Chapter 2
A/N: a big Thank You to Mr. Raleigh D and GentlestCobra2 for the reviews that kept me willing to write this story. I'm using the "Divide And Conquer" episode as a base here. Again, I do NOT own Ben 10 or Teen Titans. They belong to their respective owners.
"So, that is how the Crime Detector works." Ben, as Grey Matter finished explaining to the others, who were in the main Ops room marveling at the advanced technology at their disposal. If what Ben had explained was true, the computer's systems were linked to every camera in the city and the adjacent prison.
Speaking of the prison, sirens began blaring as a wall was forcibly knocked down and several guards were forced to pursue someone that had broken into the prison. The tower got an immediate signal and the screen zeroed in on the prison cameras. Robin saw the perfect opportunity for the team to gain more combat experience. "Alright Titans, we've got work to do. We're lucky the prison is close by."
"Yeah, but why would someone break into prison? Aren't people supposed to break out of it?" Kevin asked as he stepped onto a solid mana platform that Gwen conjured up for transportation. Ben shrugged as he hit the Ultimatrix dial again. "Jetray!" he yelled as he transformed.
When they got to the prison, Team 10 was surprised to see a giant creature seemingly made of granite walk into the room. The Titans, however, seemed to recognize the creature immediately.
"You know Cinderblock, normally the bad guys break out of jail." Beast Boy quipped. Robin continued the thought with "And I can think of eight good reasons why you don't wanna break in!" Then he jumped out of the shadows "One."
Starfire flew into view next. "Two!"
Then Beast Boy jumped out as a tiger, shifted back to his human form and said "Three!"
Gwen ran into view. "Four!"
Raven jumped into the fray. "Five!"
Kevin walked casually into the room, knelt down, absorbed the concrete and said "Six!"
Cyborg jumped down from the upper floor. "Seven!"
Ben stepped up to the concrete behemoth. "Eight. Although to be fair, I count more than once." And he slammed down the Ultimatrix dial. "Rath!" He shouted
"Let me tell you something, big ugly rock guy! No matter how you do the math, it all adds up to… hold, on a second. One, two… well whatever it adds up to, Rath's gonna smash you up real good!" and he charged at Cinderblock.
The Titans turned to Gwen "Is he serious?" they said in unison. "Unfortunately, yes." She answered. Then they all charged towards Cinderblock. While Rath was holding Cinderblock in a chokehold, punching him in the face several times, Robin delivered a powerful roundhouse to his cement midsection. As soon as Cinderblock broke free of Rath's hold on him, Starfire shot two blasts of green energy at his back, which upon contact had quite a profound effect. As Cinderblock stumbled, Kevin morphed his hand into a stone hammer and intended to smash into Cinderblock's chest. At the last second Cinderblock raised his arm and their attack met, sending Cinderblock fumbling backwards.
Beast Boy took the opportunity to attack him in hawk form, which hardly did anything more than annoy the stone giant as he made his way towards Raven and Gwen. Ravens eyes began to glow white as Gwen's glowed pink. As a slab of concrete was raised by Raven to defend the two teens, Gwen shot several mana energy disks at Cinderblock when he demolished the chunk of concrete.
When Kevin, Cyborg and Robin ran into the fray intent on delivering pain, Cinderblock's arm punched them all three away in one fell swoop. Then as Starfire charged at him, Cinderblock grabbed her out of the air. She wasn't fazed.
"I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am stronger than I look." She said as she gave a strong sweeping kick to his chest. Rath was quick to jump at the chance to attack.
"Let me tell you something, you big slab of rock, no one messes with Rath's friends!" and he punched Cinderblock in the gut. Then Beast Boy changed his shape into a T-rex and ran at Cinderblock, who threw him aside like you would a empty soda can. Raven was busy chanting and didn't take notice until he was on top of her "Heh, watch out for falling dinosaurs?" Beast Boy said jokingly. Raven blew on the one strand of hair that had managed to make it's way outside her hood, unamused. "I'm… gonna leave you alone now." Beast Boy said nervously as he scampered over to another area of the battle.
Robin then grabbed Cinderblock around the neck and as he struggled to hold on remarked. "Thrashing only makes me hold tighter."
When he was thrown off, the stone creature grabbed a metal support beam which caught Cyborg's eye. "Now there's an idea!" he said, ripping off a support beam of his own and hammering away at Cinderblock, who despite his size, was able to knock Cyborg across the room. Ben, who had somehow convinced himself that Rath was doing more harm than good, switched his alien forms.
"NRG!" he shouted after which he shot a beam of radioactive heat at the steel support beam in Cinderblock's hands. Cinderblock immediately dropped the melting metal as it became hot to the touch. Starfire laughed, and if NRG could blush, he probably would have.
Cinderblock turned to run down a corridor, and Robin reached down to help Cyborg up. "Wanna, give this guy the sonic boom?" Robin asked, to which NRG replied, "Easy enough.".and turned back to Ben, then to Echo-Echo. Touching his Ultimatrix symbol, there was another green flash and he said "How about the Sonic Doom instead? Cover your ears." To which everyone obliged.
"Sonic Doom!" Ultimate Echo-Echo shouted in an echoing voice as he threw several disks surrounded Cinderblock and let out a barrage of sonic waves, forcing him to drop to his knees and cover his ears, or rather the spot where he would have ears, if he were human. By this time, the guards had surrounded him, and Cinderblock was taken into custody.
Several giant gears could be found in the building, and they were working overtime to do whatever it was they did, be it power something or just spin for no reason. A man in black and silver armor with a brown and black half-and-half mask with one eye on the brown side was staring at a video feed of the prison battle that had taken place moments ago. "So… Cinderblock failed. Pity. Computer, play back file 203.7 minutes four through six." The screen flashed with Images of Rath pummeling Cinderblock. "Interesting… Computer, Relay minutes eight through eleven." And the computer showed NRG, then Ben, then Echo-Echo going ultimate. The man in armor thought for a moment, then slamed his fist down on the console of the computer "I will find out what that boy is… I swear it."
"Friends, I wish to initiate a group hug!" Starfire said cheerfully as they entered the Tower after helping with the prison cleanup. "I'll pass." Raven said casually as she headed to her room. "Ummm… I wouldn't mind a hug." Ben muttered under his breath. Unfortunately for him, Kevin heard what he said.
"Dude! You totally have a crush on Starfire!" Kevin taunted. Ben was just glad Starfire didn't understand the concept of a 'crush' yet. "Say what now?" Cyborg asked a little shocked. "She's an alien, dude. You can't seriously expect her to return the-oooof." He was elbowed in the gut by Beast Boy.
"So? Let the guy dream. I mean, he's more alien than she is with that thing on his wrist." Beast Boy stated.
"By the way, what is that device, Ben? You never told us." Robin asked. Ben sighed. It was about time they knew anyway. "It's called the Ultimate Omnitrix, or Ultimatrix for short, and it allows me to change into any known species of alien I have available." He whispered the next part so Starfire wouldn't hear "I still don't know why it hasn't scanned Starfire, Beast Boy or Raven. I mean, I'm assuming their genetic code is different from humans, so apparently I will have to manually override the system using a voice command."
Beast boy nearly wet his pants from excitement. "You can scan people and get their powers?! Dude you should totally see if that thing can scan me!" He yelled, making Ben wince. "There's a reason I whispered that, Beast Boy." He said as Starfire had heard what he said and was now focused intently on Ben, and more specifically, the Ultimatrix.
"So you are saying that this device allows you to become not only the Galvan, Vaxasaurian, Prypiatosian, and a large quantity of others, but can acquire new forms as well?" Starfire asked, intrigued.
Ben gave a nervous halfhearted laugh "Yeah, but some forms come with drawbacks… My personality changes to be specific, sometimes so drastically that I can't remember what I was doing before I changed back, and I don't want to be misunderstood all the time, so…" He realized the mistake in what he said a little too late.
"YOU TROQ!" Starfire screamed as her eyes lit up green along with her fists. As the force of her breath impacted the group, their hair was blasted backwards, away from their faces. "Wait, Starfire, I didn't mean it that way… I-I-I'm sorry, Okay? Please! It didn't mean what you think it meant. I meant that when I use certain forms, I don't understand my situation when I change back."
"Riiiiiight. Keep telling yourself that." Kevin goaded. "Shut up, Kevin." Gwen said worriedly, trying to fix her hair.
"Fine, you wish to do the making up? Then perform the scanning on me! Maybe if you were Tamaranian, you would understand why Earth language is so difficult!" Starfire was holding a starbolt two inches from Ben's face now.
Ben sighed in defeat. "Alright, alright, I'll see what I can do." And Ben raised his arm to head level. "Ultimatrix user access voice recognition mode. Commence Scan for unknown life forms."
As everyone looked at the Ultimatrix, which had turned yellow, green and black, Raven came back into the room. "Sorry, I forgot I left a book in here." She said. Suddenly the dial on the Ultimatrix popped out, shooting out a yellow ray toward her, then circled a full 360 degrees around the room hitting everyone.
"Well, that's new, when did you learn that voice recognition command?" Gwen asked as not one, but six new forms showed themselves around the Ultimatrix. "Ummm… Last week." Ben admitted sheepishly. Starfire was still holding a Starbolt dangerously close to his face.
"Change!" she ordered him, to which he sighed and replied, "Well, here goes nothing." And he scrolled to the alien form that looked surprisingly like a simple change of Ben's clothes. How wrong he was about that. As he hit the dial, Raven asked "What did he do to us?" her face seemed to have two extra eyes and she looked angry enough to kill.
"Malga'kori!?" Ben shouted, then looked very confused. He looked very much like himself, but his skin was now an orange hue, his eyebrows had changed shape and his clothing, while mostly green, had purple hues woven into the sleeveless shirt, a pair of purple shorts along with silver arm bands and the Ultimatrix symbol on a silver pauldron on his left shoulder. His boots were a silver metal he didn't recognize.
"You are going to need to kiss an earthling to speak English again, Malga'kori." Starfire said as Ben began freaking out. He promptly began to hyperventilate. A kiss! He couldn't do that! He briefly began to contemplate changing back to his human form. Then he saw the expectant look Starfire was giving him, and he turned to Gwen with a pleading expression on his face that clearly read "Help Me!"
"No way are you kissing me. I have a boyfriend. Besides, I'm your cousin." She said. Kevin was in complete agreement with her. "If you even try kissing my girl, I'll punch your lights out." Was all he said.
Ben hadn't ever expected an alien he acquired to have this big a problem. For the first time since he was ten, he felt powerless.
Closng A/N: I am asking that those of you who review would please submit in the review your ideas for Beast Boy, Raven, and Cyborg's "Alien forms" that Ben has acquired since I would like input from my readers. The best names you submit for these forms will be used in future chapters. and don't tell me you don't think Cyborg should be a form, because his unique genetic and mechanical makeup more than qualifies for a rousing new 'Brother Blood vs Ben 10' centered chapter.
-From the desk of:
Stormez The Wolf
