CADMUS LABATORIES
Ben Tennyson was in the run for his life, His Omnitrix was taking a extremly long recharge period in what he considered to be the absolute worst timing and situation possible.
"WHERE ARE YOU BOY!?", Said one of Ben's chasers and his gravely twisted voice barely audible that echoed down the hallways of Cadmus labs where the Blacklisted goverment agency conducted experiments very far past inhumane and illegal, Ben slowy stopped running to cover the sounds of his footsteps hitting the cold tile floors that echoed across the facility and found a room to hide in. The Depowered Alien hero was hoping the Justice League would be on-route to find him soon before he was killed, or worst taken over by Ghostfreak, the Omnitrixes physical duplicate of Zs'Skayr that wanted revenge for being trapped in the Omnitrix for almost three years. Ben found a separate hallway and entered a room packed full of computers and equipment and hid under the desk. Luckily Ben got into the room in the nick of time as a Cadmus soilder in the background opened fire behind the door on the Ecutronite.
"Die!, Wait my weapons they aren't working"
The sounds of the soilder's blood curdiling screams echoed down the halls for a few mere moments for what Ben considered aganonizing hours until all the screaming stops instanly, his mangeled and barely reconizable human body slams into the small window that cracks as a few drips of blood runs off of his forehead.
"Pitiful creature...",Says Ghostfreak as he wanders the halls and picks his teeth with his inhumanly long fingernails "Now Ben where are you... A "Hero" would not just stand by and let me slaughter everyone now would he?" He then cackles into the air as he floats down another intersection of the hallway.
Hearing Ghostfreak gone, Ben finally takes a deep breath to think about how to get out of here, alive.
"How Did I even get in this mess again?" He thinks to himself as he remembers what got him here in the first place.
FLASHBACK-3 HOURS AGO
Ben was sitting down at a table conversing with his new Guide Wonderwoman, they had been talking for almost an hour with Ben mainly telling her about his past adventures from his dimension he was telling her about a rival that he faced three years ago.
"So I meet this guy, slightly taller than me and he's eleven years at the time we are in a "video arcade" and I run out of tokens to play the game and he walks up to another machine and literally makes coins pour out of it" said Ben as Diana quickly notes that an arcade is another form of entertainment for men.
"He gets bullied by a few kids and I run behind a console and turn into X-LR8 and put the kids in a small vortex"
"You helped a fellow friend out..., or so you thought Ben", said Diana.
Ben nods quickly before telling Wonderwoman of Kevin planning to play a video game before it released and how they got caught and chased across the state for miles, Kevin planned revenge and Ben explained to Diana of how Kevin asked Ben to join him and he denied, enraged Kevin absorbed the various samples from Ben's Omnitrix.
"He had all Ten of my powers and his own, he renamed himself Kevin Eleven.",
"I fought him and I hate to admit, I barely won" Said Ben rubbing the side of his head "He dissapeared soon and came back using my Aliens to frame me"
Wally then ran across the room and stopped in front of Diana.
"We have an Emergency, Solomon Grundy has reincarnated again and is attacking the Hoover Dam" He Said calmly but in an serious tone quickly gaining Ben and Diana's attention "That Dam provides power to twenty five percent of the United States but most importantly 150 miles down the stream lies a small village of approximately seventy people that fish there, If Grundy destroys the Dam Everyone will drown".
Diana proceeds to follow Flash to the teleportation Bay and Ben follows them to the warp zone.
HOOVERDAM-CALIFORNIA-
Security and Police officers were all scrambling to evacuate all staff including the researchers and remaining personnel from the wrath of Cyrus gold- Better known to the world as Solomon Grundy.
Grundy scaled up the damn slowy and when he reached the top he let off a massive animalistic roar
RAAAAHHHHH!
Grundy was now more recently feared by the public with his last reincarnation was able to nearly bring the man of steel to his knees, considered a wild card due to his powers constantly changing every time he dies, it usually took at least three or sometimes five members of the League to take on Solomon Grundy.
Grundy began to rip the road apart piece by piece and began tossing the road chunk at the power Transformers connected to the dam's generators and caused one to nearly fall in the water barely avoiding contact with the water.
Numerous researchers fled the scene with one elder researcher struggling to run and tripping on the concrete and rolling to the side. Grundy stomped over to the man and raised his massive fist with the researcher trying to crawl backwards away from the massive 10 Feet beast.
"GRUNDY SMASH!", The Mythical enchanted Zombie roared at the Man with him closing his eyes waiting for the inevitable. He then hears a massive boom and opens his eyes to the suprise of him not being literal mush on the road but a large 10 Feet tall, near crimson red skinned man with Four arms slammed both of his left arms into Grundy blasting him into the air and landing on the ground, creating a crater 30 feet away.
"Are you Okay?", FourArms Asked The researcher for him to respond by nodding his head up and down before regaining his footing and running the opposite direction.
FourArms shook his head disappointedly "Not even a Thanks" He then crouched down and propelled himself into the air landing in the Same crater Solomon Grundy made a few mere moments ago. Upon impact into the Crater, Grundy put the Tetramand into a chokehold before tackling him into building, and then into a wall, and then another wall, and another until Ben regained his footing and Flipped backwards tossing The Zombie overhead.
"Hey Now, I really like Zombies but that was just too close for comfort", Four-Arms said as he rammed one of his upper fists into Grundy's face and a lower arm into his abdomen making Solomon barrel over. Ben jumped into the air and rose all Four of his arms planning to slam them into Solomon Grundy until he saw many shiny objects on his back causing Four-Arms to wince upon sight.
"This is gonna hurt... A lot"
Four-Arms then slammed into Grundy causing them to fall down and smash through several Floors with Ben repeatedly pounding each of his bruised arms into Grundy's armored back speeding their fall floor after floor and finally landing in a basement of the facility, Grundy tossed Four-Arms into a nearby generator electrocuting the Transformed Teen with a million Volts causing Ben to let off a loud scream until the fuse busted with Four-Arms hitting the ground with a heavy thud as clouds of smoke and charred flesh burned off him.
Ben picked himself up of the ground despite the pain that rain through his body and took his stance against Grundy.
Grundy let out a low growl as he ripped out a Butchers knife behind his back and grabbing a steak knife with his other arm before pointing both of them towards Ben.
Ben didn't know much about Solomon Grundy or his motives but he does know that Solomon isn't exactly the smartest tool in the shed to act on his own, curiously Ben decides to ask him a question.
"What are you even doing In a place like this?", Four-Arms asks waiting for Grundy's response causing him to sneer.
"Water moving make energy, Grundy smash gate to get more water, Grundy now absorb energy from rod because Grundy died on a Saturday and born again on Monday!"
Ben narrowed all Four of his eyes at Grundy before rushing at him and using his lower right arm to twist Grundys arm before kneeing him in the ribs, this caused Ben to again feel his sore muscles and slow down with his attacks slightly, The Tetramand threw another punch at Grundy causing him to dodge by backing up.
Four-Arms grabbed a bench from the ground and swung in an one eighty motion, knocking Grundy off his feet, Ben tried to repeat the attack but Grundy caught the other half of The makeshift weapon and snapped it into two pieces, seeing the weapon was now useless, both Ben and Grundy threw their pieces behind them.
Four-Arms took notice of the other Generator acrossed the room and took advantage of the situation, With a groan he'd lifted up Grundy over head "Let's see how you like it!", Ben yelled before tossing Grundy into the generator causing the Slaughter Swamp Zombie to scream.
Grundy's scream grew louder and louder as the Generator fed lethal amounts of electricity into his body guranteed to kill or at-least permantly injure any human being, Sparks flew off of the knives lodged in Grundy's back and Grundy's eyes turned a glowing white and his screaming stopped and sounded more like groaning.
Four-Arms staggered back uncounsiouly as he withnessed Grundy's body stretch and pull itself in opposite directions as both of the zombies fist and legs grew bigger, his chest and arms bulkier and menancing green mist emerging from The body of Cyrus Gold like rot. "You make Grundy strong, give Grundy a taste of power, now Grundy will show thanks.", The massive 15 foot frame of Solomon Grundy slammed his fist into Four-Arms with he barely had enough time to block with all Four of his arms making him skid back and yell out, Ben just felt as if his two main arms nearly snapped into two!
Grundy then rose both of his hands above his head causing the ground underneath Four-Arms feet to rupture as 4 pairs of arms grasped Ben's legs tighlty to hold him in place and Ben's eyes widened as he saw Grundy charging at him and rammed into him and performed a headbutt knocking Ben backwards but the arms underneath him keep him upright. Grundy then tossed Ben into the air upside with Grundy jumping after him and grappling him while in the air. From all the years Ben has been watching Sumo Slammers, he already knows whats about to happen to him.
A Piledriver.
Grundy slammed Four-Arms back down into the concrete below, and watched as Four-Arms stuggled, but slowy regained his footing and turned around only to feel A butcher knife slash across his skin but breaking nearly instantly, Grundy growled as he grabbed Ben and performed a Three Sixty slam and dropped him unto the ground once again. Grundy reached into his abdomen and pulled out a large tombstone and slammed Four-Arms over the head with a sickening crack nearly knocking him out.
Grundy was suddenly blasted into a wall and Four-Arms looked up to see Wonderwoman by his side as she put her arm under his lower arm and helped him back to his feet. "Are you alright Ben?", She asked and Ben groaned as he massaged his arms trying to get the feeling of pain out of them, In truth everything hurt atleast Vilgax type of hurt to the second power if GreyMatter had a second opinion about it. "Im fine.", he answered "Just a little bruised up."
"I'll take control from here.", Diana responded before charging towards Grundy and both combatants slammed into another section of the facility out of sight but fighting sounds still going on between the two. Ben nearly collasped was he transformed back into normal and was then hit in the neck with a strange object. Ben pulled the silver tipped object out of his neck with a red end. "I'm feeling...A Lit...tle woozy"., was the last things Ben could say before he collasped on the foor as A figure in an heavily amored suit wearing a Black and Orange mask threw him other his soilder before pressing his fingers to his ear "Waller, Phase 2 part 1 is a sucess and I have the boy, I'm Preparing for an extraction."
"Good Job Terminator, Otherwise you would have been the one Terminated."
Ben awoke to vibrations and movements of what ever area he was in, He'd then remebered his last actions the fight aginst Solomon Grundy, Wonderwoman saving him and her leaving to fight him alone, Ben finally remembered the tranqulizer dart that he had pulled out of his neck. "I've been kidnapped.", Ben says to himself before looking or attempting to look out the Shaded windows "Nothing an Alien can't fix.", Ben said as he looked at his left wrist to see a massive metal brace covering it and Ben's eyes widened significally. "No way.", Ben says out of shock. How could anyone know that the Omnitrix triggered his transformations?, ever since Batman consulted Ben about his privacy Ben became alot more secretive when using the Omnitrix, he'd even Transform before he even got close to the danger when helping out Wonderwoman and Flash. "Someone must've been watching me but...how?", Ben's thoughts were interrupted when the vehicle he was in came to a complete stop and he sat there for several moments in complete silence.
Both doors barelled open and numerous barrels of Rifles and other firearms pointed towards Ben as he scooted backwards. "Alright Kid.", said one of the Men pointing his rifle towards Ben "Get out, and well make this easy for the both of us.", he then cocked his gun and Ben slowy stepped out, He was quickly swarmed by the group encasing him in a circle formation for he couldn't escape. "Don't try anything funny."
Ben was escorted into a dark alley way when one of the soiders took off of his glove and pressed it up against a clear panel, a hissing sound was heard from the side and Ben turned his head to see Steam coming out from the underside of an large black steel door, The soilder's behind Ben pushed him forwards to walk in the door and down a long hallway. Taking a turn they moved Ben near the elevator where another Soilder had his hand retinal scanned for the elevator doors to open allowing them down further access into the strange facility. "Kid's suprsingly quiet.", said one of the female soilders to the group "Or that we are very agressive.", responded a different soilder "Well ya can't really blame him, not the first time we dealt with some superpowered kid." Ben looked down towrards the ground in pity as his captors pushed him along "Hey Kid, I know how to cheer you up!", One of the soilders with a grey helmet yelled causing Ben to look up at him, The soilder reached into his helmet and pulled out a key, Ben looked at the metallic band covering the Omnitrix and saw a keyhole on the side, taking his chances, Ben tried to snatch the key from the soilder but he pulled the palm back fast enough and shoved Ben to the ground. "Tskk, Tskk, you gotta be quicker than that!"
"That's enough Boys.", says a Black woman with an afro wearing a blazer says walking up to the group. "Ms. Waller... I was just-", says the Soilder before getting slapped to the cheek. "Don't you Ms. Waller Bullshit me boy! We experiment not tortue, luckily since this boy was not born here he has no rights and that's the only reason we can perform research on him do you understand that soilder?", She spoke with authority and glared daggers into the soilders eyes. "Ye...Yes Maam", The soilder answered. "Good, Try that again and I'll sign you up for the firing squad, now prep him in the room and we'll be ready for experimentation in fifteen minutes. and for you Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, welcome to CADMUS.", Ben was then lead to a glass cell and then locked within the shock absorbent walls. "I gotta get outta here"
TIMESKIP 15 MINUTES
Ben was then brought out of his holding cell and forceablly placed into a metal reclining chair held up at a twenty degree angle. Waller stood behind the glass window preparing Ben for experimentation. "What...What are you guys going to do to me?", Ben asked as A few scientist tied monitored his vitals through machines seeing his heartrate go up, slighty. "Don't worry were not going to kill you, unless I'm tempted, were going to study your Alien DNA in the Omnitrix and then study and see if we can make copies of the Omnitrix itself.", Ben gulped at the thought of that one. "But isn't that illegal?, to perform experiments on a person?, even more a kid like me?", Ben waited for Waller's response, she chuckled. "Please we did stuff way past Illegal by now, there is no shame in our game to better this country.", One of the researchers unlocked the brace over the Omnitrix but Ben's other arm was stilled tied down. A large machine with a red tip was wheeled in front of Ben and he saw out the corners of his eye a few researchers plug the cord into a nearby power outlet. "Listen.", said Waller as she changed her tone to a darker pitch "You're the only one capable of Operating that device on your wrist, choose a form and by the count of 3 transform on my command DO NOT TRY ANYTHING FUNNY.", Ben then nodded as a researcher freed his other arm "1...", Ben then slammed down on the core of the Omnitrix "Fire now!, he played us!", Yelled waller as emerald light quickly engulfed the area.
Ben felt his anotomy began to change as his legs fused together to form a long tail and his head turning upside down before getting a white cloak like skin that quickly became applied to the rest of his body. Multiple black cracks formed randomly on parts of his body as on side of his face he grew a purple eye and the Omnitrix peeked out the side of his Chest. "GHOSTFREAK!", Ben yelled as he briefly floated in the air.
SPECIES: ECTONURITE
Ectonurites are a ghost-like species from Anur Phaetos in the Anur System. Their Ecto-Lord is Zs'Skayr.
With their protective layer of skin, Ectonurites look like a classical ghost with a track for the eye to travel upon. Ectonurites can grow this protective layer of skin to protect them from sunlight. Without their protective layer of skin, Ectonurites look like misshapen horrors. They possess an exposed skull with sparse teeth for a head, only one eye, dark blue skin, exposed bones on certain parts of their bodies, black claws, a big gaping hole in their chest with black and white striped tentacles hanging out, and speak with an eerie, creepy voice. Ectonurites can rotate their heads so they can be upside-down or the right way up. Ectonurites can also develop deformities such as having one arm larger than the other, having three heads, having more than one eye, or having pink lips. Ectonurites on Anur Transyl usually conceal their faces. Their second skins resemble sheets, with patches and stitches commonplace. They also have stitches on their bodies. When an Ectonurite is at its full power, spikes erupt from its shoulders and its hands, and their teeth and claws grow in size.
POWERS:
Ectonurites have density altering protoplasm, allowing them to phase through matter and make themselves invisible. Ectonurites can inhabit the bodies of other lifeforms and possess them. Additionally, this grants them access to the possessed person's powers as well. Without their protective skin, Ectonurites possess powerful telekinetic abilities. In true, absolute darkness, Ectonurites can use their abilities to their full potential. An Ectonurite's mind is embedded in the very fabric of their being, a miraculous genetic memory that allows them to remember absolutely everything from the day they were born; even a single strand of its DNA can replicate it in its entirety. Ectonurites do not have any mana/life-energy in the conventional sense, making them immune to life energy absorption. They can absorb the powers of other living things, as Zs'Skayr had already absorbed Ben's, and planned to absorb Vilgax's powers as well. Ectonurites can also recreate the skin they shed. Like all species native to the Anur System, Ectonurites are immune to Corrodium.
Ben was then struck by a beam from the device and quickly went Intagible in attempt and Negate the effects of whatever Cadmus was trying to do to him. Using his telekinetic powers, Ben disarmed the Men and phased out the window coming face to face with Waller. "What the hell are you?", Waller demanded nervously as he backed up against the corner with Ben slowy coming closer "Your worst nightmare...", Ghostfreak said in his chilling voice before trying letting a tentatcle slide from underneath his skin before grasping his head in pain before ramming himself against the wall. "No Not him again!, Can't be!", Said Ben as Waller down the hallway and out of sight. Ben was engulfed in red light turning back to normal. "It can't be!", Yelled Ben grasping both sides of his head backing up against the corner, backing up away from an motionless Ghostfreeak, he'd began to change again, his skin covering his head withered away and his hands developed extremly long sharp fingernails. His body took on an indigo blue while his tail developed black stripes.
"Oh but it is Ben, but it is" Ghostfreak then began floating towards Ben until he was distracted by gunshots coming from behind him. "I'll deal with Them first, don't worry you'll get yours too very soon now run along now.", Ben ran down the hallway as fast as he could while Zs'Skayr looked into the air before letting out a loud cackle. "Oh, It's good to be back..."
Zs'Skayr then began tearing researchers and soilder's alike apart limb by limb, he was planning to unleash this fury on Ben Tennyson but unfortunately he needs him alive to claim his revenge, He was currently using his tentacles to pull out researchers while Cadmus soilders fire endless streams of bullets at him. Zs'Skayr decided to pick up the pace as he flew around hallways quickly mortally wounding every one he saw in sight, he was searching for Waller first because he was not very hapy for having HIS DNA harvested just to serve humans. "Pathetic.", he said before speeding up his massacre
PRESENT
Ben listened for any surrounding noise before walking down the creepily long and silent hallway until he stopped dead straight when he saw Zs'Skayr right infront of him facing the other direction. "Where are you Tenneyson?" Ghostfreak said as he floated down the long hallway when Ben saw the elevator right in front of him. "It only works with someones Hand Print that works here.", Ben noted to himself before going down a small corridor hoping to look for a alive researcher to help both escape from Zs'Skayr's wrath. Ben silently pushed opened a door and saw the Soilder with the grey helmet pointing towards him with a shotgun. "What the hell is that thing?!" he loudly whispered towards the depowered teen. "One of my Alien that was Sentient, that DNA extractor or whatever you call it Split both of us in two freeing him, anyway Lets get out of here.", Said Ben pointing towards the door he came through making the soilder shake his head side to side. "Are you crazy?, that thing will rip us to shreds!", responded the soilder who crouched down on the floor. "NO!", replied Ben "You are the only person who can get both of us alive out through the elevator right now, If we dont leave HE WILL FIND US, HE ALWAYS WILL"
The soilder remained in deep thought until he stood up and walked toward's Ben. "Fine, I Will just please tell me you can transform and fight that creep."
CHAPTER 14 PREVIEWS:
"So many friends to play with...so little time to use"
"Get outta here kid, go"