Update: So In case your all wondering what is going on. I've come back and made some changes to the chapter. I realized that I didn't do enough, to really change this episode. So I aim to fix that. The main changes start around the scene where they start fighting. So if you want to skip ahead to that part, I understand. But there are little changes sprinkled throughout. Nothing big, mostly description based, but they are there. Under all this is the same A/N. Didn't feel the need to get ride of it.
In the words of All Might, "I am here! Posting this chapter like a hero!" lol. Anyway so here is chapter 4. There is only one question this time so let's get it out of the way.
Guest's(who I'm pretty convinced are the same person): I do not watch the reboot, I do not like the reboot, I hate what it stands for and I think it was totally unnecessary to even make it. So the only villains I do know about that appear in it are classic villains. Which of course means I can't really add the new ones. But tell you what. If there is a villain in the reboot that you think does deserve a look at, tell me about them and we'll see. No promises though.
Further more I know there are 4 new transformations in the reboot. Shock Rock, Gax, Overflow and the unnamed new form coming in season 3(Update: his name is Slapback and he's not very interesting). Now, I will admit Shock Rock and Gax do sound interesting. So there is a decent chance I'll add them. Although I'd have to change their names. No way Ben would name a form after Vilgax, and Shock Rock is too close a name to another alien of Ben's, Rocks.
One more thing then you can all start reading. As you may have noticed, the pairing section of the summary is gone. This is because I am considering changing Ben's pairing. But, before I rush into things. I wished to ask you all your thoughts. So here's my question. Would you be ok if I changed Ben's paring to Donna Troy? Leave your vote along with your review and I'll let popular vote decide.
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Mount Justice. July 18th, 8:20 a.m
"Mmmm, chili fry smoothies." Ben muttered in his sleep. He'd been living in Mount Justice with M'gann and Superboy for about ten days now. It wasn't bad, the cave had everything he needed and the nearby town, Happy Harbour, was a quaint little place.
'Beep, beep, beep!' Ben was jolted awake as his alarm clock blared. "Ah man." And he was having such a good dream too.
Getting dressed, the teen walked out towards the kitchen. As he passed though the living room he saw M'gann sitting on the couch watching cartoons. However, as new characters appeared on the screen she morphed into them.
"Wow!"
"Oh good morning Ben." She then changed back into her normal form.
"What were you doing just now?"
"Shapeshifting practice. Uncle J'onn said cartoons were great for it, and boy was he right. I already made breakfast if your hungry."
The kitchen was only a few feet away and on the stove was a pan with scrambled eggs in it. "Thanks." Digging in the fridge he pulled out some leftover ground beef from last nights dinner and put it in the microwave. As that went, he grabbed some tortillas from the cabinet.
"What are you doing?"
"Improvised breakfast burritos. Although, I guess it's more like a breakfast wrap to be honest. You want one?"
"No thanks I just ate. Thank you for the offer though." She told him with a smile. Shortly after, Superboy walked in still rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Hey Superboy! Ben is making breakfast wraps. Want one?"
"Hum, whatever." He may act like a hard ass, but Superboy was actually a softy on the inside... at least Ben thinks so. Isn't that how it always is in movies and tv shows?
"There you are. Two for me and two for Mr. Frowny Face, along with a mixed barry smoothie for both." The boy of steel grumbled at the nickname but he still ate with no complaints.
"So do you think old bat brain will give use a mission today?"
"Doubt it. I knew we should have gone on our own." Said SB before sipping his smoothie. He'd never say it out loud, but he was secretly becoming just as addicted to these as his brunette teammate.
"I wouldn't go that far Superboy." M'gann interjected. "After all, what would be the point of creating this headquarters for us, only to not use it?"
"Good point. But I wish they'd hurry up already." Ever since he'd arrived in this reality, it seems Ben was always being put on the sidelines. He was starting to take it a little personally.
A few hours later the Caves sensors picked up something approaching not too far away. It turned out to be Red Tornado! "Maybe he has a mission for us!" The plucky Martian said. She then called up the rest of the team. Aqualad was the first to arrive, via the Zeta-Tubes. A couple of minutes later Robin and Kid Flash followed suit.
"Did you ask him?!"
"What did he say?!" They both asked one after the other.
"He's arriving now." replied Aqualad.
"Well I don't know about you all. But I'm going to see what he's got instore for us." said Ben. "Anyone who want's to come, follow me!"
"Yes sir!" Replied KF. And with that the teenage team went to greet the oncoming hero. As they all exited, Tornado landed.
"Greeting. Is there a reason you intercept me outside the cave?"
"We hoped you had a mission for us." Responded AL.
"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility."
"But it's been over a week and-"
"You will be tested soon enough." Red Tornado answered before Robin could finish. "For the time being, simply enjoy each others company."
"Last time I checked tinman, this wasn't a social club." The Omnitrix bearer snarked.
"No. But I am told social interaction is an important team building exercise. Perhaps you can keep busy by familiarising yourselves with the Cave."
"I think I've already become plenty familiar. You know, since I live here!" Tornado didn't respond. Instead, he just continued into the base.
"Keep busy." Kid Flash muttered to Robin. Displeasure and bitterness apparent in his voice.
"Does he think we're falling for this?"
"Oh I'll check!" Miss M turned to face the android. She focused on him as she tried to peer into his thoughts. However she heard nothing.
"I'm sorry. I forgot he's inorganic. A machine. I cannot read his mind."
"Nice try though." KF encouraged. "So uh... you know what I'm thinkin' right now?"
"We all know what your thinking now." He then got a elbow in the side by the Boy Wonder.
"Ouch."
"And now we tour the clubhouse." Aqualad said. Sounding a little irritated.
"Well Superboy, Ben and I all live here. We could play tour guides."
"Don't look at me." Both men responded at the same time.
"We won't. The private tour sounds much more fun."
"She never said private!" Robin spat. Despite what Wally wanted, it was decided that they would all go.
M'gann then lead all of her team through the interior of their base. Starting with where they originally left from, aka the front door. They were then shown the living room/kitchen area, the place where everyone's rooms where, and so on. Eventually making it to the quote "back door".
"The Cave is actually the entire mountain." The Martian pointed out.
"It was hollowed out and reinforced by Superman and Green Lantern during the early days of the league." Said Wally.
"Then why abandon it for the Hall of Justice?" Asked Superboy.
"The cave's secret location was,... compromised." Answered Aqualad.
"So they traded it in for a tourist trap? Yeah, that makes sense."
"I have to agree. Why would they stick us in a place, the bad guys know about already?" The Omnitrix bearer asked.
"The bad guys know that we know they know about the place, so they'd never think to look here." The Boy wonder told him.
"Ah. So we're hiding in plain sight. Smart, but still kinda risky."
"Sniff, sniff I smell smoke." Superboy pointed out.
"Gasp My cookies!" With that Miss M flew off. Stopping in front of the oven, she telekinetically opened it before also using it to take out a tray of pitch black disks, once known as cookies. By now everyone else had arrived.
"I was trying out Grammy Joan's recipe from episode seventeen of... ha, never mind."
"I'm sure they would have tasted great." Robin reassured her. "He doesn't seem to mind." They all looked over at Wally who was scarfing them down.
"Seriously dude?" Ben said while shaking his head in disproval.
"What? I have a serious metabolism!"
"Or maybe your just a little piggy."
"Hey!"
"I'll make more?" The Martian girl offered.
"It was sweet of you to make any."
"Thanks Aqualad."
"We're off duty, call me Kaldur'ahm. Actually my friends call me Kaldur."
"I'm Wally. See I already trust you with my secret ID." He told her in a vain attempt to flirt. "Unlike Mr. Dark Glasses over here. Batman has forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name."
"Mines no secret, it's M'gann M'orzz. But you can call me Megan. It's an Earth name, and I'm on Earth now!" Boy she was sure excited.
"You all already know mine. Ben Tennyson, at your service." As everyone else got better acquainted Superboy decided to leave. This was noticed by Megan.
"Don't worry Superboy. We'll find you an earth name too." She told him with her telepathy. He didn't seem to like it very much though.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" The clone screamed.
"What's going on? I don't understand, everyone on Mars communicates telepathically." She asked everyone else. They all clutched their heads, as her voice rang inside their minds.
"M'gann stop!" Kaldur interjected in a serious tone. "Things are different here on earth. Here your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy."
"Plus Cadmus's creepy little psychic G-Gnomes, left a bad taste in his brain." Said KF.
"Wait G-what now?" Why did the wielder of the Omnitrix suddenly feel like he missed out on something cool?
"I'll tell you later."
"I-I didn't mean-"
"Just. Stay. Out!" The boy of steel sat down on the nearby couch. This left everyone else with a moment of awkward silence.
"Hello Megan! I know what we can do." She flew off down the hall. The others shrugged and followed her. She had even managed to get SB to join them. They eventually found themselves in a hanger of some kind. Sitting in the centre was a large egg shaped... thing. It was coloured red and black.
"This is my Martian Bio-Ship."
"Wait... this is a spaceship? Definitely looks weirder then the Plumber's ships, that's for sure." Thought Ben
"Cute. Not aerodynamic, but cute." Said Wally. Just as confused by this thing as his brunette friend.
"It's at rest sillies. Here, I'll wake it." With a wave of her hand, the Bio-Ship suddenly began to change shape. It morphed from an egg to a more traditional alien ship design. No not a flying saucer, more like the ship from an old game Ben once played. What was it called? Sun Coyote? In any case it definitely looked a lot cooler. It then turned around and extended a platform for them to enter.
Walking in, six seats grew out of the floor. When they sat seatbelts automatically attached. Miss Martin took the drivers seat, of course. "Red Tornato, please open the bay doors." The hanger doors opened and the team took off. Most simply looked out the window, amazed by the view. The fact that they were seeing it in an alien spaceship only added to the fun.
"Incredible!" Robin said.
"She sure is... The ship I mean. Which like all ships is a she." Wally stumbled.
"Wow dude. That wasn't just a swing and a miss, you were holding the bat backwards when that ball came." Ben mocked.
"Dude!"
"Fast on his feet, not so fast with his mouth."
"Et tu, Rob?" Meanwhile Kaldur and Superboy were having a chat.
"I may not have psychic powers, but I can guess what you're thinking. You overreacted and don't know how to apologize. Just say sorry." The Atlantian told him. But he seemed to shrug it off. This made M'gann a little upset.
"He'll come around." Robin reassured her.
"He doesn't seem to like me very much."
"You guys remember he has super hearing right?" KF whispered.
"So how about you show us a little Martian shapeshifting." Asked Robin. Ben made sure to pay attention. Since he had a Martian form now, it'll be good to see it done first hand.
Getting up from her seat. M'gann changed into a female version of Robin in his costume, followed by a female Kid Flash. "Is it wrong that I think I'm hot?" The man himself asked.
"Bravo! But you know you're never gonna be able to fool anyone with those right?" Rob mentioned
"Mimicking boys is a lot harder."
"Does it work both ways? Like, is it harder for men to turn into girls?" This would be nice to know when the time comes.
"Yes. Although here's something I can do." The entire bio-ship then turned completely invisible, from the outside. "Camouflage mode."
'Red Tornado to Miss Martian, an emergency alert has been triggered at the Happy Harbour power plant. I suggest you investigate covertly. I'm sending coordinates.'
"Received. Adjusting course."
"Huff Tornado's keeping us busy again." Rob said bitterly.
"No need to be a downer bro. Even if it's only something minor, we're heroes. We help people in need." said Ben.
"Good attitude Ben. We should still find out what caused the alert. Besides, a simple fire lead you to Superboy." Miss M told him. Speaking of the boy of steel...
"I think I know what caused the alert." Looking over to their left. Everyone saw a freaking tornado heading right for them. M'gann tried to move out of the way but she was too late. The ship was pulled in. Everyone jerked to the side as the ship was spun hard. Eventually Megan was able to stabilize and land it.
"Robin are tornados common to New England?" Asked Kaldur. When he got no response, everyone looked back to see him gone.
"But he was just here." The windows of the plant suddenly started to explode. So either things were far worse then they seem, or Robin's in there fighting someone. Either way it was time to step in.
"Ah for the love of, complement his ninja skills later. Right now, it's Hero Time!" Ben immediately started running towards the commotion. Everyone else soon followed suit.
Inside the plant Robin was fighting someone. He was a large robot looking guy with a red and black colour scheme. Thick blue wires extended from some kind of generators near his shoulders to his big hands. Around the neck was a tattered brown scarf. The teen hero tried to kick it, but his mechanical opponent generated a weak tornado, and was able to send him flying into a wall.
"Who's your new friend?" Asked the teenage Kryptonian, as they all arrived.
"Don't know, but he plays kinda rough."
"My apologise. You may address me as Mr. Twister." The villain brought both his hands down, before raising them, and unleashing twin tornados. Superboy tried fighting it but, with one more blast of air, he was overpowered and sent into the wall hard enough to crack it.
"Enough of this." Ben stated as he activated the watch. "Let's see how you like a little Blazeblast fire!" As he slammed down the dial, he unknowingly repeated an all too common mistake of his and failed to actually look at which form he chose. When the emerald flash faded standing there was most certainly not Blazeblast. It was a skinny humanoid with grey skin and pointed ears with long and shaggy black hair that covered his eyes, which was weird since he could still see just fine. He wore a pair of green and black overalls, black boots, green work gloves with white palms, and a green trucker hat on his head. The Omnitrix symbol acted as the belt buckle to a green belt with white pouches.
"Blazebla-... wait what? What am I?" He asked in a hillbilly accent with a sharp whistle like lisp. "Wait... am I... no. NO NO NO! Ah shucks, I'm a Vreedle aren't I?! Oh fuck, fucking bastard! Why?!" Before anyone could comment another powerful gust came and threw everyone back.
Deciding to retaliate, Wally attempted to speed blitz Twister, only to be caught by the wind and thrown outside. Next was M'gann and Kaldur who tried attacking him together. They did not fair much better.
"I was expecting to fight a superhero. I was not however expecting children or... whatever that is." Twister told them while pointing a Ben.
"WE'RE NOT CHILDREN!" Robin told him while throwing Birdarangs. One collided with a mini tornado and exploded, while the second was lodged into his chest. It didn't do much thought considering he, literally, flicked it off and it blew up safely away.
"Objectively you are. Have you no adult supervision? I find your presence here quite... disturbing."
"Well we'd hate to see you disturbed. Maybe you'll be more turbed, when we kick your can!" Immediately after M'gann had recovered she used her telekinesis to destroy a machine above the villain. Releasing a large amount of steam. Superboy tried to take advantage of the steam and attack from above. But his loud scream quickly ruined the element of surprise and got him sent flying back. Crashing into Ms. Martian along the way.
"What are you waiting for Ben? Do something!" Robin told the Omnitrix wielder, who at this point had done nothing to help.
"Like what?! This form don't got much in terms of powers." The Vreedle scanned his surroundings quickly. Trying to think of anything. "I think got something! Keep him off my back." Running up to one of the generators, he found an opening and started going to town.
While their friend worked, Megan and Aqualad tried rushing the villain. It went about as well as you'd expect. Two twisters generated under them and smacked the two into each other. Robin came in and sent countless birdarangs at him. While none managed to do much damage, they did a fairly good job of leading him around, and keeping his attention off Ben.
"~The shiny thing connects to the, blue wire. The blue wire connects to the, conducting coil." The hillbilly alien sung.
As successful as Robin's distraction had been, it could not last. Twister formed a huge tornado which sent all the projectiles flying around. Exploding everywhere. He then made a smaller one, and threw it at him. Sending the sidekick spinning away.
"I got it!" Looking up. They all saw a very crudely made ball, with wires and components sticking out everywhere.
"What the hell is that?" asked Superboy.
"My bad guy buster mark 1! When he get's hit with this, I reckon he'll be done for!"
"Oh really?" Twister chuckled. "And how is that going to stop me?"
"Simple. This girl has the power of thirty grenades, all packed into one!" Everyone's eyes widened at the declaration.
"Won't that take us out with him?" asked Kaldur. Since they were all in a pretty close proximity.
"Nah. Not as long as yah get out of the way! Yeeha!" Throwing the makeshift bomb. Everyone tried to run for any kind of cover. Ben, simply laughed like some crazy hillbilly. The bombs intended target panicked. Without thinking, he raised his arms an fired out twin lighting bolts. Causing it to explode. The explosion sent him flying outside. His body was charred in many places and smoke was actually coming off of him.
Twister groaned as he got back up. "Annoying little pests!" he spat with venom in his voice. Shortly after Wally stopped right in front of him.
"What did you do to my team?!" He asked.
"Not nearly enough, I'd say." Wally was then hit by, surprise, another tornado and sent flying. The tornado quickly exploded and he was left hovering in the air.
"I got yah Wally." Ms. M told him. Using her telekinesis to hold him in place before letting him down. Her and the rest of the team were mostly fine. A little short of hearing right now, and a whole lot crispier. But ultimately still alive. Ben then ran in, completely covering in ash and soot.
"Woo baby!" He hollered.
"I only thought you were fools before. But now I see your all fucking insane fools!" the villain barked. "I was going to let you all live, but now? I see that you all must die." Rising up into the sky, Twister generated two tornados. Which went up and created a third, bigger one. Lightning also began to crackle around them.
"Read his mind, find a weakness." the Atlantean told his green skinned friend.
"I thought I wasn't supposed to do that?"
"It's ok with the bad guys!" clarified the boy wonder. Focusing hard on Twister, she only got silence.
"Nothing. I'm getting nothing." After a moment she slapped her forehead. "Hello Megan! Mr. Twister is Red Tornado in disguise! He's inorganic, an android. And how many androids do you know that can generate tornado?"
"Are you sure M'gann? I don't remember Tornado being able to make lightning." Kid Flash mentioned.
"You thought I was Tornado?" Mr. Twister asked. "Ironic."
A huge bolt of lightning shot down and hit them. Sending everyone flying back. A green flash appeared as Ben, and almost everyone else was knocked out. When the smoke cleared he was back in his human form. The only one still standing was Superboy, who tore off his ripped jacket before leaping into the air. He was trying to sock Twister, although another lightning bolt stopped any hope of that. Sending the boy of steel speeding back towards the ground and leaving a large gash as he slid back to his teammates.
The villain didn't stop as he fully intending to finish the job. Summoning up one more large bolt. He shot it down at the immobilized heroes. When it stopped, there was only a large hole left behind. "Good riddance." With this done, he flew off into town.
What he didn't know was that everyone was alive. The Bio-Ship reappeared a few feet away from the crate. Opening, up it's bottom. The ship dumped everyone off. At this time everyone was starting to get up. Everyone let out a groan when they hit the ground.
"What happened?" asked Wally.
"I ordered the Bio-Ship to scoop use up." Out of nowhere SB screamed as he punched a rock apart. He then walked over, grabbed Ben's shirt and lifted him off the ground.
"What the hell was that?! You could have killed us!" he yelled.
"Whoa whoa there pal! I didn't mean to!"
"How could you, not mean to?!" asked Robin. "Last I checked. You were the one who told us, "Not as long as yah get out of the way". Sounds like you knew exactly what you were doing."
"M'gann may have made a simple mistake. But you could have cost this team everything." Kaldur told him. Far less aggressively, but just as serious.
"Listen! Some of my forms mess with my head. And that bastard had nothing but explosions on the brain!" he tried to tell them. The Kryptonian then dropped him.
"Sigh Hit the showers you two. We can take it from here." Kid Flash told them.
"Stay out of our way." SB said to them aggressively before jumping away. Kid Flash and Robin soon raced after him.
"I-I didn't mean to." Ben said, sorrowful.
"We can... talk about this later. Right now, there is a threat." Aqualad told him. He gently patted Ben on the back before running off.
"Fucking Vreedles!" Ben snapped while swatting a rock away. Megan jumped a little at the outburst.
"I-It's ok." She told him. Trying to cheer him up.
"No it's not! They're right. I should have changed the moment I turned into that bastard." He paced back an forth for a bit while thinking.
"We still have to stop him." He said out of the blue.
"What?"
"Kaldur was right. This guys still a threat, and we have to stop him. On our own isn't working so we need to come up with a real plan."
"Well, what do you have in mind?" She asked.
"I don't know yet... but I think I know where to start."
A little bit later Happy Harbour itself was being attacked. Three tornadoes ripped right through the place, causing massive destruction.
"Surely this will get the required attention!" Twister said aloud.
"You got ours!" Looking over to the left, he saw Kid running towards him. "Full and undivided!" Jumping into the air, he planted both his feet into the villain's chest.
"I thought I killed you?! No matter. I'll just finish the job now!"
Superboy let out his quickly becoming trademark yell as he came down. Trying to deliver a right hook into his adversary's head. Unfortunately he managed to dodge it. In response, Twister reared back his arms and fired two strong tornados.
While SB and Kid tried fighting him, Robin was pulling his utility belt out of his sleeve. Strapping it on over his chest. The Boy Wonder was now ready to get serious. A little ways away, Ben hopped out of a camouflaged Bio-Ship.
"Alright Omnitrix, give me what I want. Blazeblast or Cerebropus would be great about now! Although, if you feel the need to give me the wrong guy, I'll gladly take someone like Lodestar." Activating the watch, he went to slap down the core.
Just before he could a stray lighting bolt came down. It didn't hit the young hero, but it did send him flying back. A howl of pain escaping his throat as he did. On a different note, the sudden attack also caused the selected alien to change. Once he hit the ground his arm fell and hit a rock. Forcing the dial back down.
When the flash of light faded, his physical appearance didn't seem to change much. Same height, build, and hair. The only things that had changed were he got a bit more muscular and two giant bird wings were sprouting from his back. His outfit consisted of a tight black jumpsuit, with green shoulder armour, gauntlets, boots, and a hawk like mask that covered the upper half of his face, but left his hair free. There was a green and white belt around his waist with a white buckle that had a hawk symbol on it. Finishing it up was a green sash that had the Omnitrix dial attached to it.
"Ouch! That hurt!" Sitting up, he went to hit the watch, but only saw a gauntlet. Examining himself it revealed that he had already transformed. "Wow. Am I a... oh what were they called again? Hawkwoman's species."
"Ah whatever. But, with how decked out I am, I think I'll call myself, War Hawk!" Hearing the sound of thunder. War Hawk flapped his wings and flew up.
As the other fought. They soon saw what kind of looked like Hawkman deliver a soaring uppercut. Knocking Twister onto his ass. When they got a better look, they saw it was in fact not Hawkman. And when they saw the Omnitrix dial it became apparent who this was.
"Ben?! What are you doing here?" asked Wally.
"I told you to stay out of our way!" yelled Superboy.
"I know but me and M'gann have a pl-" The hotheaded Kryptonian ignored him and went charging in again.
"Wait you doofus! We have a plan now!" he called out.
"Look bud, for once I'm with Supey here. Last plan you had nearly blew everyone up." Wally told him.
"But-"
"If you want to help, then you can cover us." Robin said as he pulled out more birdarangs.
"Seriously, will you just ARGH! A little help please?"
"Listen to him. All of you!" They all heard inside there heads. It was Megan.
"What did we tell you!" shouted Superboy.
"I know! And I know we messed up, but we have a plan now. And it won't work if we all don't do our part." They all paused in thought. "Please, Ben and I need you to trust us." After a minute, they were all briefed on the plan. Grouping back up the boys prepared for another assault.
"Again you try and fight?" Twister said to them. "Have none of you learned your limitations by now?"
"We don't know the meaning of the word!" Ben yelled as they all went in. SB started by ripping out a large chunk of earth, then throwing it. This was easily countered, but it did leave the villain open to Robin's electric birdarangs. These disks shocked him only served to slow him down. Before he could get payback, War Hawk came in and punched him straight in the face.
"You know Twisty I have to ask. Why do all this?" he asked the villain. "I mean if you wanted the people to sell you the land, you could have just dressed like a ghost."
"Do not mock me!" he snapped. "I'll have you know I'm waiting for a real Superhero."
"Is it Red Tornado?" Twister's mechanical eyes widened.
"How could you possibly know that?!"
"Easy, I... didn't! You just told me. And a friend." This actually made some of his nearby friends laugh a little.
"But it was pretty obvious now that I think about it. I mean red colour scheme, the tornados. Either your gearing up to fight him, fire with fire style. Or your an obsessive fan."
"It doesn't matter if you know part of my goals. Once all of you are dead, Tornado will have to come out and fight!" Two giant twisters formed behind him and came rocketing for War Hawk. Unfortunately for the Thanagarian the winds were too strong. He was blown away and crashed right into a nearby fountain.
Kid Flash came in and ran around him. "Come on show me what you got!" he taunted. His response was a massive wave of wind when sent the speedster flying into a push.
"Ok, that was pretty good." he groaned. Now it was Robin's turn. Running in, he began throwing every smoke bomb he had. Blinding the villain.
"You're all beginning to annoy me!" Unleashing his electricity. The ground around him was torn apart. Robin would have been in trouble if Ben didn't come in and grab him.
"Are you sure about this?" He whispered to the hawk alien.
"You bet. After all, he hasn't noticed the lack of Kaldur yet. Time for phase two." he thought.
A couple of minutes later Red Tornado appeared. Floating down to the ground and landing a few feet from Mr. Twister.
"Hit the showers boys. I thought you could handle this. Clearly, you cannot."
"But we have a plan!" Robin complained.
"This matter is not up for debate!" They all accepted this and walked, or in War Hawks case flew out of the way.
"Finally! I was beginning to think you'd never show up." commented Twister.
"I am here now!" The android waved his hand backwards causing a tornado to form before sending it towards his opponent. The other tornado themed super floated back before counting it, then sending his own. But Red simply raised his hand and cancelled it out.
"We are evenly matched Twister." Creating a larger one behind himself Red sent a swarm of rocks flying towards him.
"No Tornado, we are not!" The villain punched the ground. Causing a large torrent of air to burst out blocking every single stone. He immediately followed this up with twin lighting bolts. Tornado flew up and avoided them for a bit, but when they hit a nearby boat, he was caught in the resulting explosion rendering the android out of commission.
Twister hovered over and landed right in front of him. Raising his right hand, the tips of his fingers opened up. Allowing five nods to come out and land on Tornado's head. "Remain still android. The reprogramming won't take long."
Out of the blue Red seemed to recover and grab onto the nods. Immediately after his head shapeshifted into M'gann's. "Longer then you might think." she taunted.
"No!" Realising he'd been duped, Twister tried to back away. M'gann helped by hitting him with a telekinetic push. Ripping the nods out, while also sending him flying back. One more tornado came and sent the villain flying in the opposite direction. When it faded, it was revealed to be Wally. Having used his super speed to simulate Red's powers.
SB then ran in and stared wailing on him. Knocking chunks off and causing large dents. With one final punch Twister was sent skidding across the ground and right into the water. It was Kaldur's turn to shine as he swam up and lodged the tip of an anchor into his shoulder. His black, eel shaped tattoos glowed as an electric current went through the anchor. Blowing up Twister's arm while also sending the rest of him into the air.
War Hawk flew down and grabbed onto his shoulder generators. "I'm really getting tired of you." He told him before ripping them off. Then sending back down to the ground with a roundhouse kick. M'gann caught him with her mental powers before he hit the ground. Robin soon came in and threw two explosive Birdarangs and when they detonated the battle was over. Letting go of him the villain dropped down like a rock.
Managing to lift himself up Twister's chest opened, and out fell a scrawny man in a green and white jumpsuit. "Uh, f-foul. I-I call foul." he said nervously. M'gann then did something nobody expected. She physically picked up a large rock from a little ways away and proceeded to drop in on the guy. Aqualad and Ben tried to stop her but they were a bit too slow. Ben, Rob and Kid were left speechless. But it was Robin that regained his speech first.
"Don't know how things are done on Mars. But on Earth, we don't execute our captives!"
"Seriously! That was not part of the plan!" Ben scolded her as he reverted to human form.
"You all said you trusted me." Lifting the rock off. They were all surprised to see that the guy had been a robot the whole time. "That's why I couldn't read his mind."
"A robot within a robot?" Ben muttered. "Where's Zim Hanser when you need him?"
Wally walked over and picked up one of the eyes. "Cool. Souvenir."
"We should have had more faith in you. Both of you." said Kaldur as he rested his hand on her shoulder.
"Does this mean you all forgive me for blowing you up?" The Omnitrix wielder asked them.
"Well... I'm still pretty mad about that. But your on your way." said Robin with a smile.
"Yeah, you guys rocked this mission. Get it? Rocked?" KF punned.
"Ignore him. We're just turbed you're on the team."
"Thanks." they both said.
Meanwhile through the robot's still functioning right eye. The people who controlled it were watching this play out.
"Ha, ha, now Brom. Aren't you glad I didn't let you wear the armour?" asked a Caucasian man with green eyes, black hair and a pencil mustache. He was well dressed but also wore a lab coat. His sense of style was actually quite similar to Paradox's.
"Extremely professor, but you are not mad?" asked Brom. Who was the real version of the android M'gann crushed.
"I'm convinced our tracking program was operational. And that the real Tornado was somewhere in the vicinity. Besides, you know science advances in fits and starts. Even failure can be instructive. And I'd say we learned quite a lot today.
Later that evening, the Team had brought all the components of the crushed robot back to the cave. Analysing it along with Red Tornado.
"It was clearly created to sabotage, or destroy you." Kaldur stated to Red.
"Argeed."
"Is that why you wouldn't help us?" Ms. M asked.
"No, this was your battle. I do not believe it is my role to solve your problems for you. Nor, should you solve mine, for me."
"Isn't that kinda in the superhero job description?" Ben muttered sarcastically.
"But if you're in danger-"
"Consider this matter closed." The android then started to walk away.
"Batman, Aquaman and Flash would have jumped right in to fix things." Wally said aloud.
"Well I guess if we're gonna have a babysitter. A heartless machine, is exactly what we need." Robin said sarcastically.
"A little harsh, don't you think?" Asked Ben.
"And inaccurate." Red mentioned as he continued to leave. "I have a heart. Carbon steel alloy. I also have excellent hearing."
"Ha, sorry. I'll strive to be... more accurate."
"And more respectful." AL chipped in. With all things said and done, the boys began to head to the lounge area. Hoping to get a little relaxation in tonight.
"Speedy was so wrong." Wally said.
"This team thing-"
"Might just work out." Rob started before Kaldur finished.
"Glad to see everyone is on the same page." Ben commented happily. "Now, if everyone is willing. I'm thinking about making a special type of smoothie that came to me in a dream last night. Anyone want some?"
"Sure."
"I'm starving, so count me in."
"We don't have such a thing in Atlantis. So I'm interested as well."
"Great! Quick question. Do we have any French fries?" As they talked, SB looked back at M'gann.
"... Sorry." This caused her to smile.
Update: And with that my re-writes are complete. I hope this version is still to peoples liking. I think it's better at least. Shows a few things off better then I had originally planned. Like how crazy his new Vreedle form is for instance! Again same A/N underneath.
Finished! Wow, this took way too long! Sorry about the wait by the way. I recently got a new job, and things were hectic there for a while. But things have calmed down a lot which finally gave me the freedom to finish this. I'll try my best to not make the next chapter take as long.
Now as for my pairing decision. I decided to consider changing it, largely after a friend of mine told me about how great a choice Donna would be. I didn't know much about her till I did some research and I like what I see. So I'll at least take it into consideration. It's a shame she's not featured in more material, but you can thank her convoluted as hell origin for that. She has so much more potential then people think!
Fun Fact: She was originally planned to be in YJ, and even join the team! But, due to licensing issues, they couldn't get her. Eventually they did. But by then, the only one that could be added was Cassie. At least she finally made it into YJ season 3.
Don't worry. If she is selected, I'll have a much more simple origin for her. But like I said I'll let you all decide who Ben ultimately ends up with. Anyhow, that's all I have to say for now. Make sure to leave me a review. Follow and favorite this story if your so inclined. And I'll see you all next time. Peace out!