Chapter 1: The Attack


High above an unsuspecting planet, a desperate chase is taking place. A strange, sleek vessel desperately weaves between rocky asteroids being pulled towards the planet below and deadly red lasers being fired at it by its pursuer. The ships pale blue hull is scarred with burns and holes from its attacker's superior weaponry but it limps on in an attempt to protect its precious cargo.

The attacking ship pushes forward catches up and moves to the side of its prey, dwarfing it in size. Its copper hull bristled with weapons, large burning orange blobs protrude from ship in some places. The front of the ship splits into two parallel columns, one above the other with red lightning crackling in-between the two. The larger ship fires a volley of laser fire into the side of the smaller vessel, knocking it around.

The blue ship steadies itself before firing two beams of bright green energy that does nothing but scratch the hull.

Inside the command bridge of this vast enemy ship a strange mechanical creature monitors the situation on orange, holographic screens. This human like drone is covered in black and orange armour with a black featureless face plate. It regards the date on screen for a moment before turning to its master.

"Enemy weapons firing at 20%. Damage negligible." It states in a stiff, computerised voice.

Its master sat above him, sitting in the command chair as if it were a throne. This inhumane creature was huge, standing he would be over 12 feet tall. He wore smooth black and red armour with spiked shoulder and elbow pads. Cruel, pupil-less red eyes set in an emotionless face. He had no nose and his skin was a thick green hide with pale, green-yellow splotches covering it. Thick tentacles grew down from his chin like a beard.

"I have come too far to be denied." His rasping voice boomed. "The Omnitrix shall be mine, and there is not a being in the galaxy that dares stand in my way."

Meanwhile outside, the smaller ship tries desperately to escape its persuader. It struggles to avoid the incoming asteroids and the hail of weapons fire.

On-board the ship systems are beginning to fail and the pilot of this vessel prepares to abandon ship. The captain of the ship is a strange reptile-like being named Xylene. She had green skin and three purple eyes set in a triangular formation with bluely-green stripes running from them. Two tentacles grew on either side of her head before running down her shoulders to the middle of her back. A lizard like tail hanged down almost to the floor and she stood on two ostrich like legs.

She worked quickly, punching in command on the console with her four fingered hands as the room sparked around her. Suddenly above her head, a piece of the ceiling exploded out halting her in her progress.

"No!" She cursed through gritted teeth. Her eyes glowed and the air around the piece of machinery that had come lose glowed the same colour purple as her eyes and was telekinetically shoved back into place. The controls flickered back to life, she worked quickly.

"Activate emergency communication link: encrypted channel, clearance 003." Xylene spoke quickly but clearly. A holographic screen appeared and she readied her message. "Tetrax, Vilgax has found me, I'm under attack. I'm going to jettison the Omnitrix to the nearest planet and do what I can to slow him down. I don't know if you'll receive this message but follow its transmission coordinates." She pushed a button on the console sending the message of into the stars, hoping it would reach Tetrax.

A massive explosion suddenly rocked the ship throwing her like a ragdoll across the room.

Back aboard Vilgax's ship, they were readying for the finale attack. "Scans of target vessel show weapons system failure. Energy emissions show the propulsion system is failing." The drone lieutenant reported to its master in a complete monotone.

"Prepare to board. I want the Omnitrix, now!" Vilgax commanded with a roar.

Meanwhile Xylene stumbled back to her feet, steadying herself against a wall. She pressed an unseen button on the collar of her dark blue and purple space suit causing a helmet and glove to ooze over her exposed head and hands, ready to protect her from the vacuum of space.

She forced open the door to the back of the ship with her telekinesis and ran to the cargo bay. She glided to a stop in front of one of the pods, the one that contained the most precious of cargo. She prepared it for launch with a few deft clicks of the control panel before running back to the control room to finalize her plan.

With what little power remained she ordered the ship to turn and face her enemy.

"Target vessel is now on intercept course." The robot lieutenant announced.

"What desperate act is this?" Vilgax questioned. Leaning forward in his chair to rest his arm to study the pale orange screen. "Destroy it, we will retrieve the Omnitrix from the wreckage." He growled.

The smaller ship continued on its course slowly gaining speed as its crippled engines struggled forward. Closer and closer it went. Xylene waited, one hand hovering over a button for just the right moment. Laser fire began to tear the ship apart. The control room shuddered around her. A little closer and then…

She slammed her hand down on the button, using what little power that remained to give the ship short, sudden boost. She sprinted back into the cargo hold, swiftly pressing down on the final button to launch the Omnitrix to safety. The pod was pulled down, out of the ship, and onto a collision course with the planet below. Xylene threw herself back into her own escape pod to follow it.

"Retrieve those pods!" Vilgax ordered. Vilgax's artillery tore through the smaller ship causing it to explode but by now it was to close. It splintered into dozens of pieces. One of which came crashing into Vilgax's command room causing it to erupt into an explosion.

The enemy ship had been stopped but the explosions knocked Xylene's pod of course. She would land far from where the Omnitrix would. She watched from her escape pod window as they drifted apart, heading for distant corners of the same planet.

Meanwhile far below, four young people lie on a makeshift roof covering a flying bison watching falling stars shoot across the sky. "Wow, this is amazing to watch." The girl says in wonder. She wears bright red robes with her dark hair tied back. Her bright blue eyes gazing up at the sky.

"Kind of makes you realize how insignificant we are." Her brother Sokka muses. He's dressed in black and red.

While the two water tribe siblings are captivated by the display above them, their blind earthbending friend, Toph, is far more dismissive. "Eh, you've seen nothing once, you've seen it 1,000 times."

The Avatar, Aang remains silent, simply enjoying the view. That is until a sudden sparkling in the sky of what they believe to be a meteor screams down from the heavens reefed in blue fire.

"Oh, man. You've never not seen anything like this." Sokka says as he as well as Katara, Aang and Momo the lemur watch it whistle over their heads. He turns around to see it smash into the ground in a huge explosion of blue fire. Toph jumps to her feet and they all share a nervous look as smoke billows from the crater.

The flew towards the crater on the back of Appa. "The fire is gonna destroy that town." Katara declared as she sees the fire raging out of control, slowly creeping towards a village.

"Not if we can stop it." Aang assures her as they fly down. Landing close to the fire Aang, Toph, and Sokka jump off of his back while Katara slides onto Appa's neck and takes his reigns.

"There's a creek over here. I'll bend the water on to the fire." Katara cracks Appa's reigns and flies off.

"Toph, let's make a trench to keep the fire from coming any closer." Aang instructs as he begins to run towards the fire.

"What should I do?" Sokka asks dejectedly, looking around for something to do. Toph and Aang turn around to look at him. Just then Momo lazily flies past with a chirp, giving Aang an idea.

"Keep an eye on Momo." Aang tells him cheerfully.

With that the lemur flies up to perch on the water tribe boys head. "So what, I'm just a lemur-sitter?" Sokka asks but it no good, the others have already left. He sighs and reaches up to pet the lemur. "There, there. Feel better?"

Aang and Toph both swing their arms down and cut a fissure through the ground in front of the fire. They raise their hands, then fling their arms to both sides, bending the fissure into a trench and pushing the fire back.

Flaming embers fall around Sokka and Momo. They are quickly stamped out.

Katara and Appa fly over a nearby creek. Katara bends a huge orb of water out of the creek and high into the air. She bends the water behind her, stabilizing it. She flies Appa over the fire while spraying a shower of water from the orb, drowning most of the flames. While this is happening Toph moves her hands from side to side, bending a large, rectangular slab of stone to roll over its edges and stomp out more flames.

Sokka watches on from the hill.

Aang takes what's left of the orb of water from Katara. "Sokka, stand clear!" He yells.

"Right, stand clear. Got it." Sokka sighs.

Aang bends the water around himself and takes a deep breath before pushing his arms forward, throwing the water outwards and exhaling a gust of wind. A globe of water grows out from the centre and explodes, spreading a light shower of snow all over the area, putting out the rest of the fire.

"Good work, everybody." Aang congratulates his friends, failing to notice Sokka emerging from a pile of snow.

They're about to leave when Toph notice something she was too busy to notice before. She stands sideway and digs her feet in a little, trying to make sure she's not wrong. "Uh, guys? Something is really weird with that thing." She says gesturing at meteor.

"What do you mean? What's wrong with it?" Katara asks.

"The meteor, it's… made of metal." The blind girl started walking back towards the centre of the crater where the meteor lay in the charred dirt. The others looked at the earthbender in confusion before the water tribe boy, Sokka, followed her towards the fallen object.

"You mean like metal ore?" He questioned with a quirked eyebrow.

The four of them came to a stop in front of the meteor, Aang and Katara having followed just behind Toph and Sokka. The thing sitting there just looked like a big, lump of rock. "No, I don't mean ore." Toph replied sternly. With a quick thrust of her palm the rock cracked open into a plume of dust. "The metals been really refined." Aang gave a swipe of his hand clearing the dust away. The three sighted members of the group gasped at what they saw.

Now with the layer of rocks and dirt knocked away they could see what was beneath. A perfectly smooth, metal orb. It was silver with a network of black lines on the bottom half while the top was segmented into pieces, like the shell of an armadillo-lion.

"It looks like it was built!" Katara exclaimed in utter surprise. All of them shared looks of confusion between themselves. The waterbender stared up into the sky, to where they had seen the meteor come down from. "Where do you think it's from?"

Before anyone could answer, the strange orb snapped open. The segmented pieces folding up into each other on two sides of the meteor. Inside was a strange black and white wristband made of thick metal with a glass circle in the middle of it, displaying a blue hourglass.

"What is it?" The airbenders eyes were filled with curiosity as he stared at the mysterious object. When no one answered he slowly began to reach forward around Toph to try and grab it. He was suddenly stopped when Sokka grabbed his arm, the older boy stopping him from going any further.

"What are you doing? You don't know what it is! You can't just reach out and…" During his hysterics Sokka gestured at the wristband, his arm passing just above it when suddenly the strange hunk of metal split open and leapt up at his wrist. Sokka jerked away, pulling his left arm back but it was too late the wristband had clamped itself around his wrist, cutting away the wristband that was already. Aang jumped back with a yell accidently knocking Toph over.

The strange wristband started softly beeping while Sokka was scream and tried desperately to pull it off his wrist.

"Toph, do something!" Katara yelled at the younger earthbender.

"Me?" Toph stood up. "What do I do?"

"Metalbend! Get it off him!"

Toph quickly took her stance and reached out with her bending before pulling back. Nothing happened. She tried again. Nothing. "I can't! The metals to pure."

All the while Sokka struggled trying to tear the wristband from his arm.

"Calm down, Sokka." Aang told his panicking friend.

Sokka stopped, breathing heavily. He examined the thing stuck to his wrist. There was a large blue button underneath the glass circle. Sokka pressed down on it firmly hoping it would get this thing of his wrist but instead the glass circle popped up. It turned out to be some kind of dial, Sokka turned it causing the hourglass shape to become a diamond shape with strange silhouettes in the middle.

He pushed the dial back into place and there was a blinding flash of blue light. (Well blinding to everyone there who can actually see but never mind that.) When their sight cleared Sokka was gone and in his place was a strange creature made of red-brown rocks and white hot fire.

Katara, Aang and Toph all screamed at the sudden appearance of the creature. Then to their surprise so did the creature in rasping voice.

"AAHHH! I'M ON FIRE!"


Trying a new story. Let me know what you think.

As you already see I will change some aspects of the Ben 10 part of the story. Hope you don't mind to much.

Sokka is starting of with the original ten aliens and if the story goes on long enough I will add more. I would be open to suggestions on what aliens you'd like to see as well as anything else for the story.

Thanks for reading.