S2 EP1: The More Things Change
June 3, 2020
It all started in a hidden base of operations, hundreds of miles away from Bellwood. Inside, King Skrull was in some kind of lab, along with his subjects. He looked fairly beat up, one of his arms being robotic, his ear split in half, and being skinnier than he was before.
King Skrull: "My subjects, it has been three years since our attempt at conquering the earth has failed. As humiliating and demoralizing as that was, we all know that we came away with far larger spoils than what we previously intended."
Skrull subject: "My king, you say that we all know but nobody knows what you are referring to except for yourself. Tell us, how did failing to take over the earth bring us greater spoils?" The king smirked.
King Skrull: "It is for that very reason that I have summoned you all here, Luvan. Although the bionic child stopped our plans, he wasn't anywhere near powerful enough to actually oppose us, contrary to what he thought."
Luvan: "If what you say is true, Sire, then how was Logan Gold able to actually stop our assault?" King Skrull smirked.
King Skrull: "You see, my people, right before I instructed our fleet to assault the earth, a very interesting deal was brought to my attention. In exchange for leaving the earth alone, I was given something way more powerful than any of earth's resources or inhabitants."
Skrull subject: "And what is that, Sire?" King Skrull stepped to his left, revealing a pod that looked to have somebody in it. He pressed a button and the pod opened, revealing...me! I was out cold and wearing a red dri-fit shirt, black joggers, and red and black sneakers. I had my cornrows back, along with a red bandana.
The Skrulls were in shock.
Luvan: "Sire, that's Trey Sergauson! He was the main one opposing our assault." King Skrull nodded.
King Skrull: "Didn't you wonder why Sergauson was nowhere near the battle, Luvan? That is because the night before, he turned himself over to me in order to save the earth. Very stupid if you ask me, but I gladly accepted."
Subject: "So he just willingly turned himself in? Just like that?"
King Skrull: "He had some conditions, of course. I was going to follow them, just in case he had some kind of plan but it has been three years since he turned himself in, so those plans are out the window." He smirked as he said that.
Luvan: "So what exactly do you plan on doing with Arsenal?"
King Skrull: "That is why I called you here. I want you to witness as I turn Arsenal into a completely loyal servant of the Skrulls. We will be the most unstoppable race in the universe with a Doppelganger on our side." The Skrulls all cheered in agreement. King Skrull went to turn on the machine, when it was suddenly shot with webbing. In shock, he turned around to see me sitting up in the pod, a smirk on my face, my eyes glowing red, and a Web Head hand pointed at him.
Trey: "Yeah, sorry, puke face. But if I became your servant, I'd have to wear one of your uniforms and trust me, I do not look good in purple." King Skrull looked pissed.
King Skrull: "We had a deal, Sergauson and I thought you'd honor it, considering you've been in suspended animation for three years." I chuckled.
Trey: "Yeah, about that. I let you put me in suspended animation, knowing full well that my Doppelganger make-up would allow me to wake up anytime I wanted. I knew that your army was too much for us to stop, so I thought I'd take the alternate route."
King Skrull: "And your alternate route was to turn yourself in to save your planet? How noble." I shrugged.
Trey: "Actually, big ears, my plan was to wait until you gathered every Skrull to the same place, then take you all out at once."
King Skrull: "What?!" Before he could react, I glowed red and became Ultimate Atomix, who was taller, bulkier, and more robotic with blue particles, then punched him back.
Ultimate Atomix:"I do wanna thank you though, dude, I needed that nap." I flew up and through the ceiling, then started powering up my most powerful nuclear attack, then blasted the building, completely obliterating it and everyone inside. Then, I landed and reverted to normal, stretching my arms.
Trey: "Man, it's been a long ass time since I walked around. I should get back to Bellwood and see what's up with the others." I started running and sprouted Biohazard wings out of my back, then took off into the air. I had got a few feet in the air, when I was suddenly pulled back down, landing on my back.
Trey: "What the hell?" I made the wings go away, then looked up. There was a black bald guy with an eye patch. Behind him, there were dozens of goons.
Bald guy: "I don't think that's a good idea, Trey." I stood up and brushed dirt off of my clothes.
Trey: "I could say the same thing about that pirate look, but you wouldn't listen to me. So why should I listen to you, dude?"
Bald guy: "Because I'm Nick Fury, director of SHIELD. I'm here to tell you that going back to Bellwood is the worst thing you could possibly do." I raised an eyebrow.
Trey: "SHIELD? Never heard of you, you guys work with the Plumbers?"
Nick: "Sort of. You see, the Plumbers act the same way the police do, here on earth. They handle the small stuff like invasions while SHIELD handles the universal stuff." I nodded.
Trey: "I see. And where were you all when Beyonder attacked? Or when Eon popped up? Or even when Apocalypse took over the world for months?"
Nick: "We have admittedly allowed the Plumbers to handle the large things, simply because you have been more than capable of saving the universe without our help. Even with this latest plan of yours, you brought down the Skrulls, who we have been hunting for hundreds of years."
Trey: "Hundreds? How old are you, dude?"
Nick: "I've been around the block a few times, kid. Anyway, despite your incredible heroics, I'm here to tell you that going back to Bellwood like everything is normal won't work. The world has changed drastically since you left, three years ago. It doesn't need you anymore. We, however, can send you somewhere that does." I scoffed at his words.
Trey: "Doesn't need me? You're a few strings short of a net there, Nicky. Earth is my place to protect and you're telling me I should leave because it doesn't need me anymore?"
Nick: "Please try to understand, Trey." My eyes glowed red.
Trey: "What I understand is that you have about five seconds before I kick every ass here." They all pulled out blasters and shock botons.
Nick: "Don't make us have to do this, Trey. You'll see what I'm talking about either way." I smirked.
Trey: "Maybe it'd be easier to see in that crystal ball you call a head." I glowed red. Snow white for grew out of my body, starting from my hands and covering my whole body as I grew 3 greet taller and gained a bear's face. My hands turned into claws and my feet turned into paws as red and black shorts and a harness with the Ultimatrix symbol appeared. I finished off looking like a more athletic polar bear.
Trey: "I learned about a few more forms before I turned myself over. I call this one PallerBear."
SHIELD guy: "He morphed, Director Fury, what are the orders?"
Nick: "Take him down. We can get more cooperation when he's properly sedated." They all started letting off shots at me, but I opened my mouth and breathed snow at the shots, stopping them, then flipped up and landed in front of a soldier, then punched him back.
PallerBear: "Rather not get Bill Cosby'd if you don't mind, guys." Another soldier came at me with a shock baton, but I ducked under it, then weaved another swing and blasted him back with a snow blast. I raised my arms and little snow cannons formed on them, then I shot snow balls at the soldiers, nailing them in the faces and knocking them to the ground. More tried to come at me, but I slammed my paws on the ground, releasing a huge blizzard that stuck everybody to the ground.
Nick: "I'm warning you, Trey, everything has changed." I rolled my eyes.
PallerBear: "Don't follow me." I glowed red again and became HyperZoom, a guy wearing a red Tron suit, then took off into the air with amazing speed, leaving a red Tron wall behind me.
SHIELD guy: "What do we do now, sir?"
Nick: "Let the kid learn, himself. He'll come when he's ready."
Back in Bellwood, things were actually way different. The buildings were way taller, there were flying cars and hoverboards, and aliens were walking around like it was nothing. I was completely in awe.
HyperZoom: "Whoa, Fury wasn't kidding when he said everything was different. This is freaking awesome!" I landed on the street and reverted to normal, immediately drawing a shit ton of attention.
Trey: "Uh, hey guys." As soon as I said that, everybody scattered, running off in fear.
Trey: "Alright, not really the warm welcome back that I was expecting." I started walking down the street, toward a big ass tower with an Omnitrix symbol on it, figuring that would be the best place to look for the guys. As I was walking, this dude was running and ran straight into me, knocking us both to the ground.
Guy: "Watch where you're going, kid!" He stood up and I did too, smirking as I did.
Trey: "You may want to watch your town, my guy." I made my eyes flash red for emphasis. He was unbothered.
Guy: "So you can make your eyes glow, big deal. Now get outta my face." He pushed me aside and ran off. I was absolutely shocked.
Trey: "It's like he had no idea who I was. What the shit is going on?" Suddenly, flying police cars sped by, sirens blaring. They looked to be heading in the direction of the bank.
Trey: "At least one thing hasn't changed. Hero time!" I ran after the police cars and as I thought, they had stopped in front of the bank. I walked up to one of the officers, "What's going on, dude?"
The officer pushed me back behind the yellow police tape.
Officer: "Stand back, son, don't want you getting hurt. We should wait for the heroes." I gave him the 'WTF are you talking about?' look.
Trey: "I don't know what you put in your coffee this morning, but I AM one of the heroes. Trey Sergauson." He looked at me and chuckled.
Officer: "That's cute, but you look a little old to be playing pretend. Run along, now." I glared at him, my eyes glowing red, but moved away anyway. I walked around to the building next door, then turned my hands and feet into Web Head ones and scaled the wall. Once I got on the roof, I leaped across to the bank's roof and made my hands and feet normal.
Trey: "Playing pretend. What kind of bullshit is he on?" I looked down into the bank through the skylight and saw some guys robbing it with some kind of energy weapons. There were three of them and each of them were wearing a mask with mine, Charity's, and Logan's face on it, "Okay, standard robbery, shouldn't be anything too hard." I glowed red. I grew to about 9 feet tall as tendrils wrapped around my body, coming out of my eyes and spreading. My muscles got bigger, my hands turned into claws, my head turned into a squid and I got a red and black jumpsuit with the symbol on my chest. I finished off as Gax, a Vilgax alien, and crashed through the skylight.
Gax: "Heyy, you guys aren't the real Team Arsenal. I can totally tell, Logan gives it away, he's not that muscular."
Crook 1: "It's an alien, blast him!" Before they could fire their weapons, I launched my tentacles out at one of them and popped him in the face, knocking him to the ground/
Gax: "Just an alien? I know they're common now, but come on, I'm freaking Arsenal! I think I deserve your fear a little bit more than any other alien." I ducked under an energy blast from another crook, then shot eye beams at his weapon, making it too hot for him to hold, then spartan kicked him back into a wall. The last one pulled out another weapon and fired, trapping me in a levitating bubble.
Crook 3: "Gotcha, hero wannabe." I rolled my eyes and became KaBoom, then exploded myself free, then reformed and became Shellhead, who is just a huge turtle with the symbol on his chest, popped into my shell, and rammed straight into him, knocking him out cold.
Shellhead: "Remember that next time you wanna call me a wannabe. There's only one Arsenal."
Voice: "Yeah, and you're not him." I turned around and saw...Ben? He looked different, older definitely. He was taller, had shaggier hair, and was wearing a black shirt underneath a green jacket, blue jeans, and black and white sneakers (Alien Force look, basically).
Ben: "Alright, whoever you are, you have about two seconds to tell me who you are and how you can shape-shift before I go meta and kick your teeth in." I reverted to normal and chuckled.
Trey: "Wow, I'm gone for three years and you forget that I taught you everything you know. And go meta? That's so lame." Ben's eyes got wide.
Ben: "Trey? No...no way, Logan said Trey was gone for good this time and that we shouldn't look for him." I raised an eyebrow.
Trey: "Gone for good? Look, I know I didn't tell you guys I was leaving, but to assume I died again is pretty insulting."
Ben: "Shut up, dude. We both know you're an imposter so go ahead and put your hands up so the police can put you in the Vault." I sighed, he obviously thinks I'm some sort of clone. This wouldn't end well.
Trey: "Look, Ben, you have to listen to me." I took a step toward him, but he immediately stepped back.
Ben: "Don't wanna go quietly, huh? Fine, I've been itching for some action." He pulled his left jacket sleeve up, revealing his Metatrix, then scrolled through the menu and slammed down the core when it showed up. In a flash of green light, he was an adult version of himself that resembled Dante from Devil May Cry. He had a green and white color scheme and the symbol on his belt, "Nephilim should take you out real quickly."
He leaped at me with incredible power and materialized a green gauntlet, then nailed my whole body. I went flying through the bank wall and out onto the street.
Trey: "Of course he got new forms, it's been three years." Ben came out and charged at me again, but I glowed red and became Hammerhorn, an alien that was half tiger shark and half rhino, and deflected his fist with my head. He flew back and tumbled along the street.
Hammerhorn: "Ben, listen to me. I'm the real deal." He recovered and glared at me.
Nephilim Ben: "Yeah, I've heard that one before." He materialized two semi-automatic pistols and started letting off rounds at me, but thanks to my indestructible skin, I was unaffected. I charged at him on all fours and rammed straight into him, but he caught me by my horn and flipped me over on my back, then slapped his symbol, becoming Tank, and nailed me in the face with his strongest punch, actually cratering me in the street. He tried another punch, but I became Stealth and phased into the ground, then phased back in behind him and became Overkill, a tall, red and black alien that had horns, one huge eye and horse legs with an axe for a tail, then charged at Ben. He shot torpedoes at me, but I ran around them, building up energy in my eye as I ran. When I got to Ben, I released the energy, blasting him with a huge eye beam, knocking him away from me. He slapped his symbol in mid-air and became a green and white version of Blue Beetle, then turned his hands into plasma cannons and fired at me. I was hit and flew into a light pole, where Ben slapped his symbol again and became a green and white version of Magneto from X-Men, and used his magnetism powers to wrap the light pole around me. I went Goop and slithered free, then went Lodestar and formed some metal gauntlets around my hands, then went OmniFire and flew at Ben, nailing him with my metal gauntlets. I got in 2 good punches to his jaw before he used his powers to rip my gauntlets off and push me back a little. He slapped his symbol and became UltraBen, who looked older, then fired his eye beams at me, but I flew around them and started letting off star bolts at him as he flew at me. He dodged them all and swung at me, but I became Ghostfreak and phased through him, then became Biohazard and slammed him to the ground with my smack hands. He launched himself off the street and came right back at me, landing and uppercut that sent me flying into the air, where he flew after me and nailed me with his eye beams, then flew at me again and punched me in the gut, sending me flying away from him. I went Under Wraps and pulled him toward me, then went Darkflame, a robotic dragon alien, and breathed black fire at him. He was completely unharmed and flip kicked me to the ground, cratering me into the street.
Darkflame: "You've gotten way more powerful since last time, Benji. I can't even hold back anymore." He got pissed and charged down at me.
UltraBen: "Don't call me Benji!" His fist collided with my face, right as I glowed red. When the red light faded, I was holding his wrist as a red and black Mewtwo from Pokemon.
Mewtwo: "Like I said, I was holding back. Since you don't want to listen to me, I guess I have to knock some sense into you." I powered up purple energy in my hands, but before I could use it, I was electrocuted from behind.
Mewtwo: "AHHHHHHHHHH!" I dropped Ben and fell to the ground, reverting to normal. Before I passed out, I looked up to see an older Logan standing next to Ben, who reverted to normal.
Ben: "He put up a good fight, almost as good as Trey."
Logan: "Ben, don't start. For now, let's just get him back to Omni-Tower and run some tests." After that, I was out cold.
I woke up in some kind of glass container, just like the one Tyson had me in. My head was killing me.
Trey: "Aw man, what happened?" I rubbed my eyes to clear my vision and when it cleared, Ben was standing there with his arms folded across his chest. Next to him, stood Aubrie. She looked about 15 too and was wearing a green zip-up hoodie over a black tank top, blue jeans, and white sneakers. I managed to smirk.
Trey: "Aww, you guys are one of those matching couples? How cute and disgusting." Aubrie turned to Ben.
Aubrie: "He's about as annoying as the real Trey, are you sure it's not him?" Ben didn't take his eyes off me.
Ben: "We don't know yet. Logan is running some tests, but we won't know for sure for another few minutes. He said not to get our hopes up, though." Green slime suddenly oozed out of Aubrie's hoodie and formed a little slime alien on her shoulder.
Slime alien: "I say, dear girl, I am smelling a delicious amount of DNA. Where is it coming from?" My eyes got wide.
Trey: "Okay, what up with the talking booger?" Aubrie looked down at it.
Aubrie: "Not now, Skurd, we're waiting to see if that guy is really Trey Sergauson or some kind of clone." Skurd looked at me.
Skurd: "But I thought Arsenal was dead." I groaned.
Trey: "Why does everyone keep saying that?!"
Voice: "Because that's what you led us all to believe, 'brother'." Logan walked in, looking way different. He looked about 20, had spiked hair that was faded on the sides, a scar on the left side of his face, and was wearing a blue varsity jacket with black sleeves and a black O over the heart area. He also had on dark blue jeans with rips in them and black converse.
Ben and Aubrie looked at him.
Ben: "So?" Logan continued to glare at me, but nodded, "The results are in and this is indeed our Trey." I sighed in relief.
Trey: "Told you." Ben pressed a button and let me out of the container, then he and Aubrie ran and hugged me.
Aubrie: "Trey, we're so glad you're okay! We all thought you died and Logan said not to look for you anymore." I looked at Logan, who was still glaring at me.
Trey: "Well, I'm here now so you can all stop worrying. What's up with this Skurd thing, by the way?" Skurd oozed back out from her hoodie.
Skurd: "I'll have you know, I am not a thing, Trey Sergauson. I am a Slimebiote."
Aubrie: "He's a parasite that tried to attach to Benny's watch, about 6 months ago. We finally got him off but he decided he wanted to attach himself to my blood stream, making him impossible to remove." I rubbed the back of my neck.
Trey: "Shit, sounds rough." She shrugged.
Aubrie: "It's actually not bad. Thanks to his time on Benny's watch, he can make me do awesome stuff. Watch." Skurd covered her left hand and turned it into a diamond mace.
Trey: "That's totally wicked!" Her hand turned normal.
Aubrie: "I know, right!"
Ben: "Hey, sorry about attacking you like that, Unc. We had a run in with some clones and I didn't want to go through that again." I smiled at him and pulled him in for a noogie.
Trey: "Don't even worry about it, Benster. It was worth it to see how much you've improved with the watch." Ben smiled, proudly.
Ben: "Yeah! I've been Bellwood's shape-shifting hero since you...left, so I had to step it up." I nodded, proud of him.
Logan: "Ben, why don't you and Aubrie go check on Victor for me. He should be up from his nap by now and wanting to play." They nodded.
Ben: "I love playing speedster tag with Victor!" He slammed his watch and went Inertia, then zoomed off.
Aubrie: "No fair, I'm always it! Skurd!' Skurd formed pink speedster boots on her feet and she zoomed after Ben. I turned to Logan.
Trey: "So, you have a son now, huh?" Logan chuckled, dryly.
Logan: "Yeah, turns out bionic people can get super soldier girls pregnant. But you knew that already, right?" I avoided his gaze.
Trey: "Yeah, kinda. I'm sorry I didn't tell you, didn't want to risk erasing him from existence." Logan laughed.
Logan: I understand, believe me. What I don't understand, though, is where the fuck you've been for the last 3 years." I sighed.
Trey: "Loges, I-"
Logan: "Don't you dare fucking lie to me either, Trey. I mean it."
Trey: "Okay, okay. Look, 3 years ago during the Skrull attack, I found out some information that changed everything. The Skrull army reached hundreds of millions, way more than you, me, Ben and Charity could handle. So, I struck up a deal with King Skrull." Logan rolled his eyes.
Logan: "Making deals with supervillains, very smart."
Trey: "It was the only way I could think of to keep you guys safe. I give myself to the Skrulls and in return, they called off the invasion. The earth is saved, just like that." Logan was quiet for a minute. Suddenly, he zoomed at me at super speed and slammed me into the wall, making the whole tower rumble.
Logan: "Safe?! SAFE?! You stupid motherfucker, do you know what the Skrulls did after you held up your end of you little deal?!" I looked at him, confused.
Trey: "What do you mean?"
Logan: "With you gone, the Skrulls went fucking ballistic! They destroyed cities, states, countries! They killed hundreds of thousands of innocent fucking people, they completely obliterated Bellwood. People died and where was their hero who promised to protect them?! He gave himself to the very species that they needed protecting from. The earth lost its soul the day the Skrulls invaded, but it also lost faith in you, 'hero'." He let me go and I dropped to my knees, staring at the ground.
Trey: "I...I should have known. Logan, I'm so sorry, I thought I was doing the right thing." Logan scoffed.
Logan: "Yeah, well because of your decision, people got hurt. People close to us." My eyes got wide and I looked up at him.
Trey: "Where's Charity?" He just glared at me and zoomed off. I became Godspeed and zoomed after him, following him until we got to the emergency room sector of the tower.
Logan: "She never lost faith in you. Look where that got her." I reverted to normal, tears in my eyes. In the bed, Charity was in a coma, halfway in her demon form. She was connected to dozens of machines.
Trey: "What happened to her?.."
Logan: "She made another deal with Mephisto to help beat the Skrulls, believing that you would come and help her beat him like you did before. Obviously she was wrong. She didn't uphold her part of the deal and Mephisto took her soul, leaving her as a shell of a demon. She's been comatose without progress for about a year, now." I got on my knees next to her bed and grabbed her hand.
Trey: "I'm so sorry, baby...you needed me and I wasn't there for you. I let you down, just like Amanda. I'm so so sorry." I started crying. Logan suddenly pulled me up by my collar.
Logan: "She doesn't need your tears, Trey, she never did. I'll never pull the plug on her, but her life is gone and it's all your fault." I stared at the ground.
Trey: "I don't know what to do."
Logan: "Leave. Everybody on earth thinks you're dead, Ben, Aubrie and I are keeping the city safe, you're not needed anymore." His words reminded me of Fury's words. I guess he was right. I nodded.
Trey: "You're right, I'll go. You won't have to deal with me anymore." Logan sighed.
Logan: "For what it's worth, I am glad you're alive, Trey. You'll always be my brother, I just can't forgive you or put the city through this again."
Trey: "Yeah, I understand. I'll see you, man." I glowed red and became Big Chill, then flew up and phased through the ceiling. Right after I left, the tower started to rumble as the trouble alarm blared.
Logan: "Now what?"
...
A few minutes later, I was sitting on top of what was left of the Jasper Industries tower. It was in ruins, but was still one of the tallest buildings in the city.
Trey: "Some hero I turned out to be." Nick Fury suddenly came and sat next to me.
Nick: "I told you everything was different, Trey." I glared at him, my eyes glowing red.
Trey: "You neglected to tell me that everything was different because of me, dick head." He chuckled.
Nick: "If insulting me will help you feel better, then feel free. But I know how you are feeling."
Trey: "How could you possibly know how I'm feeling?! When I found that watch, years ago, I vowed to protect everyone and when I became a Doppelganger, I thought I was more than qualified to do that. Turns out, I couldn't even protect the people I love, much less the earth. I let the fame go to my head and thought I was invincible, what kind of hero does that?" Fury chuckled again.
Nick: "Remind me to introduce you to Tony Stark, one day. But, it's not too late for you to be a hero, son. Earth may not need you, but there is a place that has no heroes, but is in desperate need of one. And what better one than the greatest one in the universe?" I looked at him and saw that he was smiling. I gave him a half-hearted one back.
Trey: "Don't know if I'm worthy of that title anymore, but if they need me, I'm going to be there." We both stood up and he pressed a button, making his huge airship hover down.
Nick: "Time to start a new journey, Arsenal." I nodded and looked down at the city one more time. The city where I was born, where I fell in love, where I discovered what it truly meant to be a hero. But it was also the city that I failed when it needed me the most.
Trey: "See you later, Bellwood." Right before I boarded the airship, I heard an explosion. I turned around and saw multiple blasts and heard screams. I turned to go.
Nick: "Trey, this isn't your fight anymore." I smirked at him.
Trey: "I bet that's what you told the guy at the wig store, isn't it?" Before he could react, I leaped off the building and became Astrodactyl, then flew off toward the commotion.
...
Back in front of Omni-Tower, it was revealed that the commotion was the result of a Skrull attacking the city. This Skrull had an Omnitrix symbol and was currently beating the shit out of Logan. Ben and Aubrie were already on the ground, out cold. Logan vibrated out of Omni Skrull's grip, then leaped up and slammed an electric ball over his head, only for Omni Skrull to block it with a diamond shield that he formed on his arm, and kick Logan back with a Biohazard punk buster. Logan flew back and slammed into a brick wall, where Omni Skrull shot OmniFire star bolts at him. Logan dodged at super speed, but Omni Skrull shot out a web at him and pulled him toward him, then breathed radiation at him, blasting him way up into the air. Suddenly, I flew in and caught him.
Astrodactyl: "Did somebody call for a disgraced hero?" Logan smiled, weakly.
Logan: "You came back." I nodded.
Astrodactyl: "I had to come save your ass, one last time." I sat him down next to Ben and faced Omni Skrull.
Astrodactyl: "So, I missed one, huh?" He smirked.
Omni Skrull: "Did you really think that the king didn't have a backup plan just in case you decided to get heroic? While you were in his grasp, he copied your DNA signature and created me, the first ever Doppelganger/Skrull hybrid. And needless to say, your deal with him is off so I'm going to destroy this pathetic world.." He turned his hands into Alien X ones, "Starting with you, Arsenal!" He charged at me and nailed me in the stomach, sending me flying straight through about 6 buildings and slamming me to the ground on the other side. I became Makeshift and phased through the ground, then appeared behind him as Godspeed and hurled lightning at him. He easily deflected it, so I became Crucifix and wrapped my bandages around him, then released 1,0000,000 volts of electricity into his body. He made his torso into a Chromastone one and directed the shock into the ground, then grabbed my bandages and used them to swing me around, crashing me into several things as he did. I went Flame Wingman and shot fire from my dragon head hand, but he charged right through it and grew Spykeback spikes out of his forearms, then slashed me across the chest with them, then grew Parasyte tendrils and impaled me with them, making me scream in agony.
Omni Skrull: "You made a mistake by coming back here, Arsenal. All you've done is doom these people." I became Shocksquatch and grabbed his tendrils, then sent an electric shock through them, forcing him to drop me, then landed on the street and became Heatblast. I rocketed up to him and launched a huge fireball into his groin, then became Atomix and blasted him away from me, then became Frightmare and pulled him back with a chain, then became Ultimate Echo Echo and launched a powerful sonic wave at him, making him fall to the ground. I landed too, then became XLR8 and zoomed at him, then jumped up, became Firecracker and nailed him with 50 shotgun punches, then flipped back and became Boltneck and slammed the ground, launching a ground lightning strike at him. He jumped over it and turned his hands into Ironheart ones, then fired repulsor rays at me, but I became Feedback and absorbed them, then became Sparkplug and blasted it back at him, but 100x stronger. It nailed him and he went flying, but he recovered in mid air and turned his hands into Diamondhead ones, then made diamond pillars come from the ground and launched them at me. I went Web Head and flipped over all of them, then used the last one to launch myself up at Omni Skrull, then went Ultimate Super Saiyan Goku and nailed him with a Super Kamehameha blast, blasting his head clean off. It grew back and he breathed fire at me, but I flew right through it, then became Red Lightning and kicked at his face repeatedly, then jumped back, became Ultimate Heatblast, and let loose on him with purple hellfire. His body burned to a crisp, but he shot himself with Hydro Tide water to put himself out, then shot KaBoom hands at me, but I went Scorch and burned all of them, then flew at him and went Power House, then nailed him across his face, sending him flying. I went Teleportal and teleported to where he'd be, then went Megas and slammed him to ground, where I went Shellhead and slammed right on top of him. I jumped up, went Spykeback, then impaled him straight through the chest with a spike out of my hand. I reverted to normal, then got my Doppelganger battle suit on and started clobbering his body with Biohazard smack hands and Godspeed speed.
Trey: "I may have failed them once, big ears, and that'll always be on my conscience. But one this is for certain, I'll never stop fighting for them!" I was suddenly blasted off of him by his aura and slammed into a car. I looked up to see that he had completely transformed into Genocide.
Genocide Skrull: "Very noble, Arsenal, but I have all your powers, I have seen all your forms that even have a chance of defeating me, I outclass you in ever single way." He flew at me with an Armodrillo hand and a Rath hand, along with an Overkill tail.
Trey: "Not all my forms." I ran at him too and glowed black, right as our fists collided. He went flying back as I emerged from the glow as a familiar, but different form. I basically looked like Doomsday, but mixed up with Kevin 11,000 with black eyes, glowing skin and the symbol on my hand.
Trey: "ULTIMATE GENOCIDE!" I charged at him and before he could blink, I had nailed him with a Kurama/Atomic-x hand, sending him flying. I pulled him back with a Fright-Web Head chain/web, then slammed him to the ground with Biohazard/Armodrillo hands, cratering him into the street and sending deep into the core of the planet. I flew down after him.
Genocide Skrull: "Impossible. An evolved Doppelganger was not in the king's contingency plan!" I gave him a sinister grin.
Ultimate Genocide: "THAT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I COULD EVOLVE LIKE THIS! YOU KNOW ME, ALL ABOUT TAKING RISKS!" I walked toward him, smirking at the absolute fear in his eyes, "THIS IS FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MY CITY!" I powered up and combined Ultimate Heatblast power with Ultimate Super Saiyan Goku power with Atomic-X power with my own evolved Doppelganger power to create the most powerful and devastating attack that I have ever created, then launched it at him, completely destroying him and making the planet itself shake. I flew back up to the surface and saw Logan, who was holding Victor. Marian was by his side, taking care of Ben and Aubrie. I used my super vision to look at Charity too. I nodded at all of them and smiled. They smiled back. With that, I flew off, but suddenly fell unconscious.
I woke up on a table in normal form.
Trey: "Man, this is the second time I've woken up in some weird ass place." Fury walked up and helped me stand.
Nick: "You completely disobeyed my orders by taking on that Skrull, Trey." I shrugged and smiled at him.
Trey: "Hey, I'm pretty sure that you didn't expect anything different."
Voice: "I said the same thing." I looked down and saw Azmuth, "Hello, my friend, it's been a long time." I smiled real wide.
Trey: "AZMUTH! What are you doing here, dude?"
Nick: "I called him. Trey, when you pushed your DNA to beyond its limits by evolving your Doppelganger form, you nearly killed yourself." My eyes got wide.
Trey: "Seriously?"
Azmuth: "There is a reason why you and your cousin are the only Doppelgangers in this universe, Trey Sergauson. No being's physical body should even be capable of having that much DNA coursing through them. The fact that you are even here now is amazing in itself. This is why Nick Fury called me, to help keep you stable." I raised an eyebrow.
Trey: "How so?"
Azmuth: "Look at your wrist." I did and instead of my Ultimatrix muscle, there was an actual Omnitrix. It was red and black and looked kinda like Ben's Metatrix, but with slight changes.
Trey: "An Omnitrix? But I'm an actual Doppelganger, I don't need this."
Azmuth: "That is not a traditional Omnitrix, Trey, as it actually stores no DNA inside of it and would not work for anyone else. It's purpose is to keep your DNA stabilized and prevent you from dying. Think of it like a control panel for your body." I activated the watch and scrolled through the holographic menu.
Trey: "So I'm human again?" He shook his head.
Azmuth: "Far from it. Your DNA is even more infused with codon energy than it was before. You are still very much a Doppelganger, so much so that if you remove that watch, you will die the same way other Doppelgangers have." I gulped.
Trey: "Noted."
Nick: "I also had Azmuth throw in some safety precautions to ensure you don't die on us." I groaned.
Trey: "Don't tell me.."
Azmuth: "Yes, the timer is back. At this point, we don't know if your body is stable enough to handle all of your DNA in an uncontrolled form. Do not worry though, the watch's interface is linked to your mind as well, so you won't have to cycle through your forms to find the one you desire, although you will have to manually transform. You are also still capable of transforming into new forms you come into knowledge of and evolving, as well as your limb-changing, which isn't timed but only 25% as powerful as your full transformations. Your Doppelganger armor is also still available, although will burn out the watch's power quicker so be careful." I nodded.
Trey: "You've saved me again, Azmuth." He smiled at me.
Azmuth: "And you've saved everyone else again. Good luck on Tetris Nova." He warped off. I turned to Fury.
Trey: "Tetris Nova." He nodded and pressed a button, making a hologram appear on the floor.
Nick: "Tetris Nova is the planet we will be sending you to, your new home. Its inhabitants are homosapiens."
Trey: "Humans? I thought earth was the only planet with humans." He shook his head.
Nick: "It is not. Tetris Nova is home to billions of humans, just like earth. However, some of these humans are born with super abilities, due to being exposed to a different type of oxygen than earth." I smirked.
Trey: "And lemme guess, most of these metahumans are bad guys?" He smirked back.
Nick: "Precisely. It shouldn't be that much different than what you were doing on earth. You will protect the planet and your assignment to protect the universe still stands, but under no circumstances can anyone find out your true identity. If they were to discover aliens and life on other planets exist, it'd be a catastrophe. So you have a secret identity again." I smiled, just what I wanted. This time, I wouldn't even let the bad guys know who I was.
Trey: "Understood. So, when do I get started." He smiled.
Nick: "Right now. Onward to Tetris Nova." With that, we took off.
The end.
GUESS WHO'S BACK! BACK AGAIN! I know you all missed me and truthfully, I missed you all too. Now, these updates won't be nearly as frequent as I am still in college and I am still pursuing basketball, but I do need a hobby to relax outside of my new girlfriend (Yes, I broke up with my other one, stuff happens.). I am taking this in a new direction, as you all see. I realized Trey never had to go through things that other superheroes do, like having to really maintain a secret identity. I'm excited to see if I can have Trey maintain a social life with new friends, an eventual new girlfriend, and being normal while being Arsenal and fighting bad guys. Kinda like a Peter Parker/Spider-Man vibe. Hope you all stick around for it. And yes, Logan and the others will be gone for at least this season, but not forever. That's it guys, see you all next time.