Alien oneshots

Sotoraggian, Eighteight

Universe: Omniverse

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We find ourselves with Ben and Rook as they were at Mr. Smoothie, simply relaxing.

"Now this is the life." sighed Ben leaning back sipping his smoothie.

Rook nodded in agreement.

"I swear, nothing can ruin this da-" Ben's sentence was cut off from a sudden laser blast blowing up their table.

"Oh come on!" Ben yelled in annoyance

Ben and Rook looked up and saw Eighteight flying with her jetpack.

"Eighteight." Ben glared simply

Said bounty hunter began firing at both of them with her lasers.

Both jumped out of the way, Rook firing back with his Proto-Tool while Ben was scanning through the Omnitrix.

"Let's see how she likes-" Ben found the right alien and slammed down to become "Upchuck."

Upchuck quickly started devouring random things and spitting them at Eighteight, adding to Rook's fire.

Eighteight responded by blasting Upchuck's attacks and pulled out a plasma grenade and chucked it at Rook.

Rook kicked the grenade at Eighteight before it got too close, but the female assassin easily dodged. Meanwhile Upchuck had gotten in close so it was harder for Eighteight to dodge his blasts and in the hopes he could grab one of her guns.

Upchuck used his tongues to reach out and grab her gun, which she refused to let go and this turned into a tug-of-war.

It was at that moment that the plasma grenade hit the building behind them and exploded.

Both of them turned and were caught in the rubble of the building and didn't have time to dodge before they were buried.

"BEN!" Rook yelled

While went to work on trying to dig his partner out, we find ourselves deep underneath the remains of the building.

Ben groaned as he woke up. Looking at the Omnitrix he saw that it had turned red and flinched. The plasma grenade must have made it overload. Hell have to wait at least half an hour before he can change again.

He managed to stand up in the confined space and spotted something sticking out. It looked like a leg.

Walking around he saw Eighteight on the ground silently screaming, one of her legs trapped under rubble.

Seeing Ben Tennyson, she pulled one of her lasers out and aimed it at him.

"Hey hey hey! Calm down!" Ben said quickly

"Look, I don't know what you're deal is, probably some kind of bounty on my head, but considering this place could fall on us, now is not the time." replied Ben.

Eighteight lowered her gun and then shock as her entire body sparked with pain again.

"Look, why don't I take a look at that leg?" suggested Ben.

The leg was mostly trapped under rubble from the fallen building.

Ben began to carefully move some of the rubble aside and saw the leg bleeding due to several scratches from the metal.

The metal was also split apart in places, stabbing into her pale grey leg and leaving sharp edges.

"Woah, this is gonna be tough." remarked Ben.

Eighteight groaned from both pain and relief. The pain of the rocks was gone but the stabbing metal still hurt.

"Ok, I'm gonna try and get the pieces out, just take a deep breath." advised Ben getting ready to take some of the metal out.

Eighteight nodded and did as he said, bracing herself.

Ben carefully gripped one of the shards and slowly began to pull it out.

Eighteight hissed in pain.

Ben flinched at hearing her in pain and was relieved to see the shard successfully out.

Ben then flinched and dropped the shard, his hands being sliced up slightly.

"This could take a while." remarked Ben seeing more pieces of metal in her leg.

After a few minutes he had finished. He pulled the white hoodie he had been wearing and ripped it apart, wrapping it around Eighteight's leg and his own hands.

"There. That should do until you see a real doctor." replied Ben sitting down near her.

Eighteight nodded and looked away from him.

"Look, I get that you're suppose to hunt my head, but right now, it couldn't hurt to just talk." replied Ben.

Eighteight spoke and it was at that moment that he remembered he couldn't understand her species language.

"Wait, I have just the thing." replied Ben reaching into his shirt and pulling out a plumber's badge. "Good thing these things have a universal translator."

"Yeah. Lucky for you." Eighteight scoffed.

"Nice first words." remarked Ben with sarcasm.

"There not my first words. Just my first to you." Eighteight shot back.

"Haven't you technically been talking this whole time?" asked Ben with a smirk.

"Words that you can understand." Eighteight argued

"Well since I know what you're saying now, why don't you tell me who hired you." suggested Ben.

"Client confidentiality." Eighteight shot down.

"So you're willing to keep this person's identity a secret, even though they'll probably forget about you?" Ben shot back.

"It's called a job HotStuff. It doesn't matter if they forget me or not as long as I do my job and they don't betray me. I'll be out of business without good curtesy to my customers." Eighteight said simply.

"So what, you just want to be used as a tool your whole life? What about what you want to do in life? Don't you want to do something that makes you happy?" asked Ben.

"What makes me happy? Making sure my little sister will never have to worry about money. And they go look for me and pay me for my services. I can turn a job down if I want." Eighteight countered.

Ben turned away with a thoughtful look on his face that surprised Eighteight.

The two sat in silence for a bit.

'Why does he worry so much? I tried to kill him and he's trying to help?' thought Eighteight in confusion.

Eighteight sighed softly as she looked at her leg, and the blood stained covering he had wrapped around it

"Why are you helping me?" asked Eighteight.

"It's what I do." Ben said simply.

"You mean for all the bounty hunters and villains after your head?" Eighteight shot back.

"Helping people is my job. I am a hero." Ben stated simply "If someone needs help then I help them."

That shut Eighteight up as she layed back to take it easy and barely registered Ben sitting right next to her.

"How's your leg?" Ben asked.

"A little better. Thanks." replied Eighteight.

"You're welcome." Ben smiled at her.

Eighteight felt warm from seeing him smile and was thankful for her mask covering her face.

Ben rested his head back "Hey, why does your species all seek to wear those suits?"

"Because, we can't survive on most worlds, so these suits help us." replied Eighteight.

"Oh. I'm sorry to hear that." Ben said sadly.

"Don't be. Our home planet is actually nice. Similar to your amazon rainforest." replied Eighteight who at some point had leaned her head on Ben's shoulder.

"Yeah. But it must be hard to have to wear that suit 24/7 on any planet but your home." Ben sighed.

"You get use to it. Besides, it's considered an honor because it means we are fully grown and can go out into the world." replied Eighteight.

"Yeah. Your brothers have a bunch of cybernetics in them. Why don't you?" Ben asked, thinking of the three siblings. Eighteight had no cybernetics, she was the best fighter and had simple laser guns and grenades.

"I don't need those enhancements. I can managed without them in my head." replied Eighteight.

Ben chuckled at that "Yeah. You're definitely better than your brothers."

Eighteight felt that same warmth on her face at that compliment and couldn't tell if that was herself, or just the injury making her feel this light-headed.

Ben siged again.

"What's wrong?" asked Eighteight.

"I'm just confused what's taking them so long." Ben explained.

"Not sure. If I use one of my weapons, this will likely come down on us." replied Eighteight.

"Yep." Ben nodded simply.

"So, what's your family like?" asked Ben.

"The only way to describe them is... 'interesting' really." Eighteight said with a shrug.

"My family is pretty okay with me saving the universe, but my mom isn't really a five star chef if you catch my drift." replied Ben rubbing the back of his head.

Eighteight let a small giggle escape her lips before she put a hand over her covered mouth.

"Hey, that was a cute giggle." commented Ben with a smile.

Eighteight looked away from him, unknown to him she was blushing under her helmet.

'Why does this keep happening? Why do I keep blushing?' thought Eighteight in wonder.

Eighteight gritted her teeth in anger at herself.

'No! I can't feel like this. I was asked to end him, not fall for him!' she screeched in her head.

'And theres no reason for me to like him. He's not all that special.' Eighteight growled mentally.

While her head was thinking that, he eyes drifted towards her leg with his hoodie wrapped around it.

Eighteight flinched at the thought.

"You know, I might know a way you won't have to worry about money." replied Ben turning to her. "And it means you won't need to worry about danger every corner."

"What is it?" Eighteight asked

"If you signed up for the plumber's, you could be a field agent in no time with your skills. You'd be around trustworthy people, and they'll help you if you're in trouble." replied Ben with his idea.

Eighteight looked down in consideration and thought.

'If I do that, I might be a target for others who don't want me spilling their secrets. And what about my sister? I can't put her at risk.'

'But at the same time I would have a stable job and TwoTwo would be in a safer environment.'

While she was deep in thought, Ben's eyes trailed down and took notice of her shape.

'Never really took the time to look, but she's pretty cute. Even with that mask on.' thought Ben.

'And she really has an amazing figure.' Ben continued his line of thought.

It was at that exact moment that they felt the debris around them start to move.

"What's happening?" asked Eighteight.

"The place might collapse. We've got to get out of here." replied Ben smiling at seeing the omnitrix working again. "Good timing."

He held his hand over the Omnitrix as it was rotating through his aliens "Come on! Come on! I need something good!"

He slammed down and became, "Armadrillo!"

"Oh yes! This is what I needed!" Armadrillo called as he transformed his arms "Get under me and we can get out!"

Eighteight made her way behind him as his hands became drills and he began to slowly chip away at the debris.

The female assassin looked up at him as he continued drilling.

"Hold onto me. We're getting out of here." grunted Armadrillo pushing through. The assassin managed to climb on his back and held on as he dug straight up.

Armadrillo couldn't help but blush a bit at the feel of her body against him.

Finally he managed to break through the debris and felt bliss at feeling the sun on his body again.

"Glad that's over." replied Armadrillo reverting back to Ben.

"Y... Yes." Eighteight nodded, having not yet let go of him.

Ben noticed her on his back and blushed at the scene but managed to calm himself at seeing plumber's around. One of the meds raced up and took notice of Eighteight's leg.

"Can you fix it up please? I did my best to try and fix it as much as possible." Ben explained.

"Don't worry, we'll have her patched up in no time." replied the med.

"Thanks." Ben smiled.

Ben helped Eighteight walk over to the vehicle and began to carefully lay her down on one of the tables, but felt her holding onto his arm.

"Wait." Eighteight asked.

"What is it?" asked Ben.

Eighteight reached up towards her helmet.

She slowly pulled it up til her lips were shown, which had a coat of black lipstick on them.

"Thank you." Eighteight put a hand on Ben's face and pressed her lips against his in a show of gratitude.

Ben's eyes widened before he started to kiss back.

Soon they both needed air and pulled back with a smile for both of them.

The medics then started taking her away.

"I'll think about what you said, Ben." called Eighteight as the vehicle drove away.

Ben smiled and waved good bye to her as the vehicle drve further and further away.

It was at that exact moment Rook came up with a camera in his hands. "Ben? How I upload the image of you kissing Eighteight onto the internet?"

Ben's face suddenly became like a tomato.

"ROOK!" Ben yelled as he jumped at his partner, aiming for his camera.

Rook took off running with Ben in hot pursuit.

Grandpa Max, which was part of the grouo that had arrived, smiled as his grandson chased Rook around demanding the camera. He was safe.

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