Episode 1: Ken Tennyson

Bellwood Year 2045

It was evening in the bustling city of Bellwood. People out of their homes were either walking the streets below, or using either their skills or vehicles to roam the skies. Different noises filled the streets, as buildings and signs lit up the city. The scene went down to ground level, where people were walking at a calm pace.

A sudden explosion came from the side of a building, creating a big hole, and scaring the citizens. As they ran in terror, something was sent flying out of the building, and into a parked bus, the force caused the vehicle to tilt a little, before coming back down. The doors opened, and the driver and passengers hurried out, as the person who crashed into the bus started to get up.

He was Kineceleran wearing a black and white combat suit with his face mask down. He groaned, as he stood up straight.

"I'm feeling that tomorrow." Two figures walked out of the hole in the wall, making the alien get into a fighting position. They were Subdora (Chameleon alien) and Exoskull (Rhino alien). Subdora had a backpack on her, which had a giant blue gem sticking out of it. Meanwhile, Exoskull's laser canon horn had smoke coming out of it from just firing it.

The hero smirked.

"You two are looking very smug all of a sudden." Subdora smirked, before laughing.

"Of course. We have the great Ben Tennyson on the ropes and in front of all his adoring fans as well!" As if on cue, the news bots came out of nowhere and flew around the three, trying to find a good angle.

"Not to mention the score we're walking away with." Exoskull said, referring to the gem, as he cracked his knuckles. Ben looked around.

'That's it; just keep talking, while I look for something to beat you with.' Ben's learned over time that most bad guys love to run their mouth. He decided to tune most of what they say out, and just focus on a way out of a bad situation. 'The main problem is Subdora with her camouflage. Just need something…"

He saw a parked tar truck, and he remembered an alien he had. He wanted to face palm.

'Maybe I have too many aliens; I'm starting to forget some.' He looked back at the two thugs, where Subdora was still talking. Man she could talk. Ben raised his pincers, cutting the chameleon off. "Alright you two, it's been fun catching up, but I think it's time we wrapped this up. I don't know if you know this, but my son has his first day of school tomorrow."

The two aliens gave Ben a flabbergasted look. They were starting to realize how little Ben actually cared for this fight. Exoskull growled.

"The guy's making us look like chumps!" The high-tech Rhino went on all fours and charged his canon. With a grunt, lasers fired out, going straight for Ben, who smirked. Just before one laser could hit him, he ran out of the way. Exoskull tried following him, but XLR8's speed was just too fast for the oaf.

As Exoskull fired, Subdora went into a crouching position.

"You keep him busy love; I'll get him from behind, just like before." With that, she went into camouflage mode. XLR8 noticed, and went into high alert.

'I need to stop running so I can focus on her.' Ben stopped, and there was a sudden green flash. Standing now was Swampfire(v2). He quickly threw seeds at Exo's feet. The seeds quickly exploded, releasing an insane amount of vines that quickly restrained the rhino. Swampfire smirked, but had little time to celebrate.

Subdora reappeared behind Ben and midair, with her claws bared. She swiped at Ben's head, but the hero was ready this time. He blocked the attack with his arm, grabbed Subdora's, arm and kicked her in the gut, sending her flying. Before she hit the ground, Ben transformed, turning into Spitter.

Subdora, flipped midair, and landed on her feet. She looked up and widened her eyes at the site of the alien.

"What in the universe…" Ben fired unknown alien goop at the thief, hitting her dead on, and covering her in it. Subdora screamed in horror. "I-I am covered in filth!" Ben smiled, as green drool came out of his mouth.

"I'm sure they have a change of clothes where you're going." Before he could transform, Exoskull rammed into him, sending him flying into the side of a building.

"Get away from my Subdora!"Ben grunted, before turning into Fourarms and landing on the ground. Subdora gave her lover a loving smile.

"Aww, my love. I can always count on your loving arms to beat our opponents unconscious." Exoskull smiled back

"Anything for my slippery love muffin."

"Ahem." They both turned to Ben, who had one eyebrow raised. "You guys make a real cute couple, honestly, but like I said, it's getting late." Ben charged at the Rhino. With all that slime, Subdora wasn't a threat anymore.

He backhanded the chameleon, sending her back, and swung at Exoskull. The punch hit the rhino in the face. Ben swung his bottom left fist, hitting Exo in the side, and making the criminal gasp for air. Ben raised his hands, and cupped them.

He was about to bring them down, but before he could, Exo charged his horn. Ben quickly reacted by transforming into buff looking Goop. The laser went right through Ben's chest, but the hero felt nothing. Ben's chest refilled, and he turned into Diamondhead. Without a second thought, he turned one of his hands into a shard, and sliced of Exo's horn.

Exoskull screamed in pain, back backed up as he clutched his head. Ben cocked his other fist, as it grew bigger. When Ben was satisfied with the size, he swung it at Exoskull, hitting him right in the face, and sending him flying back into the tar car. Exo was dazed and sitting up against the truck when Ben transformed into Spidermonkey and shot webs at the thugs arms, hands, and stomach, attaching him to the truck.

Spidermonkey had time to smirk, before seeing something in the corner of his eye. Ben ducked under Subdora's swing, and jumped back. Ben took one look at her face, and could easily tell that she wasn't playing around anymore.

"No more jokes hero. Now, I just kill you!" She charged at Ben, who got into a fighting position. She swung and kicked, trying to land a hit on Ben, who dodged and blocked. The multiform hero moved back with each attack, until he was right under a handing sign. He quickly jumped and shot a web from his tail, attaching it onto the sign.

The half monkey half spider made one swing around the sign, and with the right momentum, went right for the chameleon with an arm out. He close lined her, knocking the air out of her, and sending her back onto her back. With a smirk, Ben let go of the web and landed on his feet.

One more green flash, and Ben was himself.

"Well, this three person date was great and all, but how about I choose the place this time. I got a pretty good one in mind right now." Ben walked forward. Attached to his belt were null void eggs. He took two, tossed one at Subdora, and threw the other one at Exoskull. Both eggs sucked the thieves inside and closed, effectively sealing them in.

Ben picked up Subdora's and tossed it in the air, before catching it.

"Tell me what you think in a couple of years." The cameras above opened up their sides, revealing speakers.

"Two criminals bite the dust at the hands of Ben Tennyson! I hope everyone was around their TV's for that fight folks, because if there was any doubt that this city was unsafe, they just need to watch this man do his thing!" Ben gave the cameras a wave, before picking up the other egg, turning into XLR8, and rushing off.

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Many people switched to the news to watch the fight, mostly the adults and the older kids because it was passed midnight, but there was a certain fifteen year old sitting on his bed, watching his TV with the volume all the way down. When Tennyson trapped Subdora and Exoskull, he jumped up with excitement.

"Yes! Bad guys 0, dad 10,000!" The door suddenly opened, making Ken Tennyson freeze. He slowly turned to see his great grandfather, Max Tennyson giving him a look with his arms crossed. His robot index finger tapped his regular arm showing his impatiens.

Ken gave Max a big smile and scratched the back of his head.

"Heey, grams, what's up?" Max raised an eyebrow.

"The hours of sleep that you're wasting." Max answered Ken dropped his smile, and groaned a little, before turning off the TV. Max walked in and took the remote.

"Sorry gramps, but you know how cool hero fights are. Losing a little sleep's worth it." Max set the remote next to Ken's case full of chips that held videos of different heroes fighting different super villains.

"I know you love watching heroes, but tomorrow's an important day sport. It's your first step to becoming those heroes on the TV, but you can't do that when you're dead tired. You'll end up using your desk as a bed in first period." Ken let out a laugh, before smiling at his great grandfather.

"Alright gramps I get it I'll get some sleep." Max smiled back.

"You'll need it. Goodnight sport." Ken closed his eyes.

"Goodnight gramps." Max closed the door, leaving Ken alone. The young Tennyson opened his eyes, and laid on his back, looking at his ceiling. The thought of tomorrow, what was coming. It took everything not to suddenly jump up and down out of excitement. He extended his arm at the ceiling, as if to reach something.

Flashback

"YES! YES! YES! WOOHOO!" Ken jumped up and down, while holding a letter. The letter was blue and black with a seal that had the shape of a star in the middle of it. Ken was with his great grandfather and father in the living quarters part of Ben's base. They were currently in the kitchen, a pancake breakfast laid out for them on a table, but it was ignored.

Everyone was focusing on Ken who received the letter not that long ago. Max chugged some green alien juice from his thermos, before asking.

"What you got there sport?" Ken stopped, and showed off his fancy letter with a smile.

"My first step to becoming a proper hero!" Ben was now able to actually see the letter, now that his son wasn't jumping, and widened his eyes.

"Is that, a letter from the Plumber's Academy?" Ken giggled with excitement.

"Why are you so excited, you don't know what it says?" Max asked.

Ken smirked. "The academy usually sends two envelops. Either blue or red. If it's blue, then that usually means," Ken ripped the leather open, and took out a letter. He read it quickly, while his smile grew more and more. ", I GOT IN!" Ken jumped up and down again. Max turned to his grandson.

"Well, that's one way to get rid of suspense. Remember when they didn't tell you what was in an acceptance letter until you opened it?"

"I also remember Gwendolyn taking three days to open her college letter. This is probably for the best." Max had to nod in agreement. Ben turned back to his son, who was reading the letter.

"The Plumber Academy has looked at your file and has accepted Kenneth Tennyson for its Hero division starting August 21!"Ken started jumping up and down again as he chanted. Ben watched his son, and tried to smile, because this should have been, amazing, but he just couldn't.

He could only look at his son. After a few seconds, he mustered up the strength to get up and walk up to his son.

"Ken." Ken stopped celebrating and looked up at his father. Ben looked at his son, before smirking. "I knew, something like this would happen, but man did it come fast."Max smiled. He went down on one knee and placed a hand on Ken's shoulder. "Congratulations Ken. For as long as I can remember you've been telling me how much you wanted this. Now that it's here, I know you'll work hard, get stronger, and never lose your way. If you do that,"

Present

Ken closed his eyes.

"You'll become an amazing hero." After a few seconds of silence, Ken clenched his fist.

'I'll make you proud. I'll become an even better hero than you!' Ken opened his eyes and they were bright red, his powers slightly activated from excitement.

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Next Day

Ken, who was wearing the school uniform; blue pants, white collared shirt, red tie, and blue blazer with the Plumber emblem on the right side of the blazer, was in the base's hanger, hopping on one foot, as he tried to tie his left shoe. In his mouth was a handful of bacon that he was trying not to choke on, and next to him was a holo-screen call with a picture of a female human looking Crystalsapien. Next to the picture was the name Peggy.

"I'm shruyy shiam lash Pefds! I'll Shhee shuou…"

"For the love of, Ken, stop talking, I can hear the mouthful of bacon you're trying to talk through. Look, it's alright your late, just hurry. You have fifteen minutes Vulpimancer breath."

"Yshour sha Besh!"

"Yeah, I know." The screen disappeared back into the watch on Ken's wrist as he finished tying his shoe. He reached the hanger's keypad and entered the code to open the huge door. Ken waited for the door to rise, when he suddenly heard his name.

"Ken!"Ken turned around to see his dad walking to his car. (Same car as in the show) He beckoned his son to come over.

"Wash upsh Dash?" Ken asked, before swallowing the last of his bacon.

"Well, I thought I'd drop you off." Ken raised an eyebrow.

"Um, I'm pretty sure they have buses for that, and anyways I'm walking with Peggy."

"Then I'll pick up Peggy too. Drop the both of you off at the bus stop."

"Dad, that's alright, you don't have to…"

"No, its fine. It's not like I have anything to do anyways, c'mon." Ben got into his car, and Ken still looked a little confused. After a few seconds he sighed, and got in with him.

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Peggy checked her watch. She wore the female version of the uniform; dark blue skirt, over black and green skin tight pants, white collared blouse, red tie, and blue blazer with the Plumber emblem on the right side of the blazer.

"The dork has five minutes left." She said, as she leaned on a lamppost. Suddenly, she spotted a familiar flying car coming towards her. The car landed neatly in front of her, parked in between two other parked cars. The passenger window went down revealing a slightly annoyed Ken.

"Hey Peggs." Peggy walked over to the window and flicked Ken in the forehead, the rock skin didn't help make it less painful.

"Ah, ow!"

"Hey, is that all you can say to me?"

"Alright, alright, sorry I was late!" Peggy smirked.

"That's better."

"To be fair, you said you were cool with it." Peggy just shook her head, before turning to Ben.

"Hey Mr. Tennyson."

"Hey Peggy. I'm bringing Ken to the bus stop. If you want, there's room in the car."

Ken rolled his eyes. "Really Dad, it's…" Peggy shrugged.

"Sure why not." She got in the back, and closed the door.

"Alright, let's go." Ken sighed and leaned a little more into his seat as the car rose into the air. The wheels tucked into the car before the car flew off.

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The bus stop was actually in the center of town, right in front of Bellwood's National Park. This was to show the citizens the new generation of potential heroes, to show them that they'd always have someone to protect them. Ben landed the car across from the bus stop and unlocked the door.

"Alright, good luck you two. This is the first day of the rest of your lives. No pressure of course." Peggy smiled.

"Thanks Mr. Tennyson." Ken opened the door, before turning around and giving his dad a small smile.

"Yeah, thanks dad." He got out of the car with Peggy and closed the door. With another wave, Ben flew back home. After Ben left, Peggy nudged Ken.

"That smile was so fake." Ken frowned.

"No it wasn't." He started walking to the bus stop. Peggy caught to him.

"Yeah it was. When you make fake smirks, you kind of twitch your lip a little."

"What?"

"Yeah, you go like this.-See?" She mimicked her friend's smirk, and Ken rolled his eyes.

"Yeah alright." He pushed her away slightly, and Peggy came back with another nudge, making them both laugh a little. They both got on the other side and walked over to the bus stop.

"So, what was with the 'not fake' smile?" Ken wasn't going to answer, but sighed.

"I'm not embarrassed if that's what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not a mystery who my dad is. It's just; I don't want to depend on him forever." Peggy raised an eyebrow.

"You wanna move out?" Ken widened his eyes.

"What? No! I mean depend on him for small stuff, like rides to school." Ken looked forward with a determined look.

"Last night, I decided- I want to be a hero even better than my dad, and I want to do it on my own, like he did when he was a kid." Peggy looked at Ken for a few seconds, before smiling.

"Ok, only thing is, your dad's the greatest hero in the universe, and you're a kid who's still trying to get control of his powers." Both kids stopped at the bus stop, where other new and old students stood. Ken turned to his friend.

"First off, I've been training, and I'm getting pretty good with some of my powers. Second, give it a couple years. By the time I'm my dad's age I'll be way out of his league." Peggy crossed her arms and smiled.

"Well I have to see that." Above them, two buses were flying towards them, one behind the other. Both vehicles landed, and opened their doors. No one told them where to go, so Peggy and Ken chose the closest bus and got in. They sat down, and looked around. Different kids, different species surrounded them, each one possibly sharing the same dream, to be a part of the next generation of heroes.

"Man," Peggy said, still looking around a little. ", all of these guys are going to the academy, just like us."

"And this isn't even all of it. People all over the world are heading for the same place we are. Place must be huge." Ken said, imagining what it looked like. With everyone on, the bus drivers closed the doors and started up the buses. They took off and headed for outside the city. Next stop, was the school.

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The trip didn't take long, at least on bus. If someone decided to walk there, it'd take a while, around months from where Ken lived. Out the window things couldn't look more depressing. The water below looked slightly green and murky, while the sky was filled with gray clouds. Fog covered the rest of the area, making it look like something out of the beginning of a horror movie.

Ken leaned forward to look at the window with Peggy, who shared his look of concern/disappointment.

"Wow, what kind of school are we going to again?" Ken's vision of a perfect clean school was replaced with a murky intense boot camp. His face changed to an expression that fit how he felt at the moment. "I have a feeling it's gonna be a hard three years." Ken and Peggy weren't the only ones.

All first years were looking outside the bus with similar looks, and muttering to each other about the site, well all but two. One of the kids was a boy who wore the school uniform, but also had a black hoodie sticking out. His hair covered one eye, which like his other eye, was purple and black.

The boy looked outside, before rolling his eyes at the others reactions. The last kid was girl with blue hair.

The girl took one look outside, before smirking a little. The bus driver, who was human, looked back at everyone and noticed the first year's worried faces. He smirked, before turning back and extending his arm.

His eyes turned blue, and his hand glowed the same color.

"Laever Flesrouy!" A part of the fog in front of the bus started to glow, before it began to part, creating an opening. As the fog moved out of the way, shimmers came from the opening. All the first years noticed, and looked outside to see glimpses of blue ocean and clear blue skies. Everyone looked amazed.

"It's some kind of, magic cloaking thing." Peggy said, still impressed.

"The spell covers the whole area, and with no holes or mistakes. Man, whoever made this really knows what they're doing." The bus went through the opening, followed by the second bus. The second the last bus went in, the opening closed and there was no trace of fog or gray skies.

The area was beautiful. Blue skies, the sun completely out. The water below them looked amazing and clean, with different fish, native and alien, swimming in it, but the biggest thing was what was right in front of them. Peggy leaned into the window, with Ken not far behind. In front of them was a Cliffside, which lead to the school's campus.

(AN: The school's similar to Beacon Academy from RWBY, just bigger). Behind the campus were mountains and forest, all surrounded by healthy green land. Ken looked at the academy, and slowly smiled without a word. All around them, buses came from seemingly nowhere, just like they had. The students were here.

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The buses all landed on a huge drop off pad, big enough for hundreds of ships. The pad was located on the water below the school. Ken and Peggy got off their bus, and noticed that in the Cliffside were elevators leading up to the campus. They followed the rest of the students and rode the elevator, and when the door opened, the school, from the bottom to the top, where a holo Plumber's symbol was located at the top of the tallest tower, looked even more amazing than it did back on the bus.

The entrances lead everyone straight to the courtyard, where most students were hanging out. Over on the side, three tables were set up. Each of them neatly held multiple small microchips looking stickers. Standing around them were different students, either second or third year.

They were helping first years, giving them the chips, and telling them to stick it into their watches. Among the older students one easily stood out. She was a Nemunia, her skin green, and her wings purple. She was the size of a regular teenage girl. Around her waist was a belt, and on the side of that belt was the Plumber's symbol.

The girl was hovering in the air so everyone could see her as she told First years to come to the table so they could install the school's map into their watches.

"Do you think we need maps?" Ken asked, not really wanting to wait in line.

"Do you want to get to the classroom, or end up in the cafeteria?" Ken gave her a stoic look, before turning around towards a random direction and lifting his leg to take a step. Peggy grabbed her best friend by the back of his collar, before he could continue. "Knock it off." She said, as a tick displayed itself on her forehead.

After a few minutes, both students reached the front and received their school's app. They installed the app and turned it on. A holographic screen opened up, showing a map of the campus, and it was pretty big. As the two walked in a less populated part of the campus, they looked at the maps, looking through all of the tagged spots. Looking at the map, Ken's eyes never stopped shining with amazement.

"You can turn this place into a decent sized village! Peggy, look how far this building is from this one." Peggy was too busy looking at her own screen.

"Hey, click on the top left button on the screen. This thing comes with a list of all the professors in the academy. Most of these guys are heroes with some impressive missions behind them. Looks like we're getting taught by the best."

"Well, only the best for the future best." Ken said cockily. Peggy just rolled her eyes, as she continued to look at the list. Ken and Peggy walked around a corner and were met with three other students. One was a Tetramand. He was a little taller than both Ken and Peggy. He wasn't really buff anywhere except his arms, but he had a pretty mean looking face.

The other one was a Lenopan, who was in his true form. The last one did not look like he wanted to be in this situation. The girl was a Cerebrocrustacean that was pinned up against the wall. Both the Tetramand and the Lenopan were smirking, and the Lenopan, who was pinning the Cerebrocrustacean with his enlarged hand, had his fist cocked ready to punch the crab like alien in the face.

Before he could, the Tetramand noticed Peggy and Ken, and nudged his friend. They both turned to Ken and Peggy.

"Is there a reason you have her pinned like that?" Peggy asked, putting her map away and motioning over to the scared student. Ken did the same and raised an eyebrow.

"Maybe there is, but it has nothing to do with you, so just walk away." The Lenopan said. Ken narrowed his eyes, and his eyes turned dark red. The Tetramand cracked his knuckles and fully turned towards Ken with a smirk. The Lenopan, distracted, let the Cerebrocrustacean go, so he could better watch the scene in front of him. The Cerebrocrustacean looked at both groups, not knowing what was going to happen, and wishing she wasn't in this situation, but before the two could go at it, someone called out from above.

"About time I found you Kenny." Ken's expression turned to surprise when he heard that voice. Peggy and Ken looked up looked up to see a pillar of red diamond sticking out of the wall above them. Sitting on the pillar was a red Petrosapien. He gave Ken a smug look, while Ken snarled.

"Great." He said sarcastically. The Petrosapien jumped off the pillar and landed in front of the two other aliens, and right in front of Ken and Peggy. Both the Tetramand and the Lenopan were so distracted by what was going on, they didn't notice that the Cerebrocrustacean took the opportunity to run away. Ken noticed the girl escape, before turning back to the diamond alien, and glared at him. "What are you doing here Cardeth? Never thought you were the hero type, and your friends don't look any different."

Cardeth scoffed.

"What these guys do isn't my problem, and if you think I'd pass on the chance to learn from the top Plumber's Academy on the planet, you're dumber than I thought. This is the place you go to if you want to get stronger, and there's nothing I would want more than that." Peggy shook her head.

"Leave it to you to completely misinterpret the reason why we're all here." Cardeth smirked.

"Well, you know I'd always be there to save you princess, if that's what you mean." Peggy growled, and her eyes glowed white.

"Cardeth, you know not to mess with me." Cardeth stepped back and put his hands up, but kept his smirk.

"No problem, maybe next time."

"Don't hold your breath." Peggy's eyes returned to normal. Cardeth turned back to Ken. "But you know I'm not surprised to see you here, in fact I was counting on it. Now you can see me rise to the top and take your dad's place as number one."

Ken snarled. "Don't think I'll just let you. You want to be number one, you'll have to get past me first Cardeth! Ken said, getting Cardeth's face.

"I thought I already passed you years ago Kenny!" He said, getting into Ken's face. Sparks seemed to fly between the two, before two fist made out of light energy knocked them both in the heads, sending them to the ground, face first. Peggy stood with an annoyed look on her face.

"It sounds like both of you are forgetting why we're really here." Ken and Cardeth winced in pain as they got up, clutching their heads. Ken looked at Cardeth, before smirking.

"No, I haven't forgotten. I want to be a hero, who swoops in and saves the day no matter what the danger, no matter where I am. With a goal like that, there's no way I'll lose to people like him." Cardeth turned to Ken, and narrowed his eyes.

"Is that what you honestly believe?" Cardeth asked. The Petrosapien dropped his glare, and smirked. "You really have no chance against me." Ken widend his eyes, as Cardeth stood back up."See you around Kenny, maybe we'll end up in the same class."

"I can't be that unlucky." Ken said, as he stood back on his feet and narrowing his eyes. Cardeth turned around and signaled the others to follow. When the three went around the corner, Ken sighed.

"I didn't think people like him would be here. The guy's an asshole." Peggy had to agree with that. She placed a hand on Ken's shoulder.

"Let's just ignore him. I'm not gonna let Cardeth ruin this place, it's what he wants." Ken thought about it, before nodding.

"You're right! Besides, chances of running into him in this place have to be small, right." Peggy gave him a stoic face, before face palming.

"You do realize that you've probably jinxed us, right? She sighed, before making her way to the classroom. Ken raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean? Hey wait, what'd I do!" He asked, before running after her.

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The doors to the Ops room slid open, and Ben walked in. He went straight for his seat in front of his giant monitor, and sat down with a sigh. The universe famous hero sat there, slumped, and just looking at nothing. After a minute or two, Ben turned to the monitor, and a holo keyboard appeared.

Ben typed in a few things, and pictures of a younger Ken started appearing like a slideshow. Ben smiled as the screen continued to show one picture at a time. Behind him, the door opened again, this time letting Max in. The retired plumber noticed the pictures on the screen, before smiling.

He walked over to his grandson and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"If there's one thing I never thought I'd see, its my grandson reminiscing." Ben chuckled.

"I never thought I would either grandpa." Ben suddenly made a face. "Makes me feel old." Max laughed.

"Oh yeah, and what does that make me?" Max asked, before going over to a seat near the meeting table.

"Strong grandpa, that makes you strong." Max scoffed, and waved off the complement.

"Yeah yeah." He said with a small smile. Ben smiled and shook his head, before turning back to the pictures.

"You know- I promised myself I wouldn't be like this, like my parents were. So clingy and worried, but I ended up driving him to the bus stop today, can you believe that?" Max gave his grandson's back a small smile. Ben sighed. "I'm pathetic I know." Max shook his head.

"You're not pathetic, and do you know why I know that?" Ben turned his head to his grandfather with a raised eyebrow. "I know because I thought the same thing when I dropped your father off on his first day of high school, and years after telling me he'd never do that to his son..."

"He ended up doing it to me." Ben cringed.

"Yours was maybe, a little bit more embarrassing, but you get the point. If you're pathetic Ben, for wanting to spend as much time as possible with your son then that'd make me pathetic, and that'd make your father pathetic. You did good Ben; he'll appreciate it when he's older." Ben thought about it, before nodding.

"You're right Grandpa." Ben said with a smile. His grandfather smiled back. "I didn't even embarrass him really, didn't even call his name out like a psycho, like dad did." Max laughed, just before Ben's watch rang. Ben answered it, and Rook Blanco's face appeared over the omnitrix as a green hologram. "Rook, what's up?"

"Ben," Rook noticed Max, and nodded his head.

"Magister."

"Rook I'm retired remember? You can just call me Max." Rook gave him another nod, before turning to Ben.

"Ben, we have a situation that we need you to help investigating. I've sent you the coordinates."

"Alright, thanks Rook. See you in five." Ben turned off the communicator, and stood up.

"Gotta go Grandpa. You're fine by yourself?" Max waved him off.

"Don't start worrying about me too, I'll be fine. I was thinking about cooking something I had back in Arbuiria a couple years ago, just need the right Largoc slug." Ben smirked.

"I'll try and pick one up. If Ken comes before me, tell him I'm on a mission." Ben transformed into XLR8, and was out of the room in a flash.

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Ken and Peggy stopped in front of a door with a small sign next to it that read 1-05.

"This is it." Peggy said, before putting her map away. They both stared at the door as if what was on the other side was leaking out some kind of pressure. Peggy took a deep breath, and narrowed her eyes. 'I'm finally here. My first steps…'

'to becoming a hero!' Ken thought. Ken clenched his fist. "Alright, let's not waste anymore time!"

"Ah, Ken, wait…"

"We have to go in sooner or later Peggy, might as well start now" Ken swung the door open, causing it to slam against the wall. Ken took one step in, and Peggy followed him with an annoyed look.

"Did you really have to make all that noise?" She asked as she raised an eyebrow. Ken scratched the back of his head, and gave his best friend an embarrassed smile.

"Hehe, oops." Ken stopped smiling, when he felt something odd. He turned and was met with a room full of students giving him looks. Most of them studied Ken, as he stood there, while the rest looked at him with surprise among them were Cardeth and his friends, the blue haired girl, and the kid in the black hoodie.

Ken and Peggy looked around the room with a nervous look on their face.

"Did the temperature suddenly go down?" Peggy asked, as a little breeze came out of nowhere.

"It's probably coming from all the cold stares." Ken muttered back. The kids slowly turned back to face each other, some muttered a few things, as Ken and Peggy walked. The two only made it two steps, before a blur suddenly made its way to them. When it stopped, the blur reviled itself to be an orange and yellow furred Citrakayah with red eyes.

He was just a bit shorter than Ken and Peggy, as well as skinnier then most heroes. The speedster opened his mouth, and immediately started talking so fast it all just sounded like noise. After a few seconds of this, Ken turned to Peggy, who looked even more confused than him. Ken turned back to the Citrakayah, and put his hands in front of him.

"Wait, slow down, I can't understand a word you're saying!" The speedster stopped talking and looked at the two classmates, before scratching the back of his head and smiling, embarrassed.

"Sorry about that. I sometimes talk fast when I get excited, speedster thing." He gave his hand to Peggy, and she shook it reluctantly.

"Names Jachin."

"Peggy."

"I'm…"

"Ben 10,000's son, yeah of course I know you!" Ken shook his hand, and nodded slowly.

"Yeeaah, sometimes I also go by my name, Ken."

"Yeah, I know that too." He said, shaking it faster, until he realized just how close he was to possibly dislocating the boy's arm. He let go and gave a little laugh.

"Sorry, but man this is really cool, getting to meet a Tennyson. You have to tell me. What powers do you have? How many aliens does your dad precisely have? Have you met any other big time heroes? What's your dad's favorite type of meat? How can yo…"

"Um, Jachin, you're doing it again." Peggy informed Jachin, who didn't even realize it."

"Oh, sorry. I'll just, ask my questions one by one."

"Oh for the love of, stop kissing up to him already." The three looked up to see Cardeth coming down with his two lackeys. "It's pathetic." Jachin frowned.

"And you are?"

"Cardeth Abharan, the Cardeth Abharan." Jachin's frown disappeared, replaced with surprise.

"Abharan, as in, son of the superhero Crystal, Cardeth Abharan?" Cardeth smirk grew even cockier looking.

"That's right, if you want to be impressed you should stop wasting your time with this loser, and look at a real up and coming hero."

"Get off whatever drunk high horse you're riding Cardeth, you're just as good as the rest of us." Cardeth crossed his arms and tilted his head back.

"If you really believe that, you don't stand a chance here."Ken balled his hand in a fist and took a step forward.

"What was that?" Before Cardeth could answerer, there was a sudden chill in the air. Peggy shivered.

"Whoa, does anyone else feel this chill, for real this time?" The answer was yes, in fact the whole class could feel it. Ken noticed mist coming out of his mouth, and hugged himself for warmth. The temperature continued to lower, as the wind picked up. A small blue tornado formed behind the professor's desk that was in the middle of the front of the classroom.

Snowflakes surrounded the tornado, as someone started to appear in the middle of the small storm. The six kids took a step back, before the tornado suddenly exploded into snow and flakes. As the after effects from the tornado dissolved before they hit the ground, all the students in the class turned to the front to see a man in his superhero outfit.

He wore black spandex, with light blue and gold armor on his feet up to his shins, his arms down to his wrists, and his chest. Turbines were placed on both shoulders, and on his head was a blue and white hat. Finally, on his face was a blue mask with yellow slits. (Megaman/ WindmanEXE)

Everyone looked at the man with shocked looks. One of the kids, a green and grey robot leaned in when he saw the man.

"Th-that's, Windman, one of the Earth's famous heroes!"

"Why is he here?" One student asked.

"Is he gonna be our homeroom teacher?" Another asked. Windman crossed his arms and looked at the six kids in front of him. All of the kids could feel the temperature slowly return to normal.

"I don't know what this is, but it ends, now." Windman said sternly. "Now take your seats, it's time to begin." Ken and Peggy sat next to each other, and Jachin sat in the desk above them. Cardeth and his friends sat back in their seats, meanwhile, the whole room was quite.

When everything was in order, Windman's demeanor turned from serious to suddenly cheery. "Good, now that all that is out of the way, it's great to finally meet you all. You can call me by my superhero name, Windman. I will be your homeroom teacher for this year. Now I won't say much, because I'd rather let the headmaster handle that, but I will say that you all want to be heroes, each for their own reasons, each have their own backgrounds.

I am a nice and fair guy, honest, but know," His voice went back to stern. ", there will be no favoritism, no special treatment. You each want to protect this universe, you will learn how to like the rest of the class." The class all looked at him with blank expressions, not knowing what to say.

Ken examined his teacher, not knowing what to make of the guy.

'One second this guy's calm, the next he sounds pissed. Is this guy really our teacher?' The young Tennyson suddenly remembered what he did to the room, and the way he showed up. 'He is strong, and of course I've heard of him. Maybe he does have things he could teach us.' When Windman saw that there were no objections, he smiled.

"Perfect. Now, to quickly go over today's schedule. Don't worry, after this week you should have your regular schedule sent to you, but for now everything's all over the place because of all the introductions." Windman turned on his disk, and a board appeared behind him. A small schedule appeared in front of the hero, who grabbed it and threw it at the board.

The schedule blew up for everyone to see.

"Alright, pretty short today, but don't expect it to be like this every day. You'll be in here for an hour, I'll use that time to explain a few rules and regulations, as well as answer any questions you may have about the school. Then you'll be going to the gym to meet with our school's gym coach, Bradley for a while, and finally, a school assembly will take place in the announcing hall for all first years, where you'll meet your headmaster."

The schedule disappeared, and Windman faced his class.

"Alright then, let's get started.

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Windman pretty much covered the basics, building and classroom locations, the rules of the campus, as well as information on some teachers. Some students asked questions. Things like what to expect in fighting courses, if there were any dangerous wild life outside the school's campus, and if the headmaster was another famous hero that they knew. Windman answered most of these questions vaguely, not wanting to "spoil any surprises".

He told them that the courses were designed for them to know the basics of what to do in any situation, but not all situations can be prepared for.

"You will have to think on your feet when you become a professional hero, so that is another skill we will be working on here. In a universe that is always uncovering new obstacles, you can never not be prepared for surprises." As for the wildlife question, the teacher said that it would be fine, as long as they stayed on campus, unless instructed not to.

Finally the director question. That question made the hero smirk underneath his mask.

"That one, you'll have to wait and see, but I can tell you, he's not someone any of you know." The students immediately got into a frenzy of theories and discussion amongst themselves, making Windman have to calm them down with another blizzard. Afterwards, Windman sent them off with directions to the school's gym. The gym was as big as two airplane hangars, and as high-tech as the rest of the campus.

Standing outside in front of the building, was an Appoplexian in an old fashioned gym coach uniform. His arms were crossed, and his expression was stern. The difference between Windman and this guy, Ken was sure this guy didn't mind keeping that stern expression.

"Well, look what group decided to finally show up, and in a stroll no less!" The class looked at each other, before turning back at the cat like alien. "Don't worry, by next week you'll all learn to jog to my class, start making you sweat early so you're all ready by the time you show up!"

Coach Bradley turned to the door's keypad and punched in the code. The doors slid open and Bradley started walking inside.

"Follow me class, it's time to see what you guys can do."

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The gym was massive, as well as completely empty. The only thing that they could see was what appeared to be a spectator's lounge near the ceiling, and connected to the wall.

"What's with this place?" Cardeth asked, with an underwhelmed look on his face. "It's completely empty. How are they supposed to teach us anything?!" Ken looked around, and Cardeth was right. What exactly did this guy think they were going to do here? The coach stopped in the middle of the room, and faced his class.

"Alright, I'm not going to waste any time introducing myself. You didn't come here to learn things about me, and I didn't get this job so I could learn about your personal life. This class was made so you can go out there and kick villain ass, and that's exactly what I'm gonna teach you." The robot from before whispered.

"How blunt."

"Alright, the only way to assess your level of fighting is to see it firsthand. I'll be paring you off for a little sparring match. We should have time for two or three. So let's see, who wants to go first?" No one raised their hand. Bradley sighed. 'Leave it to handpicked students to not want to show off their abilities too early.'

A holo-screen appeared in front of Bradley.

"Well, if no one's gonna step up, I'll pick the volunteers." He pressed the button that said Class 1-05, and a list of all their names showed up.

"Alright, the choices will be random of course." He pressed the randomize button, and all names the started moving around so fast no one could read them. As the names moved around, some disappeared from the list, decreasing the number of names until there were only two. "Alright, Giraud Martson and Tomoko Keetsan get over here."

Cardeth's Tetramand friend and the Cerebrocrustacean from before widened their eyes. Tetramand noticed Tomoko's reaction and smirked. He started walking over to the coach, but Tomoko couldn't move. Ken turned to her and saw that she was shaking. Ken remembered how frightened she was when he and Peggy found her with Cardeth's friends, and clenched his fist.

Tomoko took one shaky step, when Ken raised his hand.

"Actually coach, I'd like to volunteer!" The class turned to Ken, everyone looked suprised. Coach Bradley raised an eyebrow.

"You want to volunteer all of a sudden, why is that?" Ken scratched the back of his head as he tried to come up with an excuse.

"U-uh, well I thought about it and- well, what could be better than getting that rush from going into a fight blind, a-am I right?" The coach kept looking at Ken, while keeping that eyebrow raised. He stayed like that for a few seconds, before suddenly letting out a strong laugh.

"I like your guts Ken Tennyson! Of course you should always try to avoid going in blind in the field, nothing's wrong with getting that rush when you're among friends! Come on down Ken Tennyson, uh, Tomoko Keetsan, better luck next time!" Tomoko sighed with relief, as Ken walked over to Bradley and Giraud, the latter disappointed he didn't get to finish what he started hours ago. Both students stood on either ends of the coach, as he looked at the class. "Alright, now I'm sure you noticed that the gym is looking very- bare."

Everyone looked around at the not so impressive gymnasium. Bradley smirked before opening a new tab on the holo-screen and typing in a few things.

"Don't judge a book before you open it up and read it!" The gym floors started to shift, making the class take a step back. The area around Bradley, Ken, and Giraud started to rise just a little in the shape of an arena sized hexagon. Pillars rose out of the ground as well. A giant screen came out of the ceiling, and faced the spectator's lounge. "Everyone besides Ken Tennyson and Giraud follow me to the lounge to view the fight!"

Bradley exclaimed as he walked away from Ken and Giraud.

"You two, we don't have your gym clothes ready, so for now you'll fight in your regular uniforms, I'll take your blazers and ties." Both students took of their blazers and ties and handed them to the coach. "You'll fine clean replacements in the lockers when you're done, just look for your size, and don't worry about fighting in your uniform, they were designed to be able to fight in if need be. Now, face each other and prepare for the match." He said as he walked away. Ken turned to Giraud, who also faced him.

"So you decided to take a beating for that runt huh?" Ken started to stretch.

"Who said I was taking a beating? I just thought this was the perfect time to teach you a lesson about messing with people." Giraud snarled, before cracking his neck.

The class was led up to the spectator's lounge, which was pretty simple. Two couches, both facing each other in the middle of the room, and both had a screen looking down on them. Up by the windows, which faced the gym, a control panel was set up. Everyone gathered in front of the window, and Coach Bradley pressed a button and grabbed the microphone.

Speakers that were connected to the screen came to life, and Bradley's voice shot out of them.

"Alright, Ken Tennyson, Giraud Martson, this is the battlefield you'll be fighting in. Surrounding you is a bubble field to keep you from going out of bounds. You will battle each other until I feel like there is a winner. Of course no killing or, apparently, no removal of limbs. Your class will be watching from above, so give it your all! Get ready!"

Ken narrowed his eyes, before getting into a fighting position.

"Set!" Giraud smirked and clenched his fists, before getting into his own position.

"FIGHT!" Both students slid their foot back just a little, before launching at each other, both with intentions of winning!

Next time on Ken 10 Next Generation!

Hey, Ken here. It looks like it's time to test our strength

Giraud threw a punch at Ken, who jumped over it, landed, before he launched with a fist cocked.

My goal is to be the best hero in the universe, but it looks like trying to be the best in my class is going to be its own challenge.

A dark-skinned girl stood with her eyes closed in the arena, as if trying to sense something, meanwhile an orange blur kept passing her from all over.

This school, it's my way to get to my dad's level, the level of pros.

Ben and Rook stood, surrounded by broken robots in a warehouse. All around them, Plumber soldiers were working on the investigation.

Ken, who had his blazer back, seemed to be looking up with a determined smile on his face.

So I'll be damned before I let you take that away from me!

Dark blue and metal boots seemed to be walking calmly towards something. The man who owned those boots also had both hands behind his blue shirted back. The camera ended on a frowned face with an eye patch covering one eye.