Alien Watch in a Monster School

by Emblemfan1

Christian Hawke's been given the mission to build a bridge between the world of humans and monsters. What challenges await him in his quest for peace? Will his bonds with his new friends help in his task or lead him to despair? Armed with his new Omnitrix, anything is possible.

10. Chapter 10

Important: The first part of this chapter begins on the day Nagare stole the Newspaper draft.

"..." Speech

'...' Quote

'Hi' Thought

"Learn your place!" Inner Moka through Rosario

Prime Feedback =Ben

Feedback= Christian

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC, everything else belongs to their own creators.

Alien Watch in a Monster School

A Huntsman, a Betrayal and a New Threat

"C'mon Bro!" Zack begged as he, Christian, Moka, Kurumu and Yukari stood in a clearing in the woods. "You've got to show us your other forms!"

It was the morning after the whole Nagare episode and Christian and his friends had been walking to school, talking about the fight from the previous day and how they were excited about selling their first newspaper. However, somehow the conversation had turned to Christian and his different forms.

"I don't know." Christian replied hesitantly. "You know the rules about showing your true form." In all honesty, Christian had a lot on his mind. He had been unable to contact the Plumbers for the past few days and he was worried. It could have been a glitch on their end but something like that should have been sorted by now.

"But Bro...!"

"Don't be a buzzkill, Christain," Yukari said, smiling devilishly. "I have to say that I'm also interested in what you can turn into."

"And besides," Kurumu began. "The rule applies to your TRUE form. So it's fine for you to show us."

"Still…"

"If it's okay with you, Christian…" Moka began. "I'm also curious as to what you can turn into to."

As soon as Moka had said that, Yukari and Zack fist pumped subtlety as they knew Christian wouldn't say no to her. They had won.

"Well…I guess if everyone wants to see them, I can't say no," Christian relinquished, finally giving in.

"YAY!" Kurumu, Yukari and Zack cheered excitedly. Moka on the other hand merely smiled. She didn't know why but she had been slightly nervous around Christian ever since the 'event' that had happened during the fight with Ms. Ishigami. Every so often, she found her mind wondering to the kiss they had shared. It may have not have been the most romantic of situations but the very thought of it brought a blush to her cheeks. Something she didn't want to admit was it had actually been her first kiss. The electricity she felt when their lips touched was unbelievable. Of course, this made it extremely awkward being around Christian as she knew that it had been a kiss of necessity so that he could pull off her Rosario and release her other self. Christian may not even feel the same way. And it wasn't like she could talk to anyone about it. Both Kurumu and Yukari had feelings for Christian and she didn't want to ruin her friendship with either of them. Zack was alright but she thought she needed to talk to a girl about it. Moka also hadn't heard from her other self since the fight with Ishigami meaning that she wasn't an option either. For now, Moka was forced keep these feelings to herself. Although, she had to admit, it did hurt a little as Christian didn't seem to be having that problem. Maybe he didn't feel anything about the kiss?

Moka was brought out of her thoughts by a bright emerald light. Apparently, during her thought process, Christian had selected an alien and transformed. Standing in front of her and the others was a tall werewolf like alien that the vampire recognised as the creature she had seen standing outside the girls' dorm during the whole peeping tom incident.

"This guy is called Blitzwolfer," the alien explained. "Not only does he have enhanced strength and agility but he can also emit a supersonic howl that can make a person deaf at close range."

"Cool!" Kurumu remarked.

"Seen him," Zack remarked in a rather bored tone. "Show us some new ones."

Blitzwolfer nervously scratched his head at the mixed reaction. "Umm… okay. Let's see. The guys you've all seen are; Humungousaur, Rath, Astrodactyl, XLR8, Big Chill, Grey Matter and Ripjaws," he listed off. "That leaves," He said as he tapped the Omnitrix symbol on his collar. "Swampfire!" the plant alien cried. He then explained his powers before tapping the symbol on his chest again and transforming into Cannonbolt. This cycle continued with his other forms until he transformed in to a new alien whose upper-body was covered in green eyes with black pupils, although ironically he had no eyes on his face. He possessed a very large pair of bat-like ears. He had dark yellow skin with lighter yellow skin on his chest and feet. The alien wore black pants that had green circles running around his legs in three different places. Around his waist was a green and white belt with the Omnitrix symbol in the centre.

"This guy is Eye Guy, and I am able shoot energy, fire and ice beams from my eyes. I'm pretty cool, right?" he said, putting too much emphasis on the 'I'.

"And apparently you make eye puns." Yukari deadpanned.

"His powers are still cool through," Zack commented, defending his friend.

"You said you had fifteen aliens, Chris" Moka interrupted. "What are the other two?"

"Well-" Eye Guy began before the Omnitrix began to beep signalling it was timing out. In a flash of green, Eye Guy reverted back into Christian. "It looks like all those transformations drained the power of the Omn- I mean my limiter. I guess we should get to school. Those newspapers aren't going to sell themselves."

"Hang on Christian!" Yukari cried, gaining the boys attention.

"What is it?"

"You say you have fifteen aliens, but what about the form that Humungousaur turned into in the forest when we first met?" the young witch asked.

Christian became nervous. He was really hoping to avoid this topic. "Well…you see..."

Thankfully, Moka came to his rescue. "You were able to turn into that form because you focused your monster energy in to pure power, transforming it. Right?"

"Yeah, that's exactly it." Christian confirmed, nodding enthusiastically.

"How come you don't do that during every fight?" Zack asked curiously.

"It's…It's just that…" Christian began, becoming frustrated. "Look, is it okay if we not talk about 'that', it's an uncomfortable subject."

"But-" Zack began before Christian interrupted.

"But nothing! Just drop it!" he cried before stomping off.

Behind him, Zack and the girls looked at Christian in disbelief. They couldn't believe he had shouted at Zack. It was very out of character. He was normally quite calm.

"What was that about?" Zack questioned, clearly offended.

Reassuringly, Moka put her hand on the teen's shoulder. "Don't take it too personally," she told him. "It's just that he doesn't like talking about those forms. Especially after what happened."

Zack nodded but made no other response. After a few moments, Moka removed her hand and make her way in the direction that Christian had gone. Kurumu and Yukari shot Zack their kindest smiles before following.

Zack, however, remained still for a few moments. The words of a certain enforcer ringing in his ears. "People pretend to be your friend so they can use you for; protection, cash, laughs and anything else they want before they toss you aside like yesterday's trash."
Shaking his head, Zack cast away those thoughts. Christian just had bad memories of what he called, the 'ultimate forms'.

"Zack, are you coming?!" the teen heard Yukari call. "C'mon slow poke!"

"Sorry, I'm coming!" he replied. "Wait up!" As he ran, Zack couldn't help but feel a sense of dread wash over him. Behind him, a pair of evil red eyes watched the boy's departure from bushes. Suddenly a low growl could be heard that seemed to emanate through the forest.

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On the path that led to the school, two students, were running as if they had the devil chasing them. "I can't believe we overslept, Coach Kotsubo is totally going to kill us!" the first boy cried, picking up pace.

"I know!" the second replied. "Dude, we need to be speed up or we'll be late for early morning practice." As they ran, neither noticed a pair a red eyes following them. Suddenly, in a blur of motion, a streak of black crossed the path and snatched the second boy, leaving a few drops of blood behind.

The first boy, unable to hear the footsteps of his friend, stopped and turned around. Unable to see him the boy called out. "Hey, where did you go!? We've got to get to school!" The boy received no reply. Thinking his friend was playing a joke, the first boy looked around the path. Noticing the blood on the floor only meters away the boy began to panic. "Dude, if you're there, this isn't funny! Come out!" Once again there was no reply.

Suddenly, the boy heard a growl coming from his left hand side. Slowly and shakily, the boy turned to see a strange creature of likes in which he had never seen. The boy took trembling steps away from the creature, eyes wide with terror. "Nice…Whatever you are. Please, please leave me alone."

The creature growled once more, razor sharp teeth bared. In a dash of movement, the creature lunged forward and an ear piercing scream broke the silence of the forest.

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"Good morning!" Moka, Kurumu and Yukari exclaimed as they stood alongside Christian and Zack at the front gates of the school, a table with boxes full of newspapers in front of them.

"We're from the Newspaper Club and we're giving out free copies of our first issue this year!" Moka began.

"Read the scoop on the former art teacher, defeated by our very own Christian Hawke!" Yukari continued.

"Not to mention everything else you've ever wanted to know about Yokai and other special details on things such as cooking and test tips!" Kurumu concluded.

"We hope you enjoy our paper!" they finished together.

Needless to say, the effect that the girls had on the passing boys was tremendous. Each one automatically stopped and gazed at the girls, most making illiterate comments. The ones that you could understand were pretty much saying the same things.

"What?!"

"It's like they're glowing!"

"They're angels descending upon us!"

"What an incredible view!"

Almost as one, the boys rushed forward, each one demanding a paper, causing the members of the Newspaper Club to smile happily at the success. Secretly, Christian handed Zack 500 yen.

"Told you that would happen," Zack whispered.

"Yeah, I guess," Christian deadpanned, closing his eyes in exasperation, annoyed that he hadn't seen the girls getting all the attention coming. He suddenly felt someone throw their arms around him. Opening his eyes, he found himself in the middle of one of Kurumu's 'special' hugs.

"Christian, I'm so happy our paper is a success!" the succubus cried, hugging him tighter into her chest.

"What does hugging him have to do with anything!?" Moka cried, her face red with jealousy.

"Who cares?" Kurumu retorted, increasing her hold on Christian, near suffocating him, much to amusement and concern of Zack and Yukari.

"Kurumu…You're killing Christian again," Zack said

Ignoring him, Kurumu continued to keep her hold on Christian, glaring competitively at Moka. "Just because you've known Christian the longest doesn't mean you own him."

"I don't own him!" Moka denied, her face bright red. "We're just friends, like we all are!"

"You may be friends with him!" Kurumu started, finally releasing Christian, allowing him to breath in much needed oxygen. "But he's my destined one! I know he's going to be with me one day!"

Moka was speechless, Kurumu's words had actually hit their mark. Once again. Memories and feelings of their kiss surfaced and she was left with the terrible fear that Kurumu might be right. Fear that her feelings might not be returned. Pushing it aside, the vampire teen replied, "How do you know he's your destined one? He might be someone else's!"

"I know he's the one!" Kurumu replied, although there was a small hitch in her voice. "I can just…feel it!"

"Excuse me?" a male student said from beside the two girls.

"WHAT!?" They both shouted, turning to the boy with death glares, scaring the teen.

"Can I have a paper please?" the boy murmured in fear.

For the briefest of moments, the two girls just gave the boy a confused look before smiling warmly at him and handing him one off the issues they had left. "We hope you enjoy!" they said together with the most angelic voices they could put on.

The student took the paper nervously before backing away slowly and sprinting through the front gates.

Christian sighed, he was being propped up by Zack as he was still weak from lack of oxygen. "Well, if nothing else, at least we're popular."

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Across the campus, in a dark and secluded shrine, a black clad teen with long blonde hair, pale skin and dots for eyebrows was reading a copy of the Yokai Times that he had sent one off his subordinates to collect under cover.

"So…The Newspaper Club?" the teen stated, not looking up from the paper.

"Yes master," a purple haired girl confirmed, stepping out the shadows and dropping to one knee in respect. "I hear that they are handing out papers at the front gates," she reported, a sinister smirk appearing on her face before continuing, "without our permission."

The blonde continued to read the paper before asking, "Is Orion with them."

"He is sir." Keito replied.

A frown appeared on the boy's face. "Then I guess that we will have to handle this differently. Lousy club, how dare they ignore us?" He threw the paper away from him. Suddenly, a bright orange flame appeared in the palm of his hands. With a flick, the flame shot across the air hitting the paper dead centre, reducing it to cinders. "Let's go and show them the importance of respect," he growled as he walked out of the room, Keito hot on his heels.

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Back at the front gates, Gin had just walked over to his fellow club members, his usual charming smile on his face. "How's it going guys? Get rid of a lot of papers?"

His voice caught the attention of the other teens who were all still handing out newspapers to their fellow students.

"Oh, hey Gin," Moka greeted, giving the older student a friendly smile.

"Hey, mutt," Zack said, not nearly as friendly as the pinkette.

"Wow, it looks like we're pretty popular," Gin commented, ignoring Zack's comment. "We should charge next time."

"Yeah! Half of them are gone already!" Moka reported. "It's inspiring isn't it?"

Gin made no comment. His face may have appeared happy however his soul was solemn, memories from the previous year flooding back to him.

"Gin, how about giving us a hand? Hand out some of these papers," Christian said, holding out a box towards him.

However, the teen began laughing. "Fool! An upper-class man doesn't do grunt work!" he told Christian, once again smiling charmingly.

However, Christian just returned it with a smile of his own "I think someone disagrees with you." He pointed behind the werewolf before going back to handing out papers.

Confused, Gin turned around to see Zack, smirking evilly and pounding his right fist against the open palm of his left palm. Almost automatically, Gin turned around and grabbed a few papers. "Come and get your papers!" Gin cried shakily, handing a paper to a female student.

"Wuss," Zack said as he got back to work.

The News Club continued to pass out papers for a few more minutes before they heard people shouting something that made the blood in Gin's veins run cold. "It's the black shirts!"

The members of the club stopped what they were doing and looked up to see a crowd of twelve students wearing all black. Most of the students were male and they each wore a black trench coat with a white wrist band around their left arms. The only two female students were wearing completely different outfits to one another. The first girl was one that both Zack and Gin recognised. The purple haired Keito wore the same uniform that she did on that night on the roof where she had confronted Zack. The second was a girl with long red hair done up into a pony tail. Her uniform was sleeveless and done up with four golden strings. She held a wooden bo staff behind her shoulders.

The boy who led these teens was a tall, pale skinned, blond boy with dots for eyebrows. To his direct right was the two girls, to his left was an extremely tall boy with shoulder length black hair and an emotionless expression as well as another teen who was as tall as the blond teen but wore glasses and had black hair that came down to the top of his eyes.

The black clad students approached the News Club with confidence and pride. When they were only a few meters away, most of them stopped and stood still except for the blonde who kept walking until he was standing eye to eye with Christian, who was standing protectively in front of his friends. Behind Christian, Zack couldn't help but notice the smug look Keito was giving him.

"Good morning." The blond greeted politely, pressing hand to his heart and bowing slightly, smirking as he did so. "My name is Kuyo and I am the head of the School Protection Committee. It is good to meet you." The blond, now identified as Kuyo, then proceeded to pick up one of the newspapers on the table and inspected it. "I've come to talk to you about your newspaper."

"Are we doing something to disturb the peace, officer?" Christian asked, the last part sarcastically.

"Well, you see," Kuyo began, "I like to know what's going on in this school at all times. If something happens that I don't know about, I risk the chance of allowing chaos running rampant through our great educational institute."

'Chaos? From giving out papers? This guy's nuts,' Christian thought, however he could feel that this person was not someone he wanted angry. "Okay. I'm sorry about that but unfortunately we didn't know you existed until now."

"You didn't?" Kuyo remarked, smiling slightly before turning to Gin. "I have no idea why. We should be well known within the Newspaper Club." Christian looked at Gin suspiciously and made a mental note to ask the werewolf about what Kuyo was talking about later. After a short pause, Kuyo continued, "As this is your clubs first offence I will look past it this time. However, I will not be so kind next time if you violate the rules again." Kuyo said menacingly. Pleased that his message was across, Kuyo turned and began walking back towards his other subordinates. "You may continue to hand out your papers today, but next time I ask that you submit a request before handing out your newspapers." With that the enforcers began walking away, ignoring the scowls the members of the News Club were burning into their backs.

When they were far enough away that she was sure the club couldn't hear them, Keito asked Kuyo, "Master, should we keep watch on the club? What happens if they try to rebel."

"There is no need, Keito," Kuyo replied. "I'm sure Ginei Morioka will set them straight."

Back at the Newspaper stand, the club members were looking at each other with downcast expressions.

"What was all that about?!" Kurumu demanded, clearly upset about the whole ordeal.

"Yeah, who were those guys?!" Yukari agreed.

"Where do those A holes get around saying that we need to get their 'permission' to hand out our newspapers?!" Kurumu continued.

Zack said nothing as he turned to look in the direction that the Security Committee had left. How the hell did they expect him to want to join after watching that?

Gin, whose face was a mixture of anger and sadness, sighed before saying. "Look, for now let's pack up the rest of the papers and take them inside. No one's going to want one after watching that."

"What!?" Moka exclaimed in disbelief.

"But Gin-!" Kurumu tried to say before Gin interrupted.

"Guys, for once just listen to me and take the papers back to the club room!" Gin ordered. "We'll talk about it at the meeting later, ok?" With that, he walked off, using his speed to disappear in the blink of an eye.

Unable to say or ask anything else, the members that were left present of the News Club sighed and begrudgingly began to move the left over newspapers back to the club room before heading to class.

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'I can't believe Gin,' Christian thought angrily as Ms. Nekonome did the register for homeroom. 'He gave up way too easily. He may not have shown it but I know he was enthusiastic about this paper too. But one look at those committee people and he completely backed down. Something must have happened in the past. I wonder what?'

Suddenly he felt something poke him in the back. Turning, he saw Moka look at him with concern, pointing her pencil towards the front of the class. Turning, Christian was shocked to hear what Ms. Nekonome had to say.

"Now everyone, I need to tell you guys something important," the cat like teacher began, a solemn expression on her face. "It is my regret to inform you that in the past few days, several students have gone missing." The students began to murmur, everyone taking notice of the chairs that were vacant. "Settle down everyone!" Ms. Nekonome shouted, regaining everyone's attention. "As of this moment, I have been instructed to inform you that when moving around outside of campus you must go in groups of threes. That way you will be safer and more able to defend yourself which brings me to a new change in the rules," the teacher declared, writing up what she had said on the board behind her. "Until further notice, if you are in a situation in which your safety or the safety of a fellow student is in danger, you have the permission of the headmaster to use your monster form to protect yourself. Furthermore, class for the rest of the day is cancelled. After this you will go to your clubs then you can go back to your dorms."

The announcement people had disappeared caused students to start chatting in suspicion and fear. The rule that meant people could use their true forms to defend themselves caused uproar. Students began shouting and yelling at Ms. Nekonome, demanding to know what was going on. Christian on the other hand was silent, contemplating what the recent events meant. If the headmaster had authorised students using their true forms to protect themselves, it meant that the situation was bad, very bad. He needed to know what was going on. Turning to Moka and Kurumu, who had been talking amongst themselves, he whispered, "I need a distraction."

Nodding, Moka automatically raised her hand. Ms. Nekonome, happy for the distraction from the other unhappy students, allowed Moka to speak. "Miss, I don't feel so good. Is it okay if I go to the nurse's office?"

"Of course, just take someone with you," the teacher replied.

"I'll take her, ma'am," Christian offered automatically before anyone else could offer, quickly getting up and leading Moka from the classroom by her arm, as if she really felt sick. Once the pair were down the hall and safely away from prying eyes, Christian let go of Moka and activated the Omnitrix, after selecting the right hologram he turned to Moka. "Go to the nurse's office and wait there for twenty minutes. Home room should have ended by then. Head to the club and wait for me. Tell the others I'll be there soon."

"But what will you be doing?"

"Getting information," Christian simply stated before slapping his hand down on the Omnitrix core. In a blinding flash of emerald light, Christian disappeared and was replaced with a blue alien moth man.

"Big Chill!" the alien cried before becoming intangible and flying through the wall closest to him, leaving behind a concerned Moka.

"Be careful," she murmured, her right hand clenched over her heart.

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Big Chill continued to phase through walls undetected until he came to his destination. The teachers' lounge. He thought that Ms. Ishigami had come back and was looking for revenge. If that was the case, the teachers would know.

Without the need of his wings, the alien floated above the teachers who were present, however he took notice of the heart broken expressions that they had. He floated closer to listen.

"I can't believe this happened," one of the female teachers said, tears in her eyes. "How could we let this happen to our own students?"

"It's hard to believe. I thought the headmaster knew about everyone who left and entered the barrier?" one of the male teachers commented.

"Clearly not."

"Why aren't we telling the students about what happened?" Another teacher asked. "They have a right to know."

"Can you imagine what they would do if they learned what happened?" the male teacher asked. "What they will do if they learn their classmates were murdered?"

Big Chill's heart missed a beat. People had been killed? On school grounds? How in the hell did that happen? Maintaining his cover, Big Chill continued to listen, dread filling him by the minute.

"But their bodies…They were mutilated," one of the teachers said, making Big Chill feel sick. "They were cut open. Organs were removed and limbs cut off, then they were just left out if the forest like garbage. It's disgraceful!"

"The headmaster has sent for the authorities but unfortunately they won't be here for a week. Apparently something is causing them to be delayed."

"Do you really think we can keep it a secret for that long? What happens if a student finds a body?"

"Three bodies have been found out of the eight taken. There is a high probability that will happen."

"They were all found in the same area. We just need to block that area off and pray no student goes in."

"Where was this?"

"The forest near the old underground dungeon."

Big Chill had heard enough, once again phasing through the wall, he headed back to his friends, anger and sadness plaguing his emotions.

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Inside his ship, Khyber was mounting the arm of one of the students he had successfully hunted on the side of the wall. Through his examinations on the bodies, he found most of them had unique biology's, one of the students he'd dissected had organs that he'd never seen before. However, overall Khyber was disappointed. These so called monsters had offered him no such challenge after he had sent the Bioid to capture them for the hunt. They hadn't even transformed in to their so called monster form. There was no sport in it. All they had been good for was science and learning more about his prey.

In the corner, the reconstructed Bioid was deactivated, waiting for the next hunt. It now had the appearance of an Earth wolf. Khyber had taken apart the Bioid and reconstructed its head, body and arms and legs as well as manufacturing a tail for it. Now with its more beastly appearance, Khyber felt that it was worthy of being his hunting companion.

Moving over to the cell, he saw the remaining five students unconscious and littered around the floor. Each one was hungry and cold. After hunting the previous three students, Khyber had given up setting them free so he could hunt them and decided just to use them for his investigations in to monster biology. He was fascinated by the fact that they could change their shape to look like humans and he wanted to learn more about them. His employer had promised him powerful opponents but so far that promise had not been delivered.

The attention of the huntsman was brought to a flashing light on the ships console alerting Khyber that someone was trying to call him. Pressing a button on the console, a screen was brought to life, bringing us the darkened image of his partner.

"Khyber, how goes the hunting?" the figure asked in his creepily calm voice.

"I was promised a hunt," Khyber stated in annoyance. "So far, none of these so called monsters have even offered me a challenge."

"Patience my friend," the figure chuckled. "There are lots of low level monsters at this school. If you truly want a challenge, may I suggest these three?" Three pictures of different girls appeared on the screen. The first was young, Khyber reckoned she couldn't have been more than thirteen or twelve Earth years. She wore a brown uniform and a cape, a strange pointed hat was on her head. In her hand was a pink, heart shaped wand with pentagram in the middle.

The second girl was older and more mature than the first. She had cerulean hair that was done up in a ribbon. She wore a yellow sleeveless sweater vest over a white shirt and bunched up socks on her feet. Khyber took notice of her large assets but only thought of them as a hindrance to her overall speed and other abilities.

The final girl had long, bubble gum pink hair as well as a slim and slender figure. She appeared to be the same age as the second girl however the most noticeable feature was the silver cross that was around her neck.

"These three have been shown to be extremely brave in the face of danger," the figure explained. "If you want that challenge, I recommend these three."

"Why?" The huntsman asked.

"These girls aren't the most powerful but capture them and I believe this young man will want to have words with you." the figure responded, the image of a familiar boy appearing on the screen.

"Hawke?" Khyber remarked, slightly surprised. "Didn't you want him?"

"My message has already in place for him to find, however long that takes," the figure responded. "As long as he isn't killed before he sees it, I will be satisfied."

"Very well then," Khyber replied, shrugging it off.

"One more thing, Khyber.""And that is?" The green alien asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Mister Hawke has been gifted with an Omnitrix. I just thought you would want to know." With that the transmission ended and Khyber was left in silence.

"An Omnitrix wielder?" Khyber said slowly before and evil smirk appeared on his face. "This may be more interesting than I thought." With that, he pressed a button on his gauntlet and activated the Bioid and began giving it new orders.

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In the Newspaper clubroom; Moka, Zack and the others were sitting in silence waiting for Christian's return. It had been twenty five minutes since Moka had last seen him and now everyone was worried, especially since the warning everyone received that morning.

"Bro's fine," Zack said confidently, trying to ease the tension. "He can turn into the toughest monsters that we've ever seen. I'm sure he's fine."

"But he would have changed back by now," Moka argued. "He told me he can only…uh…hold his form for fifteen minutes, less if he changes form during that time."

"Maybe we should go and look for him?" Yukari asked, fear gripping her eyes.

"Christian is the strongest there is, human or monster form," Kurumu bragged. "My destined one will be fine." She may have said that, but in reality Kurumu was really worried.

"He'll be fine," Gin told the others. "But what I have to say is important and you guys all need to hear it."

The other member of the club leaned in, ready to listen. However, just before Gin could start, the door to the club opened and Christian walked in.

"Christian!" the girls cried happily, relieved to see that he was okay.

"How's it going Bro? You okay?" Zack asked.

He didn't reply. He simply walked over to where everyone was and placed his hands on the table. "We all need to go back to our dorms and lock the doors." His voice was quiet and gravelly.

"What?" Gin asked.

"We need to go back to the dorms and lock the doors."

"Christian, what's wrong?" Moka asked, placing a hand on his shoulder, only to be shocked when he shrugged it off. "Chris…?"

"Please!" Christian cried, frightening everyone. "Just go home, and make sure you're safe!"

The girls looked at each other for a minute before nodding and walking over to Christian and giving him a hug, reassuring him, before walking out the club together and heading back to the dorms.

Now it was only Christian, Zack and Gin in the club room, the former with his head looking at the desk.

"Bro, what did you learn?" Zack asked.

"They're dead…" Christian murmured, only just loud enough for Zack and Gin to hear.

"What!?" they both cried.

"The bodies of three of the missing students were found in the forest," Christian told them. For the next ten minutes, he told the male members of the club everything that he heard when he was in the teachers' lounge.

"In fairness, if the student body did know about that there would be an uproar," Gin commented, his hand under his chin in thought. "But still, they need to tell us that our lives could be in danger."

"Or at least bump up the security around here," Zack added, trying to control the growing anger that was inside him.

"It doesn't matter," Christian remarked. "For now, until this guy is caught, we keep each other safe. That means one of us needs to go and pick up Yukari from her class whenever we are leaving school or going to the club. We'll always walk here together. Understood?" The two other boys nodded. "Okay then, let's head back to the dorms. There's not much else to do here anyway.

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During Christian's conversation with Zack and Gin.

When Moka and the others had left the club room, they quickly made their way back towards the dorms, making sure to be careful and watch out in case someone attacked them.

"Christian seemed really out of it, didn't he?" Yukari asked, making conversation.

"I know, it was like he was scared of something." Kurumu agreed, looking over her shoulder to check for any attackers.

"He must have found out something really terrible if it made him act like that," Moka said, remembering the way Christian had shouted.

"He just wants to make sure were safe," Kurumu replied, stars suddenly appearing in her eyes. "He's like a knight in shining armour that way."

"Maybe we should have made him tell us what was wrong instead of leaving," the vampire teen said.

"Maybe…" Yukari responded. "It probably would have been wiser."

"Perhaps it would have been," a new, raspy voice spoke, scaring the girls. "Maybe then you would know what I can do."

"Who's there!?" Kurumu cried, unravelling her wings and tail whist making her fingernails grow in to long blade like weapons. "Show yourself!"

"Very well," The voice replied. The rustling of the bushes beside them brought the girls attention to a strange person in what they believed to be someone in monster form walk out, a bizarre robotic wolf at his side that had a red collar around its neck with a hexagonal device on its centre. The man had green skin, blood thirsty red eyes and was wearing a full body black suit that was covered in the bones of several other creatures. "Good, it appears that you are ready to fight," Khyber commented, taking a glance at Kurumu's current form. Yukari automatically moved behind Moka, frightened of the person in front of them. Despite the fear, Yukari still drew her wand in readiness for a fight. "Heh, heh, It appears that even the young one has a little back bone." Khyber then turned his head towards Moka, who was surprisingly looking at the Bioid to his side. "I see you're interested in my hound."

Moka didn't reply. She just kept staring at the robot dog. More specifically, the device around its neck. 'Is that a…?' she wondered. Not wanting to be correct, Moka turned to her friends and cried, "Guys, we need to run, now!"

"Come on, Moka, we can take him!" Kurumu argued, smirking slightly.

"No! We can't!" Moka shouted back, grabbing both her friends arms and began running away from the huntsman.

Behind them, the man merely smirked and pressed a button on his gauntlet, earning a beep from the Nemetrix. "Retrieve them." Instantly, the Bioid began running forward, transforming as it ran into a creature that was the mix between a sabre-tooth cat and a hyena, with large sabre like teeth and a horn on its dog-like nose. Its stomach hair was a crimson red, while its back hair was black. A sharp hook was at the end of its tail. The alien ran a top speed until it was right behind the girls. In one movement, the beast used its powerful legs to jump over the girls, landing directly in front of Moka and forcing them all to come to a stop. The creature turned and began growling menacingly at the girls, its red eyes glaring dangerously at them.

"Where did that come from?!" Yukari cried, cowering behind Moka.

"Who cares, there's only one of it," Kurumu stated, walking to the front of the group, her claws drawn. "This will be easy."

To the shock of all the girls, the beast glowed red before it split off into three. Then the copies glowed again and split into three more. In just four seconds, the girls were surrounded by fifteen copies of the same creature. Kurumu suddenly became a lot less confident.

Behind them, the girls heard laughter. Turning they saw that a strange figure with green skin and a skeletal-like appearance. "Interesting thing about the Panuncian," he said, leaning down to pet one of the copies. "They have the, useful, ability to create copies of themselves."

"Who are you!?" Moka demanded, trying to sound confident but the crack in her voice gave the vampire teen away.

"Not that it will matter, but you may call me Khyber, the greatest huntsman in the galaxy," he introduced.

"The galaxy?" Kurumu asked, her expression one of disbelief. "This guy's nuts."

"Call me what you want," Khyber replied. "It doesn't change the fact you're trapped."

"Oh yeah?" Kurumu challenged, spreading her wings. "You'll have to catch us first!" with that, she grabbed both Moka and Yukari underneath their arms and began to flap her wings with all her strength, taking them in to the air. "Just try getting us from up here!"

Khyber continued to smirk, the Panuncian copies merging back into one. "As you wish," he pressed on his gauntlet again. Instantly, the Panuncian transformed, becoming a large insectoid creature resembling a bee or moth. It was purplish-grey in colour, had sharp fangs, four legs, two sharp teeth, a dual-stinger on its tail, two antennae on its head, and four wings. The collar with the Nemetrix was around the base of its head.

Seeing this, the girls were left speechless. They had only ever seen one person with the ability to transform like that. Christian.

"How did it do that?!" Yukari screamed. "How did that thing just transform?!"

Before any of the girls could reply, the new predator flew at high speeds and slammed into Kurumu, forcing the succubus to let go of her friends. Moka and Yukari screamed as they fell fifty meters to the ground only to be caught at the last moment by the bug like alien's feet. The alien currently had a struggling Kurumu in its long tongue.

The alien flew down and hovered in front of Khyber. "Is that all you've got?" the huntsman asked, a hint of disappointment in his voice. Yukari gripped her wand tighter, remarkably not dropping it despite recent events, and quickly cast a spell causing a giant golden wash tub to fall the sky, hitting the alien bug on the head. However, it didn't even respond. It was as if it didn't even feel it. "Nice try kid," Khyber told Yukari with a smile. "But not good enough." With that, the huntsman took a small capsule from his belt and sprayed it in the girls' faces. Almost instantly Kurumu and Yukari were knocked out. Moka was able to stay awake long enough to say "Christian will stop you."

"I'm counting on it."

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Christian stood in front of his door having just returned from News Club with Zack and Gin. However, upon putting in his key, Christian realised something was wrong. The door was unlocked.

Taking no chance, Christian went around the corner so that if anyone was in his room, they wouldn't see the flash. Activating the Omnitrix, he dialled up the head icon for Big Chill. However upon slapping down the core, Christian found himself as Eye Guy.

"I can't believe this," Eye Guy complained. "I guess I will just have to work with this."

Heading back around to his door, Eye Guy opened it and tip toed in, Eye Guy's night vision allowing him to see in the dark room. With his enhanced hearing, Eye Guy heard someone step out from behind him. Swinging his arm around, the eye in the palm of his hand lit up with energy. He was met with what appeared to be a human in his late teens with dark blue hair wearing a blue shirt with black jeans. In his hand was a white, black and orange blaster.

For a few moments the two teens did nothing before the bluenette spoke. "Christian?"

"Who wants to know?" Eye Guy replied, surprised that the teen's voice was familiar.

The teen stopped pointing his weapon and placed it on his shoulder and moved his right hand to his face, as if grabbing something. To Eye Guy's shock, his face came off and then the rest of his body changed as well. The teen in front of him was now a blue, cat like alien wearing blue and black armour.

"Rook!" Eye Guy cried in surprise, slapping the Omnitrix symbol on his belt and reverting in to Christian. He had known Rook for a while. They had met at the Plumber Academy however they had only really become friends when Ben introduced Rook to Christian as the green eyed teen's new partner. "What are you doing here?" Christian asked. "Is something wrong?"

"Unfortunately, it is," Rook replied.

For the next few minutes, Rook told Christian everything that had transpired over the past few days. Christian was shocked to learn of the devastation that Khyber had left in his wake at the Plumber base, even more so to learn that Khyber had come to Yokai Academy. Christian knew all about the hunter from the Plumber reports that Rook had written, he knew Ben didn't do his own paper work.

"So you're telling me that we have an intergalactic criminal at Yokai?"

"That is correct," Rook confirmed regretfully.

"That explains all these…Missing students," Christian said, saying the last part with a lot of regret.

"Christian, what has happened?" Rook asked, sensing the boys concern.

"For the past few days students have gone missing. Three…three students have been found killed," Christian reported sadly.

"That is despicable!" Rook shouted, out raged. "For this and what he has done to Ben, Khyber will pay for his crimes!"

"Wait- wait!" Christian interrupted. "What happened to Ben?"

Rook then proceeded to tell Christian how the huntsman had stabbed their friend in the leg before leaving and how Ben had been unconscious ever since. As Christian listened, he could feel the anger growing inside him to a level where as soon as Rook finished his story, he was on his feet and heading for the door. "Christian, where are you going?" Rook asked.

"To find this son of a bitch and tear him a new one!" Christian replied. "Now let's get moving." With that, Christian walked out the door. Rook, after returning his ID mask to his face and changing his appearance back in to that of a humans, followed, his Proto-Tool taking the appearance of a kendo sword strapped to his back.

"But Christian, we don't even know where Khyber is!" Rook called after the retreating teen.

"I have a pretty good idea where to look!" Christian replied, remembering what he had heard whilst he was in the teachers' lounge.

As Christian and Rook made their way into the forest, they didn't notice a certain boy watching them from one of the boy dorms balconies.

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"Wa… …p!" a voice cried in Moka's head, groggily bringing her out of unconsciousness. "Wak.. up!" the voice cried again. "Wake up!"

Moka's eyes snapped, finding herself in unfamiliar surroundings. Trying to move, Moka found that she was strapped to a wall by shackles that held her wrists. Looking to her left Moka saw that Kurumu and Yukari were in a similar situation. It didn't appear that they had been harmed but both girls were still out cold. The vampire took notice that Yukari was missing her hat. Looking to her right, the Vampire was shocked to see a cage that was filled with five of the eight missing students. Moka didn't want to even think about where the other three were.

Pointlessly, Moka began struggling against her restraints in desperation, only stopping when she heard a harsh voice in her head. "Stop struggling, your bonds are too strong," the voice of Inner Moka reprimanded. It was then that Outer Moka realised that her Rosario was glowing.

"Inner me?" Outer Moka questioned.

"Who else would it be?" Inner Moka snapped. "You need to calm down. Panicking is going to get us nowhere."

"But what are we supposed to do?" Moka asked, looking around the room they were in. It appeared to be some kind of trophy room. There were various body parts put up on display. Moka took notice or a skull attached to the wall that looked like Humungousaur's head and a skeleton that looked like Rath. There was also various weapons, a giant tortoise like shell and an alien skin rug. She also took notice that Yukari's wand had been propped up next to the Rath-like alien skeleton. What scared her the most though, was the human looking arm on the opposite wall and the fact that it had a sleeve around it that was the same shade as the school's blazer.

"We can't do anything while I'm sealed," Inner Moka replied. "Our only hope is that either Kurumu, Yukari or one of the other student's wakes up and they are strong enough to set us free. Or Hawke realises we're missing and comes to find us."

It was then that a spark of hope lit up in Outer Moka. Christian would realise they were missing and come for them. He would rush in as Humungousaur or Diamondhead and free them from this hell. It was who he was.

Suddenly, Outer Moka heard footsteps approaching her. Looking up, she saw the green humanoid who had captured her. "I see you're awake now," the huntsman remarked. "I'm impressed, you must have a high resistance to Odourean knockout gas. You should have remained unconscious for a few hours, but you seem to have recovered in only one."

"What do you want?" Moka asked, her fear peaking. "Why would you do this to us?"

"You are merely bait," Khyber answered. "My real prey is your friend, Hawke."

"Christian can beat you easily!" Moka cried.

"Yes, I've heard about his new little gadget," Khyber replied. "I must admit, an Omnitrix wielder will make a fine trophy."

Moka gasped in surprise. "You know about the Omnitrix?"

"Know about it?" The huntsman laughed. "I've been hunting another brat who uses the exact same piece of technology for the past six years."

"He can't be very good at his job if it's taken him that long and he still hasn't caught this person," Inner Moka commented, luckily, only Outer Moka could hear her. "This other Omnitrix wielder...It must be the friend Christian told us about, Ben Tennyson," the inner vampire surmised.

"Unfortunately for me," Khyber continued, oblivious to the spiritual conversation going on before him. "Mr. Hawke isn't as skilled a user as Tennyson, so the hunt won't be exciting as it is when facing him," he then smiled. "Not that it will matter. I have my own surprise to use against Mr. Hawke." Moka looked at Khyber with wide eyes, contemplating what he meant. It was then that something caught her eye. In the corner of the room was the unmoving figure of the robot wolf they had seen earlier. Khyber followed her eyes to the Bioid and smiled. "You have a good eye don't you girl?"

"What is that thing?" Moka asked.

"That, is a Bioid," Khyber told her. "A robot with slateless DNA enabling it to transform into a creature depending on the device it is linked to." The huntsman then proceeded to walk over to the Bioid and gestured to the device on the collar around its artificial neck. "This however, is more interesting. You can imagine it as an anti-Omnitrix so to speak. Its name is the Nemetrix and it has the ability to change its user into the predatory species of the creatures in the universe, which means…"

"The aliens in the Omnitrix…"

"Very good," Khyber praised. "I must say, I'm surprised Hawke told you this much about aliens and the Omnitrix. He must trust you a lot if he's willing to share his secrets. From what your fellow students have told me, any human to enter these grounds is to be put to death." Moka was silent. "You must care for him yourself if you haven't revealed him to your peers," Khyber continued. "Do your other friends know Hawke's secret? Or is it just you?" Once again, Moka remained silent, glaring at the huntsman fiercely. Knowing that he wouldn't receive an answer, Khyber decided to move things along. "It doesn't matter anyway. I shall find out soon enough."

"Why are you telling me all this?" Moka asked curiously.

"Because, before long girl, you will be dead," Khyber replied, walking off laughing to himself and leaving a distraught Moka behind.

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Christian and Rook were steadily making their way through the forest towards the old abandoned dungeon, seemingly unaware of the person following them. Once the pair had turned and walked behind a large rock, making them disappear from view, the person on their heels tread to the corner of the rock and arced his head around.

However, to teen's surprise, he was met with someone grabbing him by the neck and throwing him against the wall. Looking up, he saw the surprised faces of Christian and a blue haired teen.

"Zack?" Christian asked in surprise.

"Heeeey, Bro." Zack replied nervously, flashing him a smile.

"What are you doing out here?" the Omnitrix teen asked, releasing his grip.

"I could ask you the same thing," Zack replied before gesturing to Rook. "And who's this guy?"

Quickly coming up with a lie, Christian answered, "This is Rook, he's my cousin come to visit from America. Isn't that right." Christian said, nudging Rook in the gut.

"Yes, that is true. Christian is my…cousin."

"Oh…Well it's nice to meet you Rook," Zack greeted, holding out his hand which Rook shook. "And as for your question Bro, I was following you. You told us that we shouldn't be out on our own, especially with that murderer about."

Rook appeared surprised to learn that Zack knew that there had been killings, then again the Revonnahgander had only just met up with Christian and he had all day to tell his other friends.

"I know," Christian replied. "However, you've seen what I can do and Rook is quite well adapted in combat himself. We'll be fine." Christian needed Zack to leave. Khyber was dangerous and despite the fact he had seen Zack knew his way around a fight, he didn't have Plumber training and if Zack came, Christian's mission may be compromised as Khyber would know that he was human. However, the main reason Christian didn't want Zack to come was because he was his friend and Christian didn't want him in harm's way. Khyber was on a whole other level to the people they had fought at the academy. Christian felt it was far too dangerous for Zack. He refused to lose a friend. "Besides, all were doing is a little catching up. Me and Rook haven't seen each other in ages."

Zack looked from Christian to Rook before saying, "You know Bro, I don't believe you. Whenever something goes wrong at this school, you are always there looking to solve the problem. That is definitely what's happening now. I don't know who this guy is or why you're choosing him to take along with you instead or me or the girls but I know it has nothing to do with a family reunion."

Christian cursed mentally. Sometimes Zack was too smart for his own good. "Look, I'm sorry for lying but this is too dangerous. Me and Rook need to do this alone."

"Why though?" Zack questioned. "We're friends and friends help each other. Why won't you let me?"

"Zack this is out of your league. No offence but you can't handle this."

"Oh, and you can?" Zack countered, his voice slightly raised.

"Yes, I can!" Christian shouted, desperate to try and get Zack to safety and unfortunately that meant hurting him. "I'm the one who is able to transform in to powerful creatures! I'm the one who can adapt to most situations! And I am the one who is strong enough to take on this threat!"

Zack and Christian glared at each other, neither budging an inch on the matter. Rook was left at the side, awkwardly shifting his head from side to side as the two friends countered each other.

Finally, Zack sighed, his eyes full of irritation. "Fine, if that's how you want to play it! Go! Go and fight whoever you want! But just know this, you've lost someone who could have helped you!" With that he turned and walked off, disappearing into the trees.

Christian and Rook watched him go, the former feeling terrible for angering his friend. Rook, after Zack had finally disappeared from view, placed a hand on Christian's shoulder. "If you wish to go after him…"

"No, I'll have plenty of time to make it up to Zack after this. Right now, we have a mission."

With that, Christian marched on, his mind focused on finding Khyber. Rook looked back in the direction Zack had left before following after the Omnitrix wielder.

The pair continued to walk for several more minutes before Christian spotted something that almost stopped his heart. On an aged tree, pinned with a knife was a brown, pointy witch's hat that Christian knew belonged to Yukari. Rushing forward, Christian unpinned the hat and held it close, tears streaming down his eyes. Rook ran over to the teen, confused as to why he was hugging a hat and crying. It was then that Rook remembered reading one of Christian's reports that stated he had become friends with a young witch who happened to wear all brown. Now knowing why Christian was crying, the Revonnahgander tried to comfort him.

"There may still be hope," Rook told his sobbing friend. "They may still be alive."

Christian look up to his friend and nodded, wiping his eyes as he stood up. As he got up, Christian noticed a small piece of paper fall from the inside of the hat. Bending down to pick it up, Christian read the contents of the paper. Almost instantly his eyes filled with pure, unrivalled rage.

"Christian, what does the paper say?" Rook asked, trying to angle himself so that he could read the paper.

Instead of answering, Christian handed the Revonnahgander both Yukari's hat and the note. Then, in a flurry of motion, Christian activated the Omnitrix and dialled up an alien. Slamming down on the core, he transformed into XLR8. Not bothering to call out his name, the velociraptor like alien dashed further into the forest at his fastest speed. Rook was taken back as a blast of wind made him take a few steps backwards. Once he had recovered, Rook looked down at the note that had sent Christian into his current state of mind. His eyes widened to discover a set of coordinates and the words:

'Hurry and just maybe one of them may still be alive.'

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Zack was half way back to the dorms when he felt something strange in his heart. It was like a thousand knives had been shoved into his body. He could feel that something bad was going to happen very soon.

Despite the anger he felt towards Christian at the minute, he didn't want him dead. However, he had made it quite clear, he didn't want his help.

Zack now had two choices. Turn back and help his friend, or continue back to his dorm and leave Christian on his own with that Rook guy.

"The choice is easy," Zack stated, turning and running back towards where he had last seen Christian.

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Khyber was in the command chair of his ship, sitting in wait for his prey. However, the sound of the pinkette pulling against her restraints was beginning to anger him. Getting up, the huntsman approached the female and took out a knife from the side of his belt. Placing it under her chin, the huntsman said, "If you don't stop with that infernal struggling I may just cut your throat before Hawke gets here."

"Do what you want," Moka countered. "But you will pay for what you have done."

"I highly doubt that," Khyber replied. "I'm not scared of Hawke. I even left the landing bay open for him."

"I noticed," I reptilian voice sounded before in a blur of blue, black and green raced in to the room and grabbed a surprised Khyber. For the next few seconds, Khyber was thrown in to walls around the ship, as well being thrown in to the various bones that were hung on presentation around the room. Finally, he was thrown into the ship's console, causing it to spark. XLR8 came to a stop in the middle of the trashed trophy room. "Thanks. It made doing that a lot easier."

"CHRISTIAN!" Moka cried, her heart filled with joy to see her friend had come to save her and the others.

"Ahh, Christian Hawke," Khyber remarked, getting to his feet. "I was wondering when you would show up."

"And you must be the infamous Khyber the Huntsman. Self-proclaimed 'greatest hunter in the galaxy," XLR8 mocked. "Soon to be the guy with the most broken bones in the galaxy."

"Heh, just like Tennyson. You use your wit to make your enemy lower their guard. A clever tactic, but one that will not work against the likes of me." Khyber retorted. "You are nothing but a less experienced version of Tennyson."

"If that's the case then you should be expecting this." XLR8 replied, slapping the symbol on his chest and transforming in to tailless, orange with black stripes, humanoid tiger that looked like it was on steroids. "Humungous-" Rath began before realising he was not the form he wanted to be. "WHAT!? RATH!?" the alien shouted, causing Moka, who was watching the scene from the wall, to sweat drop. "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN' OMNITRIX! RATH IS TIRED OF YOU NOT WORKING RIGHT TODAY! IT'S REALLY ANNOYING!"

"I see," Khyber began, gaining the angry aliens attention. "You transformed in to an Appoplexian." The huntsman then got into a fighting stance and approached Rath.

The humanoid tiger then stamped his right foot down and pointed one of his large fingers at Khyber. "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN' KHYBER THE HUNTSMAN, GREATEST HUNTER IN THE GALAXY! RATH MAY NOT BE HUMUNGOUSAUR, BUT RATH IS GONNA MAKE YOU HUMUNGOU-SORRY!" Rath cried before charging the hunter, his first drawn back. Just before the alien tiger's fist could connect with the huntsman's face, Khyber used the hands to grab a hold of Rath's hand and shifted his weight causing Rath to fly over his shoulder.

"Sloppy," the huntsman reprimanded as Rath came at him again. Simply side stepping the angry alien, Khyber commented, "Unrefined." Khyber turned only for him to be back handed into the wall. Recovering, Khyber quickly got back to his feet. "But you have potential."

"POTENTIAL?! RATH WILL SHOW YOU POTENTIAL!" Rath shouted tapping the Omnitrix symbol and turned in to Diamondhead. The crystallised alien then charged and grabbed Khyber by the scruff of his collar and held him in the air while morphing his right hand into a long blade.

"Are you going to threaten me now?" Khyber asked with a smirk, slowly using his right hand to reach for his left gauntlet.

"What are you doing here, Khyber?!" Diamondhead demanded.

"I was promised a hunt," the huntsman answered, finally pressing the button on his gauntlet.

"By who!?" Diamondhead shouted. "Tell me unless you want to become a shish kebab!"

"I was employed by someone who has an interest in you, actually," Khyber told him, secretly eyeing something approaching Diamondhead from behind. Moka, who was currently watching the interaction between the two aliens was oblivious to the approach of Bioid.

"Who's your employer?!" Diamondhead cried, inching his blade closer to the huntsman's throat.

"I believe I've said enough," Khyber replied with a smirk. "Now, I suggest that you let me go before my pet slits your little girlfriend's throat."

"What?" Diamondhead responded.

"Christian!"

Diamondhead reeled around to see a giant, midnight black reptilian beast with large, sharp teeth that was as big as a horse with its head around Moka's, one of its large teeth pressed against the vampires neck.

Diamondhead automatically moved his hand to aim at the Bioid, however Khyber tapped the arm that was holding him. "I wouldn't. That is a Dashslicer, the natural predator of a Kineceleran."

"XLR8's species?" the crystalline alien thought, realising the complications.

"Shoot at that predator and the girl will be dead before the shard even hits it," Khyber explained.

Diamondhead thought through the situation knowing that there was nothing he could do. He really wished he hadn't left Rook behind, the Revonnahgander's help would be essential right now. Begrudgingly, Diamondhead released his hold.

Satisfied, Khyber pressed two buttons on his gauntlet. The first one opened up a hatch in the roof of the ship revealing the sky. The second activated the Nemetrix and transformed Dashslicer into a bat like creature with a wing span of seven metres. Green and blue crystals protruded from the creatures back and the tips of its wings. The creature possessed four blood red eyes and had a long tail with a crystal like blade tip. Its skin was a clammy, iron grey and its teeth long and sharp. The Nemetrix was in the familiar place around its neck.

The creature shrieked before with a flap of its mighty wings it took to the air and grabbed Diamondhead by the shoulders before soaring out of the ship.

"Christian!" Moka cried, watching her friend be taken away from her.

"Well that was easy." Khyber commented before turning to Moka. "Now that I have Hawke. I have no need for you." He said, approaching her once again with his knife drawn.

"Freeze!" a new voice cried, making both Khyber and Moka turn towards the door. Standing with a strange looking blaster was a furry blue humanoid wearing blue and black armour. Moka of course had no idea who this person was but Khyber did.

"Tennyson's partner? How in the blazes did you get here?" Khyber asked, furious that he now had another annoyance to deal with.

"Khyber, put the knife down and step away from the female humanoid," Rook ordered.

"And If I don't?" Khyber inquired.

"Then you leave me no choice but to shoot you," Rook responded.

Glaring, Khyber stepped away from Moka, dropped his knife and put his hand in the air. Rook then proceeded to quickly aim the Proto-Tool at Moka's restraints and blast them in to smithereens. "Go and help Christian," Rook told her. "I will free the other students."

Moka nodded slowly, having absolutely no idea what was going on, before running off the way she had seen Rook enter. Rook was now on his own with Khyber and the unconscious students. Taking out a pair of handcuffs from one of the pockets that his armour possessed, the Revonnahgander moved to cut off the huntsman. Unfortunately, Khyber had other plans.

With a swift movement, Khyber dropped to the floor and swivelled around doing a three hundred and sixty degree turn, picking up his knife as he did so. When the turn came to a close, the huntsman threw his knife at the Plumber, who was only just able to dodge the attack. From there, Khyber quickly got to his feet and ran to the side to pick up an item from him fallen trophy case. A sword made of black metal that had a fiery red strip running down the middle from the hilt to the tip.

Rook, realising what was about to happen, raised the Proto-Tool, which had transformed so that the hilt of the weapon had become straight and a blade of hardened light particles grew from the tip of the weapon.

As one, the two fighters ran at each other, their weapons colliding with a mighty clash. The fight between huntsman and Plumber had begun.

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The bat-like predator flew Diamondhead from the ship and dropped him from one hundred meters in the air down to the ground. Luckily, Diamondhead's diamond-like skin protected him from the impact of the fall, not that it didn't hurt.

Groaning, Diamondhead pulled himself out of the crater he had made just in time to dodge an attack from the bat like predator as it came swooping down, it's wings spread to their full length. Ducking, the predator went straight over him, slicing through the trees as it did so.

'Its wings are like Kurumu's nails," Diamondhead noted as he dodged another attack. This time, as the creature flew at him, Diamondhead formed a crystal under his feet and used it to propel himself up into the air. Performing a flip in the air, he sent several, long crystal shards in to the predators back. To his shock though, the crystals shattered upon impact. "What?!"

With a loud shriek, the bat predator performed a barrel roll, using its long wing to swat Diamondhead away like a fly. The silicon-like alien was flung through several trees, shattering the bark. Slowly, Diamondhead made his way back to his feet. Looking up, he was shocked to see the bat-like creature land in front of him. Opening its mouth, the predator let out an ear piercing sonic attack that caused Diamondhead to drop to his knees, his diamond like skin cracking and splintering, weakening the alien immensely. When the alien finally closed its mouth, Diamondhead looked like he would shatter if someone were to touch him. So weak that he was no longer able to support his weight, he collapsed, falling face first on to the ground, reverting back into his human form. "That…Hurt…" the teen managed to say.

It was then that Christian remembered something. This creature was the natural predator of Petrosapiens, Diamondhead's species. He had learnt about them during his time at the Plumber academy. They had been extinct but when Ben had restored Petropia and all its people he must have also restored this species, giving Khyber the chance collect its DNA. If he remembered correctly, the name of this species was Armopterra. Its skin was extremely hard and coated with a special metal that could not be pierced by most substances. It could also emit an extremely high pitch sonic attack that could crack the strongest of materials. They survived by eating the special crystals that were on Petropia and since Petrosapiens were made of this crystal it made them a delicacy. It was no wonder he had lost so quickly.

Christian attempted to get up so that he could try and transform again. However, just as he was getting to his feet, the Armopterra landed on him, using one of its feet to pin him down. The Armopterra bent its head down until it was looking the struggling teen in the eyes. Opening its mouth, the creature prepared to strike.

Closing his eyes, not wanting to believe he was about to die, Christian didn't expect to hear the cry of a familiar female voice and the sudden alleviation of pressure on his chest. Opening one eye, Christian was ecstatic to see a pinkette standing in front of him with her hands out stretched. Looking to his left, Christian saw that the Armopterra was lying on its side fifteen meters away from them.

"Christian!" Moka cried, practically jumping on him and embracing him in a hug. "I'm so glad you're okay!"

"Moka!? How did you get out of Khyber's ship?" Christian asked, moving the girl so that she was looking him in the eye.

"A strange blue furred person came on to the ship and freed me," Moka explained. "He told me to help you while he freed the others."

"That was Rook," Christian told her. "He's a friend."

Moka nodded before reaching for the teen's hand and placing it on her Rosario. "Chris, let me help. We can fight that thing together."

Christian felt conflicted. He knew that Inner Moka could handle herself and was immensely powerful, but she was his friend and he didn't want to risk her getting hurt. The sound of the Armopterra getting back to its feet captured the pair's attention. Christian knew he needed to make a decision quickly. Tapping the Omnitrix, he was distressed to see that it was recharging. There no other option. He turned to Moka and nodded, increasing his grip on the Rosario. With a simple movement, he tore it off. Automatically, the sky went from blue to dark red, a red moon present in the sky. A terrifying demonic aura filled the area as Moka's hair turned from bubble-gum pink to platinum silver. Her body filled out, becoming more mature, her eyes turned blood red and her pupils slit.

Her transformation completed, Inner Moka raised her arms and stretched. "I must admit," the vampiress said as she eyed the bat-like predator, who was now looking at Inner Moka as if evaluating her strengths. "These aliens are very strange. It will be interesting to confront." Inner Moka cracked her knuckles.

"Be careful," Christian advised. "This thing should not be underestimated."

"I appreciate your concern, Hawke, but you should know by now that I am fully capable of taking care of myself," Inner Moka replied confidently. "I'm not like the other Moka."

"So you keep saying," Christian sighed, placing the Rosario in his blazer pocket.

"It's good that you understand," Inner Moka responded. "Now it's time that this beast learn its place." With those words, the vampiress dashed forward in a burst of speed. The Armopterra barely had time to react as Inner Moka delivered a wicked roundhouse to the aliens face sending it flying even further away.

"Wow," was all the flabbergasted Christian could say. He was always surprised by how powerful Moka truly was.

"Uhh!"

Christian was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of Inner Moka dropping to her knee, clutching her leg. Running over to her, Christian was quick to check on his friend. "Moka, what's wrong?"

Gritting her teeth in slight pain and annoyance, Inner Moka answered, "That thing was harder than it appeared. The force I put into that attack back fired as I just ended up hurting myself in the process. If I attack it like that again I will most likely break my leg."

"What!?" Christian exclaimed. "But you're stronger than most of my aliens. Some of them even combined. Just how hard is that thing?"

An angry screech caught Christian's attention. The Armopterra was clearly back on its feet and looking for blood. Raising the Omnitrix and tapping on the interface, he was relieved to see the holo wheel appear. Selecting a icon, Christian slammed down on the Omnitrix core. After a bright, emerald flash Christian had transformed into a new alien.

"Feedback!" the new alien cried confidently, an electrical sound could be heard when he spoke. Feedback had a black and green colour scheme with one green eye in the middle of his head. He had two antennae and a tail each featuring a plug on its tip. He had four fingers on each hand with similar plugs on the tip of each finger. Feedback only had two front toes. Gold battery bolts were on his shoulders, arms and hips. "This guy feels awesome!" Feedback cried. "I can see why Ben likes him."

"Interesting new form Hawke." Inner Moka praised. "What can this one do?"

"Not much," Feedback replied, flexing his fingers. "But this is pretty cool!" he turned and sent out a beam of electricity from the tips of his fingers that struck the Armopterra that was currently flying above the tree line preparing to strike. The bat predator was hit in the chest, shocking it enough to make it stop flapping its wings and causing it to once again fall to the ground.

"Impressive. But if that is all he can do it would be best to use another form." Inner Moka told the alien.

"You're never very happy are you?" Feedback replied, rubbing the top of his head before becoming serious. "Hang on, I sense a radio signal." Feedback stated, listening intently to the ultrasonic frequency only he could hear. "It's coming from the Bioid, and its leading back to…" Feedback then turned back to his vampire friend. "Moka, we need to get back to Khyber's ship. I know how to stop this thing."

Inner Moka eyed the alien before nodding. "I don't know what you have planned but if it involves that ship then we should get back there now." Feedback's eye widened in surprise, prompting a strange look from the vampire. "What?"

"I just can't believe you actually agreed with me that easily," Feedback replied. Inner Moka's expression hardened at the comment, her face irritated. "I think we should go now," he said, not wanting to be kicked to the ship. Another screech prompted the teens to start moving. "I'll cover you!" Feedback cried as they began moving. Inner Moka was back to full speed as her healing factor had healed her leg.

As the two ran, Feedback shot out blasts that prevented the now flying Armopterra from getting close. Within two minutes, the pair were back at the ship. "What now?" Inner Moka asked, curious about Feedback's plan.

"I get a jumpstart." Feedback answered, jumping on top of the ship and using his antenna and tail to plug in to the ship where he began absorbing energy. Inner Moka looked on curiously as she observed the spectacle in front of her. Blue energy was pumping up from the ship, though Feedback's plug in's and in to his body.

Above the teens, the Armopterra was circling above them, poised to strike. Finally, after about seven circles, the creature dive bombed and attacked. With a victorious smirk, Feedback pulled his arms back before throwing them forward and sending a giant beam of azure electricity at the predator who attempted to dodge but had its wing clipped sending a massive electric shock through the Armopterra. The power of the beam was enough to blast off its wing. No longer able to fly, the predator crashed to the ground. Unplugging from the ship, Feedback quickly made his way over to the fallen alien being closely followed by Inner Moka.

As they approached, the Armopterra reverted back into the Bioid wolf that it had been originally.

"That device truly is like your Omnitrix," Inner Moka commented.

"Luckily it's the only one of its kind," Feedback responded, reaching out for the Nemetrix.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you," a familiar voice sounded that made the anger level of Feedback grow.

Inner Moka and Feedback turned to the top of the ship to see Khyber standing at the top, something slung over his shoulder.

"Khyber!" Feedback growled. "How did you get away from Rook!?"

"The Plumber isn't nearly as strong as he is when he is with Tennyson," Khyber replied, slinging the object he had on his shoulder to his feet.

"Rook!" Feedback cried.

"The Plumber actually thought he could beat me in combat. It was a pointless endeavour," Khyber bragged. "He put up so little of a fight that it was boring. Even you could do more."

"KHYBER!" Feedback shouted, pointing a finger at the huntsman. "Get down here and fight me!"

"I'm not your opponent," Khyber replied, tapping a button on his gauntlet. "You should pay more attention."

A beep sounded from behind the two teens causing them to turn and stare as the Bioid got back to its feet and transformed. Its body became more bug like, similar to a cockroach. On its head were two antenna and there were a further two antenna on its sides, each one having a jack plug socket attached. The alien was very large, almost as big as an elephant. On its back were four red wings and three pairs of long legs at it's sides. It possessed two large, red, bug like eyes. Its skin was a pale, ugly brown and on the side of its mouth were two short arms, each one having three fingers. Once the transformation was complete, the cockroach like alien opened up its mouth, causing it to split in to four revealing several rows of ugly jagged teeth.

"I think I'm gonna puke," Feedback said uncharacteristically, moving one of his hands to his mouth and gagged. Inner Moka didn't say anything but anyone could tell she was grimacing in disgust.

"One more thing," Khyber added from behind the teens, causing them to turn to him. However, their eyes widened in shock to discover Khyber holding a gun towards Feedback. Before ever of them could move, Khyber shot a blue foam like substance at the Conductoid, hitting him dead centre in the chest, covering the Omnitrix symbol with the sticky substance.

"What the hell!?" Feedback cried as he attempted to remove the foam to no avail. "What is this stuff?!"

"Just a little something to keep you from transforming," Khyber answered with a smirk. "It should make the hunt more interesting."

Growling, Feedback quickly turned to Inner Moka. "We're gonna have to split up to fight these guys," Feedback told the vampire. "It will be faster if you take Khyber and I fight the monstrosity. Get his gauntlet, it controls the Nemetrix. If we get that, we can shut down the Bioid."

Inner Moka nodded, but before she went to attack Khyber she turned to Feedback and growled, "Be careful Hawke, I still need to teach you your place for kissing me without permission. Don't make me have to punish you for giving me orders."

Feedback actually flinched. "But that was to save our lives! I needed to take off the Rosario in order to release you!" He told her. 'Not that I didn't enjoy it,' he thought as a side note.

"That is not an excuse," Inner Moka told him before jumping to the top of the ship in order to fight Khyber.

Feedback sighed before turning in time to see the cockroach like predator charging him, its six legs moving like lightning. Discharging electricity from his hand, Feedback took to the air and flew above the cockroach and just managed to dodge the attack. When he landed, he turned and sent out a blast of electricity towards predator. Unfortunately, the alien merely manoeuvred its antenna towards the blast and absorbed it. The creature then opened up its ugly mouth and shot out a strong blast of black electricity. Feedback attempted to absorb the attack, but when the electricity struck him, he was in for a literal shock. The moment the blast hit his skin, Feedback was thrown back into a tree where pain coursed through his body. When it passed, Feedback struggled to get back to his feet. "This is going to be harder than I thought," the Conductoid said to himself as he moved to attack again.

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On the roof of the ship, Inner Moka was having a hard time getting a good hit on Khyber. She knew she was powerful enough to end the fight if she could get a solid hit on the huntsman but the green humanoid was proving to be far more evasive than she originally thought.

"Your attacks are impressive girl." Khyber commended as he ducked underneath one of the girls swivel kicks. "If I were like a human your attacks would probably hit me. Unfortunately, I have trained to hunt some of the fastest species. Which includes tracking their movements," he explained as he used his hand to block a jab by moving it to the side.

"It looks like I underestimated you, huntsman." Inner Moka commented as she swept her leg in an arc to try and knock the huntsman off his feet. Unfortunately, Khyber merely jumped over her leg. "However, you threatened my Outer self and for that you must pay."

"Please..." Khyber challenged, "You shall be a good challenge, I can sense great power coming from you."

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Back with Feedback and the cockroach predator, the Conductoid was struggling to stay alive. Feedback had long since discovered that his electricity was useless against it. Like himself, the predator had the ability to absorb energy attacks. Unlike him it could shoot out energy that he was unable to absorb in the form of black lightning.

Once again using his arms to discharge electricity to dodge another attack, Feedback took to the air and used the trees for cover to hide himself from the predator. However, Feedback didn't know that the predator was able to track the static electricity that Feedback possessed in his body. Instantly, the one of predator's antenna shot out and ensnared the Conductoid in the tree by his neck, pulling him out of hiding. Next the predator's other antenna shot out and connected with both of Feedback's antenna as well as his tail. Using its small arms, the creature held on to Feedback's arms, keeping him in place. Suddenly, blue electricity began flowing from Feedback in to the cockroach like alien, causing Feedback to scream as he felt, what he guessed was, his life force being sucked from him.

"Lightsssooouut," the creature hissed as it continued to hold Feedback.

'What!?' Feedback thought through the pain. 'It can talk?'

"Lightssssout!" the creature hissed again.

'Is that its name?' Feedback wondered.

"Lightsout!" the creature cried, increasing the rate in which it absorbed the energy from Feedback.

"AAAHHHHH!" Feedback cried in agony as it felt like he was dying. 'Am I going to die?' Feedback thought as he grew weaker. 'What will happen to my friends? Moka should be able to handle Khyber, but what happens if she has to fight the Nemetrix aliens as well?'

"Let him go!" a familiar, angry voice cried as a boy surrounded in a red aura came out of nowhere and punched the predator in its ugly face, sending the creature careening back, disconnecting it from Feedback and causing the Conductoid to drop to the ground, reverting back into Christian in a flash of green.

His saviour quickly ran over to him and bent down to check on him, the aura around him dying quickly. "Bro, are you okay?" Zack asked, using his hand to support his friend whilst shaking his other, presumably the one he used to hit the predator.

"Zack…" Christian murmured weakly. "What…Are you doing here?"

"I came to help."

"I appreciate it but you need to get away from that thing. I can handle it," Christian told him worryingly, attempting to get back to his feet and failing.

"Are you crazy!? You can barely stand on your own!" Zack responded as he took a hold of the Omnitrix with his left hand, placing his right on his left wrist. "I don't care what you say, I can help and that's what I'm going to do."

"Zack, what are you-?" Christian began before something strange happened. Suddenly, blue and green sparks blasted out of Christian and Zack's bodies as well as the Omnitrix. Both boys were crying out in great amounts of pain as a blue aura surrounded both boys. Underneath Zack's hand, his skin was beginning to bubble and shift.

The predator had recovered and was now watching the spectacle in intrigue. It feasted on energy and that was what was shooting out of Christian, Zack and the Omnitrix. Hungrily, the alien approached the sparking teens. However, before it even got close, a shot of electricity shot out and struck the creature on its under belly, sending it flying back into a tree.

As the energy continued to grow between the two teens, so did the pain, especially for Zack. It felt like his entire biology was changing. 'What the hell is happening!?' Zack mentally screamed. 'Nothing like this has ever happened when I did this before!'

Finally, the energy died down. However, just a moment before the energy died down completely, it suddenly grew exponentially until there was an explosion between the teens, throwing them away from each other. Their clothes were now burned and singed, Zack was missing the left sleeve of both his school blazer and his shirt.

Christian, who had landed against a tree, looked up groggily and painfully to see something that shocked him down to the core. On Zack's now exposed left wrist was a familiar black and green device that Christian had grown to become very familiar with over the past two months. On Zack's wrist was an exact replica of the Omnitrix on his own wrist.

However, it didn't stay that way for long. Within seconds, the device on Zack's wrist began to bubble and change in shape and appearance. It spread and elongated, moving up to cover the back of his hand. The face plate disappeared and became a circular dial with the Omnitrix symbol in the centre. A strap spread out and wrapped around Zack's palm to keep it in place. Finally, there was a few small sparks of electricity which caused the device to change colour from green to blue

Christian was shocked. What he was seeing wasn't possible. How could Zack possibly grow his own Omnitrix? Suddenly, Zack began to get to his feet. His movements were slow and uneven and his hair was covering his eyes. Slowly, he turned and began walking towards the recovering predator. Without so much as touching the new feature to his body, Zack began to change. His body became taller, more muscular and plant like. Most of his skin became a pale clue except his hands where they became black. Plant like shoots grew from his arms and legs whilst blue petals grew on his head giving it a flame like appearance. His eyes were cerulean blue with a scar over his left eye. A blue Omnitrix symbol on his chest.

Christian automatically recognised Swampfire, albeit a different colour scheme and looking slightly more muscular. Positive Swampfire moved slowly over to the cockroach-like predator. Raising his arms, Positive Swampfire let out a loud battle cry and sent out a blaze of azure flames at the predator.

The predator let out a cry, the blaze burning its body causing it to writhe and shake. The creature tried to get away but Positive Swampfire yelled louder and the blaze increased in area. Suddenly a red aura began to spread over Positive Swampfire's body, causing him to transform once again. His body increased in size and volume. His plant like body became wooden and turned charcoal black. Sapphire, goo like pods appeared on his arms and developed on his back, which spread to his face, enveloping it. The Omnitrix symbol grew four spikes which stuck out in an 'x' formation.

Christian recognised this form as well. It was Ultimate Swampfire. The blaze that Ultimate Positive Swampfire was emitting grew exponentially until in completely enveloped the predator. With a final cry, the predator was disintegrated by the intense heat of the attack. The indestructible Nemetrix falling to the ground, its exterior blackened. Ultimate Positive Swampfire's attack continued though, blazing through several trees and turning them to ash instantly.

Finally, Ultimate Positive Swampfire's attack died down before finally ceasing, leaving the evolved alien panting.

His attack had not gone unnoticed though. Back at the ship, Inner Moka and Khyber had seen the attack, both had thought it had been Christian to attack. "Incredible…" Khyber stated, letting his guard down long enough for Moka to finally land a hit.

"Learn your place!" she shouted as she kicked Khyber right in the chest, sending him careening through several trees and rendering him unconscious. Acting quickly, Inner Moka hurried over to his unconscious body and removed the gauntlet she had seen him press a button on earlier. Increasing the pressure she had on the gauntlet, she crushed it easily. "That's that," Inner Moka said with her eyes closed, dropping the gauntlet and cleansing her hands by slapping them together. "Now to check on Hawke. That attack was quite powerful. He must be done by now."

"Excuse me, miss."

Inner Moka turned to see the blue, furred humanoid that Christian had referred to as Rook. "Yes."

"You are Moka Akashiya, correct?" Rook asked, he looked tired and beaten.

"What of it?" Inner Moka asked, crossing her arms.

"May I have your assistance releasing the students from Khyber's ship?" the Revonnahgander asked. "We must release them before they wake up. It would be bad if a student other than yourself were to discover the existence of alien species."

Inner Moka wanted to check on Christian but she had to agree with Rook's statement. If a student were to wake up and see one of Khyber's trophies and link them to Christian, he could be put to death. "Fine, but let's do it quickly," Inner Moka replied as the pair moved towards the ship.

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Back with Christian, the teen was staring in shock as Ultimate Positive Swampfire began to revert, becoming more human and changing into Zack. Cautiously, Christian approached his friend, who had his back turned to him.

"Zack, are you okay?" Christian asked, reaching out to place a hand on his friends shoulder. "Are you alright?"

"You're a liar," Zack said simply, pulling away from him.

"Zack?" Christian said again, putting up his guard. "How did you do that?"

"You lied to me," Zack said again, turning towards him, his eyes covered by his hair.

"Zack…" Christian repeated, reaching for the Omnitrix in self-defence.

"You will pay!" Zack shouted, his body being covered in a blue aura. His body began to transform. Once the aura had faded, a copy of Feedback stood before Christian. The only differences being that where Christian's Feedback had a green stripe running down the middle, Zack had blue. Positive Feedback's eye was also blue and hand a scar running over it.

"Crap!" Christian cried as he activated his Omnitrix and transformed into the first icon that appeared, which happened to be XLR8. Positive Feedback sent out a blast of electricity at XLR8 but the speedy alien was quick to dodge the attack, dashing to the side just out of the attacks reach. "Zack, calm down!" XLR8 shouted, only to have to move again as Positive Feedback shot at him again. "This isn't you!"

"SHUT UP!" Positive Feedback cried as he let out blast after blast of electricity in a futile attempt to hit XLR8

"Don't make me have to hurt you, Zack!" XLR8 threatened as he stopped again.

"Don't talk to me as if you're my friend!" Positive Feedback shouted, his anger rising. "I see now that you never believed that!" The angered Conductoid ceased his attacks to glare at XLR8.

"Zack, what are you talking about?!" XLR8 cried. "Of course I'm your friend!"

"LIES!" Positive Feedback cried, a red aura beginning to secrete from him.

"Zack, whatever you did when you touched the Omnitrix has corrupted your mind," XLR8 tried to reason, all thought of keeping the Omnitrix a secret gone from his head as he focused on helping his friend.

However, inside Zack's head, a battle was raging between his rationality and the power he had just acquired. And the power was winning

Zack could hear a voice saying "He lied to me."

The aura around Positive Feedback began to grow.

"He hates me"

Suddenly Positive Feedback's body began to change, his tail, head and hands becoming pure electricity.

"He shunned me."

His suit changed becoming a full body containment suit that was blue on his chest and side as well at the base of the pants legs, everywhere else was black.

"He's using me."

Several more gold batteries formed around his body, more specifically on his feet and on his lower chest. The batteries he already possessed expanded and increased in length.

"He's scared of me."

Finally the Omnitrix symbol on his chest grew four prongs out of its sides, completing the transformation.

"He's dead to me."

XLR8 could only watch in horror as the transformation completed itself. "Oh no…"

"He lied to me..."

"He shot at me..."

"He hate on me..."

"He's using me..."

"Afraid of me..."

"He's dead to me..."

"AND NOW CHRISTIAN HAWKE'S MY ENEMY!" Ultimate Positive Feedback cried as he sent a massive surge of electricity at XLR8, who had been too stunned to dodge.

The attack hit it's mark, sending XLR8 flying back in to a tree, electricity jolting through his body. "AAHHHHH!" The alien screamed landing on the ground whilst withering in pain.

Ultimate Positive Feedback then disappeared in flash of light, only to reappear behind the downed XLR8. Picking him up by the tail, the evolved alien began throwing around the other, spinning him in the air before throwing him into another tree.

XLR8 landed painfully on his back. As he recovered, XLR8 considered using his own evolution feature. Reaching for the symbol on his chest, the memory of the beaten and bloodied class rep appeared in his mind making him hesitate. What would happen if he did that to Zack? Deciding to take another course of action, XLR8 tapped on the Omnitrix symbol and transformed into Diamondhead again, knowing that he would be immune to the evolved aliens electricity.

Charging, Diamondhead shot several diamond shard towards the Ultimate Positive Feedback as a distraction. The Ultimate alien simply teleported to the other side of the attack but didn't expect Diamondhead to already be there waiting for him. The silicon like alien punched the evolved alien in the chest, winding him before sweeping his legs out from under him causing the other alien to fall to the ground. Acting quickly, Diamondhead made crystals grow out of the ground and ensnare Ultimate Positive Feedback, grounding his electricity and keeping him from teleporting.

"Zack you need to calm down," Diamondhead tried again. "The power has corrupted your mind. I can help you."

"You've done enough!" Ultimate Positive Feedback responded spitefully.

"Zack, I'm guessing I can turn into everything you can," Diamondhead replied sternly. "Fighting is pointless. Just change back and let's talk about this."

"Never!" the evolved alien cried. "You think you're better than me! You think you can just lock me up! Well I'll show you!" His eye was wide with hate. Suddenly, it turned yellow and the silhouette of an unfamiliar being appeared in it.

Automatically, his body began to change, becoming more metallic and bulky. His colours became sliver and his torso became gold. Blue lights appeared over his body whilst his face became squarer. The new alien didn't have a mouth. His body grew several meters becoming taller than Humungousaur. The back of its legs became rounder and grew three blue lights running down. It possessed a blue visor on its head and the blue Omnitrix symbol was on its shoulder. Due to its increased size, the alien easily broke through the crystal shackles that in cased it.

Upon being freed, the mechanical alien got to its feet where it let out a mighty roar shouting "Me am Grimlock!"

Diamondhead took a step back in fear. He had never seen this alien before. How the hell did Zack have it? The silicon like alien didn't have time to think as the mechanical one in front of him swept low and punched him in the face with one of its massive fists. The blow sent Diamondhead flailing back, performing several flips before landing on his back. Before he could get up, Diamondhead could feel a huge weight being pressed on his back as Positive Grimlock placed one of his giant feet on him and pushed down, the pressure causing the silicon like alien to crack. "Grimlock defeat you," the titan alien spoke as he pressed down harder on Diamondhead's back, it appeared this alien wasn't the most intelligent. "Grimlock superior to puny Human."

Diamondhead's eyes widened. Zack knew he was human. How? When did he find out? That could be answered later, for if he didn't do something now, he was going to die. Positive Grimlock raised his hand only for the hilt of a blade to eject from his wrist. The hilt grew until it had become a large, deadly red blade. Clenching his sword in both hands, Positive Grimlock raised the sword high above his head and prepared to strike his former friend. "Your time is up!" he cried, just before he began to bring the blade down.

"Learn your place!" a familiar voice sounded as Inner Moka jumped from high above the trees and came down at high speeds using both her legs to push Positive Grimlock off of Diamondhead. Positive Grimlock stumbled backwards slightly, his sword still in his hand.

When she landed, Inner Moka automatically went to help Christian. "Hawke, are you alright?" After freeing her fellow classmates, Inner Moka had quickly made her way towards the sounds of battle, leaving Rook to care for the people they had rescued

Struggling to his feet, Diamondhead gave her a smile. "Nothing I can't fix." He said as his crystals slowly regenerated, the cracks mending themselves until he looked as good as new.

"Good," Inner Moka nodded before scowling at Positive Grimlock. "However, I thought you said that if I destroyed the gauntlet that beast would change back to normal."

"That's not the Bioid," Diamondhead replied. "That's Zack."

Inner Moka was actually flabbergasted, something she couldn't say happened very often. "That thing is Orion?" she asked, not believing what she had just heard.

"I don't know how he did it but somehow he made a copy of the Omnitrix by touching it," Diamondhead explained. "And somehow he turned into that," he said, pointing towards the metal titan, who was currently weighing his options.

"You don't have that form?" Inner Moka inquired with a raised brow.

"No, I don't," the silicon like lifeform replied. 'Wish I did though,' he though absently. "Listen Moka, we need to take him down. Zack isn't thinking straight, the power has corrupted him. He needs help now."

"Fine, I'll assist you in this," Inner Moka told her friend. "But you owe me."

"NO!" Positive Grimlock shouted, gaining the pair's attention. Despite the way he talked, the metal alien was smart and he realised that he wouldn't be able to beat them together, especially now that Inner Moka was helping. Deciding on a course of action, the metal titan swung his sword across the ground sideways causing dirt to fly towards the alien/monster pair and prevent them from seeing Positive Grimlock transform into a small, parrot like alien wearing a blue and black jumpsuit with the blue Omnitrix symbol on his left shoulder.

Opening his glider and discharging blue energy from the jetpack like structure on his back, Positive Astrodactyl took to the air and hovered just above the pair. "You called yours the Omnitrix, Bro!" the alien called down to Diamondhead. "But I think I'll call mine the Ultramatrix as its better than yours!" With that, Positive Astrodactyl soared higher, creating a sonic boom sending him propelled at high speeds away from Diamondhead and Inner Moka, disappearing from view.

As soon as Zack had disappeared from view, Inner Moka and Diamondhead relaxed but both were distressed, although Inner Moka wouldn't show it. In a flash, Diamondhead reverted back to Christian where he dropped to his knees and pounded his fist against the ground. "Damn it!" he cried. "What else could go wrong!?"

Almost as if fate had answered his call, the sound of a powerful engine reverberated through the area. Christian and Inner Moka turned to see Khyber's ship taking off. It was hundreds of meters in the air within a few seconds. The ship then turned and began flying of at high speeds to the east, cloaking as it did so and disappearing from sight.

Sharing a quick look, Christian turned to where he had seen the Nemetrix drop to. Much to his horror, the device had disappeared. Growling, Christian turned and ran back to the area where the ship had once been, Inner Moka following behind him. Once in the clearing, Christian was able to see two things; the still unconscious bodies of his fellow classmates, safely together laying up against a tree. The other thing was the beaten body of Rook, who look like he was in a great amount of pain. Quickly running over to the Revonnahgander, Christian checked him over, happy to find that his friend wasn't seriously hurt. It appeared that his Proto-armour had taken the brunt of whatever had attacked him and saved him from serious harm.

"Uhhh…" Rook moaned.

"Easy Rook," Christian warned, holding his friends back. "What happened to you?"

"Khyber had a partner," Rook told him. "It happened so fast, I never saw him coming. He took Khyber and escaped using his vessel."

"He took the Nemetrix too," Christian told him regretfully. "The Bioid was destroyed though."

Painfully, Rook got to his feet. "I need to report to Magister Tennyson. He must know about this."

"Rook, there's something else." Christian said, his expression down cast. Christian proceeded to tell Rook everything about what had just happened with Zack.

"That is distressing news," Rook replied, his hand on his chin. "You are in danger if you stay here. You should return with me to Bellwood where we can organise a plan to assist your friend."

Inner Moka's eyes widened slightly.

"No Rook, I'm staying here. Zack is dangerous at the moment and he could hurt somebody."

"But Christian, if Zack knows you are a human, then you are in danger of being executed," Rook argued.

"I won't let that happen," Inner Moka said, taking a step forward. "I won't let anyone take Hawke's blood away from me," she added, causing both Christian and Rook to sweat drop.

'I appreciate the thought but get your priorities straight,' Christian thought as he smiled awkwardly. "Thanks," he replied before turning back to Rook. "Go back to base. Tell them what happen and that I'm handling Zack."

Rook nodded but still looked unsure. "I will send help as soon as I arrive at the base," he said before heading off in to the forest, most likely heading back to his ship. It was then that Christian realised he had no idea how Rook even got to the academy. 'I need to be more assertive,' he thought as he turned to look at the sky. 'Zack I'm sorry for what I said to you. I promise I will make it right.'

"Hawke, we should get the students to the infirmary," Inner Moka told him, bringing him out of his thoughts.

"Right, sorry," he said as he moved to use the Omnitrix to turn in to an alien that could help.

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Khyber awoke to find that he was back on his ship. Looking around he saw that it was in space.

"I see you're awake now," a voice said from in front of him causing the huntsman to turn and see a figure dressed black. He wore a long, open leather trench coat over the top of armour that covered his entire upper body up to his neck, designed to show off his muscular form. On his lower body were black trousers and on his face was a helmet that didn't have any eye holes and was designed to cover his entire head. "How was your nap?"

"The girl was more powerful than I expected," Khyber replied. "I will be more careful next time." The huntsman took notice that a singed Nemetrix had been placed on the ships dashboard.

"Of course you will," his employer replied, his calm tone making it hard to tell whether he was being sarcastic. "You didn't keep to our arrangement."

"What?" Khyber asked, slightly confused.

"Christian Hawke was supposed to receive my message before you killed him," the figure replied.

"How was I supposed to know that he hadn't received it?" Khyber asked, slightly irritated.

"You could have asked," his employer stated simply. Khyber gave the figure a strange look before sighing and deciding to let the matter go. Ever since he had met this man, the huntsman had not been able to fully understand his employer's methods. "It is a shame you lost the Bioid though. It could have been useful to you," his employer continued.

Khyber smirked and moved over to a wall and pressed on a panel that had been embedded as a switch. Instantly the wall opened to reveal several copies of the Bioid, each one wearing its own copy of the Nemetrix. "Interesting fact about a Panuncian, every time it copies itself it also copies any item it's holding, even if it is level twenty technology."

"Very clever, my friend," his employer praised. "I'm impressed by your levels perception."

"Why thank you," Khyber replied. "Hawke and his mate have proven themselves to be worthy pray. I look forward to the next hunt."

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In the Security Committee Headquarters, Kuyo was sitting in his personal files going over the files for the members of the Newspaper Club when there was a knock on his door.

"Enter," he ordered, not looking up from his files. The committee head heard the door open and the familiar footsteps of Keito approach him.

"Sir, there has been a development," Keito told her master, a smug smirk on her face.

"What is it?" Kuyo asked, still not looking up.

"Zackery Orion has come to see you, sir," Keito answered, taking pleasure in that fact. "He says he wishes to join us."

Kuyo finally looked up from his files, a small smile on his face. "Has he now? Then by all means, bring him to me." With a bow Keito walked out of the room, only to return a few minutes later with a scowling Zack on heels. Kuyo took notice of his burnt and wrecked uniform as well as the blue looking device strapped to the back of his hand. "Mister Orion, it is good to hear that you have finally accepted our offer to join the enforcers." Kuyo began moving out from behind his desk so that he was standing in front of Zack. "However, since you originally declined it, I'm afraid you must once again prove you are worthy of joining us."

Zack's facial expression didn't change as he replied, "I have information you can use."

"And that is?" Kuyo asked with a raised eyebrow.

"That a human has entered the confines of the academy," Zack stated, his resolve never once faltering. "Christian Hawke is a human being."

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And there you go. I hope you all enjoyed it and I want to thank Lewamus Prime for the ideas of Lightsout and Armopterra, as well as Omnifiction for some of the speech used.

I hope you all enjoyed the appearance of Grimlock, he will be appearing regularly as Zack's favourite alien.

As always please leave your reviews so I know what went well and what can be improved.