The Krakken

I don't own Digimon or Ben 10

"Cannonball!" Ben shouted as he jumped into the water wearing nothing but his trunks. "Judges scores…yes! A perfect ten! Yeah! The crowd loves him!" He cheered as Daisuke, Gwen and Veemon looked at him from the pier.

"A perfect dweeb is more like it," Gwen said.

"Come on you guys, jump in. The water is great," Ben told them laying on his back.

"Please, who know what kind of nasty, slimy slithering things are in there," Gwen said pointing her flashlight at Ben. "I rest my case," She said.

"What's the point of camping out by a lake if you're afraid to get wet," Ben said as he splashed Gwen making her gasp as she was soaked.

"I never thought you'd be scared of the water Gwen," Daisuke said to her friend grinning.

"I'm not scared of the water," She retorted before she walked off.

"Then why don't you jump in?" Veemon asked her.

"She's just scared," Daisuke said, Ben chuckled with a node before Daisuke yelped as Gwen walked back and she pushed her into the water, Daisuke surfaced and pouted at Gwen. "That's not cool ya know," She said to Gwen who stuck her tongue out at Daisuke.

"Hey, what's-help!" Ben shouted as he sunk under the water.

"Ben?" Daisuke asked concerned.

"I'm not falling for it," Gwen said before she looked at the water worried as well. "Ben?" Suddenly something covered in slime and seaweed emerged making both girls scream.

"V-HEADBUTT!" Veemon shouted as he jumped and headbutted the creature knocking it back and the seaweed fell off the creatures head revealing…

"Benjamin Kirby Tennyson!" Daisuke shouted angrily as Ben laughed.

"You should have seen the looks on your faces," He said in between laughs.

"I am so telling Grandpa," Gwen said before she stormed off towards the RV.

"How dumb can you be? A monster in the lake," Ben said and Daisuke frowned at him as she climbed out of the water.

"Uh…guys," Veemon said as he pointed into the lake and a giant monster appeared out of the water.

"Okay Ben, jokes over," Daisuke said to Ben who was just as shocked.

"I got nothing to do with that," He answered her as the giant monster tried to grab Ben with its tentacles but he climbed onto shore and Daisuke slammed down the watches dial and she turned into Four Arms. She then jumped at the monster but it grabbed her with a tentacle and threw her into the water.

"Daisuke!" Veemon shouted in worry as the monster dragged Four Arms under the water and she looked at the monster and gasped before the monster let her go and she headed back to shore and panted.

"What was that?" She asked Ben and Veemon as the watch powered down and she turned back to normal.

"I got no clue, but I think there is a giant lake monster," Ben said and the other two nodded. The next morning everyone was heading towards the pier with Veemon on Daisuke's back not moving.

"I'm sure it was just a big fish," Max said to Ben as he tried to tell him and Gwen about the monster.

"Yeah. So give the big fish story a rest, will ya captain dweeb?" Gwen asked him and Ben grumbled under his breath.

"Well I believe him. Why because I saw it as well, hell it threw me around like a ragdoll," Daisuke said and Veemon nodded.

"Uh huh, sure," Gwen said unconvinced as they arrived at the pier and Ben grabbed some worms from a bucket.

"Breakfast anyone?" He asked.

"Disgusting," Gwen said. "What's with the slimy worms?" She asked.

"Bait," Max told her.

"Yeah, well I think I am going to pass on the fishing thing. I'll stay here and catch some sun instead," Gwen said.

"Veemon, you stay here and keep out of trouble," Daisuke told her partner who nodded at her and stood beside Gwen.

"You don't know what you're missing Gwen," Max told her.

"I am sure I do," Gwen said walking away with Veemon following her.

"Captain Shaw?" Max asked the man on the boat.

"Who wants to know?" The man asked her.

"I'm Max Tennyson, this is my grandson Ben, and this is Daisuke. We chartered your boat for a fishing trip," Max said.

"Well what're you waiting for? An engraved invitation? Climb aboard I don't have all day," Shaw told him and Ben and Daisuke climbed onto the boat and Max followed them and the boat sailed off.

"So…anything interesting to catch out here?" Max asked Shaw trying to start conversation.

"More than you can imagine. Looks like your grandson and his friend are using their breakfast as chum," Shaw said and Max looked to see Ben and Daisuke who were both now wearing lifejackets hunched over the side of the boat.

"Are you guys alright?" He asked them and they looked up at him.

"Yeah. Just keeping an eye out for the lake monster," Ben answered him.

"That thing isn't taking us by surprise this time," Daisuke added before Ben saw something.

"There it is!" He shouted at an object in the distance but when the boat neared the object it was just a piece of wood. "Oh…my bad," He said.

"Now you two, this is a fishing trip. Not a monster hunt," Max told them both.

"It's called the Krakken," Shaw said making everyone look at him.

"You know about it?" Ben asked him.

"It's my business to know about it," Shaw said handing a photograph to Ben and he and Daisuke looked at it. "I've been on its tail for years. Folks say my rudder is not right," Shaw said.

"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Max asked.

"Sightings go back hundreds of years on this very lake. Some say it's a myth, but not me. I can take you to a spot where I personally laid eyes on the beast. That is if you have the stomach for a real adventure," Shaw said and Ben and Daisuke looked at Max hopefully.

"I guess so," Max said.

"Alright!" Daisuke and Ben cheered.

"Ultrasound, sonar, high definition video set up, I got it all, that monster can't hide from me. Not forever," Shaw said as Max dragged Daisuke and Ben away.

"Daisuke, Ben. I don't want you to put too much stock in what Mr. Shaw is saying. I don't think he has both oars in the water, if you know what I mean," He said to them.

"Why? Because he saw the Krakken too?" Ben asked as he and Daisuke walked off. The boat soon stopped as it came across a barrier.

"Do not enter? What's going on?" Shaw asked.

"Looks official, maybe we should turn back," Max said.

"This is my lake. I'll go where I want," Shaw told him.

"Fishing vessel, stop where you are," A voice said and everyone turned to see another boat sail up to them. "I am Jonah Melville, the founder of Friends of Fish. We've closed this section of the lake for an environmental study. You'll have to turn your boat around," Jonah told them.

"Make me fish hugger," Shaw growled.

"Since I chartered the boat for the day. I think that makes me in charge, right captain?" Max asked and Shaw walked off grumbling.

"But what about the Krakken?" Daisuke asked him and Jonah chuckled.

"The Krakken, that old fish tale. Look, I'm a marine biologist if someone tells you that there is a monster in the lake is casting without a hook," He said before walking off and Daisuke frowned. The boat turned around and headed off when the sonar went off.

"We've found something on the sonar," Shaw said.

"Or something found us. Look!" Ben shouted as a giant fin emerged from the water and approached the boat before moving underneath it.

"The Krakken," Shaw said. "It's heading for the docks,"

"Gwen!" Max and Ben exclaimed in worry.

"Veemon," Daisuke said also worried as the Krakken swam towards the dock.

"Finally a little sun. And with my big mouthed cousin nowhere in sight, I can finally relax," Gwen said happily.

"Tell me about it," Veemon chirped as Shaw blew the foghorn on his ship.

"How many times do they think I'm going to fall for that monster story?" Gwen asked but as she said that the Krakken emerged from the water and roared and smashed into the dock sending Gwen, Veemon and some other fishermen into the water. "That's not Ben, or Daisuke," Gwen said.

"You think?" Veemon asked her.

"I told ya its real. The Krakken lives!" Shaw shouted looking through some binoculars.

"Sail no, gloat later," Max told him. "Someone needs to save those people," Max said and Daisuke nodded before she jumped into the water and turned the dial on the watch.

"Ripjaws to the rescue," She said diving under the water before she slammed the dial down and resurfaced. "Hey, I said Ripjaws not XLR8. Stupid watch!" She shouted angrily before she saw the Krakken approaching Gwen, Veemon and the other fisherman. "Here goes nothing," She said before she started to swim off, she suddenly started to run across the surface of the water and she looked at herself. "Cool," She thought as she grabbed Veemon and Gwen and carried them to shore.

"Thanks for the save Daisuke," Veemon said and XLR8 nodded.

"Hurry and save the others," Gwen told her and she sped back across the water and she grabbed the rest of the fisherman and carried them back to the shore.

"Get us out of here!" Jonah said and the boat sailed off as the Krakken followed it and attacked the boat, XLR8 ran across the water and created a waterspout making the Krakken roar and dive beneath the water, XLR8 climbed onto the boat and the Krakken reemerged and grabbed a crate with the word cannery on it and Jonah grabbed the crate, XLR8 grabbed the tentacle of the Krakken and pried it off the crate before she delivered rapid fire kicks to the chin of the Krakken and it retreated.

"Thanks for the hand, and the feet," Jonah thanked her.

"What's in the crate? And why would you risk your life for it?" XLR8 asked him.

"Our lunch," Jonah lied.

"You almost got munched for a few sandwiches?" XLR8 asked him as the Krakken came back up and grabbed the crate and swam away, the watch symbol on XLR8 beeped. "Gotta run," She said before she ran off across the water back towards the boat. "Almost there, I think I am going to-," She cut off as the watch timed out and Daisuke skipped across the water and stopped by the boat. "Make it," She finished.

"Girl overboard! Shaw, Daisuke is overboard, bring the boat overboard," Max said to Shaw who was lining up the harpoon to fire at the Krakken.

"Next time you're in my sights. You won't be so lucky," He promised the Krakken. Later that night the campers were packing up and leaving while Daisuke was sitting with a blanket on her.

"I told you. That is the same thing that attack me and Ben last night," Daisuke said to Max and Gwen.

"Captain Shaw was right," Ben added.

"Just because he was right about the Krakken, doesn't mean I was wrong about him. I want you two to stay away from that guy, he's trouble," Max said. "We will leave the Krakken to the experts Daisuke, like those Friends of Fish guys,"

"Experts? Who better to take out a monster than the girl with the monster busting watch on her wrist?" Ben asked and Daisuke nodded holding up the watch on her wrist.

"I'm afraid this is going to have to be the one that got away Daisuke," Max told her.

"Low down, no good fish kissers," Shaw said making everyone look at him.

"Captain Shaw, what's wrong?" Daisuke asked him.

"The nerve of those environmentalists, they shut down the entire lake. No one tells me where to sail, and nobody is going to keep me from reeling in the catch of the century. Nobody," Shaw said before walking off. Later that night Ben banged on the door to the toilet.

"Daisuke come on, you've been in there for half an hour," He said before he opened the door and he gasped. "Grandpa!" He shouted waking Max from his sleep.

"What is it?" He asked groggily.

"Daisuke's gone!" Ben told him urgently and Gwen and Veemon shot out of their beds.

"Where is she?" Veemon asked worriedly.

"You don't think?" Gwen asked.

"I do," Max said. Meanwhile on Shaw's boat he was now wearing a green dive suit when he heard a noise, he walked onto the deck to see something moving around.

"Hey no stowaways on my ship. Even if you are a filthy rat," He said as he lifted a tarp and saw Daisuke sitting there.

"Uh…first mate Motomiya reporting for duty…sir," She said and Shaw frowned slightly. The boat soon stopped and the anchor dropped as Shaw strapped on scuba gear.

"The beast has probably been driven deep by our fishy friends, only way to flush her out. With a little live bait," Shaw said.

"Maybe I could come with you. Just in case," Daisuke said.

"No need, I have my dive buddy right here," Shaw said picking up a harpoon gun. "Wish me luck," He said diving into the water, Daisuke then saw another set of scuba gear and smiled. Shaw swam through the water when some seaweed came out in front of him and he nearly fired his harpoon at it. He then continued on and he soon saw a large egg like object in what look like a nest. Something then approached him and he fired the harpoon at it but it dodged the harpoon and Daisuke was revealed to be the person following him. He sighed and motioned to the egg and Daisuke looked over at it and her eyes widened. Shaw then swam back up to the surface and he noticed a gunboat beside his boat. Shaw climbed the ladder when someone dragged him onto the boat and threw him onto the deck.

"Night diving is dangerous old timer, unless you've got a partner," Shaw looked up to see three men wearing full body suits.

"I work alone. I ain't got no friends," Shaw told him.

"And with a charming personality such as yours?" The man asked as the other two men picked Shaw up. Daisuke surfaced and saw Shaw in trouble.

"And I don't have anything worth stealing either," Shaw told the man.

"But you have us all wrong. All we want is information, like what did you see down there!?" The man asked him.

"Nothing. Just like always," Shaw answered and the man punched him sending him to the deck.

"Well I have to be sure," The man said removing his mask to reveal Jonah. Daisuke gasped silently as she tried to use her watch.

"Come on work you piece of junk," She said.

"Take Ahab with us. We'll see what we can get off him back at the cannery," Jonah said. "We'll come back with the mini-sub to get the rest of the eggs later," He then tossed something into the water which started to beep and then sunk down. "In the meantime, I think his boat got lost at sea," Jonah then threw something into the boat which blew up, Daisuke swam away from the wreckage as her watch beeped.

"Finally," Daisuke said as she slammed the dial down and turned into Stinkfly and flew off after Jonah and Shaw.

"Is that a bird?" One of the other men asked pointing to Stinkfly.

"No, it looks like plan," Another man said.

"It's a bug!" Jonah shouted. "Man the harpoons," He told the two men.

"Give it up, you are so buster," Stinkfly said as the men started to fire at her but she fired slime from her eyes at them and covered them in gunk. The boat then dropped red cylinders into the water and they exploded sending fire and water everywhere. "Whoa!" She exclaimed weaving through the air, a tree then suddenly fell down and knocked Daisuke into the water. "Oh man, not good. My wings are too wet to fly. Just perfect,"

"Let's squash this bug," Jonah said as the boat sped towards Stinkfly who swam off and climbed onto a floating log and flapped her wings.

"Please dry off, please!" She pleaded as the boat sped towards her, she saw a nearby tree branch and spat some goo and used it to swing to safety and she hid behind a tree. The Krakken then showed itself as well.

"It's getting too crowded around here, dump the trash overboard," Jonah said looking at Shaw who was tied up and the other two men threw him into the water, Stinkfly then flew down when the boat had left and grabbed Shaw and flew back towards the Rust Bucket.

"Almost there," She said before the watch started to time out. "I hate this stupid watch," She said frustrated.

"Any sign of Daisuke or Shaw?" Max asked Ben, Veemon and Gwen.

"Not yet," Ben answered his grandpa. Everyone then heard a scream as Daisuke and Shaw crashed into the Rust Bucket's awning.

"At least I stuck the landing," Daisuke groaned holding her head. Later on everyone was in the Rust Bucket. "And the Krakken's next was full of eggs, no wonder she's been attacking everything, Jonah's been stealing her eggs," She said.

"Remind me to never have kids," Ben whispered to Veemon who laughed.

"And I've found something out on Jonah. I checked everywhere for Friends of Fish and it's not listed on any environmental website," Gwen said.

"Something smells, and I don't mean the fish," Veemon said.

"And guess what, I did some digging on Jonah Melville and he's not a friend to any kind of wildlife, he travels the world hunting rare animals and then crates them up and ships them to private collectors," Gwen said.

"Crates them? Oh man, why didn't I see it before?" Daisuke asked herself facepalming herself.

"Dai?" Ben asked her.

"There was a crate on Jonah's boat that the Kraken took, it must have had her egg in it," Daisuke answered.

"It seems we were all a little hard-headed," Max said.

"We need to stop them. They said something about going to a cannery," Daisuke said scratching her head.

"This changes nothing. Mommy or not, that beast is mine," Shaw said walking towards the door of the RV. "Let's go, I have a spar boat at the docks," He told everyone who followed him to the dock.

"It will take a while for the police to get here," Gwen said as everyone sat in the boat while Shaw was untying it from the dock, the boat then sped off.

"Sorry captain," Daisuke apologized.

"You don't know what you're doing, a monster's a monster. And I know a monster when I see one," Shaw said as he saw a rowboat nearby. Meanwhile Jonah was inside a mini submarine that had one of the Krakken's eggs in its hands as it got lifted out of the water, another man caught the egg and nearly dropped it.

"Careful, or you'll be cleaning up the world's most expensive omelet," Jonah told the man as the egg was placed in a clear cylinder. "As soon as we sell these to the highest bidder, we will be kicking back on a beach in the Bahamas," He said. Daisuke, Ben and the others pulled up under Jonah and his men and climbed up a ladder.

"Try to find the eggs," Daisuke told them.

"What about you?" Veemon asked his partner.

"I'm gonna kick some Friends of Fish tail," She replied as she activated her watch and slammed the watch down and she gained a phosphorescent light on her forehead, her jaws turned into razor sharp rows of teeth, her skin became grey and gills appeared on her neck. The Krakken then burst through the water and broke through the dock sending Ripjaws into the water and it roared angrily.

"The bigger the Krakken, the bigger the payday," Jonah said as he climbed back into the mini-sub as the Krakken swatted one of the men away. Jonah then grabbed the eggs just before the Krakken could grab them, Ripjaws then jumped out of the water and held onto the sub and glared at Jonah.

"You want to mess with a monster? Well try me on for size," She told Jonah, she then bit down on the submarine and tore a chunk out of it making it let go of the eggs and the container they were in shattered and the eggs rolled to the edge of the dock. Max, Ben, Gwen and Veemon were sneaking through the cannery when the man who was sent into the water by the Krakken climbed inside and pointed his gun at them.

"Okay buddy, we can do this the easy way. Or the hard way," Max told him.

"V-HEADBUTT!" Veemon shouted as he jumped and headbutted the man in the chest, the Krakken's tail then broke through the wall.

"Go high," Max said as he, Ben and Gwen jumped onto hooks that moved forward and Veemon jumped and held onto Max as the Krakken's tail destroyed the flooring. The other man came out with a large firearm and max kicked it out of his hands just as Ben landed on him knocking him out.

"Was this the easy or hard way?" Ben asked his grandpa who shrugged. Meanwhile outside the eggs were picked up by the Krakken.

"My eggs!" Jonah shouted as he tried to grab them.

"Not your eggs!" Ripjaws shouted at him as she grabbed the eggs and dived underwater and Jonah followed her.

"Rescuing babies, very heroic. But not very smart," Jonah said punching Ripjaws and he grabbed the eggs and swam away, Ripjaws followed him and took the eggs in her mouth as the Krakken roared and took the eggs from her and saw away, Jonah then emitted a pulse making the Krakken roar in pain and he stole the eggs again, Ripjaws then tackled him to the bottom of the river and grabbed an anchor and smacked him with it before she grabbed the submarines arm and was shocked, Jonah then tried to escape again but Ripjaws grabbed the anchor and swung it around to knock the eggs from Jonah and she grabbed them and headed back to the nest with the Krakken following her. She dropped the eggs in the nest which appeased the Krakken, Jonah then tried to steal the eggs but the Krakken grabbed him and crushed the submarine with her jaws and Jonah was left swimming in the water. He then took out a knife and tried to stab the Krakken only for the knife to break. The Krakken was about to eat Jonah but Ripjaws stopped her and she went back to her eggs. Ripjaws then punched Jonah knocking him out, she then swam up to the surface with him and hung him on some debris.

"That should hold you until the cops arrive," She said before diving under the water.

"Good riddance to bad rubbish," Ben said and everyone nodded.

"Caught me a Krakken, one of the eggs must have hatched," Shaw said and everyone saw Ripjaws in the net as the watch timed out.

"I think you should take another look," Max said and Shaw looked at Daisuke who grinned at him.

"But I could have sworn," Shaw said dumbfounded. The Krakken meanwhile cooed affectionately over her eggs.

The end of the chapter

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