Saturday morning, the day after Kaiden had met Albedo and the Ultimatrix had fused with his arm. His room had several figures of super heroes, Xenomorphs from Aliens, the Predator, and other alien focused series, he had a king sized bed with black and green sheets. A shoebox rested on his desk with a some cloth, and a wrist rest as the cushion, it wasn't ideal but it made a good enough makeshift bed for Albedo. Albedo spent some time to get comfortable, he made a toga like outfit for him out of one of Kaiden's socks. All night Albedo was thinking of what he could do about making the Ultimatrix even better. A loud beeping went off forcing Albedo to jump up in panic, he looked around holding a pencil like a spear, Kaiden lifted his head off his pillow, a small amount of drool on the edge of his mouth, a bandage on the side of his head from when he was hit by the rock. He rubbed his eyes grabbing his phone and turning off the alarm, he stretched letting out a loud yawn and rubbing his head pulling his green bangs out of his eyes. The pale teen got out of bed wearing only boxers with alien faces printed on them. Albedo stared at him and rolled his eyes walking over to some paper.
"Get dressed Kaiden, I have some things I want to discuss."
"Why can't we just talk now?" Kaiden asked walking up to his tiny friend, Albedo tossed the pencil at him with an awkward face.
"Look its weird talking to someone practically naked."
"Okay...i'll put some pants on." Kaiden said as he walked into his closet and put pants on and sat at the desk, Albedo had retrieved the pencil and started to draw the Ultimatrix. Kaiden was surprised to see that Albedo had in a very short time drawn a very well detailed blueprint of the Ultimatrix, there were some errors at least artistically but Kaiden would need at least a day to get on par with what Albedo was making.
"Hey that's the Ultimatrix right?"
"Yes, good boy you can read." Albedo said pointing at some Galvan text, that must've meant Ultimatrix in their language. "Now see there are several parts that are incomplete, after you had used it the problems became known."
"Okay so what we need."
"Well we need a power source, a class 5 DNA stabilizer, and at least five pounds of Bicenthium Alloy. That should be a good start at least."
"Well I think the power source won't be hard, but i don't know about the other two things." Kaiden said with an uneasy face.
"Well...Earth is the very common location for Bicenthium Ore, but the level five DNA stabilizer might be tricky."
"We won't be robbing anything right?"
"Ideally no, I will try my best to locate the materials to either produce the item or replicate it. I don't need Earth law enforcement to come after me either," Albedo says as he hops over to a laptop looking at the keyboard. "Er...Kaiden mind typing for me, I am still learning your language.
"Yeah, sure thing Albedo. What should I Google? Batteries, Bicenthium alloy, and DNA stabilizer?" Kaiden said with a normal tone.
"Are you mocking me?"
"No I am serious!" Kaiden said with a worried look, Albedo rubbed his chin staring at the human.
"Do you have trouble with communicating with others?"
"You can tell can't you…"
"Awkward?"
"There is that, but it's...complicated to explain to an alien. Sorry if I didn't send the tone properly."
"I will keep that in mind then, now then search for Ferrum, that is another name some species call Bicenthium Alloy. Ever heard of it?"
"Ferrum...you mean Iron?"
"Iron...that sounds right...how do you know of it?"
"It's a pretty common material. I can probably order a couple pounds, though it might be pricy." Kaiden said looking at some numbers for a pound of iron, probably will end up costing him a couple hundred.
" Come on buddy, I'm going to take you to the store." Kaiden said as he put on a shirt and tossed an overshirt with a breast pocket picking up Albedo gently allowing him to ride in the pocket. Kaiden walked down stairs his parents had gone off for a camping trip so he was home alone, but it'd be easier to deal with people if he didn't have a six inch alien on his shoulder. He covered the Ultimatrix gauntlet with his shirt sleeve as he locked his front door and started to walk down the street.
"Why don't you drive to the location like when we came to the house?" Albedo asked.
"Er...well legally I am not supposed to drive without my glasses." Kaiden said tapping his eyebrow.
"Are you okay to walk around?"
"Yeah just can't read signs from a far enough distance for the DMV to say I can drive without them." Kaiden said as they went by, Albedo had a small device in hand detecting a DNA stabilizer. After a few hours walking around and having small talk. Albedo thanked the universal powers, Kaiden wasn't bad, but Kaiden's awkwardness made him feel he MUST talk and doesn't take long till he starts rambling. Albedo quickly tuned it out, but he doesn't want his human guardian to be labeled insane for talking to himself so much. He bumped his hand on Kaiden's chest.
"Go about one mile East, and you will reach the nearest DNA Stabilizer." Albedo says as Kaiden stretches.
"Yeah but I am tired walking…" the young man yawned.
"So what do you plan on doing?" Albedo asked as Kaiden turned into an empty alleyway looking around to make sure the coast was clear. He pulled up the plunger up from the Ultimatrix, rotated around until he found a fat one. Based on the list Albedo described before night, this one would be good for speeding up transport. Kaiden gently pushed the plunger down not wanting to risk further damage, even though Albedo stated the Ultimatrix could withstand a lot of abuse, he didn't feel right hitting Albedo's invention.
Kaiden felt the jolt of energy, his arms bloated up, his body got thicker, patches of green shells started to grow on his arms, legs, and back, his pale white body, with a black line down his body with the Ultimatrix resting over his heart, or at least where human hearts are.
"Blitzeel!" the pill bug like alien shouted with a deep husky sounding voice. Albedo was clinging to his chest with one hand and the scanner in the other.
"An Arburian Pelarota...wait you don't mean you're going to!" Albedo shouted in a panic as Blitzeel rolled up in a ball exposing his green shell armor and rolling like a motorized wheel down the street. Blitzeel swerved evading several vehicles he wasn't really sure HOW he knew where everything was, like he could feel the vibrations in the air through his shell telling him where everything was.
"'Scuse me, coming through." Blitzeel said calmly as several humans and animals stared in confusion at the green sphere going down the wheel. Blitzeel happily hummed to himself as he was looking for the location he was told about, unable to hear the screaming of the terrified Galvan he wrapped around. He stopped at a store, he uncurled himself and looked at a sign with some kind of porcupine man with a handful of electronics saying "ARGIT'S WARES FOR INTERGALACTIC AFFAIRS' Blitzeel scratched his head with one of the claws confused and approached the door seeing it was oddly big, and in various languages a sign saying 'aliens welcome, no IDM needed'.
"What's an IDM?" Blitzeel asked as Albedo grinned sitting on his shoulder.
"This is perfect, just go in. I should have some Taydens in my account."
"If you say so boss." Blitzeel said stepping inside. "What's a Tayden?"
"Intergalactic accepted currency."
"Cool." Blitzeel said as the door opened, it was much colder inside than outside, the climate was pretty perfect though, a couple of weird humans, the porcupine man from the sign behind a computer mumbling to himself, if it was a costume it was the best costume Kaiden ever seen. The two kept walking around, but Blitzeel's jaw dropped he saw a man that looked like he was made of diamond, and woman next to him was a feminine blue raptor girl who'se clawed feet seemed to be resting perfectly on smooth orbs.
"Look honey he got a new shipment of First Thinker approved Galvanic batteries." The blue raptor girl said holding a package of small silver and green batteries to the diamond man who smiled.
"This is perfect, 3dgar would said he needed more of these for his science fair project." the diamond man said.
"Wait sweetie...the price...can we afford it?"
"Come on babe. You and 3dgar deserve the best whatever the price. Besides, humans love Petrosapien shards." the diamond man said as he wrapped his arms around her and the two had a simple lovers kiss.
"Daww….that's adorable." Blitzeel said, realizing he said it outloud he covered his mouth blushing in embarrassment and the couple looked at him the girl with purple face, and a pinkish tinge to the diamond man's face; must be how they look blushing.
"Thank you sir. It's nice that their are people that will accept our lives." the woman said looking at Blitzeel.
"Oh...heh...no problem...but why would it matter if others accepted your love?"
"It's cause a lot of people, especially other aliens don't really care for interspecies love lives." the diamond man said as he put an arm around his lover.
"I'm sorry to hear that, though shouldn't your love matter only to you, and not what others think?" Blitzeel said, the couple looked at each at first they seemed annoyed, of course they know in the end their love is what matters, but they look at Blitzeel. They wanted to be mad but considered perhaps his race has no issues with love.
"We know that but just it sucks that we can't just be accepted for us and our love, we even have a brilliant little boy." the girl said with a simple smile.
"Don't mind my giant companion, he's an idiot but are you aware of his planet?" Albedo said tapping Blitzeel's face signaling to be quiet before he started to say something bad.
"Uh no...never seen anything like him…to be honest" the man said scratching his crystalline chin.
"It's cause his species were from Arburia. It was destroyed a few years ago." Albedo said, Blitzeel looked shocked, partly because he learned that the alien he was home planet was destroyed, but more that Albedo said something so depressing to the couple.
"I'm sorry about my friend. We'll go now. Please enjoy your day, and hope the best for you two." Blitzeel said with an awkward face as he stepped away from the couple.
"Uh...yeah you two...and sorry about your planet sir." the diamond man said hugging his lover. Blitzeel gave Albedo a cold look when they were away and Albedo looked back at him crossing his mini arms.
"What?"
"Not cool Albedo."
"I just thought they were being pointless worrying about others accepting their love, when your planet was destroyed about six or seven years ago."
"But you know very well that I didn't know that and it doesn't mean much to me…" Blitzeel whispered a bit of sadness in his voice.
"I was just putting things in perspective for them."
"You don't do people talk much do you.." Blitzeel mumbled as they reached the counter, the porcupine man gave a smile as he looked up.
"Hey there and welcome to Argit's Wares for Intergalactic affairs, my name is Argit and I am the manager and owner. What can I do for you?"
"Oh hello, see we are looking for uh...what do we need again Al?" Blitzeel asked looking at the Galvan on his shoulder before he jumped onto the desk looking at Argit.
"I need a Class 5 DNA stabilizer, a Nosedeenian class battery pack, three hundred nanothreads of Galvanic Mechamorph steel…" Albedo kept listing things off as Blitzeel walked off, he saw the couple with bags apparently they bought what they came for and were putting on strange white masks. Blitzeel watched in amazement as the masks on their face and their bodies seemed to shift into a tall muscular man with a strong jawline, and a slender woman in a long blue dress. The two held hands as they walked out he overheard them still talking.
"Do you think we could start a charity to help them?" the woman asked.
"Love its been years...I'm sure if they could've been helped the time had passed…" the man said and she sighed clinging to his arm as they left. Blitzeel had a sad smile and hoped the best for them as two other people start to come in, a tall man with a similar build to the diamond head man, except he had a goatee and slicked back hair, and some kind of wheeless skateboard tucked under his arm. Next to him was another man with a strong jaw, blond hair with red highlights. Blitzeel watched the two come in and as the blond got closer he noticed something. The smell of methane. The men got closer and the blonde was eyeing Blitzeel's chest. Blitzeel narrowed his eyes as he rolled up just as the blond reached for him.
"That's him!" the blonde yelled as fire erupted from his hand on the shell, flames scattering around the shelled being and his companion raised his board covering his face.
"Easy Vulgaz! You'll burn the store!" the man yelled at the other. Blitzeel scowled hearing that name. He spun around knocking both back and rolling out the door as the two chased him out. Blitzeel rolled faster as the stronger man tossed his board down it expanded revealing a mint blue material between the black of the board jumping on it and flying after the rolling alien. Vulgaz scowled ripping off the same kind of mask Blitzeel just saw that couple wearing revealing his alien form as he fired pillars of flames getting him airborne. Blitzeel bounced on the ground knocking into Vulgaz's friend and knocking him off the board as Blitzeel unfolded clinging to the hoverboard as it flew out of control.
"Get back here human!" Vulgaz shouted throwing another fireball at the board causing it to shatter.
"Not cool Vulgaz!" his friend yelled.
"Sorry Tetrax, but that criminal needs to go down." Vulgaz shouted as Blitzeel shifted into a ball crashing into Vulgaz. Tetrax though slammed his hands on the ground as crystals start to erupt from the ground knocking Blitzeel off Vulgaz. Blitzeel fell on his back and rolled a bit getting back in place, before he found Vulgaz smashing his methane smelling fist into him launching Blitzeel around, for Tetrax to bat him back. The two repeatedly smacked Blitzeel around like a game of tennis. Blitzeel opened up in an attempt to crash into Vulgaz but Tetrax jumped kneeing Blitzeel in the stomach, felt like a boulder just hit Blitzeel as he fell down the entrance of the store feeling weak and dizzy.
Blitzeel stumbled to his feet as he noticed Albedo with some device in hand that was sparking with energy attacked to some cylinder in his other hand. He approached Blitzeel and put the sparking device down.
"Grab this it'll put the Ultimatrix at full power!" Albedo yelled messing with a dial on the cylinder. Blitzeel looked at him tired and confused but nodded trusting him. His hand on the small device as electricity sparked into his body. He yelled in pain feeling like he was going to die from it all, the device fused to his chest starts to flash and he heard a voice from it.
"Evolutionary function online." the Ultimatrix said and Blitzeel looked at it and at Albedo.
"What was that?"
"Hit the Ultimatrix!"
"But I'm already an alien…"
"Just do it you simple minded fool!" Albedo yelled as the barely conscious Blitzeel saw Tetrax and Vulgaz coming at him. He was expecting another shock and pressed the device on his chest, feeling a wave of energy flowing through him. He felt strange, like he was transforming but unlike normal where he had felt his body crawl to change, this felt more soothing and slower despite it not. His shell turned metallic, spikes bulging out, his belly stiffening as well, and his teeth growing sharper. While the bodily shifts happened, he felt the damage he had obtain vanish, in fact he felt more energetic than ever before.
"What happened to me?" Blitzeel asked looking at his hands and Vulgaz and Tetrax pausing in shock.
"It's called going Ultimate. You turned into the perfected form of your body." Albedo said and Vulgaz eyes widened noticing the Galvan.
"Albedo!" Vulgaz yelled as his arm stretched out coming towards Albedo who leaped to safety, but the now ultimate Blitzeel with heightened reflexes catches the arm. He smirked and turned into his orb still holding Vulgaz's arm. Vulgaz looked nervously as Blitzeel rolled at a high speed his spikes digging into the ground as he crashed into Tetrax launching him two stories high and kept speeding dragging Vulgaz around. Vulgaz made some noises in what must be his native tongue but even without understanding it was clear it was some vulgar words. Blitzeel then made a sharp ninety degree turn slamming his victim into the wall. Blitzeel then fired several spikes from his body pinning Vulgaz's arms and legs to the wall of a building and Blitzeel started to rev up in place.
"Get ready for an Ultimate defeat!" Blitzeel said going at max speed before launching into his enemy, the high speed spinning spike ball slashes up Vulgaz's plant body and ripping up his body suit. Vulgaz let out a paid scream before his head drooped. Blitzeel uncurled and looked at him nervously. "Oh man...did I kill him?"
"His species is good at regenerating, you probably just knocked him out." Tetrax said walking up holding his arm clearly hurt, his body flickered showing he was another diamond humanoid like the man earlier with a cracked mask on. Blitzeel raised his clawed hands narrowing his eyes.
"You want to go down too buddy?"
"Nah, I don't really care about this job enough to fight you in this state. The jerk broke my favorite hoverboard anyways." Tetrax said as he walked over to Vulgaz. "Though if he asks do me a favor and say you knocked me out, last thing I need is him whining about not helping him more."
"Uh...okay…" Blitzeel said shutting his eyes and rolling back towards Albedo looking at him. Albedo with a stack of boxes next to him, he sat atop them with crossed arms and Argit counting the Taydens he was paid with a large grin.
"Pleasure doing buisness with you Mr. Albedo."
"Yes, now go get me one of those transport cubes so I can take this stuff home."
"Coming right up sir."" Argit said walking away as Blitzeel looked at the small Galvan, his body shifting back into his base Blitzeel form and stretching.
"That felt pretty awesome! Like a reboot!" Blitzeel said as the device on his chest started flashing, Albedo's eye twitched staring at Blitzeel as the icon on his chest started to flash red and making beeping.
"NO! NO! NOT AGAIN! THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIXED!" Albedo yelled loudly leaping up to the device and started rapidly pushing the icon gritting his teeth. Albedo noticed the later beeping that was slower, he was desperate smashing his head into the button. With a bright red flash, Kaiden was standing their with a teary eyed Albedo, that beeping was quickly becoming the song of failure for him. Albedo screamed in tongues and Kaiden awkwardly pat his back trying to comfort the six inch genious. "Why...won't it work...I spent so much time on it…"
""Your products sir." Argit said holding a cube with a red button on it. He smiled handing it to Kaiden with Albedo sobbing in his pocket.
"Thanks Mr. Argit. Sorry about any damages…"
"No problem kid, thanks to your buddy there I can buy a new store. Do come back." Argit said with a large grin before going inside again. Kaiden looked at Albedo and rubbed his head.
"Do you want to go to Mr. Smoothies and grab some smoothies?" Kaiden asked.
"..." Albedo looked up and mumbled, he looked up and sighed. "Do they have any insect flavors?"
"They recently put a grasshopper smoothie as a limited time deal."
"Are those the noisy pests that kept chirping last night?"
"Yes."
"I want two…"
"Sure thing buddy." Kaiden said with a smile as he took Albedo to the nearest Mr. Smoothie and get the drinks.
Vulgaz starts to wake up with Tetrax sitting in front of him with some bandaging on his injured arm. Vulgaz shook his head ripping his arm off to free it from the spike and regrowing his arm. He repeated the process and looked around now free.
"Where did the criminal go?" Vulgaz snarled as he looked at Tetrax. "Why are you still here?!"
"I got knocked out like you did. Though it is clear that you aren't good enough to do thisl"
"That was why I called you for help!" Vulgaz yelled as Tetrax stood up pulling out another board activating it, and hopping on.
"Well doesn't matter either way, I am going to find the Omnitrix wielder and getting them to deal with this." Tetrax said before casually flying off from an angry Vulgaz. Vulgaz clenched his fists and let out a loud yell as he blasted flames into the sky. He took a deep breath pulling his communicator off his chest again.
"Well before they come...I think I am going to call in a favor…" Vulgaz grumbled.
