Ben 10: Faded History
Important notes: I do not own Ben 10 or any portion of the franchise. I give all credit to Man of Action and Cartoon Network.
This is a sequel for my previous Ben 10 Fanfictions, please no flamers.
I wrote this for people to enjoy; I appreciate any positive feedback regarding my stories.
Warning: Violent scenes to come. These stunts are done by highly trained professionals and should not be imitated by anyone. Except those proficient in martial arts training and weapons, even then it shouldn't be imitated.
This story is shown from the perspective of a dimension traveling OC, Fade.
Chapter 5
"Oh my Freaking God that was a long wait!" I yelled out. "How long has it been since we carried on with this story? It seems ages." I said as Ben and Rook were drinking their smoothies.
"It has only been a few minutes; hardly something to get worked up about." Rook said continuing his drink.
"Well I'm not talking to you Rook; I'm talking about the author…*sigh* never mind." I sighed and carried on. "Look you guys want to know about why I'm so damaged right?" I asked as I sat down next to the group with a drink and some lunch.
"Well yeah…except Paradox has already filled us in with the whole Katheryn and Nathan thing…" Kevin explained
"how could you live with all that hurt?" Gwen seemed concerned for me.
"I…had to…but as bad as they were…they were nothing compared to the pain I endured during…the first time…the Baby." I solemnly spoke thinking about the baby Celestialsapien
"what baby is this?" Rook asked innocently
"Rook…" I started holding my anger back. "Just…just keep an open mind on this. it happened in an alternate universe, but these beings exist…not to sound like a preacher or anything but Celestialsapiens are real." I explained
Rook hummed as I explained "Very well. I will keep an open mind for this. I've listened to this madness so far."
"Yeah…madness…" I spoke softly and as I began my story. "It happened like it did back in your time Ben…" as I spoke my memory flooded back with that day the day that Aggregor almost won.
I travelled to a Universe where Aggregor had absorbed the powers of the five aliens he sought after for omnipotence. I saw you, Gwen, Kevin and strangely your younger self knocked down upon the ground.
Ben interrupted but with good reason "Yeah, when we fought Aggregor my younger self time travelled through to the present day."
"Oh…that explains it…" I got the explanation, as I tugged my hat I started to remember that scene again.
"Yes…the power…the Ultimate Prize is Mine…Omnipotence is Mine!" Aggregor roared with malice.
"Ben…Kevin…Gwen!" I whispered trying to get you guys up. "Come on you've got to move." I urged you up but got no response…
"You weren't dead, just unconscious." I explained looking at them
"Ah…a new contender; come to face the most powerful being in all the multiverse?" Omni-Aggregor roared
"Omni-Aggregor? Really?" Ben asked interrupting
"Better than freaking Four-Arms…I mean you literally translated the species name!" I explained "Still better than Zs'Skayr." I joked "any way:" I carried on
"You know what; when I see the most powerful being in the multiverse: I will!" I insulted him
Aggregor threw a plasma blast at my direction I dodged by teleporting and I saw it…the baby…shrivelling away…dying. I raged towards the monstrosity with my blasters firing at him…he could easily repel them. he grabbed me, I stabbed him with my blaster but he just laughed "You fool…" he broke my arm I screamed and felt it heal up again…he didn't know I could heal…not that it mattered. "I am the most powerful being in the multiverse! You can't win little man!" he laughed maniacally.
I watched his madness seep in and then my mind turned to the Baby. "I'm no little man Aggregor…I'm the FADED MAN!" I transformed into an Osmosian "Kay-Levin!" as I roared. I stood about six foot tall with those horns spiking through my black lengthy hair…to be honest I looked like Kevin Eleven Thousand without the scar on my chin.
"Whoa. Whoa. Whoa! You named your Osmosian form after me?" Kevin asked interrupting me.
"Of course, you're one of the few Osmosians I actually like!" I explained returning to the story.
"You're only a hatchling boy…you don't have the power to defeat me!" Aggregor taunted
"Maybe…maybe not. But I'm not going down without a fight you monster! *Roar*" I raced towards him aiming for a blind spot so I could drain him. I slashed at his ankle, by teleporting behind him.
"ARGH! How did you? I'm Omnipotent!" Aggregor roared
"You may have Omnipotence but you're still thick as Max's home cooked meals!" I joked insulting Max Tennyson. I attacked again, teleporting sporadically he didn't know where I was going. First his hands, then his back, then his stomach…I ported around till he grabbed me again.
"you…you little whelp! I'll crush you!"
"I hope you've enjoyed being a God, Aggregor…" I slammed my hand on his face and began to drain him of his power "Because I'm taking it from you!" as he roared back into his normal form I drained him until he was human…he fainted from exhaustion, breathing heavily. As I panted I thought 'THE BABY!' as I raced to the infant I did the reverse of what Osmosians did…I gave back the power…but…
"I saw the baby…it died right there…I saw it smile knowing, that I tried to save it." I spoke holding my forehead in my hands; I was tearing up "Its smile…it was happy knowing I tried to save it…" I let loose a sob…God I'm a wreck.
"It's okay." Gwen said kindly putting her hand on my shoulder.
"They really are real?" Rook asked, I turned my head and nodded "You wouldn't make something like this up?" he asked, I shook my head.
"What happened then?" Ben asked
"I…" I tried to start but was interrupted by Max over the Omnitrix
"Ben! We need you and the others! Aggregor has escaped!" Max warned us.
"We've got to go!" Ben commanded "Fade, we have to…where'd he go?" he asked then shook his head "Grandpa where's Aggregor?"
"The Plumbers Hanger, he escaped the Null Void and heading for freedom!" Max sounded
"He won't get far…" I spoke closing the window to see Aggregor trying to open his old ship. "Aggregor!" I roared as he turned around
"The Faded Man…I've heard legends about you…the slaughter you've committed, the lives you've taken…how many have you killed? A hundred? A thousand? Countless?" Aggregor taunted me and unbeknownst to me I felt Gwen's mana presence behind me.
"That's regardless Aggregor…I'm going to offer you something." I spoke
"What?" Aggregor asked
"A choice. Either: you can change your ways and break your template…or you choose to conform as you are. The choice is yours Osmosian." I made the deal.
"Fade, are you crazy? He's going to kill everyone if he escapes!" Kevin roared
"It doesn't mean I shouldn't give him the chance to change." I turned my back to Aggregor to Kevin
"I've chosen…" Aggregor whispered as he plunged his staff into my back impaling my stomach…God it hurt…but I didn't scream in pain. "What…?" he spoke in confusion.
"You should've taken my offer Aggregor. But you've proved to me that you're just like the others!" I spoke solemnly punching him to the ground then pulling the staff through my gut. "I'd suggest you turn away…now!" I spoke to the others
"What others…?" Aggregor groaned sitting up.
"The other versions of you; the doppelgangers that crave Celestialsapien Omnipotence…the monster like you are; the hunger, the desire for power!" I spoke as I snapped the staff in two. I reached for something in my pocket dimension as I stood on his hands stopping him from absorbing anything.
"Fade, don't! He's not worth killing over!" Ben called out "We'll lock him back in the Null Void." He bargained
"In a minute Ben…there's something I need to do first." As I pulled out what seemed to be a wig…but this wig had a skull with its spine still attached to it. Ben froze in his step, Aggregor looked away but I gripped his chin and forced him to look. "Look at this Aggregor…Look at it!" spoke softly then roared. His eyes steered clear of me but I made him snap in my direction "Look at it!" I roared like a demon.
His eyes were fixed at the jaw drooping skull; he asked "What is that?"
I answered slowly "Not what…Who. Take a. Good. Long. Look." my ire was being raised with each word as I grabbed Aggregor by his collar.
Aggregor looked at the skull for a few seconds and shrugged it off "Fine…Who?" he asked.
"Fine…YOU!" I answered darkly.
Aggregor's eyes shrunk back in fear as he shuddered muttering "No. No. No…"
"Yes. Yes. Yes…It's you" I looked back at him.
"Fade…What did you do? Why?" Ben asked in fear.
As I answered I stared at the floor then into Aggregor's eyes and the memory flooded back, it was real as if it was yesterday: Aggregor was groaning on the floor, the Baby disappeared into stardust and I was now a hybrid Osmosian. "You've failed warrior…the power is gone, you've failed…it'll be millennia before another ultimate prize comes." He coughed straining his voice "Your worth is forfeit."
I grabbed Aggregor onto his feetand throttled him, I looked into his darkened eyes and saw the madness all Osmosians get from absorbing energy and the gluttony he wanted from years of obsession, I spoke softly "So have you!" I roared and he screamed as I ripped his head from his shoulders, his spine followed suit being pulled along with it, the fallen carcass fell and knelt before me as I kicked it into the void below…I never saw it again.
Back into the present Ben and his friends looked at me with fear and horror…Aggregor more so. But he quaked even more when a headless body fell from the roof… "Well look at that…it came for its head." I joked. "All joking aside Ben…I tried…I tried to give them all a chance; he chose his: he ran this ship, he impaled me with his spear and he tried to get the Baby again. You saw! I'm not on about killing Psyphon or Fistrick or Harangue; just him!" I continued "It takes a monster like me, to kill a monster like him!"
"Then we're both monsters in this Universe aren't we?" Aggregor smirked.
"You don't get to speak! But…" as I sneered at him "One last chance." I let Aggregor fall to the ground. "One last chance." I gave the ultimatum "You win Ben. He's going back to the Null Void." I left him there.
"Being the better man." Ben grinned "Fade look out!" Ben called out
Aggregor stole my blaster aiming for me, trying to kill me…déjà vu all over again. A sly creature always trying to get one last word in. 'My penance for all my failures: Katheryn, Nathan, the Baby…all of it.' As I thought I spun around behind Aggregor, each second was multiplied to the point of it becoming a year. I grabbed his head for a split second and then…
CRACK!
I twisted his head a full three hundred and sixty degrees, his body fell to the floor…his neck was twisted like a spring…all Ben and the others could do was look in horror…Aggregor was dead, his body was limp and lifeless.
Gwen was the first to react, she screamed. Kevin was next holding her close to comfort her. Rook followed after throwing up onto the ground; Ben was the last his anger raged and he transformed into Rath and punched me into the wall "Let me tell you something, Fade the Traveller: Killing prisoners is not how we do things in The Plumbers!" as he roared at me throwing me like a ragdoll into the support beams…Rath's race was aggressive but this time he was seriously ticked off.
"You think I don't know that Ben? All the pain I've endured?" I groaned getting up "This. This is my penance for everything I've done; I give all the villains a chance to change!" I teleported into Rath's face and slammed him into the ground. "I promised myself: every chance I get, to give villains the chance to change, to break their templates!" I yelled
Ben grabbed my duster collar and roared into my face "Shut up about those stupid templates Fade! Not everyone is based in a template! I mean Eon and Ben Ten Thousand are my alternates, should I die, or them?"
"You and Ten Thousand no…Eon Yes!" I said kicking Rath in his chin. "Aggregor, Harangue, Albedo, Nemesis, Vilgax, Darkstar, Frightwig…all of them! I gave them the chance to change, Ben!" I explained "For Katheryn, Nathan and The Baby…it's all for them and myself. You want this psycho killer back?" I told Ben. As I pointed at Aggregor's body his neck spun back around and he screamed to life "Take him!" looking at Ben again
"You're going to pay for that Fade!" Rath roared as he saw Aggregor come back to life
"That's enough, the both of you!" Azmuth's voice rang out stopping us both.
We looked at the tiny Galvan as Ben turned back into himself "Azmuth, you've got to stop Fade! He's acting Judge, Jury and Executioner in the Multiverse!" Ben explained, he wasn't wrong about the J.J.E. bit.
"Enough Ben! Fade has taken upon himself to pay a penance he placed himself for eons, he's learned and done things you couldn't hope to understand in a single lifetime. Nut by being what he is, you have to see things from his perspective: I mean if Fade wasn't around Aggrergor would have destroyed the multiverse, Michael Morningstar would've hilled Gwendolyn and The Daigon would've reigned supreme in the Camelot-Verse, hurting and conquering as he pleased!" Azmuth explained.
"Wait…you know about that?" I asked the Galvan mastermind
"Of course; my alternate created a machine that follows your movement around the multiverse. You leave a small trail when jumping from dimension to dimension." Azmuth answered
"Whoops…sorry. Didn't mean to leave a trail." I rubbed the back of my neck apologising while seeing Aggregor writhe in pain and fear.
"Don't be, when you jump the trail fixes any holes you open. So the risk of an inter-dimensional rift is non-existent." Azmuth reassured me; I swept a sweat drop away. "But try not to kill people again. It's becoming disturbing seeing all these deaths." Azmuth told me
"I'll try." I spoke.
*Days later*
With Aggregor back in the Null Void and now terrified of me, with the added emotion difference between the group and myself I decided to rest down in Undertown. "Ben hates me. Rook hates me. Gwen and Kevin fear me…yeah…The Faded Man lives alone." I said to myself drinking some water.
"Hey." Ben's voice called behind me.
"Hey." I answered seeing the group again "I thought you guys feared me?"
"We do…but Aggregor fears you more." Kevin answered
"And…we know what you do to make sure they don't do it again; you bring the dead back and prove you're to be feared" Gwen added
"And I know now never to insult your exploits when referring to the Celestialsapiens." Rook explained being a bit weary for his safety
"Well…how about I tell you guys a better place I landed in…besides the Camelot-Verse?" I asked
"Sure…but what about the ending with the Camelot-Verse? What happened there?" Ben asked
"Same thing that always happens: Ben you get the Omnitrix, Kevin shacks up with Gwen, Joel and Lucy go back home to see Lucile and Rook has taken up residence in the Castle Revonnah with all those girls…he's currently on girlfriend number ninety seven!" I joked.
"Seriously?" the group asked.
"Yeah…here you think that's bad wait till I tell you about the All-Girl-Universe!" I started laughing.
"All-Girl-Universe?" the boys asked with Gwen looking a bit suspicious.
"Oh…yeah!" I smiled and I started the story.
To be continued
I hope you've enjoyed reading this chapter in Fade's Origin as I have writing it.
This is final third of what Fade has been through, horrible I know but this all add to the depth of the character.
The next chapter coming up soon.
Thank you