Hey everybody, guess who's back and better than ever!
I hope you all are ready for this story to continue. Sorry to keep you all waiting. I felt like I left you all waiting long enough so I decided to post this chapter. Unfortunately, I'm still behind on how many chapters I would like to have ready, so this story will be updating on a biweekly bases for a little while. At least until I can get back into the flow of writing.
Also, congratulations everyone who guessed the three extra characters with Cinder in the last chapter. If you guessed Malware, Albedo, and Khyber, then you're right. I won't explain how they got to Remnant in the first place just yet, But I will eventually. I'm really excited to have them in the story since I have a lot of ideas for plot lines that the Ben 10 franchise never capitalized on, such as a little detail about Ben's condition after he visited another dimension in another crossover.
Now, to get some questions out of the way. First, the Omnitrix will not randomize the Faunus DNA every time Ben turns into Jade Fang. The DNA is scanned, randomized, and then stored away in the Omnitrix's database for Ben to transform into the species encoded in the DNA later. Thus, Jade Fang will always look the same and have the same animal features. Second, I have no plans for Ben to have an alien that can break the fourth wall. He doesn't really need on to do that, as this chapter will demonstrate. Finally, yes, I will be making butt loads of jokes about how Jade Fang is Blake and Sun's theoretical child. You'll see plenty of those in the near future.
With all of those out of the way, on to the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: The following is a crossover between Man of Action Studio's "Ben 10" franchise and Rooster Teeth's "RWBY" series. All characters and settings belong to their respective owners. The plot is simply a retelling of the original "RWBY" storyline if the cast had help from another dimension.
Chapter 11: Food Will Fly
It was semester break at Beacon Academy and everyone was having a rather relaxing meal in the cafeteria. Although Ruby was nowhere to be seen, the remaining members of Teams RWBY and JNPR were all eating at tables across from each other. Ben sat with Team RWBY and positioned himself between the two teams. Everyone was eating rather calmly with the exception of Yang and Nora, as the latter was throwing food for the former to catch in her mouth, and Blake, who was more focused on a notebook. Among the notebook's pages were several sketches, including the White Fang emblem, a rose emblem dissimilar to Ruby's, and a man with his back turned.
"Whatcha doing?" Yang asked as she slid over to Blake.
"Nothing," Blake said as she closed the notebook, "Just going over notes from last semester."
"Lame," Yang commented as she caught another piece of food in her mouth.
"I'm not the most studious person in the world, or any for that matter," Ben injected as he took a sip of a smoothie he brought with him, "but there's nothing wrong with a little studying."
"In the middle of a semester break?" Yang countered.
"True," Ben agreed, pointing his smoothie at her.
Out of the corner of his eye, Ben saw Ruby approaching the rest of them with a rather large binder in hand. With a heave, she dropped the binder on the table with a slam, catching everyone by surprise. She then cleared her throat before speaking.
"Sisters… Friends… Weiss…" Ruby said.
"Hey!" Weiss yelled, offended.
"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream," Ruby continued.
"This ought to be good," Yang commented as she caught another piece of food.
'Those two have yet to miss,' Ben thought to himself before reprimanding himself for what he just thought, 'Great, hopefully this universe doesn't have fate that is easily tempted.'
"A dream that one day, the four of us will come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had... ever!" Ruby finished her earlier statement.
"Sorry Ben," Yang apologized for Ruby's exact words.
"Don't be, I don't want to get in the way of you guys' fun," Ben insisted.
"Did you steal my binder?" Weiss accused, noticing the binder's cover.
"I am not a crook," Ruby claimed as she made a pair of peace signs with her hands.
"The binder has the words 'Vytal Festival Activities, Property of Weiss Schnee' crossed out in red pen and replaced with the words 'Best Day Ever Activities' in the same red pen," Ben pointed out, "Considering that red is your signature color, I say we caught you ruby-red-handed."
"Boo!" Nora yelled as she threw a banana peel on top of Ben's head for the bad pun.
"Hey! Who threw that?" Ben yelled, turning around to figure out whom exactly threw the fruit peel, not bothering to take it off.
"What are you talking about?" Blake asked skeptically.
"I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!" Ruby replied as she pointed a figure at Blake.
"I always kick my semesters off with a Yang!" Yang punned, "Eh? Guys? Am I right?"
"Boooooooooooooooo!" Nora yelled as she hit Yang in the forehead with an apple.
This earned Nora a glare form Yang and earned Yang a disapproving head shake from Ben.
"You probably deserved that for the bad pun," Ben said as he threw the banana peel off his head and onto Yang's.
"Like yours was any better," Yang responded as she threw the banana peel off her head.
"Hey, my puns are awesome. Most of my aliens' names are puns," Ben argued.
"Like XLR8?" Yang challenged, "That's just an acronym that can be pronounced as accelerate."
"Said the girl on the team whose name is an acronym of the names of its members and also is pronounced as the leader's name," Ben countered, "Seriously, it's almost like some guy in the sky planned all of this at least months before any of you were born."
"Look guys, it's been a good two weeks and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great!" Ruby explained, ignoring Yang and Ben's argument, "But, classes start back up tomorrow! Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today."
"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store," Weiss commented.
While the rest of Team RWBY was discussing Ruby's plans, Yang and Ben continued to argue. Grabbing the apple Nora threw at her earlier, Yang threw it at Ben, who ducked. The apple flew over both Ben and its backup target, Nora, and hit some random guy in the cafeteria who yelled a "Hey!" in response, prompting Nora to laugh.
"I don't know. I think I might sit this one out," Blake insisted.
"Sit out or not, I think that however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team!" Weiss said, agreeing with Ruby's earlier statement.
"I got it!" Nora shouted positively.
Yang and Ben however, had a scared look on their faces and motioned for Nora not to do what she had planned.
"I for one think that..." Weiss began to say, but was cut off when a cream pie hit her in the face.
Team RWBY look over to Team JNPR to see Nora standing up, clearly the person who threw the pie. She quickly sat down and pointed to Ren in an attempt to pass the blame onto him. The rest of Team JNPR had various reactions to what just happened. Ren had his head in his palm and covered his eyes, Jaune was wide-eyed and covered his ears, and Pyrrha was in shock and covered her mouth.
Just outside the cafeteria, Sun was walking and talking to a well-dressed boy with blue hair and orange aviator goggles. The boy was none other than Sun's partner, best friend, and teammate, Neptune Vasilias. At the moment, the two boys were discussing the events of the night at the docks with the White Fang.
"Man, that's harsh," Neptune commented on Sun's story.
"I know, we were fighting side by side. She was super fast and I threw a banana at the guy, which sounds gross, but it was awesome," Sun continued.
"Nice," Neptune said in response.
"Right? And the best part is, she's a Faunus. But that's a secret, okay?" Sun pleaded.
"Got it," Neptune replied.
"And not a, 'I'm gonna go tell Scarlet the second Sun turns his back secret', I'm talking secret secret," Sun stressed, leaning in.
"Whoa, chill out, man, okay? I got it," Neptune insisted, "I got it!"
"You better," Sun continued, not noticing the cafeteria window next to them being splattered with food and Jaune, "I just don't want to screw this up, you know? The people here are the coolest! No offense to you guys."
"None taken."
"They're just in here," Sun said gesturing to a door, "I'm really excited for you to meet them. So be cool, okay? You're gonna be cool, right?"
"Dude," Neptune said as he gestured to himself.
"Good point," Sun replied, a little defeated.
The two boys walked through the cafeteria doors to meet the people Sun had spoken so highly about. However, as soon as they were in, nearly all of the other students stampeded past them and out of the room yelling something about a food fight. Neptune had a worried look on his face upon hearing the screams, but Sun looked just as excited as when they walked in.
On the other end of the cafeteria, Team JNPR could be seen standing on several tables haphazardly stacked in the shape of a castle. At the very top of the structure, Nora could be seen laughing her head off like a triumphant monarch.
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Nora sang.
"Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" Ruby declared, pointing a figure at the opposing team before crushing a milk carton in her other hand, "It will be delicious!"
"Yeah!" the rest of Team RWBY cheered, raising their fists.
Before the food fight could truly begin, Sun and Neptune felt themselves being pulled by their collars to a small fort built from some of the remaining tables in the cafeteria. Once safely inside, they realized that the person who dragged them there was Ben.
"Hey Sun," Ben said politely.
"Hey Ben," Sun replied before gesturing to Neptune, "This is my buddy, Neptune."
"Sun's told me a lot about you," Neptune introduced himself.
"The pleasure's mine," Ben responded, "Nice goggles by the way."
"Thanks. They're cool, right?" Neptune asked.
"They actually look pretty stupid," Ben said honestly, "They just reminded me of a friend."
"So, what's all this?" Sun asked, gesturing to the table fort.
"I've seen these girls pillow fight. You do not want to be caught in the crossfire," Ben answered.
"I thought you said this guy was cool," Neptune said outraged, "He apparently peeks in girls' rooms and watches them pillow fight."
"The door was wide open when I was walking past it," Ben explained to defend himself, "I got hit by the crossfire with like ten pillows in the time I was walking past the door! Just keep your head down!"
"Off with their heads!" Nora called out as she jumped down from the top of the table castle.
Once everyone was on the ground, Team JNPR began to launch a volley of large watermelons right at Team RWBY. Ren stomped on a plank of wood to use in as a lever to throw three watermelons into the air before kicking them all at once at the all-girls team. Jaune grabbed a single watermelon in front of him and catapulted it as he front flipped. Pyrrha had two watermelons, one in each hand, and threw them one at a time. Finally, Nora flipped a table of watermelons, launching eight of them at their opponent.
"Yang! Turkeys!" Ruby ordered.
Yang complied and slipped two of the turkeys on the ground onto her fists, mimicking her Ember Celica. After pounding the turkey's together in her normal battle prep fashion, she used them to punch and block almost all of the watermelons that were heading in her direction.
Blake then jumped over Yang to join her in the fray. She grabbed a pair of baguettes and held them the same way she would hold Gambol Shroud. Running ahead, she used the baguettes to shatter a few watermelons that were still heading for them. Yang then jumped over Blake to kick apart a watermelon before punching the turkeys off her fists. They flew across the cafeteria and struck Jaune. The first one hit him in the face, disorienting him, while the second one struck him in the chest, knocking him down to the ground.
"He went down quick," Neptune commented.
"Can't say I blame him though," Ben added, knowing how hard Yang could punch.
With her partner down for the time being, Pyrrha grabbed her own baguette and used it like she would Miló. Blake rushed at her, but she managed to block the attack. The two girls exchanged a few blows before Blake jumped back and high into the air before she threw one of her food weapons at her opponent. Pyrrha managed to dodge the attack, and countered by rushing at Blake at an incredible speed as the girl in black began to fall back to the ground. Unable to defend herself, Blake was struck in the stomach with Pyrrha's baguette and dropped her own, causing Pyrrha to take possession of it.
Since the baguette was of considerable length, Pyrrha threw it as if it was Miló in spear form right at Yang. Yang managed to punch away the makeshift spear and kicked away the second, but the third one got the better of her and knocked her down. In response to her sister's fall, Ruby surfed down one of the tables on a food tray. When Pyrrha tried to throw a baguette at her, Ruby jumped into the air and used the tray to knock the baguette back at Pyrrha, who managed to roll away from the attack. Seeing her opportunity, Ruby continued to surf down the table and collided with Pyrrha tray first. Although Pyrrha managed to block the attack with her arms, Ruby kicked off of the tray, knocking Pyrrha onto the ground.
With Pyrrha down, Ren and Nora rushed to avenge their friend. In response, Ruby jumped back, revealing Weiss with a bottle of ketchup in hand. Squeezing the bottle roughly, Weiss let an explosion of ketchup cover the ground in front of her. Unable to avoid the attack, Ren slipped on the ketchup floor and crashed into a collection of tables.
"Strike!" Ben quipped.
"That had to hurt," Sun commented.
The tables that Ren knocked over created a set of flying stepping stones for Nora. Using her friend's misfortune to her advantage, Nora used these tables to jump higher and break off a pole from the wall of the cafeteria. Falling back down, Nora used this pole to pierce a watermelon, creating a makeshift war hammer much like Magnhild. She then used this hammer to attack Weiss, but Ruby rushed in front of her to take the hit instead. With Ruby being launched backwards, Weiss rolled to the side where she picked up an swordfish and used it like Myrtenaster.
Her literal swordfish in hand, Weiss rushed at Nora at a breakneck speed, knocking her back a few feet. Nora managed to land on her feet and charged at Weiss again. The two girls exchanged several blows until Nora landed a solid hit on Weiss, knocking her into one of the support columns at the back of Team RWBY's side of the cafeteria, knocking her out and causing the column to tip. Seeing that her partner was in danger, Ruby rushed in a caught Weiss before she could hit the ground and be crushed by the falling structure.
"Weiss, Weiss! Don't leave me! Nooo!" Ruby cried, cradling her friend as the column collapsed behind them.
"Sure am glad I built this fort over here instead of under that column," Ben commented.
"Let's just hope they don't knock over the column we're under," Neptune added, voicing his concern.
With her sister distracted by the loss of a friend, Yang ran back into the fight, picking up two more turkeys along the way. Seeing Yang coming, Ren jumped over the table he was hiding behind and grabbed two sticks of celery, which he used like StormFlower. When the two finally collided, Yang had launched a kick, which Ren managed to catch with his celery sticks.
The two stayed locked together for a moment before they began to exchange blows. Eventually, Yang landed an uppercut on Ren, launching him into the air. However, he used this as an opportunity to use the higher ground to throw his twin celery sticks at Yang. Unfortunately for Ren, Yang dodged the attack and jumped above him, delivering a punch that drove Ren straight into the ground.
With her childhood friend now down on the ground, Nora jumped at Yang to avenge him. Yang managed to dodge Nora's hammer, causing it to only hit the ground she once stood on. She did the same with the second swing when Nora tried again. Not wanting to stay on the defensive, Yang stepped forward to take a crack at Nora. However, her punch was a slit second too late, as Nora managed to land a strong upward swing. The impact was so strong that it shattered the watermelon head of the hammer and took Yang literally out of the fight, causing her to crash through the ceiling and out of the cafeteria.
"That had to hurt," Ben commented.
"If she doesn't come back down in less than 11.02 seconds, she's gonna hit terminal velocity," Neptune added.
"How exactly do you know that?" Sun asked his friend, surprised.
"I'm the smart one, remember?" Neptune said smugly.
With her partner now out of the fight, Blake dodged the rubble falling from the ceiling and grabbed a chain of sausages. Using them like a whip, she knocked Nora into a couple of soda vending machines, causing them to pour out all of their soda cans. Using this to her advantage, Nora grabbed several of the soda cans and threw them like grenades. Luckily, Blake managed to dodge the cans Nora threw, but Pyrrha had finally pulled herself together enough to get up.
Noticing all the soda cans, Pyrrha activated her Semblance and slammed the floor. Using her unique gift, she manipulated the metal soda cans with magnetism to lift them into the air and throw them at Blake, though some of them were a bit off course. Seeing the incoming cans, Ben ducked and dialed in an alien on the Omnitrix until he found Bloxx's face.
"This fort's not gonna survive that," Ben said as he slammed down on the Omnitrix.
Once he was transformed, Ben noticed that Sun and Neptune had particularly disgusted looks on their faces. Looking down, Ben realized that he had turned into a man made entirely out of green slime. Above his head was a flying UFO-like device with the Omnitrix on top. Ben had become his Polymorph form, Goop.
"Aw, man!" Ben cried, "I needed sturdy Bloxx, not liquid Goop!"
"Hey, what's this thing?" Sun asked as he grabbed to device above Ben's head.
"Wait! Don't!" Ben yelled, but he was too late.
Sun pushed the button on the top side of the rim of the device, causing Ben to lose his shape and devolve into a puddle of slime.
"What just happened?!" Neptune asked hysterical.
"You guys turned off Goop's Anti-Gravity Projector," Ben explained, "I can't move or keep my shape without it!"
"How do you turn this thing back on?!" Sun panicked.
Unnoticed by the boys hiding inside their table fort, Pyrrha launched a huge wave of soda cans at Blake. The can's pinned Blake to one of the pillars, and accidentally blew away all of the tables forming the fort, leaving the boys completely exposed. In addition, all of the cans striking Blake in quick succession forced her threw the pillar and knocked her out of the food fight.
With the rest of her team knocked out, Ruby took it upon herself to win the fight for them. Taking off at an incredible speed, Ruby charged straight at Team JNPR. The force of her running created a gust of wind which picked up all of the food and dishware in the cafeteria, as well as a now shapeless Ben, who was still a puddle.
After finding the strength to pull themselves back up, Jaune and Ren, as well as the still up Nora and Pyrrha, saw Ruby charge straight for them, bring along her storm of food, dishware, and liquid Ben. Just before she reached Team JNPR, Ruby activated her Semblance and burst into a flurry of rose petals, increasing her speed even further. She rushed past Jaune and Ren, picking them up in her whirlwind and did the same with Nora and Pyrrha.
Ruby then stopped in front of the wall, creating a crater from her shockwave and let Team JNPR get pinned to the wall. Just before the food collided with the wall, Ruby jumped out of the way, letting the food splatter all over Team JNPR. When all was said and done, the wall was a somewhat artistic mosaic of splattered food, before a final blotch of liquid Ben was added to the mix, splashing all over Team JNPR. With the barrage finally over, Team JNPR slide down the wall before falling off, leaving blank spaces where they were pinned.
"I love these guys," Sun said to Neptune, who was covered in purple slime from the food fight looking a bit annoyed.
Suddenly, Professor Goodwitch burst through the door with a growl, looking quite angry. With a wave of her crop, she used her Semblance to reorganize the entire cafeteria. At the same time, Neptune grabbed the Anti-Gravity Projector from Sun and examined it for a moment before pressing the same button Sun pushed earlier, reactivating it. The device flew out of Neptune's hands and collected all of the liquid Ben still on the wall and Team JNPR. By the time the room was completely reorganized, the device had collected all of Ben and left him in a puddle on the ground in front of Professor Goodwitch with Teams RWBY and JNPR.
"Children, please," Glynda said sternly as she adjusted her glasses, "Do not play with your food!"
When she finished her sentence, Ben transformed back to his human form, laying down with his face in the ground.
"That was unpleasant," Ben said before promptly passing out.
Nora then burped loudly, which was followed by Yang crashing through the roof the room and onto the table that the rest of Team RWBY was gathered at. The three consecutive events caused both Team RWBY and Team JNPR to burst into laughter, much to the annoyance of Professor Goodwitch.
"Let it go," Ozpin said behind her.
"They're supposed to be the defenders of the world," Glynda said with a sigh, "Ben supposedly became that for his world at the age of ten."
"And they will be, but right now they're still children," Ozpin replied, "So why not let them play the part? Ben was and still is able to do both."
The two teachers looked on as the students try to wake Ben up.
"After all," Ozpin added as he began to walk away, "it isn't a role they'll have forever."
I hope you all enjoyed that chapter. Not too much Ben action, but plenty of Ben slapstick if I do say so myself. By the way, I actually did a bit of research on Yang in order to calculate How much time she would need to be in the air to reach terminal velocity. I'm not entirely sure of my calculations though for two reasons. The first is that I had to use an online calculator for falling speed and some guess and check. The second is that I had to use the average weight for women Yang's height since there is not official number for Yang's weight. After i finished this chapter, I wondered if I should have used a slightly bigger weights since Yang is, as Neon puts it, 'top heavy'.
If you liked this chapter, please leave a review. I lets me know that you guys appreciate my work and want to see more. Also, feel free to leave theories and ideas for this story in the reviews. Who knows, I might implement some of the into the story,