Ben jolted awake. He heard a deep rumble and a crash, the sound of his parents waking up and frantically turning on the TV. "Fear tears apart the city. A bright rift has appeared in the sky in the dead of night, as strange creatures fall from it to terrorize citizens." The newscaster said, looking disgruntled and recently awakened. Ben sighed, saying goodbye to his parents before activating the Omnitrix and pressing down on the receiver without thinking. Wide-eyed, he felt his atoms rearrange, his molecules converting themselves into a whole other being. He felt what he was before he looked. He was small, geometrically colored blue and black. Instead of feet, he had what Kevin once eloquently described as 'alien Heelies'. XLR8 was at Gwen's house before most could have blinked. He knocked on the door three times before Natalie opened it, clad in a terrycloth bathrobe.
"They'll be down in a minute." She grumbled, taking a sip of a mug Ben hadn't noticed before.
"Who's th-" Ben began, but was silenced by footsteps coming down the stairs. Gwen appeared in a simple sweater and t-shirt, while Kevin quickly followed, struggling to pull his shirt over his head. The teenager could feel himself blush, though he did not know if his current form let it show. "I'll… uh… see you guys there, I guess." Ben stuttered, speeding away from the house as Gwen and Kevin rushed from the door to Kevin's signature muscle car parked in the driveway, something else Ben had failed to notice.
'I can't believe Aunt Natalie and Uncle Frank actually let him stay over.' Ben thought as he weaved in and out of traffic, through alleys and across roads. He stopped when a bright light blinded him, leaving spots in his vision. Before him stood a creature of enormous size, or at least Ben was sure that's what it looked like to other people. It was probably 50 feet tall, gelatinous-looking and very, very angry. Several tentacles protruded from a slime blob with a mouth of large, sharp teeth. One appendage smashed through the top halves of three whole buildings, which the present law enforcement insisted had been evacuated. Ben touched the Omnitrix in the middle of his chest, transforming again. The large, tan dinosaur alien grew to his full height, just 10 feet short of the monster before him.
"Hey!" Ben shouted, but it had no effect on the monster. Instead it began… walking… in the opposite direction. "Where do you think you're going?" He asked, grabbing one of the large tentacles that dragged behind it. He grabbed it at it's base, and lifted the whole creature above his head. It landed with a terrifying crash on the road next to him, concrete and asphalt cracking for several hundred feet around him. The thing screamed, swiping at Ben with a tentacle that sent him flying two blocks away. He picked himself up out of the debris of his fall, grumbling as he made his way back to the creature. This time, it recognized him as a threat, and swung its arms at him. Ben dodged enough to where the monster gave up on hitting him, and began to try and bite him. Had he been defenseless, it could have easily bitten through half of Humongosaur's torso in one go. Instead, Ben just punched it. He had it on the ground, kneeling before it, throwing punch after punch.
"Hey! Varon(1)! Enough already!" Ben stopped for a moment and looked up to see a boy about his age flying a jetpack towards him. At least, Ben thought it was a jetpack until the boy landed onto the alien and it folded into his body. His actual body, like it had never been there. Ben blinked.
"What for?" He asked, skeptical.
"I don't know tu(2), and tu(2) don't know me, but let's talk about this, aprobado(3)?" The other had his hands held up by his head. He seemed like he was trying to protect whatever was under him.
"Fine, we'll talk." Ben detransformed in a flash of green light, and the other looked about as surprised as Ben felt. He couldn't take his eyes off of the boy. He was maybe a few inches taller than himself, with tan skin and black hair that shone even in the night. Ben was paralyzed, before a roaring engine broke the silence between them.
"Ben!" Gwen called, out of the door as soon as Kevin had parked the car. She looked concerned, and Ben realized that he looked pretty beaten up. While the monster hadn't hit him a ton, whatever had hit had done a number. Bruises covered what skin was exposed, and he wasn't excited to find out the full extent of the damage. The other boy seemed to realize this too.
"Are you okay?" He asked, his face painted in a picturesque frown. Ben blushed, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"I'll be fine." Ben shrugged, averting his eyes from the increasingly good looking teenager. Gwen grabbed his arm a bit and he winced, hard. "Do you know what this thing is?" He asked, rubbing the sore area.
"You don't?" He asked, his puzzlement increasing. "It's an EVO."
"An E-what?" Kevin asked, poking the unconscious monster.
"EVO, man, come on. Don't play games with me." He put his hands on his hips, jumping down to meet Kevin's eyes on the road. "Don't tell me you don't know what an EVO is."
"Hate to break it to ya, 'amigo', but I've never heard of it before." Kevin pushed his finger into the other's chest, who clenched his fists.
"Come on, Kev, back off." Ben said. "I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation for th-"
Then the monster ate Kevin.
While they were arguing, the creature had rolled over so that the mouth faced the four of them. In an instant, it had swallowed Kevin whole. He floated around inside the gelatinous blob, with little air and nothing to absorb. The three remaining stood motionless.
"Guau(4)…" The stranger said, repositioning the goggles on the top of his head. Gwen shook herself.
"Are we going to do anything?" Gwen asked. Kevin kicked frantically, pointing to his puffed cheeks.
"I mean…" Ben started, but was stopped by the stranger walking over, shoving his gloves in his pockets. He laid his hands right on the belly of the beast. Motherboard designs flowed over the whole of the monster, and through the boy's hands. In an instant, a woman lay in the street, clothes tattered, with Kevin laying in a pile of goop on a sidewalk. Gwen rushed over, brushing it out of his eyes as he sputtered for air.
"Thanks, assholes." He muttered, wiping the slime off of his hands. Ben still stood motionless, unmoved from the spot he had detransformed. Another jolt made Ben shudder. It was soft, natural. It was like a weak current of electricity awakening all his senses. The boy turned around. Deep brown eyes met emerald green and they stood there, motionless, silent, for an eternity.
"Ahem…" Gwen coughed, trying to break them out of their trance. "How did you do that thing, with the alien?" The boy finally snapped out of whatever held him, looking at her with a raised eyebrow.
"It was an EVO, chica(5), aliens don't exist."
Google Translate Spanish Footnotes ;D -
1. Varon - Man in like the vaguest sense
2. Tu - You
3. Aprobado - Okay
4. Guau - Wow
5. Chica - Girl
