Remant Meet Tennyson

Chapter 6 Encounter

It had been a while since the incident at Forever Fall. Now, the kingdom of Vale, and the student of Beacon Academy are preparing themselves for the Vytal Festival, which Vale had the honor of hosting this year. The street was lined with lights and banners were hung over every road. The scenery reminds Ben of the preparation for Christmas at home. While he knew that Vytal Festival is a big holiday for the people of this world, he still didn't understand the origin of the Festival itself.

Ben was walking with through the street of Vale with a couple of bags in hand. He had come to the city to pick up a few things for his secret project, along with some chili fries. He was heading back to the bus stop to pick a ride back to Beacon since his ability and origin is still unknown to the public so he decided to restraint from transforming in the city.

As he continued to walk down the street, Ben noticed that at the end of the street, there was a shop had its window bust open and surrounded by police tape. He walked to the store to have a closer look, he noticed some police is making the report on his pad.

"Man! What a mess. This is the second time this week." One detective said.

"Yeah. They broke everything and took every single piece of Dust away, but leave the money behind. Weird." His partner responds.

"You know what weirder?"

"What is that?"

"Some witness said that these were caused by some type of rock monster working with people wearing Grimm mask."

As when the two officers were speaking, Ben noticed a strangely familiar looking blond haired girl in the crowd. He originally thought that he was just seeing things but when the detective mentions the word 'rock monster', he has sworn that he could feel the rage coming from her. Before he can approach her, he was called out by a familiar voice. "Ben?"

Ben turned around to see Ruby and the rest of team RWBY not far behind. When he turned back to find the mysterious girl, she was long gone, so he turns his attention back to team RWBY.

"What are you doing here?" Ruby asked.

"Just went to the city to pick up something when I saw this crime scene." He said pointing back at the store, "What about you girls?"

"Weiss ideal," Blake responded, "She wanted to scout on the student coming for the Vytal Festival Tournament."

"You can prove that!" Weiss defended.

"What happens here?" Ruby asked Ben.

"Robbery. According to the police, this is the second ones this week, and took all the Dust but leave the money behind." Ben explained to her what he had heard from the two offices.

"That's terrible." Yang sigh sadly.

"Just who in the world needs that much dust anyway?" The two officers continue to discuss with each other.

"I don't know, probably the White Fang. I heard that someone is attacking them recently, perhaps they wanted to pay back."

"Yeah. But these much dust," An officer pointed at the store, "There is enough to equip an army!"

"You know what," His partner responds,"Forget it! We don't get pay enough for these shit."

"Hmph! The White Fang," Weiss said in disgust, crossing her arms, "What an awful bunch of degenerates."

"That's a bit harsh, isn't it?" Ben asked off-handedly.

"What's your problem?" Blake asked

"My problem?" Weiss asked back as she turned to face Blake, "I simply don't care for the criminally insane."

"White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths," Blake said, arms cross defensively, "They're a collection of misguiding Faunus."

"Misguided? They want to wipe Humanity off the face of the planet!" Weiss responds angrily.

"So then they're very misguided. Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust store in the middle of Downtown Vale!" Blake continued, countering Weiss argument.

"Hmm… Blake's got a point." Ruby thought out loud, "Besides, the police never caught the Torchwick guy I ran in a few months ago… Maybe it was him."

"I think that make a lot of sense," Ben added, "Maybe he wanted to go big so decided to get more firepower."

"That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum," Weiss said, standing her ground, "Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal."

"That not necessarily true…" Yang tried to counter her friend before heard a voice coming from the dock.

"Hey, stop that Faunus!"

When the group arrived at the dock, they spotted a young Faunus boy, about seventeen years old, with monkey tail, golden hair, and blue eyes. He wore cargo pants and an open white jacket with no shirt. The boy run down the length of the boat before jumping off the edge as the two sailors about to apprehend him.

"Thanks for the ride guys!" He shouted as he jumped off, laughing.

"You no-good stowaway!" One of the sailors yelled.

"Hey! A no-good stowaway would have been caught!" He countered while hanging on the lamppost, upside down, with his tail and peeling a banana, "I'm a great stowaway!"

Before he was able to eat, one officer threw a rock at him to get his attention

"Hey! Get down from there this instant!" the officer ordered.

In response to the police order, the boy threw his banana peel at the man head, causing him to growl. The monkey-boy laugh in amusement then proceeded to leap off and run away from the cops. As he runs pass the group, he winked at an astonished Blake before speed up to get away from the officer.

"Well, Weiss, you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes…." Yang commented.

"Quick, we have to observe him!" Weiss ordered, rallying her friends to go after the Faunus boy.

The group began to give chase, while Blake is still standing stills, lost in thought. After regaining the sense of her surrounding, she quickly followed her teammate after the monkey-boy.

As they ran, Ben asked Ruby to hold on to his things, "Hold these for me, will you?" Then he began to active his Omnitrix to help the chase, "It looks like the time to go fast!"

Slamming down on his Omnitrix, Ben transformed into one of his many alien forms. However, while he wanted to change into a speedy, feline Citrakayah, the watch had given him something else, a humanoid bunch of bandages from Anur Knufos.

"Snare-oh?" Ben yelled in surprise at the from he received, "But I wanted to go Fasttrack."

"Does this happen a lot?" Ruby asked

"Not recently. I thought it had stopped to happen." Ben told Ruby before turn back at the direction the boy had gone to, "It doesn't matter anyway. I can work with this."

Making the best of his form, Ben extended his arms to grab a lamppost to launch himself into the air, after the Faunus boy.

After have chased after the boy past some rooftops, Ben noticed that team RWBY had fallen behind due to crashing into someone. While the lost track of his friends, Ben still on the money tails. Taking his chances, Ben leaped into the front of the boy, cutting off his rooftop escape.

"Whoa!" The Faunus said in surprise, "Who or what are you?"

"The name's Snare-oh," Ben responded, "And I'm the one that going to stop you."

Ben stretches one of his hand out, intended to grab the Faunus. Before he could make contact, the boy jumps up, instinctively, Ben threw his other hand at him, planning to catch him mid-air. However, in responding to Snare-oh attacks, the monkey boy created two golden copy of himself mid air and thrown them at him.

The moment Snare-oh caught them, the clones explode, throwing Ben back and turned him into a pile of bandages upon impact. Once landed on the next rooftop, the Faunus boy turned around and laugh at the pile of bandages.

"Well, look like you need to practice how to snare, Snare-oh!" The monkey boy quipped before making his escape.

"Aw, Man!" Ben said as he pulled back to his humanoid form, then transform back into human once he touched the ground.

Looking around for his friends, Ben noticed team RWBY hasn't chase after him. Figuring that they might have gone back to school, Ben decided to return to school, hoping Ruby still had his stuff. He really didn't want to go back to the city to rebuy all those part after just arrived at the school.

Once at the school, Ben headed to team RWBY room only to be met with Blake running pass him, with Ruby standing outside of the door, reaching out, calling her friend.

"Blake, wait! Come back!"

Looking inside at the dorm room, Ben noticed that Weiss was looking down at the ground, Yang sitting in a chair with a stunned look on her face. After seeing that Ruby had noticed his present, Ben asks the obvious question.

"Originally I was going to ask about my stuff, but now I have another question," Ben looked around before continued, "What happens here?"

Couple minute, and a lengthy explanation later.

"And then she burst out of the room, we didn't understand a thing. And now she gonna be alone in the city, and, and…" Before Ruby could finish her sentence Ben calmed her down.

"Blake is a big girl now. She probably needed some time to clear her mind of things."

"But what if she gets herself into trouble?" Ruby response.

"How about this? If after the weekend and Blake hasn't come back, we will go look for her. Deal?"

"Deal."

"And before I forget. Where is the stuff that I asked you to hold on for me?"

-0-

Two days have passed since the day of the argument and Blake haven't returned yet so team RWBY and Ben had decided to look for her.

"I still can't believe you actually wanted to look for her?" Weiss said begrudgingly

"Weiss, come on. She's one of our teammates." Yang said, trying to convince Weiss.

"Is she?" Weiss asked skeptically, "She's a White Fang! Ruby, a criminal, right under our nose!"

"Weiss," Ruby whined, not appreciating her attitude.

"You don't know that. She just a Faunus, not a White Fang, not all Faunus is White Fang, you know?" Yang countered. "You should hear her side of the story first before making a decision."

"You know what they said, 'Innocent until proven guilty'." Ben added.

"I think when we hear it, you'll all realize I was right" Weiss argued.

Irritated, Ben activated his Omnitrix and transformed into Stingfly. As the girl still stunted at Ben's action, he gripped Weiss's arm and flew away, much with her dismay, leaving the two sisters startled as what just happen.

"Ummm…..Sis?" Ruby asked her sister, who is just confused as she is, "I think Ben's angry."

"And I think Yang's hair look wonderful today!"

The sisters yelped and jumped at the sudden voice.

"Penny! Where did you come from?"

A rooftop and several building away, Weiss still struggled to get out of Ben's arm until he put her down.

"What was that for?" She asked him.

"Okay, Weiss, this may sound cliché but, I know exactly how you feel," Ben said after transformed back.

"You do?" She asked skeptically.

"You feel like that Blake had betrayed your trust, and hated yourself for trusting her so you wanted to push that rage onto her," Ben explained, making Weiss stand in awe of how much he understands who she felt.

"I had been in this position," Ben continued, "One of my best friends, Kevin, used to be a criminal. Heck when we were kid, he was one of my greatest enemies. When we met each other again years later, we slowly became close to each other, became a brother in arms."

Weiss listened intently "But there was one time….He tried to absorb the power of my Omnitrix to fight a powerful enemy. It causes him to lose control of himself, going insane."

"What did you do?" She asked him.

"To be honest." Ben sighed, "I wanted to end him."

"But why? You know that he's not responsible for his action! Why didn't you tried…" Weiss asked him.

"Help him? Stop him? Save him?" Ben interrupted her, "Back then, I just like you right now, I felt that he had used our trust just to get close to me and take my power like when we were kids. I think that he just a power-hungry monster, not thing more."

Weiss looked at him in horror. "But my cousin, Gwen, and a couple of our friends showed me that killing him is not what I do, that not what I have been doing all my life, since the day I have to gain the Omnitrix, the original proposal of the Omnitrix."

"What was that?" Weiss asked him. "To protect the innocent, and help those in need."

"Kevin was someone needed help, the monster that attacking people wasn't him, it was a monster that trying to took over his body, his soul." Ben turned back and smiled at her, "He was my brother, and I had to save him. If I kill him, then I'm no better than the monster that tried to control him."

Weiss looks down in shame only to be met by a pair of reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"Weiss, just like Kevin, you can't blame Blake for White Fang's action, and we don't know if she had ever done those things yet." They look at each other in the eyes, "You have to listen to her story first, don't jump to conclusion. Don't make the same mistake I almost did."

Weiss looks at the boy. He may not be the best student, not the best teammate, not the best advisor….But this moment he is the one that understands her the most, someone she can call a true friend.

"I understand." Weiss responded, "So!? Are you planning to keep me up here all day, or we going to go looking for our stray cat?"

This response had caused a little chuckle between both of them before he smiled back and nodded.

When they returned to the place that they had left Yang and Ruby, the two noticed the sisters are nowhere to be seen, so they decided to split up to search for the three girls.

-0-

Later that night, Ben was flying through the sky, looking for Blake, as Bigchill. As he flew over the docks, he notices a familiar figure at the edge of the roof of one of the warehouses.

"Blake!" Ben called out for her as he landed, forgot about the blonde boy behind her.

"Are you alright?" Ben asked as he transformed back, "We've been looking for you all day. Where have you been?"

"Um, excuse me?" A voice called out behind Blake. A voice belongs to the Faunus boy that Ben and team RWBY had chased a couple of days ago, and Ben had just about to mentally slap himself for forgot about there was a person behind Blake.

"Um, Blake. Who is he? And why he was a flying moth-man couple second ago?" the Faunus boy asked.

"Well… He's a friend of mine. Why he was a flying moth-man, you should ask him." Blake response.

Figuring that he had exposed himself to another person. Ben decided to introduce himself.

"The name is Ben Tennyson, a shapeshifter." Ben holding out his hand, "Nice to meet you, again."

"Sun Wukong." The boy said as he shakes Ben's Hand, before noticing his last word. "What do you mean 'again' ?"

"We've met before," Ben replied, "though I was being Snare-oh at that moment."

"Wait. That was you?" Sun yelled in surprised.

"Shush! Someone coming." Blake shushes at them as an airship arrived.

The Bullhead landed in the middle of all of the containers and opened up its ramp. A several of people wearing white hood with silver mask exited the craft, on the back of their hood is an emblem that Blake recognized all too well. A red wolf's head with a three-clawed scratch across it, the emblem of the White Fang.

"Oh no…" Blake whispered in disappointment.

"Is that them?" Sun asked

"Yes…" Blake answered, hesitantly, "It's them."

As they monitor the movement of the White Fang's member, Sun asked, "You really didn't think they behind it, did you?"

"No. I think deep down I knew," Blake said sadly, "I just didn't want to be right."

"So this is the White Fang." Ben mused.

As the group prepared to confronted the White Fang, they hear a new voice coming from the airship.

"Hey! What's the hold-up!?" The owner of the voice is revealed to be the wanted criminal Roman Torchwick, who Ben had seen a couple of time on the news, "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace?"

"So this is the guy who is running the show?", Ben mused to himself.

"This isn't right," Blake said, "The White Fang would never work with a human. Especially not someone like that."

Without saying another word, she jumped out of their hiding spot, weapons in hand.

"Hey! Wait up…" Ben called, hand reaching out, intended to stop her, but it was too late. She had already landed on one of the containers near Roman.

"So much for a stake-out", Sun said

"Come on let's go." Ben responded, "Before she does something she gonna regret."

As Roman was giving order to the White Fang's members, Blake suddenly appeared behind him.

"What the-Oh, for the f-" that is what Roman able to respond before one of Blake's blade was placed at his neck.

Seeing the commotion, the White Fang's members all readying their weapon, pointing them at her. At the same time, Ben and Sun slowly approach her, hoping things won't get messy.

"Whoa! Take it easy there, little lady!" Roman said, trying to stall some time.

A brief moment silent passed as Blake took off her bow, revealing a pair of cat ear, before addressing the White fang's member, "Brothers of White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?"

"Oh, kid." Roman laughed, "didn't you get the memo?"

"What are you talking about?" Blake questioned.

"The White Fang and I are going in a joint business venture together!" Roman explained.

"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation." Blake threatened.

"My dear lady," a new voice called out from bulkhead as two more arrived, "Our operation is anything but 'little'."

As the masked figure walks out of the bulkhead, alongside two rock-monster, Ben recognize him.

"How the hell is he here," Ben muttered, hand on his Omnitrix.

With his captor attention being diverted at his accomplice, Roman fire his cane at the ground, blowing him and Blake away.

Despite being dazed by the blast, Blake quickly got up on her feet only to saw the masked figure prepare to blast her with some kind of purple energy beam.

Just before the beam hit her a person suddenly land before her, raising his arms in a defensive position and creating a green energy shield, protecting them.

When the light died out, Blake sees that the person is a black armored figure with a dark green jumpsuit, with multiple pouches on his body.

"Tennyson?!" the masked man yelled, "How are you even here?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing, Micheal." Ben answer, "Or should I called you Darkstar, the great and powerful?"

"Get him! Get them!" Micheal ordered the White Fang members and his Golem to attack the duo. With their enemies moving rally up against them, Ben grabbed Blake and fly up to a nearby stack of containers.

"I gonna lure them away while you go grab Sun and called the other. Okay?" Ben said.

"Ben, I can still fight," Blake argued, only for Ben to responded. "I know you can, but that guy is stronger than anything you had fought before. He is one of my old foes, you need to find the other, we gonna need back up to stop this operation. Okay?"

"Fine!" Blake reluctant agree and run off to find Sun.

-0-

In another part of the dock, Roman was searching for his feline attacker.

"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty,…" He walks around the area, taunting the cat Faunus.

As he walked pass another roll of container, a banana peel suddenly appeared on his face. Roman growled as he looked to see Sun standing on top one of the containers. Sun then jump from the container, landed on Roman's face, feet-first, before putting some distance.

"Leave her alone!" Sun called out, prepare for a fight.

"You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you, kid?" Roman asked sarcastically as a Bullheads above them open it hatch and several White Fang member drop down, surrounding Sun.

After a couple of seconds of silence, the White Fang member began to charged toward Sun, he managed to dodge a couple of slashes and knocked out couple enemies before rolling out of the way, pulling out his weapon, a collapsible red staff. Using his weapon, Sun knocked out anyone that comes near him, then he created a scorching shockwave from his staff to push the rest of them.

As Sun kept beating up his men, Roman growls in annoyance and aimed his gun at Sun, firing at him that he barely block before Blake lept into the fray. She ran pass Sun and become a blur of afterimages as she slashed both blades at Roman, who was able to deflect her blows with unbelievable speed. Blake continued her attack, determined to push their enemy back so she and Sun can call for backup.

-0-

Back to Ben in his Sotoraggian form, firing a couple of his left arm-mounted rocket to push back White Fang member, and then shoot a binding polo form his right arm to capture them.

He then takes two guns from his leg-mounted pouches and began to fire upon the horde of Golem, decimating them.

"Hey, Micheal! Is that everything you got? I thought you would be stronger if you manage to find a way to cross-worlds. " He yelled out only to be met with a powerful mana blast from his enemy, pushing him back

"Is this what you mean?" Darkstar said mockingly, "From the moment I arrived to this world, my power had reach tenfold since we last met. I'm now more powerful than you can imagine!"

"Oh yeah?" Ben asked, "If you are so powerful, why you're still ugly as before?"

This comment seemingly pokes at the right spot, because the next thing he saw is that Darkstar dashes toward him, hand glowing in mana energy. Ben noticed this and activated his thrusters and burst into the air, causing Darkstar to crash into a container. While in the air, Ben began to fire all of his weapon toward the crash site, creating a big dust cloud.

Before the dust even settles, Darkstar blasted toward Ben, tackled him midair. After tackling Ben, Michael blasted him to the ground, through several blocks of containers. As Ben was struggling to keep his shield up against Darkstar onslaught, right the moment that his shield dropped and he transformed back, an energy beam shot at Darkstar, blasted him away.

As Ben was knock out by Darkstar onslaught, several more bulkhead arrived only to be shot down by a green energy beam.

-0-

After seeing couple new players had joined the fight, a white-hair lady that can push his masked partner back, and a new kid equips some kind of weapon system that capable to shot down 3 bulkheads simultaneously, Roman decided it time to pull back.

Firing a shot from his cane to distract the white-hair lady, giving Darkstar some breathing space so that he can get into the Bulkhead.

"Today had been fun ladies, but me and my associate had places to go and stuff to do. I bid you farewell" As he was saying his goodbye, the airship lift off and jet into a blue portal in the sky before anyone can stop it.

As the combatant still looks at the space the portal closed, Ruby run toward her friends and the White-hair lady.

"Thank for helping us back there," Ruby said to the White-hair lady

"You shouldn't, It just a coincidence."

"Still. If you weren't there he would have beaten Ben and got away with all of these dust containers."

"Wait! Did you just said Ben? How did you know that name" The mention of 'Ben' gain the attention of the mysterious lady, she grabbed Ruby arms, demanding an answer. Before she can answer, they heard his voice.

"Did anyone get the license plate of the bus that hit me." Ben groaned as Blake and Sun pick him up on his feet.

"You okay buddy?" Sun asked but before Ben can answer he already found himself in an embrace form Charmscaster.

"Ben! It's you. It's really you. You are alive! We all thought you have died"

"Wait, wait, wait. What with this sudden emotional embracement, and what is the deal with 'I'm being dead'" Ben questioned Charmcaster, only being met with her puzzled face.

Only after seeing what reside on his left wrist that she understand what was happening.

"You are not him," she said in a quiet voice, tears began to fall.


A.N: Sorry about the long upload time. Been brainstorming how to incorporate this storyline. Next chapter will explains a lot of things.

I'm planned to give Ben a Yautja transformation but can find a good name for it, can anyone help me. My original name gonna be HTR (Hunter). If anyone have an idea please leave a comment or P.M me

Thanks for reading