Arthurs Note: Hello, this is my first fanfaction and I hope you enjoy it. I had created this story a while ago, originally as a thing to day dream about. Currently in real life I am working on my own original stories and I hoped to get some experience by writing fan fiction. This was my favorite story I created that was based off of an original work so I decided to share it. With that said please note in no way do I own the original work of the Ben 10 series. I would really appreciate it if people could give me some strong criticism, like things I need to improve on or comments on things that they like so I can continue to further my abilities. I plan on updating this regularly, most likely it will come out every Wednesday and on the weekends. Eventually as I work on this I will develop a consistent routine. Now a few things about this story, sense the setting is the future I'm trying to create differences that we might experience like sayings and technology. Also I created some of my own ideas on the normal story like the omnitrix lengthens it's user's lifespan and new aliens. The original characters like Ben, Ken, and Max will eventually make an appearance as the story progresses. I already have most of the story planned out along with some bonus chapters which will include things like the story of when Milly and Terra first became friends. You will also find in this story, sense I love a bit of comedy, there will be some parts that may contain humor. Thank you to all who read this, if you can, be sure to drop a comment and I will do my best to read and consider them.
A heavily armored truck drove along the now deserted road. It was designed to take on any type of attack from any side. It was only used for transporting the most valuable possessions or the most dangerous existence. The only time it was possible to see this truck would be at night when all transports were made. This part of the city was specifically kept deserted, in order to ensure the safety of the citizens and prevent escaping captives.
"Man… Why do we have to do this? It's bad enough that we have to be up at midnight but we are transporting something that doesn't even exist," The driver of the truck was young for his species, in his early twenties.
"Don't be foolish, we have no idea if he is really in there or not and it would be best to practice caution under such circumstances." The driver happened to be human but his partner next to him was simply in the form of a human. He was a bit more experienced and knowledgeable but somehow still able to deal with his new partner and maintain some form of patience.
"Yeah I guess… Want some tunes?" He turned to his partner hopeful, who simply sighed in response to his inability to take something seriously. "What?" His human partner sounded completely innocent in response to the annoyed sigh. Just then a loud explosion sounded behind the two completely separating the front of the truck from the back, which was where the thing being transported was being held.
"What was that? I thought nothing could destroy this thing!" The human was completely lost in his disbelief as he fought to get what was left of the truck under control. He was finally able to do so by pulling the wheel and making it come to a screeching halt with the help of a guard rail, impossible if there had been other traffic.
"From the outside maybe, but that came from the inside," His partner hopped out of the truck and changed into his true form, a Petrosapien. The two rushed over to the other side of the truck only to find that the contents were empty.
"Where did he go!?" The two turned in response to the slight sound of flapping. "Oh man how did that thing get that far so fast!" A strange bird like shaped creature that seemed to be holding the container that they had been transporting was already almost only an outline in the far off horizon.
"There's no time for that now," but before the Petrosapien could react his partner had already pulled out an overly large blaster gun,
"Yeah,"
"Wait!"
The blast from the gun threw his human partner back but with his good aim or dumb luck he had managed to hit the bird causing it to crash far away from the limits of the city.
"You were going to say to wait because it would only cause us to lose it right?"
"Yeah…"
"It's the year 2180 everyone has forgotten about the heroic deeds of the great Benjamin Tennyson and the ones who do know tend to refuse to believe in it. I on the other hand know his story quite well and I also know that for a fact it's a true story. The story of how the great hero was able to unite aliens and humans on this planet known as Earth and how his family had prevented it's destruction countless times. I am known as a notitacustos or a knowledge keeper, on Earth I am simply Milly. My kind is born with the ability to instantly master most technology. It's rare for our kind to ever have any technological problems but on the down side we are unable to create our own. We simply love to acquire more knowledge and with the inability to gain much more in the field of technology we tend to pick another subject to learn. In my case I chose human history, specifically the Tennyson legend. Most of my family finds humans to be uninteresting or unworthy of attention but I cannot help but feel compelled to their kind. So I headed to Earth where I now live with my Aunt, who also shares my interests in humans, she is more interested in the new found relation and the society created on Earth. This story is not about me though it is about my first and best friend Terra, who happens to always be late."
Milly sighed as she checked her watch, as of now her friend only had three minutes to be on time for their fieldtrip. She glanced up as the hover train sounded the whistle like warning that passengers should be preparing to settle if they planned on boarding. This was the trip that Milly had always wanted to go on, to visit the last battle site of the great Benjamin Tennyson, while most of the other students were simply interested in the day off from school. Milly sighed once more, for now she decided it would be best to just locate a seat and find out what was taking her friend so long.
"Ah! I'm gonna be late! Milly will kill me for sure," The girl winced as the wristband on her arm began to vibrate she deliberately took her time to glance at the watch and sure enough the clock image was replaced by her short curly blond haired friend Milly.
"Where are you? You do realize as of now you only have approximately two minutes and thirty-three seconds to get here on time. You absolutely can't miss this!" From the sound of Milly's voice she was extremely upset.
"I know… I'll be there on time to see your long awaited set up," Terra personally had no interest in the story, let alone believed in it, but she had promised Milly that she would go with her.
"It's not a set up! I told you once and more, that it truly did happen! Why must you humans insist on calling anything not from your time fake?"
Terra winced she only used 'you humans' when she was really upset which, if not handled correctly, could end up disastrous, "Alright, Alright, I believe you,"
"No you don't… Ah! Never mind just hurry up and get here on time, ok?"
"Right, Right, I will I promise,"
With that Milly relaxed and quickly smiled, she knew that for Terra a promise was always a promise. "I'll hold that to you then!" With that the image of her disappeared and was replaced by the clock that showed multiple translations of the current time.
"Oh man I really need to get going!" Terra slid her foot to the back of her board which caused it to accelerate, "Looks like the only choice I have is that then," Terra sighed it was always a bit of a hassle going her 'shortcut' route to the train, with it being illegal and all. Terra was one of the best boarders but because she was a girl not a lot of people knew about it or even believed it. The fact that she tended to board in places where people never normally went, hardly helped her reputation, if she even cared about one. "Alright then," Terra lifted her foot off of the pressure sensitive back and allowed her board to fall a bit before she slid her foot back to make it jump forward and then head down into the tunnels.
The train gave the final warning before it was about to leave, Milly looked at her watch in vain, there was no single wherever Terra was which probably meant the tunnels. No one ever used the tunnels anymore, not just because it was off limits due to their poor condition, but the fact that no internet or wireless based technology could operate under there. Terra was the only one that Milly knew who would dare such a thing. Terra always had an older aged model of a hover board that was mostly manual which allowed it to operate in the tunnels. The train suddenly jumped a bit forward as it began to head towards the desired destination. Trains were apparently the only method capable of making it to their fieldtrip site which meant if one missed the train then they would have to wait for the next one which could take hours if one was lucky enough.
Terra slid her foot back and forced her board into a vertical position she accelerated it further as she prepared to exit through the circle of light above her. As she neared closer she noticed rectangular shadows across the light, in moments she knew what they were, most likely the city had replaced the 'do not enter' boards that she had broken not too long ago. She knew though she had no time for other routes and simply accelerated herself even more as she put up her arms to block her face before crashing through the boards and caution tape.
"Hey you're not supposed to be down there! It's off limits!" With her luck there just happened to be a patrol officer nearby, one who would probably recognize her from her past 'stunts' as he liked to call them.
"Sorry no time!"
A loud thump hit the top of the train before it started to leave the slow stage and pick up to it's final top speed. Milly bit her lip and sure enough her wristband vibrated. As Milly checked her watch the image of the time was replaced by her wide grinned friend and her flowing brown hair that had been pulled back into a ponytail, "Hey Milly!"
"Hi… Let me guess?"
"Yeah…"
"Stupid, do you enjoy doing these things to yourself?"
"Um, could we talk inside?"
"Yeah hold on," Milly returned her watch back to the time as she stood to go let her friend inside from on top of the train.
"You can be quite an irritable pain at times you know that?" Despite her annoyed tone she was actually quite joyful that her friend could make it.
"Oh? Is that so, maybe next time I should just stay in bed,"
"Maybe next time you should actually wake up at a decent time,"
"Nah staying in bed sounds better," With that the two smiled and enjoyed a friendly laugh together.
After a bit of traveling the train finally began to slow down, at that time the teacher was walking through the isle explaining the dos and don'ts of what was expected of them. Every time she brought up a don't the teacher seemed to always take time to glance towards Terra, which was no surprise considering her history of getting mixed up into things or accidently somehow causing trouble. Just when the teacher had finished her explanation of how important this trip and understanding the meaning of the site that they were going to was, the train had come to a stop and the automatic doors slid open revealing the barren wasteland that was supposed to be the area where the final battle had taken place. For Terra though it was more like an imprisonment that her friend had insisted on taking her to, lucky me, was all she could think.
Terra dragged her feat as she slowly walked through the sandy site. She attempted to use her shoed foot to hold the sand in the air but out of boredom she only ended up watching the sand fall back to the ground. The rest of the group was with the teacher looking at the biggest crater, while the teacher gave a lecture on what supposedly had happened. Milly was of course completely absorbed in the lecture and adding tid bits of her own information. Terra dropped her foot to the ground as she lost interest in the sand, "So if he really did exist how come no one has seen any proof?"
The teacher glared for a moment suspecting something disastrous to happen, "Well some knowledge is lost on purpose."
"Yes," Milly could not help but to chime in, "There is a good chance that in order to protect this planet they had to erase their existence from here,"
"Then how is it that we know so much and have this huge crater in the ground?" Terra was probably the most skeptical person when it came to the story of the so called 'hero'.
Milly frowned she was obviously upset that her friend did not believe in the legend and most of all in her. Terra stopped as she looked at her friend she had never wanted to hurt Milly in any way, in fact when she was seven she had promised Milly that she would always protect her. When Milly had just moved to Earth she had taken on the form of a young human girl in order to truly experience a human like life. One day though a few boys found out that she was truly an alien and decided to pick on her. Milly was never the type to fight back so day after day she took whatever they did to her. One time things went too far and they decided to actually beat on her but before they could another girl had stood between the two boys and that had been Terra.
"Well if you're so interested why don't you go do the research," With that the teacher turned and continued her lecture. Milly took a good long look at her friend and gave a weak smile before returning her attention back to the lecture.
Terra smiled back and then simply kicked the sand out of frustration, she had a lot other better things she could be doing at the age of twelve then stare at a hole in the ground. She looked across the barren wasteland, nothing seemed even remotely interesting. "I'm going for a walk," Terra said more to herself than anyone else.
As Terra walked she stared at the sky, originally she came here to be with Milly because she had insisted that she did not want to be alone but it turned out that she was actually already well off without her. "Ah I should have stayed in be-" She was caught off as the ground gave under her feet, apparently walking in such an area while staring at the sky was unwise.
"Ow… That slightly hurt," Terra rubbed her leg which was sore but not damaged. After checking herself over and determining that she was fine she began to look at the strange pit that she had fallen in. She noticed that it was deep more than anything else, luckily she had snuck her board off the train otherwise she would have been stranded. She then noticed a large box like thing in front of her. It actually looked fairly recent, to new for this place. Terra concluded that it was probably recently left by the people who had set the whole scene up. Terra stood and decided to let her curiosity get the best of her, what could happen if she just took a quick peek inside?
