Sorry for the delay, I hope you like this.
Back at the campsite Ben, Gwen, and Max were sitting around the campfire, discussing Ben's transformation.
"So you say this watch thing suddenly jumped onto your wrist and clamped on?"
"This time it wasn't my fault I swear!"
"I believe you Ben."
"Think he's gonna stay a monster forever."
"He's not a monster, he's an Alien."
Both kids looked at Max weirdly.
"I mean . . . look at him, what else could he be?"
"I don't wanna be fire guy forever, how am I supposed to play Little League with JT and Cash if I charcoal the ball every time I catch a pop fly?"
"Don't worry Ben, we'll figure this out."
At that moment the symbol on Ben's chest began to beep and glow red. It glowed so brightly that the others looked away. When it stopped, there was normal Ben sitting down.
"Wow, I'm me again."
"Yeah, too bad, I liked you better when you were a briquette."
"Uggh, still can't get this thing off."
Grandpa Max got up "better not mess around with it, I'm gonna go check out that crash sight."
He walked off into the woods.
A few minutes after he'd left Gwen found Ben fiddling with the watch behind the trailer.
"Grandpa said not to mess with that thing."
"Yeah, and your point is."
"Your parents drop you when you were a baby?"
"Wouldn't put it past them" Ben muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing, you can't tell me you're not a bit curious about how this thing works?"
"Not in the least."
"You sure your related to me?"
Max had reached the crash sight and examined the pieces of metal and shrapnel remaining. He then pulled out a weird tool and began scanning the area. The scanner showed that three large robots had been here and were still in the area.
"I don't like this one little bit" he said to himself. He really needed to get back in touch with the Plumber High Command. He'd been away from the universe for long enough.
Ben and Gwen had sat down and Ben was now cycling through the aliens.
"So, what did it feel like, going all alien?"
"It kinda freaked me out at first, it was like I was someone else, but I was still me."
"Weird much."
Ben found one and promptly slapped down the dial. He felt this time fur growing all over his body and his eyes vanishing. He let out a roar once it was done and it sounded like a combo of a dog's bark and a lion's roar.
"Uggh, this one's even more disgusting than you are normally. And no eyes, what good is it can't even see."
Ben suddenly opened up some slits rather like gills and "saw" per say, Gwen getting ready to hit him in the backside. He leapt up into the air and landed on the trailer, grinning.
"Okay so maybe it's not a total loser."
Ben simply leapt off and into the woods, eager to test this alien's capabilities.
One of the crab robots had picked up on the Omnitrix being used. It quickly made its way towards the source of the signal.
Ben was enjoying himself immensely. He was swinging through the forest like a modern-day Tarzan, an alien-with-no-eyes- Tarzan to be precise. He leapt easily from tree to tree; he "saw" them per say with infrared sensors, the gill-like slits. Then he "saw" something and quickly leapt out of the tree as it was blasted with a laser blast.
A robot reminiscent of a Crab on the bottom half, and a tank on the top was bearing down on him. It leveled its cannon and fired, Ben leapt out of the way as the ground exploded behind him. Then Ben charged. The Robot returned the favor and ran at him. Ben leapt up at the robot but suddenly found himself in the grip of one of its pincers. Ben managed to get his feet and arms in between and pry them apart. He leapt at the robot body and landed. He slammed the metal with all of his might and it gave way. He leapt into the sizable hole he'd created and began tearing away at the inner circuitry.
The Robot gave a great jerk and shudder and then it fell over. Ben climbed out just as the watch's symbol flashed red. He heard running footsteps and saw Gwen running up, she gasped when she saw the wreckage of the robot. Ben grinned and pointed to himself "looks like I just took out my first baddy, I am so going to be a hero."
"A SHORT LIVED HERO! THAT THING'S GONNA BLOW!"
Ben looked and saw a fire inside the robot that was about to touch what looked like gas. He gulped and they both ran, just escaping the blast that occurred. They ran all the way back to the RV. By the time they got back however, Grandpa Max was waiting with a disappointed scowl on his face.
They explained what happened and he said in an annoyed voice "I was worried you might get popular with that thing. That's why I told you not to mess around with it until we figure out what the heck it is!
"Sorry Grandpa, but I finally figured out how to work it. Just turn the dial, slam it down, and you're one of 10 cool alien dudes!"
"What about staying an alien and not turning back into plain old pizza-face?"
"I kinda haven't figured that part out yet."
Max appeared to be thinking "I'm not sure we should get to attached to this thing, the owners might come along wanting it back."
"Aw c'mon Grandpa."
Then a voice crackled over the radio and they all looked over at it "MAYDAY! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY CALL FOR HELP! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK BY SOME; I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY, ROBOT!
"That sounds like the thing that attacked me. Those people are in trouble because of me!"
"Maybe we should let the police take care of this" Max said as he saw Ben getting up.
"What! No way I'm going to help them!"
Max sighed, and followed his grandkids out of the RV. They started off in the direction that the message had come. They stopped a little ways away from the commotion and Ben activated the watch. He selected a random Alien and slammed it down. This time his skin morphed into a crystalline form. He now looked like a big walking Diamond.
"So what can this one do?"
"I don't know, but I bet it's gonna be cool."
They ran to the campsite and they saw a strange sight. Another Crab Robot was walking around the camp, blasting RV's and trying to get at the people. But another robot that looked more like a Praying Mantis was preventing it from touching the people. It continually got in the way whenever the Crab tried to grab or shoot them.
Max's eyes widened as he saw the Mantis-Robot, then they narrowed as he muttered "Vilgax."
"I'll distract the Robots; you two get the camper's to safety."
The two nodded and got to work. Ben ran forward and shouted "HEY, TIN CAN! PICK ON SOMEBODY YOUR OWN SIZE!"
He gained the attention of both Robots and they stared at him. Ben felt uncomfortably that they were noticing something about him. Then the Crab Robot fired an energy blast at him. He dodged and then the Mantis Robot aimed and fired, but not at him. Its blasts hit the Crab-Robot and it stumbled back. But it quickly recovered and charged, grabbing the robot by the leg. It ripped the leg off and the Mantis Robot stumbled back.
Ben charged and suddenly felt something weird happen to his hands. Looking down he saw that they'd grown blades of the same material he was. He swung and the blade connected with one of the legs of the Crab-bot. It sliced it neatly off but that also had the effect of the robot tipping over and falling right on top of him.
"Uh oh, think I'm in trouble."
He'd been right, the cannon on top swung around and aimed right at his head. Then they both heard some grinding metal and saw the Mantis-bot lurching towards them. The Crab-bot brought up its gun and fired. The Mantis-bot fell back, its upper torso missing.
As the Crab-bot turned its cannon back to face him Ben had an idea. He willed his arms to expand and suddenly diamond spikes began expanding into the robot. It teetered for a moment as it began to look like a porcupine with the spikes sticking out everywhere, then it fell.
Ben heard Max and Gwen shout in glee "YEAH! WAY TO GO BE-, I mean, DIAMONDHEADED GUY!"
Ben quickly dislodged himself from under the robot and ran off towards the RV. He was joined soon by Max and Gwen. After he'd returned to normal and they'd gotten back to the RV they sat down to talk.
"That was awesome!"
"I have to admit, that was a pretty cool fight."
"Yeah but one thing bothers me."
"What's that grandpa?"
"The two robots, they were fighting each other. Why were there two and why did they seem to want different things."
"Heck if I know, all that matters is that I'm gonna become a hero with this thing!"
"Ben, I don't know if you should get attached to that thing, it could be taken away from you."
"Yeah right, if anyone tried I'd just go alien on them."
Grandpa looked troubled but said nothing. Then Gwen yawned and walked off to her bed. Ben followed suit and after a few moments, so did Grandpa. They all had a lot to think about before they finally dropped off to sleep.
Out in space only Vilgax's ship remained. It had numerous holes and had many drones on the outside working on repairing it. On the inside though it had been mostly repaired, but the Lieutenant had other things on his mind.
The Lieutenant approached the tube that held his master's broken body.
"Sir, all three drones were destroyed, the one I sent as well as the one's the courier sent."
The tube came up to reveal the body of Vilgax. He was in bad shape, missing all of his limbs save his right hand. He was connected to a host of tubes and was being worked on by hordes of tiny robots. When he spoke it was a halting voice, filled with concealed pain.
"Interesting, you did well. The Omnitrix has chosen a host it seems. I shall have to meet this person at some point who uses the Omnitrix to such great effect. Until then I must rest and recuperate. The Plumbers have no idea where we are and we are relatively safe here. I can only hope it will stay that way."
It was morning and Max and Gwen were loading up the RV. Max looked around and then asked Gwen "seen Ben?"
"Nope, haven't seen him since breakfast."
They both then saw what looked like a blue blur moving there way fast. With speed like Sonic the Hedgehog it came to a stop. It looked like a blue raptor in a black jump-suit with a face-plate that quickly drew up.
"Ben?"
"Yep, hey, check this out."
He sprinted around and within a few moments the cleaning job was done and everything was packed. He stopped and said "pretty fast huh?" as he turned back into plain old Ben.
"Something tells me this is gonna be a great summer."
"It's certainly going to be interesting."
Max nodded, that was certainly the truth; he'd have to make a stop by Mt. Rushmore.
"So, what were you doing?"
"Oh, just taking care of some last minute business."
Back in Bellwood JT and Cash converged on a tree.
"How'd Ben leave these notes in our rooms."
"Better question, what did he mean when he said there'd be come "sweet justice" waiting at the tree where I usually get beat u-"
They stopped as they heard a groan and looked up. They saw the very same bully that had punched Ben yesterday hanging by his underpants from a tree branch.
JT and Cash were in tears by the time they were done laughing.
I'm quite nervous about this. I hoped you liked it. I was discouraged a good deal last chapter that I only got one review and that was to say that they didn't understand. So please review!
zz73to answer your question of "What's Different?" the main thing at this point is that Vilgax is a good guy. Other differences will present themselves as the story continues.