Co-written with OmniverseGazer and yugiohfan163

Author's note:

Yes, I agree. It's rushed and no I am not putting Ben x Gwen (I am really sorry but I want to be different than most Ben harems) and besides. I like Gwen x Kevin more than Ben x Gwen, but I might plan something special for you guys, I also plan on making these stories longer.

Chapter 2

Ben was walking with Julie, still thinking about the aftermath of yesterday.

Julie asked "You sure you're are OK with having a harem?"

Ben at which replied "Yeah I am. It's just... this is actually a lot to take in, I mean you are basically allowing me to get multiple girlfriends and considering from what I remember, you were jealous at Jennifer Nocturne and Elena."

"To be fair, that was before I found out about the champion harem rule, and Elena was going crazy and did try to kill me and Jennifer. Well I'm not so sure about her right now since it felt like she was using you to get more famous." Julie said back.

'She does have a point.' Thought Ben.

Julie then moved the collar of her shirt around, "Man, it's really hot right now."

"Yeah, it feels like its 100 degrees out here."

"Must be a massive heat wave out here. No doubt Will Harangue will probably blame you for this since he'd blame you for just about anything bad in the world."

Ben couldn't help but chuckle since she was technically right about that.

"So, who do you think should join?" Julie asked.

Ben pointed out "So far the only people that I can think of that can join are Eunice, Jennifer, Elena, and Emily. Though there are some problems as you already know."

"I don't know who Eunice is so when I meet her I'll think about it, Jennifer well as I said now is not the right time, Elena though she is right now crazy, and from what I heard from Gwen is that you left Emily on the top of a lighthouse."

"OK, that last one was to save her life."

"From what exactly?"

"A very long story." Ben quickly said.

Julie was a little curious, but decided not to ask.

Ben's phone started going off. He picked it up. "Hello?"

"Ben, there is a robbery in progress." Rook said from the other end. "I need backup."

Ben replied "We'll be right there." He hangs up his phone. "Julie, looks like you're going to have your first mission with me."

"Perfect." she smiled with a fire in her eyes.

Both of them headed toward where Rook called.

"So, what are we dealing with?" she asked.

"A robbery, someone stole a Nuclear Container, meaning we need to hurry." Ben replied.

"Are all your missions this exciting?"

"It varies from saving a cat up a tree to a secret invasion."

They soon arrived at the scene. They met up with Rook, seeing the thief running along the rooftops stretching their body like rubber.

"Any idea who or what that is?" Julie questioned.

"None that I know of." Ben replied as he was fiddling with his Omnitrix to change his form. "Let's go XLR8!" He slammed down on the device, but instead of the alien he wanted he became Crashhopper. "Oh man, again?"

"You really need to have Azmuth look into that mistranfomation problem."

"Agreed, you still have Ship with you right?"

"Why do think I'm carrying my sports bag." she smiled and opened the bag. A little alien that is similar to Ben's upgrade form came out. "Ship Ship" The alien named Ship said.

"Let's go." Crashhopper jumped into the air.

Julie then let Ship jump on her and Ship became a suit similar to the Ironman suits.

Crashhopper jumped up to the roof and blocked the perp's path. "Hold it!"

The thief had a purple jacket, with white fur collars and cuffs, pink stockings, and purple snow shoes. She has pinkish-red hair and a tiara with a diamond-shape at the top.

Crashhopper ties to kick the thief, but missed as she dodged and continued running. "Hey!"

The thief ran to a construction site and she runs along on a steel girder

"I got her in my sights." spoke Julie flying through the air.

"I got you." Crashhopper said as the thief reached the edge of the steel girder.

The thief then said "Not even close." as she then jumped off the girder and Crashhopper jumped after her.

"Ship, we need a way to beat her" Julie spoke.

Ship then uses the jet pack to rush at the thief and Crashhopper, but then the thief uses her elastic limbs to grab on the steel girder which leaves only Crashhopper falling.

"Ben!" Julie cried out.

Ben lands in the pool which a lady got wet.

"Oof!" Says the lady.

"Sorry." said Ben.

"You might have the power Ben Tennyson, but I got the reach." the thief said as a red orb fell out of the container she was carrying to the ground as it melted part of the street

Julie landed on the ground and same as Crashhopper. The thief then uses her elastic to pick up the orb without even getting hurt

"It's been an honor Ben, but I don't think that form suits you, bye Ben." The thief then jumps to the rooftop where the pool is.

Crashhopper, Julie, and Rook jump to the roof where she landed and they don't see her

"Where'd she go?" Crashhopper asked as Rook was using his scanner to scan for the Nuclear Device then points to the direction.

Crashhopper, Julie, and Rook went in that direction and landed toward what looks like a sewer pipe.

"Are you going to stay like that?" Rook asked Ben

Ben replied "As long as the Omnitrix times out."

"And how long will that take?"

"Give it 15 minutes or so", suddenly the Omnitrix times out and Ben is back to normal. "Huh, what do you know." said Ben.

"I think the thief likes you this way a lot more than Crashhopper." Julie commented.

"Oh, she must have meant Ditto, from what I heard that's apparently my cutest alien."

Julie face palmed at that. "What she meant is that she was basically flirting with you, but I need to know more about her first."

Ben blushed embarrassed at that and the scanner then picked up the radiation signal which was in the sewer which led to Undertown.

Undertown

Julie seeing that this is her first time in under town was interested. "What is this place?" Julie asked.

"Oh yeah, I forgot you've never been in Undertown." Ben spoke.

"Undertown?" Julie asked.

"An underground settlement for aliens on earth." Rook explained.

Julie replies "I see well, where's that thief?"

"This way." Rook pointed.

Ben and Julie followed Rook to where the thief is headed.

"Look at all this, it's amazing." Julie said in awe.

Ben which replied "Yeah it is, but I think we need to focus on finding the thief more."

Rook's scanner then went out "Damn, out of power." said Rook.

They stopped to get water to drink. "It's hotter down here then it was up there." Ben said as he poured some of the water on his head

"You think this heatwave would cool down by now." Julie said.

Rook is then trying to recharge his scanner.

Julie then looked up, "Uh guys? I found our thief." also pointing to the pipes on top of under town.

Ben, Rook and Julie went up the pipe to catch up to the thief.

The thief stops at the end of the pipe which said Dead end.

"HOLD IT!" Ben yelled.

The thief noticed Ben, "You turned human."

"Yeah, I do that."

Julie then said "Hand over the Fusion generator."

"What if I told you I couldn't." said the thief

"You're outnumbered 3 to 1."

"You sure you won't trust me on this? No?" The thief then jumped over the pipe and Julie and Ben followed after.

Rook stayed and prepared his Proto-Tool in laser mode and shoots two pipes.

The pipes fell causing a steam and the thief jumped to the pipe below the pipe she was on.

Ben then activated his Omnitrix and changed to a humanoid-insect alien with some shark-like characteristics as well. He is skin dark blue, almost purple, and light blue in color. He has a long horn on the top of his head connected to a shorter protrusion on the back of his head and a large mouth that spreads over part of his chest, he also has a belt and wristbands as well as oval shaped eyes. (I am using the designs similar to Ultimate Alien since I prefer Ultimate Alien over Omniverse so pretend that it is like Ultimate Alien) "Eatle!" the alien now called Eatle said.

Eatle then picked up some of the pipe pieces and eats it.

Rook however then got in front of the thief and started fighting with her.

"Rook, move!"

Rook then jumped back as Eatle shoots a laser from his mouth near the thief and then lands in front of the thief.

"Got you."

Julie was hovering, preparing to shoot at the thief.

"You sure?" Asked the thief.

With that the pipe below them broke and Rook, Eatle, and the Thief fell.

However, Eatle then landed on Ester "Ow."

"Pretty sure." Said Eatle holding the container.

"GET OFF HER!" Said a new voice

Julie then landed next to Eatle.

Aliens with light bluish purple-skinned humanoids with big white eyebrows and purple hair, and brown Inuit traditional like clothing except for one who was bigger than the rest wearing a blue version...

"OFF!" Says the bigger one while the other aliens point what look like laser rifles at Eatle, Rook, and Julie.

Eatle backs up a little letting the thief get up.

"Give us the fusion engine."

"Who are you?" asked Eatle

The big guy replied. "We're the Kraaho. I'm Seebik."

Julie noticed that small visible vapor coming out of their mouth like what happens when a person talks when they are in the cold. "You're cold? But it's really hot down here, so what's your problem?" Julie asked.

Seebik replied. "You're the one with the problem, the fusion generator NOW."

Rook replied "You're not getting it."

Eatle and Julie reply at the same time "Not without a fight." and at that moment Eatle turned back to Ben

Julie was surprised, Rook shook his head, Ben was also surprised and the thief took this chance and grabbed the container and threw it to Seebik who caught it.

"Is everyone around here made of rubber?" asked Ben

Which the thief went to Seebik's group and said "Only the winners."

"I'm warning you."

"Yes?"

Ben tried to fiddle with his Omnitrix which is unfortunately in low power mode "I got nothing." Ben then looked defeated at that statement.

"Let's do this again sometime, this or anything else I guess." the thief said while winking at Ben.

Ben caught the signal on that and couldn't help but.

Seebik then said "Ester, stop talking to the human."

The thief now known as Ester looked at Ben sadly then smiled as she went to the Kraaho.

Rook then said "These are Tungsten based lifeforms no doubt."

Which Ben agreed "Uh huh, totally."

Seebik then said "We will be leaving, but first" now telling the other Kraaho "Finish them off."

Ester now surprised as Seebik said that "Seebik! That's Ben Tennyson!"

Seebik then replied "Back to the hotspot."

"But you never said you… This isn't the Kraaho way"

"The Kraaho way is what I say it is, now go."

The Kraaho except Ester were preparing a ritual attack

Julie was ready to fight as she has been training Ship and Her armor form when Ben was busy being a hero elsewhere. Bits of where the armor plating is in expanded and missiles came out basically pushing the Kraaho to the ground.

Then suddenly water from a near water pipe came out and poured on some of the Kraaho, making them really cold that what looks like fog is coming off them which turns out Ester opened the valve to it.

Which she said "Sorry, I can't let you do this."

The fog got so big that it was hard to see and Ester jumped into the fog.

Ben, Rook, and Julie who doesn't have her armor on come out of the fog.

Ester then grabs Ben's hand "Come on." pulling him away from the area and both Rook and Julie follow leaving a really pissed off Seebik.

They stopped at a sewer area. "Hurry."

Ben shakes off Ester's hand "Just wait, I have to stop them, and besides Julie was handling this."

"They have what they wanted, they won't be any more trouble."

Julie was mad at Ester "This whole plan is trouble I mean …" She didn't get to finish as Ester pulled Ben.

Bellwood

Ester then opens a sewer opening "The Kraaho can't follow us here, it's too cold."

Ben sarcastically said "Sure because it's only 100 degrees, in the shade!"

Rook asked "The Kraaho need extreme heat, yet you seem fine without it?"

Ester replied "I am only half Kraaho, my mom was human."

"So a hybrid." Ben said.

"Bingo."

Julie asked "And the fusion engine?"

Ester replied "They need that to keep warm."

Ben also asked "And since they have that Problem solved?"

"Exactly, Ben gets it."

Julie then interrupted "Yet there is a problem."

"How so?"

"I noticed that Seebik is willing to kill us since we got in the way, I have no doubt that he will kill more including all of North America now that he has a Nuke."

Ester was quiet for a bit then talked "He promised me that no one would get hurt."

"And yet he tried to kill us, it takes the willingness to kill without remorse, I don't know about you, but I'm going back there before the blood of millions will be on your hands."

Ester realized that Julie is serious and that Seebik has been doing things that were against her father's way before he died

"You're right, we got to stop them."

Later on

The Kraaho had put the nuclear orb in a container which they put the container on the top of a giant laser cannon straight at the earth.

Seebik said to himself, "Good bye topside, and say hello to new topside"

Ester gasped as she sees that Julie was right.

"SEEBIK!" Ester says as she heads toward Seebik. "You lied to me."

"How long can we stay in cold cavern, a generation, two maybe? We need a world."

"This world is not yours, you can't roast it."

"It's not up for debate, my word is law!"

Ester stares at Seebik angrily.

Ben fiddles with his Omnitrix and changes into the alien Arctiguana, Arctiguana had three dorsal fins reaching down his back and gills on the sides of his head. He also had small spikes around his face. Arctiguana wore white pants and a black open-front shirt. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on his chest.

Arctiguana asked Rook and Julie "Ready?"

Julie gets Ship on and Rook gets his Proto-Tool ready.

One off the Kraaho activate the machine making the earth going to turn into a volcano in the area

Ester yelled "NO!" as two members of the Kraaho grabbed her arms to restrain her.

Arctiguana shot an ice beam from his mouth at the top of the lava before it could reach the top of the ceiling.

"That should slow it down." said Arctiguana.

"For only a few minutes, the temperature here is still rising that it's making Ship start to overheat." Said Julie.

"Ship ship!" Ship said as the lines on the armor are starting to turn orange as a warning of overheating as she and Rook who was fighting a bunch of other Kraaho.

Arctiguana was going up the pole which he reached the top then slapped the Omnitrix and changed into the alien called NRG, a humanoid alien made of pure, red, radioactive energy inside a dark green-teal Containment Suit, a heavy, oven-like suit that is capable of containing high levels of radiation and heat.

Seebik then lunges at Julie and Julie tries to land a punch only for the punch to be caught and Seebik punched back sending Julie back to a wall with his extended punch.

"JULIE!" yelled Ester and she threw the two Kraaho at Seebik.

Seebik dropped Julie and pulls the two Kraaho off him.

Ester then lunges at Seebik and Julie yells "BEN HURRY!" as Ship was starting to try to get off Julie

Seebik who notices Ben at the top of the Machine while fighting Ester yells "STOP THE COLD CUT FROM DESTROYING THE ENGINE!"

Two more Kraaho pull NRG on the ground pinning him and pulling the head of the containment suit.

NRG yelled "NO! DON'T OPEN THE SUIT! THAT COULD END NRG!"

Then NRG in his true form comes out with a massive explosion of energy as the containment suit opens.

"Suckers."

NRG then flies up to the top and cuts the container part of the machine with a laser cut and picks up the nuclear container

Seebik shocked yelled "WARRIORS DON'T LET HIM…" NRG basically puts the energy container in his mouth "do that."

NRG's stomach exploded immediately for a few seconds and NRG did a massive burp, burping out a massive energy which he felt something in it and he spits it out

What he spat out landed on the floor and it looked like a Red triangle shaped gem.

"That's good energy." NRG said as he shoots energy blasts at the machine destroying it.

NRG landed in the containment suit as he turns back to Ben.

"There you fought, happy?" Seebik said unfazed.

Ester said "You haven't exactly lost."

Ben then said "This place is still a part of Under Town."

Julie with Ship in her backpack also included since the lava didn't reach topside "And you also have your own private hot spring"

"Coexistence? Living next to a bunch of cold cuts? That is not the Kraaho way." Seebik asked

Ester then said "It may not be your way, but it was my father's way."

"Yeah." Ben chimed in "Wait, who was your father?"

"The leader before Seebik."

The Kraaho including Seebik bow to Ester.

"So I guess you're the leader now?"

"And as leader to this day I vow, to always be a good leader to you Ben Tennyson." Ester then hugs Ben.

Ben embarrassed a little departs from the hug "Easy now, I got to get rook out of here, I think the heat here is a little too hot for him."

Rook exhausted from both the fighting and the heat said "Water"

Julie then said as Ben and Rook leave "First I need to talk with Ester, but take Ship with you he also need to cool off" Julie gives Ship's bag to Ben and unknown to everyone a tiny mechanical like insect is carrying the triangular red gem.

Julie then goes to Ester wand talks to her privately. "Ester now I know you like Ben a lot, and you are welcome to join the harem."

"Harem?" Ester asked.

"You see Ben is now considered the champion of Earth which by Galactic law he is allowed to have a harem"

Ester didn't know what to say about that since she had heard stories about Ben Tennyson and is allowed to be in his harem.

"However Ester, I am in charge of the harem so that mean I am the alpha female and if you step out of line you are out of the harem."

Ester nodded since Julie is serious about this.

"Glad we have an understanding." Julie then leaves to catch up with Ben and Rook

Bellwood

As Julie catches up, Rook is drinking a big pitcher of lemonade.

When he is finished he said "Thank you, I needed that."

Julie then talks to Ben "I think we finally got Ester in the harem."

Ben weakly smiles since he is not sure what to think since he is getting his own harem.

Validus Laboratories

A woman with medium length black hair, and black eyes with long lashes and a V-neck black mini dress and black flats, her name is Elena Validus. She is badly damaged, a Nanochip gives her the triangular red gem. "I'm not sure if this would do anything for me right now, but find me Ben, I need his help."