphere. He walked to the edge of the trench and the weakened rock gave way and he fell in.
He picked himself up and looked at it; he could now see it more clearly. It looked like some sort of sphere. The top slid open and a green light shone from inside it.
Ben peered inside and saw what looked like a black and green watch. He exclaimed in interest and reached for it. But then it did something entirely un-watch-like. It suddenly leapt up onto his left arm and clamped around it. He leapt back with a startled cry and waved his arm around, trying to get the device off himself.
He ran off yelling into the woods.
About 5 minutes after he'd left 2 large pods the size of school bus's landed near the drop zone. They unfolded to reveal a robot that looked a good deal like a tank crossed with a Crab. They had four crab shaped legs and two crab pincers set into the lower section and the upper section was much like the top part of a tank and moved on its own axis.
The two robots surveyed the area and located the crash site. They were disturbed however to find that they Omnitrix was missing. They aimed their guns and fired at the crash site to remove evidence from the local inhabitants. Then they stomped off in different directions in search of the Omnitrix.
No long after they left another robot fell to Earth. This one was shaped more like a Praying Mantis and had arms as opposed to pincers. It went through a similar procedure as the others but set out with different goals. It's priorities were to:
1. Find the Omnitrix
2. Destroy the drones
And
3. Protect the local species from harm by the drones.
It moved off to complete those priorities.
Ben was starting to think that sticking out his hand towards the strange green glowing object had been a decidedly bad idea. He'd tried to yank it off, rub it off, he'd even tried to shove a sharp stick under it. Nothing worked.
Finally he gave up and began examining the device. It had several buttons and he figured out that the round thing in the middle was a dial. He continued to fiddle with it. He could imagine his dweeb cousin would be yelling at him to stop right now, but she wasn't here so he could continue without interference.
Suddenly the dial popped up and he saw that a picture had appeared. He turned the dial and was fascinated to find that he could cycle through a total of 10 different pictures. Picking one at random he pushed the dial down.
The sensation was incredible. But his skin felt as if it was hardening and also melting at the same time. He saw his hands growing red, by the time he was done transforming he was a molten hot sort of red.
Fear swept through him.
"AAAAAHHHH! I'M ON FIRE! I'M ON FIRE!"
He ran about in fits of panic but when he finally stopped to think he suddenly realized something and said "hey, I'm on fire, and I'm okay."
He realized that fire seemed to be right at his fingertips, literally. He tested it out and found that he could form a literal ball of fire. He threw it like a pitcher would a baseball and was rewarded with a powerful blast that took out several tree branches.
"Oh yeah, liking it!"
He continued, reveling in the newfound power, but then his eyes widened as he realized what he'd done. He'd been shooting fireballs in a forest. Thus a wildfire was growing around him.
"WAIT, STOP!"
He attempted to stomp out some of the fire, but it seemed that he was only making it burn brighter.
"Oh man, I'm gonna get so busted for this."
He continued to try and find some means to fight the fire until he suddenly felt something bitingly cold hit him in the back. He turned to see his cousin holding a fire extinguisher. She took one look at him and screamed.
"Hey, I know I look weird, but there's no reason to be scared."
The next moment the Fire Extinguisher had been used to club him in the face. He fell back. As he sat up Gwen sprayed him in the face and he coughed.
"I don't know who you are, but you'll stay down if you know what's good for you."
Smiling, Ben caused her shoe to start on fire and she hopped back while spraying it. Then she turned to him and raised the extinguisher "I warned you."
"Don't even think about it freak!"
A look of dawning comprehension came onto her face.
"Ben? What happened?"
Ben began to explain when Grandpa Max came running up "Gwen, have you see-, what in blazes!"
"Hey Grandpa, guess who."
"It's me gramps."
"Ben! What happened to you?"
"Umm, as much as I would like to know that don't we have a major forest fire burning out of control here?"
"How do we stop it?"
"Backfire, start a new fire, and let it burn into the old one, they'll snuff each other out."
"Oh yeah, more flame shooting!"
Ben ran to an unburnt part as the other two got clear. He blasted the area and once he was satisfied with his work he walked back to camp. The two fires burned for awhile, then calmly disappeared.
This idea was originally conceived to be under different circumstances.
That is, I was in the process of making an opposite universe Teen Titans story when the idea came to add Ben 10 to the mix. I may try that later but it will be in a different story. This story will then deviate from what I originally had in mind.
I hope you liked it. If you want me to continue, please review.
Sincerely, LordGodsServant
