Mother of Invention
December [REDACTED], 20[REDACTED]
Operation: The Churches of Maine
In a snowy land somewhere in an alien planet, the gigantic but crashed ship named the Mother of Invention remains dug into the ground.
As it remains there, inside are two occupants. One is a woman who's wearing cyan armor that consists of a Recon helmet, Stalker torso, Recruit shoulder plates, Mark VI forearms and Mark V Legs with the Legendary visor color. The other one is wearing a complete set of the green Hayabusa armor while also having an hourglass symbol on his left wrist.
This is Agents Carolina and Tennessee, but you may call them Carolina and Ben Church.
Carolina is training, punching amd kicking multiple holographic targets as Ben watches her work, leaning on a nearby wall.
After a minute, Carolina finishes her training by kicking the last two targets with a dropkick. As she lands on a knee, she asks, "Time?"
Suddenly, a blue hologram of a man in Mark VI armor appears out of nowhere just beside Carolina's head. This hologram is the AI Epsilon, also known as Church.
"Oh, yeah, just point zero three milliseconds too slow. Looks like we're picking the movie tonight." Church replied to his host.
"Yes!" Ben cheered as he pumps both of his fists, approaching his sister. "Gotta try harder than that, sis." He says as he puts his hand over Carolina's back.
"Oh come on!"
From out of nowhere, again, a yellow hologram of a young girl with angelic wings appear beside Ben's head. This AI is Ben's, named Omicron, nicknamed Mica.
Epsilon (Church) and Omicron (Mica) are AIs of Memory and Happiness respectively.
"You guys already picked the movie last time! Let me and Carol pick this time!" Mica complained.
"For real, you two. Besides, all you're gonna pick again is another garbage action movie." Carolina backed up her brother's AI.
Ben chuckles a little as he stretches his arms to bring out his fatigue. "Oh come on, they're hilarious. Everyone talks in one-liners, the plot's non-existent." Ben points out.
"I know right? It's like the characters are just there to beat the shit out of each other." Church backs up his host's brother.
Before Mica could retort, however, she and Church suddenly glow red a brief second, signifying an alarm. "Uh oh." Both AIs said, sensing something terrifying.
"What is it?" Both Freelancers ask their respective AIs.
"We have an uninvited guest..." Mica says as the siblings look up at the observation deck and see someone watching them.
That EVA helmet is familiar to both Freelancers, especially when one is friends with him and the other being the one who gave him his first AI.
The Meta.
"Maine?" Carolina asks Ben as she aims her pistol at the window in front of the Meta.
"But didn't Tucker say they killed him?" Ben asks back as he slaps the Omnitrix. Instead of transforming, however, he simply gained a green aura for bit before aiming his hands at Maine...
...while his palm produces diamond shards. On the process, he also gained the Omnitrix symbol on his chest even while remaining human.
He's unlocked this function of the Omnitrix a long time ago. The one Ultimate Ben 10000 used.
They can't see clearly, but it looks like the Meta's AI fragments appear and tell Meta to kill Carolina and Ben and take their AIs. The Meta takes out his Brute Shot.
"Okay... If we win, you girls can the movie." Ben suggested.
"Wait, seriously–" Church tried to insist.
"They. Can pick. The movie." Ben insisted more.
Church groaned and simply replies, "Fine. Freaking family ties..." He then disappears into Carolina's head. Mica does the same thing as the Meta breaks through the window.
Meta thrusts down the Brute Shot but Ben and Carolina roll away and started shooting at the Meta, Carolina with her gun and Ben with his Diamondhead diamond shards, but the Meta blocks the projectiles with the Brute Shot. Even the diamond shards are breaking upon contact with the durable grenade launcher.
As he blocks the attacks, the Meta runs at the two siblings, who are both still firing at their enemy despite the situation. "Not working!" Their AIs both yelled inside their heads.
"We can see that!" The Freelancers both yelled back but kept firing anyway as the Meta is nearing them.
Once near, the Meta uses the Brute Shot to attack, but Carolina blocks the attacks although Meta kicks her away. Ben creates two batons made of diamond and began fighting the Meta with eskrima. Unfortunately, none of his attacks did any damage as Meta blocked his last attack and uppercut him, sending him flying off and landing on his back on the ground.
Meta then began to attack Carolina again, aiming for her head, but she blocks it and shoots at Meta's head. Meta counters and headbutts Carolina, throwing her pistol away. Meta then tries to hit Carolina but she dodges it and, unexpected by the Meta, Carolina yells at her brother, "Ben! Maneuver B!"
At the command, Ben zooms behind Carolina, grabs both her hands, and spun in place. Ben then threw his sister at the Meta like a bullet and Carolina ends up kicking the Meta in the face, making him stagger and stumble.
Taking this chance, Carolina pulls out her Humbler Stun Device and Ben switches to using Shocksquatch's powers. Both Ben and Carolina charge at the Meta. Meta tries to hit Carolina but she blocks it and stuns Meta multiple times, knocking his Brute Shot away with an air kick. Meta then sees his fallen Brute Shot. But instead of picking it up, he growls and punches his fists together and walks towards his enemies. But Ben got to him first and began doing karate and taekwondo moves on Meta while empowering his punches, kicks and chops with electricity.
When Ben kicked Meta, which caused him to skid backwards, it was Carolina's turn to fight. The Meta tries to punch her many times but Carolina dodges them as she stuns Meta and slide kicks him down, sweeping off his legs to make him fall.
Church and Mica both appear beside their host's heads and complain at Ben, "Go Way Big on this guy!"
"And risk stepping on sis? No." Ben pointed out.
The Meta shakes his head to shrug off the pain when he spots his Brute Shot beside him. Punching the ground in anger, he stands back up to go pick up his weapon.
"Ben. Maneuver X." Carolina says to her brother, who nods back as he slaps the Omnitrix and began using XLR8's powers. Carolina activates her Speed Boost in tandem and both run towards Meta. As Meta picks up the Brute Shot, both heroes punch Meta, causing him to stagger a little. As the two start to run up the walls, the Meta tries to shoot at them but he misses all the shots as Carolina and Ben dash towards the Meta and punches him to a wall. Carolina rolls and pulls her Battle Rifle while Ben takes out his Assault Rifle, both shooting at the Meta. Unfortunately, he activates his Domed Energy Shield and Overshield, the bullets simply bouncing off his protective barrier. After a while, the Meta activates his Active Camtflage and the Domed Energy Shield and Overshield drops.
With their enemy invisible, Carolina and Ben go back to back, aiming their guns at where the Meta could be. "Church, Mica. Scan." Ben commands both AIs as he and his sister remain warry.
"Scanning..." Both AIs replied... and immediately responded with, "Your right! (to Carolina)/ Your left! (to Ben)"
Both Freelancers aimed at the direction they were told, but Meta suddenly appears in front of them, grabs both of their rifles and, because they're both still holding onto their weapons, tossed the two away, forcing them to let go of their guns.
The Meta drops both of their guns and steps on them, destroying both the Battle and Assault Rifles.
With their weapons out of commission, Carolina and Ben, who slaps the Omnitrix and switches to Kickin Hawk's skills, prepare to battle the Meta with hand to hand combat.
The two engage their enemy up close, but even with superior skills, their attacks do nothing to Meta's durability. Their last punches were caught by Meta's hands and he makes them hit themselves. When the two stagger back, the Meta collides their heads into each other, making them more dizzy than they already were. That's when Meta grabs Ben's leg and uses him as a projectile to throw at Carolina.
This caused both agents to get knocked into each other and sent flying into a wall. The two recover and look at each other for one final plan.
"Maneuver C?" Ben asks his sister.
"Maneuver C." Carolina nods at her brother.
Instead of just using his aliens' powers, this time, Ben slaps the Omnitrix and transforms into Upgrade, who began fusing with Carolina's armor. The result was Carolina's armor turning black and green, her helmet's visor gaining a neon green glow and an Omnitrix symbol manifesting itself on her chest.
Maneuver C, also known as the Carolina - Tennessee United.
Upgraded Carolina then powers up and began using all her armor enhancements all at once. With Upgrade, he doesn't have to worry about short circuiting Church, risking his life.
After charging up, Upgraded Carolina dashes towards Meta with enhanced speed. However, Meta uses Temporal Distortion to stop Upgraded Carolina in midair. Using this to his advantage, Meta pulls out his Brute Shot and knocks Upgraded Carolina into a wall. Carolina and Upgrade were screaming in pain as they fly towards the concrete and steel wall.
Carolina is barely damaged. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Upgrade as he oozes off Carolina's armor and returns to his human form. Ben's chest is horribly damaged. He purposely took most of the damaged to keep Carolina safe.
"Ben!" Carolina and Mica, who just reappeared, yelled at Ben, who nows lies unconscious on the ground beside Carolina.
As the Meta reloads his Brute Shot, Carolina, angered by Ben almost dying, spots her pistol on the ground and grabs it, doing an action roll before firing at the Meta, managing to land a couple hits on the brute.
The Meta noticed that he got shot, visible through the holes on his armor and body, and he ends up on knee in pain.
"You got him!" Both Church and Mica cheered. Unfortunately, Meta stands back up, growls and slowly walking towards Carolina.
"OK seriously, what the fuck." Church complained while Mica simply glows red in annoyance.
"Why won't you die?!" Mica complained as well, almost sounding like a cyborg ninja complaining at an unkillable senator.
Carolina reloads her pistol as she tries to shoot at Meta again, but Meta throws his Brute Shot as it slashes Carolina and sticks into the wall. Meta punches her multiple times then grabs Carolina by her neck and is about to punch her in order to finish the fight.
"Hey wait wait wait wait! Hold up!" Church panickingly says as he appears in front of the Meta's face.
"It's him. It's him. It's him." The eight different AIs in Meta's head said to him, wanting Meta to take their "brother".
"Uhhh hey so I know you're about to pummel her ginger face in and all, but you also talk in grunts so I'm just gonna say this one line for you okay? Just this one time." Church joked at their enemy, confusing Meta.
Before he knew it, something hot grabbed Meta's head, causing him to get surprised and look behind him...
...and the one holding his head is an injured but very angry Heatblast.
"Hoh! Son of a bitch!" Church mockingly said for the Meta as Heatblast blows up the Meta's head completely.
With the enemy dead, or dead again I should say, Heatblast turns back to Ben as he falls into Carolina's arms, who hugs her brother reassuringly.
"Sis?" Ben asks.
"Yeah?" Carolina replies, still hugging her tired and injured brother.
"No action movies." Ben replied.
Carolina chuckles in response and instead of just a reassuring hug, this time, she hugs him with a sisterly loving hug. Ben hugs back finally as he found his strength to do so. "Let's just watch your old Sumo Slammer anime. How about that?" Carolina suggests.
"I love you, you know that...?" Ben replies.
"Love you too, little brother... You too..." Carolina ends.
You're probably wondering how did it all get here? Well, where do you want to start? The beginning of Project Freelancer? The middle of the Blood Gulch Crew? Or the end of the Chorus civil war?
You tell me. I'm busy watching Sumo Slammers.
Freelancer
A Ben 10 - Red vs Blue Crossover