Disclaimer: This is a parody inspired by the works of Marvel, DC and Cartoon Network. All characters that I have not created or borrowed from other sources are theirs. This is a Fan fiction and not meant to violate the rights of those who own the rights to the Marvel Comics, DC comics or Ben 10 Series. I have no money and therefore not a good suing target. Thank you very much.
Alliance
Chapter Four
Ben had gotten two of the people from universe Gamma , the same universe of the Avengers. He had himself and Lucy from universe Beta, so now it was time to recruit the members from universe Alpha, the universe of the Justice League. He had notified Batman who it was he was going to recruit for the new Delta universe, the new merged universe, team. Batman had made arrangements for the two of them to meet Ben in Gotham City.
'Okay, I am looking for our hopeful new team members in Gotham, Batman said they would meet me on the rooftops by City Hall. So according to this map, it is right here...' thought Ben, as he drove the Ten Speed down the streets of Gotham. As he stopped, he came face to face with a scene of unbridled horror. A nightmare born from the mind of the devil, it the deepest darkest depth of the ninth circle hell. Terrors which broke the dreams of demons and drove good men insane with otherworldly elder fears from beyond the beginning of any kind universe.
One set of enemies he recognized, Zombozo and the Circus Freak gang. Zombozo was basically a zombie clown with some supernatural and vampiric powers. He originally drained happiness to feed on but now feed on fear to give him life, power and immortality. He was dressed in a ragged stripped costume, purple and light blue which was wide around the hips. With a dickie, and a bat wing like bow tie. Fingerless black gloves, black clown shoes, black top hat with purple band. Red hair and purple clown nose. His skin was pale white, his nails were purple, hips lips a light shade of the same. However his skin was rotting, his eyes cloaked with shadows but eyes glowing, his ribs showed through a hole in his costume.
His henchmen were two men and a woman. One man was Thumbskull, a large man of great strength. He was bald with a huge chin, but he had a nail sticking up from his forehead . He was dressed in a purple and black striped outfit. His skin is pale, and uniquely he had one huge finger with a large nail and a thumb. The second man was Acid Breath, a wrinkled man with an ability to spit concentrated acid. His mouth looked rotten with a few teeth left, his head only had a few long green hairs left on his bald pale head. Long limbs and thin, he was dressed in an orange and black costume which looked like overalls. The attractive woman was Frightwing. In a tight fitting black and yellow costume with flat black boots, her greatest feature was her long red pigtails set with heavy black weights. Her power was the ability to use these pigtails as elastic weapons which moved as she willed them.
'Zombozo and the Circus Freaks are fighting two other clowns and a duo of gangster goons working with the other clowns. Clown, it had to be clowns. ' thought Ben as he watched Zombozo fight some clown with white skin and green hair in a purple suit. The other clown was a woman in a red and black harlequin outfit with a jester hat, white face paint with black eye make up.
"Wait a minute, isn't one of Batman's main villains... Jester, Jokester... Joker? He had to be a clown too. What the heck are they fighting about?" asked Ben as he moved towards them to see what kind of trouble they were causing and how he could stop it.
He could start to hear snatches of the conversation, starting with the Joker, "I told you once, I told you a million times, I'm the star clown around here. No undead hack is going to take my spotlight."
"But Gotham is so... taste. Filled with the hundreds of fears and terrors of every citizen which walks it's streets. Little a smorgasbord for me to feast on! Plus you have such a lovely lady you aren' t taking care of, ah beautiful." answered the zombie clown who winked his good eye at her.
"I like my men alive, and not with any limp flopped rotting junk, Bozo!" said the female clown as she dodged the attacks of Frightwig, who seemed to have been drawn to the female member of the other side of the fight. This Harley's skill in acrobatics seemed up to par, to the point she could dodge and avoid the living hair tentacles of the other woman.
Frightwig shouted as she tried to pound Harley with her hair, with the weights at the end, "Stand still so I can bash you!" The answer was Harley sticking out her tongue and giving her a raspberry. While this went on Thumbskull and Acid Breath were taking on the gangster goons with their strength and acid breath blasts, respectively.
Ben moved to his omnitrix and was looking for an alien to use, as the hometown clown was trying to shoot the invader. A living corpse, bullets didn't hurt Zombozo that much. However, Ben's feared foe had pulled out his giant hammer and was trying to smash the Joker with it. The zombie spoke, "As for your performance Joker, I think you're about to fall flat!"
Ben was tempted to use his ace card against the collective of demons in grease paint, Toepick. An alien with so disturbing a face, looking at it filled people with fear and could drive them mad. Even someone as creepy as Zombozo was freaked out by it, but there were others about.
'And I don't know how Toepick might effect normal humans. I don't want to cause heart attacks in people." Which is why he was looked for something else which could work. Before he could find the alien he wanted, two people landed next to him.
"Hate to meet you like this, but you know this Zombozo clown and his friends?" asked the male team member he was going to recruit. It was Batman's former partner, the former Robin, Nightwing. He was a white dark-haired man in his early twenties, extremely fit and was muscular without overdoing it. He wore a domino mask, with a black body suit with a blue bird-like image on the chest, with blue running down his arms. He had been trained as much as Batman, with close to the same skills as him. Where Nightwing overtook the Bat was in his acrobatic, leadership and social skills. He was also highly suggested by Batman, not only because of skill but because he could also report back directly to Batman.
The second person was female potential, an African-American woman in her late teen/early twenties with short dark hair. She looked like a cross of a Victoria Secrets model ( Vixen had made her living from modeling from the file) and an athlete, strong and sexy. Vixen was a woman in a golden outfit which looked like a catsuit, with flat yellow boots that matched the rest of the outfit. The catsuit didn't have any sleeves showing off her arms, but she didn't have saffron gloves which came up to about her elbows. The catsuit also had a plunging neckline with cover just enough of her large bust to be decent. Around her waist were some kind of belt which contained some decorations which looked like bone claws or teeth, while around her neck was some kind of necklace. It had a metallic fox head made of gold, with a chain connected to more bone teeth and claws.
She was chosen for her powers gained from the necklace known as the Tantu Totem. It was a magical object powered by the god Anansi which granted her connection to the mysterious power in the new universe, The Red. It was a cosmic force which linked all animal life in the universe, a counterpart to the Green (for plant life) and the Black (The Dead and/or Undead, also called the Rot). It allowed her to mimic the powers of any animal she knew about or could connect with. Which gave her a great number of powers, especially if used at the same time.
She was recommended by Batman, but what got Ben looking was Azmuth's interest in her. The Red, Green and Black were all of interest to Azmuth as they were now fundamental parts of the new Delta universe. Along with the Phoenix Force, the Speedforce, the Emotional Electro-Magnetic Spectrum, the Power Cosmic and other forces to mesmerize a genius like the Galvan.
Ben said, "It's Zombozo and his Circus minions." He then went on to explain the villains and their powers. They in return told them about the Joker, his gal and former shrink Harley Quinn, and said the other two were hired help from the criminal underworld. Ben learned of the toxic accident which had created the Joker, the mad genius and unpredictability of the man, as well as his tools and weapons. Harley was an acrobat with some strange weapons, immune to toxins by way of her friend Poison Ivy, and great skills in acrobatics as well as other. They also mentioned she was not as dumb as she seemed.
Ben then asked them, "Any alien or powers suggestions to take these guys on? I have one or two ideas to use on Zombozo, but one of them might be too dangerous to use on normal humans."
"From what you told me about both of them, they have a common weak point. We just have to knock them out or get them too stuck to move. The Joker is clever and dangerous, but can be taken down by surprised, hopefully before his plan has been started. Zombozo might not be able to die, but hit him with enough force or trap him, and he goes down just like the Joker. So we need aliens with stunning abilities or abilities to hold them." Said Nightwing, as he made tactical plans. Part of the reasons Batman had suggested him.
"Let's hope we get something like that, " said Ben as he dialed down the Omnitrix to find an alien with those kinds of powers. Finding one and hoping he didn't glitch it with his 'fat' fingers, he pushed it down and... "Wildvine!"
He turned into a plant-like humanoid like figure. It had our legs, four fingers on his hands and a flytrap-shaped flaps covering his head. He had yellow-green circles on his hands and shoulders, compared to his forest green body. He also had blue coloured bulbs on his back. His tongue was blue with neat teeth and one green eye in the middle of his face. The Omnitrix symbol was sitting on a green and white belt .
Nightwing then asked, "Are you going to be okay? With your fear of clowns and all?"
"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of clowns. I'm more afraid of people getting hurt due to my little fears. The last time I had a nasty shock, but the psychiatrist with the Plumber has been helping me deal with that. So unless those clowns had a clown version of my grandpa or peacock, I should be fine. So let stop them before someone gets hurt." answered Ben, feeling his fear but he had a joke to do. He could scream in the fetal position later.
The three heroes headed for the villains, who paused from their combat against each other to view the new players. Zombozo spoke first, "If it isn't my old friend Ben Tennyson, and he's made some new friends as well. I figured you would come here, what with your fear of clowns like little ol' me!"
"Wait, wait, wait? Are you telling me the so-called greatest hero of your world... is afraid of happy faced jokesters like me? Oh, that's a laugh riot! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" laughed the Joker, as the humor hit the everyone around them. The laughter began, but Wildvine was not having it.
"I'm not scared of you clowns, but you clowns should be afraid of the jail time you'll be wracking up." said Wildvine as he pulled out some seeds from his back and threw them at the villains. From those seeds popped up long vines which moved to wrap around the criminals it could reach, which was Thumbskull, Frightwig and the two common crooks. They were wrapped tight around them, allowing them no ability to move.
However... Joker, Zombozo and Harley had leaped out of the way and Acid Breath had just metal his vines. Nightwing was not idle as he attacked, landing a punishing punch against Acid Breath when the criminal carnie was not looking. Harley looked at Wildvine and spoke, "I betcha if I got a large enough chunk of your to Red, she consider it a birthday present to remember."
She then moved from a giant sledgehammer to some kind of huge novelty gun, aimed right at the vegetable alien. Only to be kicked in the face by Vixen as she moved with superhuman speed, whether from a cheetah or some other fast animal, Wildvine didn't know. Which left only Joker and Zombozo to deal with as new seeds and vines captured the other villains.
"Joker, my friend, I think we'll have to table our discussion to a later date. Right now I think we have to choose between flight or fight. Given the odds, fight might not be the best choice at the moment. So my dear circus brother, I'll see you, and free you, later!" said the zombie clown as he burst into confetti and vanished.
"Okay, that is one trick I want. Remind me to torture it out of Deadface before I off him. Still he had the right idea. Time to go, " said Joker as he pulled out some remote from his pocket, and hit the button. He continued, "I just set off a number of bombs with airborne Joker Venom. I was saving it for a caper, but it's still useful for an escape. So have a choice, me or the bombs? Enjoy!"
The Joker began to run but at the same time they knew they had to stop the bombs. Wildvine asked, "Where should we start to look for the bombs? "
Nightwing took a computer tool, and did an analysis of the situation. He spoke to them, "I'm trying to locate the bombs, with boosts from universes Beta and Gamma's crime fighting technology. We have about twenty bombs around Gotham, various sizes and shapes. We need to disarm them."
"I can turn into a faster alien, then me and Vixen can defuse them. You can give us the directions to do so safely, while keeping and eye on the captured here. You can link up the audio to the Omnitrix and whatever communication device Vixen has." Replied the hero, changing from Wildvine to Fasttrack.
"Okay, let's go!" said Fasttrack as they went to stop the explosives and poisons.
Ben spent the next few minutes shutting down the traps left by the Joker, and notifying the police to their locations so they could be neutralized. No quantity of the poison could be left in the city for innocent people to stumble across. By the time all of that had been corrected, the Joker was long gone and he only Nightwing and Vixen to return to. As the Gotham P.D. took away the others, Ben looked at them.
"There's still the question on whether you want to join the team. I don't feel like we did so well, since Zombozo and Joker had managed to escape. " said Ben, pointing out their failure.
"Zombozo is undead magical monster. The Joker is a skilled villain who can take on Batman and even many super-powered heroes. We managed to get this far because of surprised and their distraction, otherwise we would have had to work harder. We, still, managed to get all of their gangs and stop some bombs the Joker was going to use in a future caper. Setting back his plans for a while, as he regroups and rebuilds. Likely the same with your villain.
The Joker has managed to escape even Batman, even when he had the Joker dead in his sights. The fact we did so well, without training with each other, does proves we work together well. Training with the rest of the team... we could do some good things. I'm in." answered Nightwing as he made his decision clear.
"I'm in. With what we did today and what we could do tomorrow as a team... we should do our best to make this work. Besides, we have seen what happens when villains managed to meet. At least in one context, where people could be hurt by their battles. If they managed to get working together...
We have to make this work for the best of everyone. Like they say, we all hang together or we all hang separately. So who are our other partners? And where are we to be based, given how spread out the hero community is now?" said the African heroine, curious on the logistics of how the team would work.
'Like I told the others, meet us in Bellwood and see the new stuff they have been building for our team." said Ben as he hoped Azmuth and the others had managed to build something awesome. Or else he would look like a doofus, like his cousin had always called him.
Author Notes:
So this is the current, original team at the moment. Ben 10, Lucy Mann (need better code name), Vixen, Nightwing, Spider-man, and the Scarlet Witch. I also need to develop a better team name.
The universes have names. Alpha, is the DC Universe, because it is the first comic book universe. Beta, is Ben 10's universe, as Beta is the base for the letter B. Gamma, is the Marvel universe, due to Marvel having heroes based on radiation and Gamma rays like the Hulk. Delta universe is the merged version of all three universes.
I hope you have enjoyed this, I also hope for constructive criticism but feel there might be flames as well due to emotions, but I will do my best to make an interesting story.
HVulpes
