Then There Were Ten

I don't own Digimon or Ben 10

The sun was shining down above a city in the United States, and in the airport it was bustling with activity with hundreds upon hundreds of people who were rushing around trying to catch their flights to other parts of the world, or for those arriving, rushing to grab their luggage from the plane. In the airport standing out amongst the crowd was one lone girl of about ten years of age with mahogany coloured hair, and she was holding a suitcase in her left hand with a backpack in her right hand. The girl was wearing tight blue jeans, black fingerless gloves, a red tank top, and an unzipped leather jacket. This girl was one of a kind in more ways than one; she was Daisuke Motomiya, the leader of the second generation of DigiDestined, the Child of Miracles and the inheritor of Courage and Friendship. Although due to recent events she wished she wasn't. "I still can't believe that they said all those things about me. I thought they were all my friends…at least Ken and Cody stood up for me when it mattered. I can't face them now, and I don't think I ever will," She said sobbing.

"Hey Daisuke, there you are," Daisuke looked up to see an old man wearing a red Hawaiian shirt and grey pants walk towards her and her expression brightened immediately.

"Uncle Max!" She cheered hugging the old man who hugged her back and he chuckled. "It's great to see you," She said.

"You know I'm not really your uncle right?" Max asked her.

"Yeah I know, you're just a friend of my dad. But you're like an uncle," Daisuke said and Max chuckled.

"Okay, whatever you want, ready to go on holiday with your relatives in the old Rust Bucket?" Max asked her and she nodded.

"Yeah. Are Ben and Gwen already with you?" Daisuke asked him.

"Gwen is, we just need to pick up Ben," Max told her and she nodded again.

"Cool. It's been a while since I've seen him," Daisuke said as both she and Max left the airport and both entered an old RV where Daisuke saw a girl her age with green eyes and orange hair typing on her blue laptop. "Gwen!" Daisuke exclaimed as Gwen turned and smiled at her.

"Daisuke!" She cheered and both girls hugged each other happily. "It's great to see you. Hopefully this won't be a terrible vacation," Gwen said.

"Of course it will," Daisuke said before she saw Gwen frown slightly. "Let me guess, you don't like the fact Ben is coming along?" She asked.

"He's what?" Gwen asked and Daisuke looked at Max.

"You said you told Gwen and Ben, and that they were okay with it," She said to him.

"I may have left out the part about the other coming," Max admitted sheepishly as he sat on in the drivers chair.

"Sure you did," Daisuke said before she sat at the table opposite Gwen and the RV started up and drove away.

"So how was your school year?" Gwen asked Daisuke whose smile faltered and she looked down at the table. "Bad huh?"

"Considering the fact that my friends insulted me and said they only hung around me for my power. Then yes it was bad," Daisuke growled as her backpack moved and out popped a small blue and white creature.

"Man Daisuke, it was stuffy in there," The creature said in a cute voice with an obvious lisp.

"So this is Demi-Veemon huh?" Gwen asked poking the digimon in the stomach making him giggle.

"Hi," He chirped.

"Yup," Daisuke said popping the 'p'. "He's my best friend in the whole world….apart from you and Ben of course," She added as the RV pulled to a stop.

"Ben come on, I want to make the campsite before nightfall," Max called out the window.

"Uh…grandpa a little help," A voice called and Daisuke sighed before she exited the RV and saw a boy with brown hair, green eyes, dark green cargo pants, and a white shirt with a black stripe down the middle hanging by his underwear on a tree. The boy looked at Daisuke and blushed in embarrassment. "Daisuke!" He squeaked.

"Hi, Ben. What did you do this time?" Daisuke asked.

"Nothing. I tried to stop Cash and J.T from bullying a kid. Some thanks I get," Ben grumbled as a rip was heard and he fell down onto Daisuke who groaned. "Sorry about that," He apologised to her and Daisuke nodded with a blush on her face.

"Come on you two!" Gwen shouted from the door and Ben groaned.

"She's coming as well?" He asked and Daisuke nodded still blushing and Ben groaned before he got off and helped Daisuke up and both entered the RV.

"Hiya Ben," Demi-Veemon chirped and Ben smiled as he saw the digimon.

"Hey. Long-time no see buddy," Ben greeted him before he frowned at Gwen. "Dork,"

"Dweeb," Gwen replied and Daisuke sighed silently.

"This is gonna be a long summer," She thought before she sat in the passenger seat as the RV drove off and Demi-Veemon jumped into her lap and smiled up at her.

"I wait all year to go on this trip, and now the queen of cooties is coming along for the ride," Ben groaned.

"Hey. I had my own summer vacation planned out too ya know," Gwen said as she took out a piece of paper. "Each activity is colour coded so I never do the same activity two days in a row. Now I am stuck with my geekazoid cousin for three months," She said.

"Geek," Ben said.

"Jerk," Gwen said and Daisuke groaned.

"Something tells me it's going to be a long summer," Max said and Daisuke nodded her head as Demi-Veemon jumped into her lap and smiled up at her and she smiled back. Soon the Rust Bucket arrived at the campsite for the night and Ben, Gwen, Daisuke and Demi-Veemon were sitting at a bench as Max walked out of the RV with a bowl of worms. "Chow time," Max said.

"Okay, I give up. What is that?" Ben asked.

"Marinated meal worms. Hard to find them fresh in the states, you know they're considered a delicacy in some countries," Max informed the kids.

"And totally gross in others," Gwen said as a worm dropped out of the bowl. Daisuke then picked one worm up and looked at it before she shrugged and she put it in her mouth and ate it and swallowed making Ben and Gwen look at her horrified, while Max smiled and Demi-Veemon was grossed out.

"Not bad." She said.

"They're worms! How can they be anything but bad?" Ben asked her.

"Don't be a baby, just point them head first so they know which way to crawl," Daisuke replied eating another worm.

"I've also got some smoked sheep tongue in the fridge," Max said.

"Couldn't we just have a burger or something?" Ben asked and he and Gwen looked at Max hopefully.

"Nonsense, this summer is going to be an adventure for your taste buds. I'll grab the tongue," Max said walking back into the RV.

"Okay, I got a half-eaten bag of corn chips and a candy bar in my backpack. What do you got?" Ben asked his cousin.

"Some rice cakes and hard candy," Gwen answered him.

"Can we make that last a whole summer?" Ben asked and both of them frowned as Daisuke continued eating the worms making the two of them gag. Later that night Ben was playing his portable game console while Gwen was surfing the web as Max walked out with some marshmallows.

"Who wants to roast marshmallows?" He asked Ben and Gwen but both remained silent. "O…kay. How about we tell scary stories?" He suggested.

"Scarier than spending a whole summer with your freak of a cousin?" Ben asked before he laughed.

"I'd like to grandpa, but I'm doing a web search on a cure for extreme ugliness. Nothing yet Ben, but let's not give up hope," Gwen said to Ben who frowned at her.

"Oh come on you two. We're all in this together. You can sit around and mope all summer or we can have some fun," Max said before he noticed something was missing "Has anyone seen Daisuke or Demi-Veemon?" He asked the two of them.

"They went out for a walk. They should be back in a while," Ben answered before he turned back to his video game. Meanwhile Daisuke was walking through the forest with Demi-Veemon on her head.

"Man, I thought spending a summer with Uncle Max, Gwen and Ben would be fun. But so far all that's happened is Ben and Gwen arguing over the smallest things," Daisuke said sadly.

"Cheer up Dai, it's bound to get exciting soon." Demi-Veemon chirped making her smile at her partner, both of them then saw something in the sky making them gasp.

"A shooting star," Daisuke said.

"Quick make a wish," Demi-Veemon said as he scrunched up his face in concentration, suddenly the shooting star turned sharply and flew right down towards them both.

"Incoming!" Daisuke shouted as she ran off as the object crashed into the ground behind her and the impact sent both her and Demi-Veemon flying and when Daisuke sat up she saw a massive crater in front of her. "Whoa…." She managed to say before Demi-Veemon ran off towards the crater. "Demi-Veemon get back here!" She called running after him, she picked him up and approached the crater. "Is it a satellite?" She wondered before the ground beneath her gave way and she fell down into the crater taking Demi-Veemon with her. "Ouch," She groaned.

"Are you okay?" Her partner asked her.

"I'll be fine," She answered standing up, she then walked over to the grey metal sphere that had crashed into the ground, it soon opened up and inside she saw a bright green light before it died down and she saw a large wristwatch that was primarily black and grey in color, with a grey dial in the middle that looked like a watch face which has a green hourglass shape. "A watch?" She asked. "What's a watch doing out in space?" She then reached for it with her left hand when it suddenly jumped up and clamped around her wrist. "Ah!" She screamed. "Get off me. Get off!" She shouted trying to pull the watch off her arm but it was stuck.

"Daisuke!" Demi-Veemon shouted in worry.

"Get off!" She shouted again before she picked up Demi-Veemon again and climbed out of the crater. "Uncle Max!" She shouted running back towards the Rust Bucket.

"Daisuke has been gone a long time. I wonder if something bad has happened to her," Ben said.

"What trouble could she end up in out here?" Max asked.

"She could have wound up bear food," Gwen said making Ben and Max looked at her. "I'm kidding. You do know I was kidding right?" She asked them.

"Come on, come on," Daisuke said as she used a stick to try and pry the watch off her wrist but the stick snapped. "Well that sure didn't work," She grumbled before she looked at the watch and she pressed the button that was on the watch and the dial popped up and a silhouette appeared.

"What's going on?" Demi-Veemon asked as he saw Daisuke press the dial down and she was enveloped in a flash of green light, when the light died down Daisuke was now a being made of magma with red rocks over the lava and she was lean, her chest was slightly large then it normally was, her arms were skinny and her face was made of red rock with fire surrounding it.

"AHHHH! I'M ON FIRE! I'M ON FIRE! AHHHH!" She shouted running around and Demi-Veemon's jaw dropped and his eyes widened. "Wait…I'm on fire. But I am okay. Check me out, I am totally hot," Daisuke said her voice sounding different before she laughed.

"Dai? Is that you?" Demi-Veemon asked.

"You bet it is buddy," Daisuke answered before she smirked and held her finger out and a small fireball flew towards a branch and destroyed it. "Nice." She said before she created a bigger fireball in her hands. "Oh yeah," She then threw the fireball which smashed into trees and destroyed them and set the forest on fire. "Wait….stop. I didn't mean too," Daisuke said as the fire grew. "Oh man, I am so going to be blamed for this,"

"Ya think!" Demi-Veemon shouted at his partner. Meanwhile Ben noticed smoke in the distance.

"Hey, what's the deal with the smoke?" he asked as Max and Gwen looked over at him.

"It looks like the start of a forest fire, it's probably some darn fool camper messing around with something he shouldn't," Max said.

"Daisuke 's still out there," Ben said and Max and Gwen looked at him shocked before Max ran into the RV and came out with three fire extinguishers and handed on to Ben and Gwen.

"Oh man, this would be so cool. If it wasn't so not cool," Daisuke said as Demi-Veemon ran around frantically before he saw Ben extinguishing fires.

"Ben!" He cried and Ben looked over and ran towards him when he saw Daisuke who looked at him.

"Look I can explain…" She was cut off when Ben sprayed foam at her head. "Hey!" She shouted at him.

"I don't know what you are, but you'll stay back if you know what's good for you," Ben threatened her pointing the extinguisher at her. He suddenly jumped back as his foot caught fire and he hopped around while Daisuke laughed as Ben put of the fire on his foot. "I warned you," Ben said.

"Ben wait it's me!" Daisuke shouted at her friend.

"Wait a minute? Dai? What happened?" He asked.

"Well me and Demi-Veemon were walking along when this meteor crashed in front of us, only it wasn't an actual meteor but this cool watch and when I pressed it I turned into this," Daisuke answered him.

"Ben are you…what in blazes?" Max asked as he and Gwen ran up to Daisuke and Ben.

"Guess who," Ben said.

"It's me Daisuke," Daisuke said waving.

"What happened to you?" Gwen asked her.

"I hate to be rude. But a forest fire is still raging here," Ben said.

"Well, what do we do?" Daisuke asked him.

"Backfire, start another fire and drive it into this one, they will cancel one another out," Max said. "Can you do that Daisuke?" He asked her.

"Shooting flames? Oh I can definitely do that," She said before she ran off while the others ran away as well to safety. Daisuke got to an unburnt section of the forest before she set fire to it and the two fires burned into one another before they snuffed out one another.

"So, you're saying that this watch jumped onto your wrist and turned you into this?" Ben asked Daisuke as everyone sat around a campfire.

"That's basically it yeah," Daisuke answered as she tossed a marshmallow into her mouth.

"So, are you going to stay a monster forever?" Ben asked her.

"She's not a monster. She's an alien," Max said making the others look at him. "I mean…look at her, what else could she be?" He asked.

"I can't be fire girl forever. How can I play soccer if I burn the ball?" Daisuke asked.

"Don't worry Daisuke, we'll figure something out. I'll go and check out the crash site," Max said and he walked off with a flashlight. Just then a beeping was heard and the dial on Daisuke's chest glowed red before she was engulfed in a red light and turned back to normal.

"Oh finally. I'm back," She said relieved.

"Too bad really. I liked it when you were a walking barbeque," Gwen said as Daisuke tried to pull the watch off again.

"And this thing still won't come off!" She shouted before she tripped over a log and crashed into Ben again and Gwen laughed while Ben blushed again. "Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up," Daisuke said to Gwen before she got up and walked off leaving Ben and Gwen alone while Demi-Veemon ran after his partner before he climbed onto her head as she fiddled around with the watch.

"Should you really be fiddling around with that?" Demi-Veemon asked her once they returned to the Rust Bucket.

"Well….maybe not. But if I can figure this thing out I might be able to help people. And I mean actually make a difference, not just make things worse," Daisuke said as she pressed the button and the dial popped up and she turned it around. "Should I do it one more time?"

"I wouldn't," Gwen said as she and Ben walked up.

"No duh, you wouldn't," Ben said before he nodded and Daisuke slammed down the dial and was covered in orange fur and turned into a dog like alien with no eyes and she roared.

"Whoa, that's a big dog," Gwen said as Daisuke sniffed around before she jumped off and started to swing through the trees.

"Daisuke! Get back here!" Ben shouted before he sighed and he ran after her followed by Gwen who picked up Demi-Veemon. Daisuke meanwhile was swinging through the trees before she landed on a branch and she sniffed around and she saw something coming towards her, she then jumped off as a laser blasted the tree branch she was on and a strange robot zoomed after her shooting lasers at her but she managed to avoid the attacks. She then climbed up a tree and jumped out of it towards the drone and she ripped the drone apart, it then flew towards a cliff and the symbol on Daisuke's left arm beeped and she jumped off of it and landed on the ground before turning back to normal.

"Yes!" She cheered before a second drone approached her and went to fire a laser at her but a shovel smashed into it sending it to the ground.

"Back off sparky. No flying hedge trimmer is hurting my friend," Ben said as he slammed the shovel into the drone again.

"Boy am I glad to see you guys," Daisuke said to Gwen and Ben as Demi-Veemon jumped onto her shoulder.

"What were you thinking Daisuke? You had no idea what this thing can do. You shouldn't be playing around with it," Max told her once everyone was back in the RV.

"Yeah. I'm sorry," Daisuke said sadly.

"At least you know how to use it," Ben said and Daisuke nodded.

"Yup. All you do is press the button and then rotate the dial to who you want and slam it down and hey presto, you're one of ten awesome aliens," Daisuke explained.

"How about staying an alien?" Gwen asked her.

"I haven't figured that out yet," Daisuke said sheepishly.

"Hm…with a device as powerful as that watch clamped on you. I say we better figure out on how you use it. And fast," Max said.

"Really?" Daisuke asked and Max nodded. "Yes!" She cheered.

"Mayday! Mayday! We're under attack by some sort of robot," A voice came over a radio.

"Sounds like those things that came after me," Daisuke said looking at the watch. "They must be after this. They're in trouble because of me. I have to help them,"

"And how are you gonna do that?" Ben asked and Daisuke pointed at the watch with a grin and the others grinned as well. They all ran out of the RV and Daisuke saw the watch glow green before she popped the dial up and turned the dial around.

"Here goes nothing," She said before slamming the dial down and she was engulfed in a green light before she reappeared as a humanoid figure made entirely of crystal, she had thin arms and a well-rounded body and a her head was slightly square shaped and was smooth and she wore an outfit that was a red sleeveless shirt and black pants and the watch symbol was on the left side of her chest.

"So what can this one do?" Gwen asked her.

"I don't know. But it's gonna be cool," Daisuke said looking at her hands. The group then ran to where they saw a giant robot shooting lasers at everything and the other campers were running for their lives.

"That's not good," Ben said.

"Looks like the head honcho this time." Daisuke said. "I'll handle him, you three get the campers to safety," She told Max, Ben and Gwen who all ran off to help the campers. Daisuke looked at the giant robot and ran towards it. "Hey tin man! Looking for me?" She asked the robot who looked at Daisuke before swatting her away and she crashed into a campervan before the robot fired a laser at the vehicle and it blew up. Daisuke then cut her way out of the wreckage with her hand with had turned into a sharp point. "Nice," She said before the robot picked her up and threw her away and she crashed into a tree.

"What's going on?" The park ranger asked.

"Trust me, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. Now come on," Ben told him and the two of them both ran off as Daisuke was thrown into another car.

"Man, this is a lot hared than I thought it would be," She thought before the robot fired a laser and blew up the car she was near and she jumped out of the way before she ducked under another laser blast and a tree fell down towards Ben but Daisuke sliced the tree in half by creating a giant spike on her back.

"Thanks," He said.

"We're even now," Daisuke said before she was picked up by the drone and blasted and she flew into a building. "Man, this thing is getting on my nerves!" She exclaimed before her hands turned into blades and the robot fired a laser at her but she held her arms up and the laser refracted everywhere.

"Whoa! Watch it!" Ben shouted as he ducked under a redirected laser.

"Now that's what I'm talking about," Daisuke said. "Come on tin man, give me ya best shot," She taunted the robot who fired a fully charged laser at her but she held her hands up. "What comes around goes around. Let's see how you like it ya techno freak!" She shouted before she redirected the laser towards the robot and it exploded.

"Nice going Da-I mean Diamondhead," Ben said quickly.

"Diamondhead. I like that," Daisuke said before she ran off. The next morning Ben, Gwen and Max were packing up the RV.

"Where's Daisuke?" Max asked.

"I haven't seen her of Demi-Veemon since breakfast," Gwen said, they all heard the sounds of something approaching and a black and blue blur sped towards them before it stopped and a lizard with blue skin, wheels on its feet and a stripy blue and black tail stood in front of everyone with Demi-Veemon holding onto the alien for dear life.

"Daisuke?" Ben asked.

"Yup. Check this out," She said before she sped around packing the RV quickly. "Pretty fast right?" She asked.

"I'll say," Ben said before the watch beeped and Daisuke returned to normal.

"This is gonna be the best summer ever," She said as Demi-Veemon turned green and puked.

"Demi-Veemon!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Sorry," He apologized.

The end of the chapter

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