Andreas' Fault

I don't own Digimon or Ben 10

Argit was whistling merrily as he walked towards a castle and he rang the doorbell and a Forever Knight opened the door and looked down at him. "Whatever you are selling, we don't want any of it," he told Argit.

"You got a real nice castle here. It would be a shame if anything happened to it," Argit said.

"What're you talking about?" the knight asked him.

"Your home, your hearth, your cache of priceless alien technology," Argit answered.

"If you know about that, then you know that the Forever Knights are not to be trifled with," the knight told Argit.

"Oh I would never trifle with you guys; in fact I'm here to help you I'm selling insurance. Piece of mind, for just one hundred thousand dollars a month I can guarantee that this castle won't fall down," Argit replied.

"Is that supposed to be some sort of half baked threat?" the knight asked him.

"Oh it's a fully baked promise," he answered before the knight picked him up by the collar and pulled out his sword. "How do you like that? I put out the hand of friendship and you pull out the sword of not friendship," he said as the ground began to shake and the knight threw Argit to the base of the steps and the knight looked to see the castle cracking and fracturing before huge chunks of stone fell to the ground and Argit walked off with a smirk as the castle began to sink. "All of this could have been avoided. Tell your friends," he said. Meanwhile back in Bellwood at the Mr Smoothy Daisuke was in front of a camera with a small smile but on the inside she was frustrated.

"So Dai, looks like a big turn out from your fans," a reporter said and Daisuke showed fake enthusiasm.

"Yeah, sure does. I can't wait to meet my adoring fans," she replied.

"Oi vey," Gwen groaned.

"Hey, Daisuke didn't ask for this. But she's not one to say no," Ben said drinking a smoothie.

"Hey get back in line, pick that up, what were you raised in a barn?" a man asked some fans as he let them past and Daisuke smiled as she began to sign the smoothie cups which had images of Daisuke's aliens on them.

"Here you go," she told a young girl who smiled brightly at her.

"Some say that this is some cheap apology for all the damage you cause in your battles," the reporter said as one boy kept shouting in Daisuke's ear.

"Um...why don't you ask me about all the flavours that Mr Smoothy is...WHAT!?" she shouted at the boy.

"Uh...I'm your biggest fan but after all the hype, the Alien X smoothie was kind of a disappointment. It kind of tastes like filler," he answered and Daisuke growled as she signed the cup and handed it to the boy who ran off.

"Viewers are concerned about the path of destruction that seems to follow in your wake," the reporter said to Daisuke who looked at him.

"Well it's an unfortunate..." she was cut off when she saw Forever Knights running towards the window. "Oh nuts!" she exclaimed as the wall was blown to pieces. "There's a door right next to you!" she told them.

"If you're done," Ben said.

"For the record, so not my fault," Daisuke said to the reporter as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Spidermonkey and the people inside the building cheered as the Forever Knights ran past Spidermonkey and her team and one knight blast part of the counter to pieces before he and another knight ran off and came back carrying a smoothie machine.

"Am I seeing things or are the Forever Knights stealing a smoothie machine?" Ben asked.

"I'm seeing it too, maybe they're thirsty," Kevin suggested while another Forever Knight was going through a sack of cups when he picked up the owner of the building.

"It says Dai 10 flavours, I only count nine souvenir cups," he said drawing his sword and it cut a cardboard cut out of Daisuke in half.

"Hey! I was going to ask if I could keep that!" Spidermonkey shouted before she jumped behind the knight and kicked him to the ground.

"Attack, if we return to our master without the object of our quest it means our lives," one knight said and two knights charged towards Spidermonkey and Kevin absorbed some metal and his arms turned into blades and he blocked both swords and one of his arms turned into a spiked mace and he swung it sending one knight flying as more Forever Knights fired at Kevin but Ben made a barrier of mana in front of him deflecting the blasts and Gwen made a wall behind the knights and Ben slammed his barrier into the knights squashing them between the two walls of mana.

"We have our prize, Forever Knights run away!" one of them shouted and the knights turned to run only for Spidermonkey to shoot web at them and trapped them all but one knight pressed a button on his gauntlet and they teleported away.

"Teleporting beam, that's a new one," Kevin said.

"That's what interests you and not that they stole a smoothie machine?" Yolei asked him.

"And the collectible cups," Veemon added.

"Nobody cares about those stupid cups," Spidermonkey said as she turned back into Daisuke.

"What's next?" Gwen asked.

"We need Intel, someone who is totally wired into the alien underground. We need the best," Daisuke answered and soon she and the others were outside Jimmy's apartment when his mother opened the door.

"Jimmy your friends are here!" she shouted. "Who wants cookies?" she asked and Kevin raised his hand as did Ben making everyone look at them.

"She offered, we're being polite," Kevin said.

"Forever Knights huh, I thought you were going to ask me about the Trans fat conspiracy the government wants us to get fat so they can sell us new clothes only in a large size," Jimmy explained.

"Maybe later," Daisuke said.

"I also think the toon channel makes one bad episode of Sumo Slammers every season to get us to buy more toys," Jimmy said.

"Now that I can believe," Yolei said.

"Okay, we're out of cookies. Start talking about the Forever Knights," Kevin said.

"I know they've been acting weird for a couple weeks now," Jimmy said as he brought up a video of the Forever Knights robbing a pizza place. "Here they are robbing a pizza place, and then two days ago they robbed Benny's burritos," he explained.

"They've stolen before, what's so different this time?" Gwen asked.

"They didn't take the money, only the pizzas and burritos," Jimmy answered.

"Okay, now this is weird," Veemon said.

"Maybe we can ask them about this," Gwen suggested.

"I doubt it, the Forever Knights work in absolute secrecy to get info from one of them..." Ben said before an image of a Forever Knight appeared on the screen.

"James old friend, I'm sorry but you've picked and ill time to chat," the knight said.

"Foreverduke838?" Gwen asked.

"He's awesome at Craft of War, we dominate alt Earth," Jimmy answered.

"Sire, we must flee! The beast attacks! Our battlements crumble around us!" a knight shouted at the one on the screen.

"James I must go..." the knight said before the screen went blank.

"Whoa," Jimmy said.

"We're going to need an address Jimmy," Daisuke told him and he nodded and soon the team were in front of a destroyed castle.

"This is the place," Gwen said.

"Was the place," Hawkmon said.

"Someone is destroying the Forever Knights," Daisuke said. Later that night Daisuke was driving her car down the road with Ben in the passenger seat and Gwen, Kevin and Yolei with Veemon and Hawkmon on her lap.

"I like it better when I drive," Kevin grumbled.

"Go ahead Jimmy," Daisuke told Jimmy who was on a screen on the dashboard.

"Turns out another castle was knocked down last month, they say they were remodelling. Yeah right," he said as his mother walked in.

"Jimmy, are you ready for gymnastics class?" she asked.

"I'm not going to gymnastics class mom! I'm trying to help solve a mystery!" he shouted.

"Young man you will do a healthy physical activity four days a week or no computer, do you understand?" his mother asked.

"Mom," he whined as she turned the computer off.

"I'll get him back," Ben said.

"Don't bother, we're here," Daisuke said stopping her car and looking out the window at a large castle surrounded by Forever Knights and several searchlights around the perimeter.

"So stealth is out," Yolei said.

"We were never good at stealth anyway," Daisuke told her as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she tuned into Jetray who took flight making the searchlights focus on her and four Forever Knights stood on the ramparts and began to fire their laser lances at her but she dodged them nimbly, Gwen threw a mana disc at the knights and knocked them to the ground while as the drawbridge began to close but the others jumped onto it just in time and Kevin absorbed some metal and he ripped the wooden door off its hinges and he threw it at the two knights operating the bridge and Jetray swooped in before being enveloped in a flash of gold light. "NRG!" she shouted as she transformed into an alien similar to P'andor in his containment suit and landed on the ground with a thud. "Interesting," she said.

"Dai, hurry up!" Veemon shouted and NRG ran after the others when several Forever Knights appeared in front of the team.

"I've got this," NRG said as her grill plate glowed brightly before firing a beam of energy at the Forever Knights sending them flying back.

"Guys!" a voice shouted and the team saw four Forever Knights carrying a chair which had Argit sitting on it and he wore a robe and a crown.

"Argit!?" NRG asked shocked.

"Put the hardware down boys, these are my friends. Go clean up my room, it's a pigsty," Argit said and the Forever Knights groaned and walked off. "Great to see you guys, nice digs huh?" he asked the group.

"I know I already asked this today, but are you guys seeing what I'm seeing?" Ben asked.

"Yes we are," NRG answered as Argit snapped his fingers and the knights behind him lifted the chair up and moved it closer to the team.

"Alright Argit, what's the scam?" Kevin asked him.

"Scam? Oh I'm hurt, deeply hurt that an old friend would think so low of me, especially after all the trouble I went to gather the money I owe you," Argit said snapping his finger again and one knight carried a box towards Kevin and the box was filled with cash.

"Hello beautiful," he said.

"Kevin," Gwen said with a frown.

"Right, there's got to be a catch," Kevin said. "Look, you know I love money more than anything in the world,"

"What did you say?" Gwen asked him.

"Uh...almost anything in the world, but you better start talking," Kevin told Argit as he absorbed the stone from the floor and he ran up and grabbed Argit by the collar.

"You don't want to take that approach with me," Argit told him.

"Why not you're overdo for a beating," Kevin said as the ground shook and something grabbed Kevin from behind.

"Kevin, meet my new friend Andreas," Argit said as Kevin punched Andreas in the chest before his arm began to shake violently like a jackhammer.

"Little help here!" Kevin shouted.

"Why don't you get your money to help you?" Gwen asked him.

"Okay, that's enough," Ben said as he threw a mana disc at Andreas but it bounced off his back leaving Andreas unharmed and he turned and swatted Ben away with his free arm.

"Andreas, stop!" NRG shouted making the alien look at her.

"P'andor?" he asked confused.

"Easy big guy put him down. No one is going to hurt you," NRG told Andreas calmly who dropped Kevin and he landed on the ground with a thud.

"Oh I felt like I was in a paint mixer," Kevin groaned.

"Found him a few weeks ago, poor guy didn't know which way was up, now we're best buds," Argit explained holding his hand out and Andreas placed his hand against it.

"Argit is Andreas' friend," Andreas said.

"Andreas moves through rock like we move through air and he can make earthquakes," Argit explained as the Ultimatrix symbol on NRG's chest sent out a yellow beam at Andreas.

"Uncatalogued DNA acquired," the Ultimatrix said as NRG turned back into Daisuke.

"Daisuke is a friend as well Andreas," Argit told him.

"Not if you're doing what I think you're doing," Daisuke said.

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Argit asked her.

"You're making the Forever Knights work for you," Kevin answered.

"Making them? They chose to follow me so nothing happens to their nice castle," Argit said. "I am providing them with a service,"

"So you're manipulating a scared and confused alien into doing your dirty work just to earn money and take over the Forever Knights?! You're a scumbag, do you know that?!" Yolei shouted.

"This coming from the girl who used her Digimon to kidnap Dai's family!" Argit replied.

"AT LEAST I SHOWED REMORSE FOR MY ACTIONS! You, on the other hand, don't even show a bit of guilt for what you're doing and what you've done in the past! I even heard that you sold your own mother for profit!" Yolei shouted.

"Excuse me?! I did no such thing! And who even started that rumour anyway?" Argit asked.

"To be honest, Gwen did." Kevin answered.

"Considering the kind of person that you are, I actually thought that you sold your mother for cash," Gwen said.

"Look, I may do a lot of shady things for money but selling my own mother is not one of them!" Argit exclaimed.

"I guess he does have standards after all," Daisuke said. "But we're still not letting you get away with this," she told him as Andreas stood in front of her.

"I'd advise you to reconsider it Daisuke; nobody can match up to Andreas. Not the knights and not you. How about a smoothie for the road? That's a hint. It means get out of my castle," Argit told Daisuke as the door opened and another Forever Knight walked in, this one had no helmet a small goatee and black hair. "What's your damage pal? Nobody barges into my castle," he told the knight.

"Your castle? So this is your castle is it?" the knight asked.

"It sure is, who're you?" Argit asked the knight.

"I am Sir Dagonet," the knight answered and the knights gasped and began to whisper.

"What's your angel?" Argit asked him.

"My angle? You mistake me vermin," Sir Dagonet said drawing his sword.

"Whoa, let's not be too hasty fella," Argit said.

"I Sir Dagonet am here to restore the honour of the Forever Knights which you have sullied with your alien filth," Sir Dagonet said. "You shall be thrown in chains and taken to the Forever Kings dungeon for your inquisition," he said and Andreas growled.

"So, you want me to stop being king of this castle and go live in a dungeon?" Argit asked. "Yeah that is not going to happen. You see these knights work for me now, and you come in here and try to tell me what to do? I say you and what army?" Argit asked.

"Knights," Dagonet said and the Forever Knights turned on Daisuke, Kevin, Gwen, Ben, Yolei, Veemon, Hawkmon, Andreas and Argit.

"That army," Daisuke said as Argit pushed past her.

"I'm saved! Thank goodness you're here," he said.

"What?" Dagonet asked.

"These guys are using a monster to take over your territory," Argit answered.

"Is he seriously selling us out right now?" Daisuke asked.

"Oh yeah, I knew we couldn't trust him," Kevin said.

"They made me the patsy, putting me on the throne, forcing me to wear this ridiculous robe to make it look like I'm the one in charge," Argit said.

"You really think anyone is going to believe that?" Yolei asked before Argit fired quills at everyone behind him and they were hit and all passed out.

"I hope you didn't mind my act, I had to be rude in front of the masterminds, but I was so happy to see you," Argit said and Dagonet looked at him and the next thing Argit knew he was behind bars.

"You and your compatriots shall have you day in front of the High Inquisitor," Dagonet said.

"What's going to happen to Andreas?" Argit asked.

"The monster? We're Forever Knights, we slay monsters," Dagonet said walking off.

"You can't do that to my friend," Argit told him.

"Do any of your schemes actually work?" Daisuke asked him and he turned around to see everyone frowning at him.

"My scheme saved your lives, if you guys busted into action when that guy showed up we'd all be dead," Argit said.

"I still got one of your quills in my butt," Kevin said.

"Aw, I'm surprised your money didn't protect you," Gwen said.

"Is she ever going to drop it?" Kevin asked.

"Nope," Ben answered.

"Hey, stop arguing you don't want to be in front of the Inquisitor do you?" Argit asked them.

"Not our problem," Kevin answered.

"You're the one who knocked down their castles," Daisuke told him.

"Forever Knights hate all things alien. That includes you guys, once they're done killing Andreas they're going to do the same to us," Argit said.

"They're going to do what!?" Gwen asked.

"Yeah, believe it or not, Andreas and I really are best buds. During the time we spent together, I've actually formed a bond with him. And that's why you've got to help me save him!"

"That must be the most sincere thing you've ever said in your entire life" Hawkmon said.

"So what are we waiting for? Let's bust out of here!" Veemon said and Daisuke was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Goop who jumped through the cell bars and took out the guard and Kevin absorbed the rock from the wall and ripped the bars open.

"After you," he told Gwen.

"Sure you don't want to hold the door for your money?" Gwen asked him and he groaned as Goop turned back into Daisuke.

"Hurry up you guys," she told the others before running off and the others followed her and they saw Andreas chained up with an alien weapon pointing at him. "Argit was right, they are going to kill him," she said.

"Not on my watch," Gwen said.

"So what's the plan?" Argit asked as Kevin grabbed him and he threw him at some Forever Knights making them all turn to look at him. "Uh hey guys, remember all the fun we had with the smoothie machine, you wouldn't shoot me would you?" he asked the knights who pointed their laser lances at him.

"I don't think so!" a voice shouted as a fireball flew towards the knights knocking them down and Heatblast jumped in and kicked another Forever Knight to the ground, Dagonet ran up to the alien weapon and turned it around and fired it at her but Ben blocked it with a shield of mana and he fired his blaster at Dagonet knocking him down and then he fired it at the alien weapon knocking it to the ground and off its tripod. Kevin ran towards Andreas and freed him from the chains and Andreas hugged him tightly

"You nice, Andreas is sorry for shaking you," he said.

"Don't mention it," Kevin replied as Andreas let him go.

"This way big guy," Yolei called to Andreas as he, Kevin and Argit ran off only for Dagonet to pick up the alien weapon and fire it at Andreas.

"Stop, you're scaring him. That's a bad idea," Argit said as Dagonet fired the weapon at him but he ducked. "And shooting me is even worse," he said as Dagonet fired at Andreas again causing him to begin to vibrate violently. Gwen ran up behind Dagonet and kicked him in the back sending him to the ground and the alien weapon fell to the ground and it broke. Gwen punched Dagonet several times and he back flipped away from her, Gwen ran towards him again but he threw her into the air and Kevin caught her.

"Ruined, but there is still a way to kill the beast," Dagonet said pressing a button and the alien weapon began to emit sonic waves.

"That thing is set on self destruct, we need to get out of here," Kevin said as Andreas began to shake again.

"How do you calm him down when he's scared?" Yolei asked him.

"Calm him down? I just let him destroy stuff then I give him a burrito," Argit answered.

"You are so helpful," Yolei replied sarcastically.

"There is no escaping justice. The sentence will be carried out on all of you, knights to me," Dagonet said slamming the device into the ground and the whole castle shook and the knights and Dagonet teleported away.

"What do we do now?" Ben asked.

"All of you guys go, I'll find a way to muffle the explosion," Heatblast told the others.

"Good idea, Daisuke can stay," Argit said.

"It won't matter, the energy discharge from the cannons AR-9 power cell will destroy everything within five square miles," Kevin explained.

"Argit saves Andreas. Now Andreas save Argit and new friends," Andreas said.

"Dai, we can't let him do this," Gwen said.

"We can't let everyone within five square miles die either," Heatblast replied as Andreas walked towards the cannon and he picked it up and he began to vibrate, he turned to look at Argit and the others as he began to sink into the ground and a hole in the wall was formed and everyone ran for it as the castle collapsed around them. Heatblast then emerged from the rubble followed by Ben and the others in a large sphere of mana and Argit climbed out of the rubble as well and Heatblast turned back into Daisuke.

"I can't believe Andres is gone," Argit said with tears in his eyes.

"Oh please! You're just crying because of the money you lost!" Kevin said.

"NO, I'M NOT! Andreas was the only friend I had in the world! And now he's gone. Gone forever," Argit said sadly.

"I guess you do have a heart after all," Yolei said.

"Just don't tell anyone, alright? I've got a reputation to keep," Argit told her.

"My lips are sealed," Yolei replied and Argit walked away.

"At least Aggregor can't get to Andreas now," Daisuke said. Soon after Daisuke and her team had left Aggregor walked into the remains of the castle with a scanner in his hand and he lifted some rubble with his staff to see Andreas under the rubble badly injured.

"You actually had me worried for a moment. If you had sacrificed yourself, my entire plan would have been destroyed. But sadly, your efforts were all in vain," he told Andreas as both teleported onto Aggregor's ship. "Four down, one to go. And once I find the last one, the fun can begin," he said as he placed Andreas into a stasis pod beside P'andor, Bivalvan and Galapagus.

The end of the chapter

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