Hey it's time for Chapter 14. This story is going well so far. I bet all of you are still just a little shock from last chapter's ending. But we dig in just a little deeper now.
"We've gotta di~g a little deeper" sang Peter as he dressed as Mama Odie.
Dammit Peter! I've told you about breaking into song!
"Hey your the that set me up for that line"
...Cue the story.
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Along time ago in Thra, way before the First Conjunction or the arrival of the Urskeks, Aughra watched from a grassy hill as Podlings and Gelflings went about their business as the sun glowed above.
Around this time, Aughra was a young woman. She was taller than she was now, about as tall as girl Ranma. She wore an outfit like she did today, although more well kept and cleaned. Aughra has curves and her skin color was brighter, her hair was still the same and she still had all her eyes, which shone her brightly (like an Anime character's).
"Hey babe"
Aughra turned to her odd friend. His tone and outfit and even his appearance was off by Thra standards, but she still liked her mysterious friend.
Bill Cipher.
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Aughra stared at the reality bending Triangle as he just revealed his plan.
"What did Bill say?"
"I said I'm gonna have the Dark Crystal eat the Pota Pota Fruit. What are you half deaf too?"
"Are ye mad?! The Dark Crystal is the heart of Thra! If Bill takes Crystal-"
"Yeah I don't care" said Bill as he rolled his eyes...eye. "I know everything about this Crystal. You were created by the Crystal to be the voice and eyes of Thra. Which is ironic if you ask me" said Bill as he floated in front of Aughra and poked the burnt eyelids of her right eye.
"No games Bill" said Aughra angrily as she swatted away his hand. "You can't use the full power of the Crystal"
"Oh I know about the full power of the Crystal. Remember, I was there during the first conjunction when the Urskeks came, so I know that I need the three suns to bring the Crystal to full power"
"Then ye are stupid. First Conjunction Urskeks came. Second Conjunction they split into two and Crystal was cracked. And just few days ago on Third Conjunction, Crystal healed and two became one and-"
"And left. Yeah Yeah, I get it" said Bill as he played with his hair. He then tossed the Pota Pota Fruit over to Mewtwo as he caught it (BTW, Mewtwo only has two fingers and a thumb on each hand).
"But I don't need the three suns for my plan. I'm good enough"
"How do you plan to work the Crystal with the suns?" asked Aughra.
"Simplest answer: tricking it"
Bill then glowed as he shifted to his triangle form and floated to the ceiling of the room to the triangle shaped hole and fitted himself into it. His yellow body started to glow, mirroring one sun. Then his eye glowed, mirroring the second sun, and then finally his pupil glowed, mirroring the last sun.
Aughra could only watch in horror as the Crystal started to glow.
"NOW!" shouted Bill.
Mewtwo then threw the Pota Pota Fruit at the Dark Crystal. Aughra watched as as soon as the fruit can into contact with the Crystal, it imploded and splattered anywhere. The falling pieces stopped in mid air and slowly came closer to the Dark Crystal. The bits of Fruit started to fade away as the Crystal started to glow all sorts of colors. Aughra wisely covered her eyes as she felt the power released around the Crystal, the ground shook, harsh wind formed inside the room.
It was a few minutes before Aughra could sense that the turmoil was over. When she opened her eyes, she saw that the Crystal glowed yellow to red to pitch black, following in said pattern.
"Oh yeah. Bill Cipher for the win" said Bill as he shifted back into his human form and pretended to do a guitar solo with his cane.
"The Crystal has been tainted" said Aughra as she stood shock at the scene "Are ye man Bill?!"
Bill then grabbed Aughra by the neck and lifted her into the air. "Hey, the Crystal was already tainted when the Skeksis cracked it. That's when people stopped calling it the pure Crystal and started calling it the Dark Crystal" said Bill "And besides, I've stopped caring about little trivial things like that a long time ago.
Aughra then heard a familiar ticking noise. As Bill dropped her on the ground, she looked around and saw that the empty shells of the Garthim were suddenly starting to reform themselves.
"The Garthim, they-"
"Their my soldiers for my army now" said Bill "The Garthim obey the masters of the Crystal" he pointed at himself and smiled wickedly "Me"
Aughra just looked on as the Garthim reformed themselves one by one and starting tapping around the room. She fell on all forms as the madness of what just happened started to sink in.
"Don't worry, I'll leave this world alone, for old times sake" said Bill "But I'm taking you and the Crystal with me. It'll be like a big sleepover, except it'll never end, you'll be in a cage and I'll be conquering the universes. Fun right?"
"..."
"Boy, your no fun"
Bill looked around the room and picked up two things, the swords that SkekUng the Garthim Master and SkekSil the Chamberlain used during their Trial of Stone challenge.
"I'm keeping these" said Bill as he picked up his hat and placed the hilts of the swords in them, the hat sucking the swords in. "Adding to the awesomeness"
As the Garthim started forming around Aughra and dragging her away, Bill floated infront of Mewtwo.
"Oh, and before we go, do me a favor and take care of him"
Bill pointed above to the upper floor of the floor and they saw a mysterious figure run away into a corridor.
"With pleasure" said Mewtwo. A purple sphere formed around Mewtwo and he levitated off the ground to the upper floor of the room and proceeded to follow the mysterious figure that spied on the whole affair.
Mewtwo eventually was led to the room where SkekTek the Scientist did his experiments and drained Podlings and Gelflings of their essence. Mewtwo saw that the spy was leaning against the restraints where the beings were drained. Mewtwo could tell he wasn't from this land since he looked human and no human resided in Thra. He was tall yet smaller than Mewtwo himself, he had black hair and wore a lab coat. To a normal person's eyes he was completely normal, but to someone all powerful like Mewtwo, he could sense this man was dangerous.
"Oh hello, sorry if I kept you waiting" said the man.
"Who are you human?" asked Mewtwo.
"Oh I have many names, though I doubt you would bother remembering any of them" said the man. He then caressed his hands against the restraining chair. "So this is where those bothersome Skeksis drained their victims. Cruel to say the least. Though I doubt that draining youth out of a living being isn't exactly something you care about, considering beings like you, me, and that Cipher fellow are all ageless"
"So you have immortality too" said Mewtwo.
"Not immortality, eternal youth" said the man "I don't know if I'm immortal, never been in a situation were I could get killed and I don't say I want to try"
"Enough games, who are you?"
"Ssh" shushed the man "No spoilers"
"Your testing my patience" said Mewtwo crossly.
"Forgive me. I couldn't help but notice the disturbance in the boundaries of the Universes. I thought I investigate and I was led to here to discover your ally's cruel plan"
"Do you think you could stop us?"
"No. The normal reason why is usually because I figure I should let someone else deal with the problem. But the reason now is because a being like and Cipher are too powerful for me to deal with alone"
"Your wise for such an ignorant man. If you knew we could stop you, then it was foolish of you to reveal yourself" said Mewtwo as he opened his palms towards the man. He then fired a powerful Aura Sphere.
But as soon as the Aura Sphere blasted off his palm, time seemed to have slowed down. No time was slowing down. The aura sphere was slowly moving towards the man at a snail's pace. And Mewtwo himself felt like his body could only move as fast as a snail.
As for the man, he walked over to Mewtwo, the time slowing seemingly not having any affect on him. He stopped in front of Mewtwo.
"I said I can't stop you" he grabbed Mewtwo's hand and placed something in his palm "I didn't say you could stop me"
Then time started at a normal pace. The aura sphere cashed into the wall as Mewtwo looked around. As soon as time returned to normal, the man disappeared. Mewtwo gritted his teeth as to how easily the man played him for a fool. Mewtwo looked into his hand and inspected what the man gave him.
A gumball.
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"Hey Gwen" said Ben as he talked on his cellphone "No just heading to bed, how are things for you?"- "Oh really? That's great. How's Kevin?" - "Same as usual huh?"
Ben Tennyson was a 16 year old man that was the Hero of Earth and wielder of the greatest item in the Universe.
When Ben was ten years old, he wanted nothing more than to be a hero. During the summer, he traveled with his Grandpa Max and cousin Gwen on a road trip all over the country. During the first night of their journey, an alien pod crashed into a forest and Ben investigated it. When Ben stumbled upon the pod, he discovered that inside the pod was an alien watch called the Omnitrix that stuck itself upon his wrist. Now Ben was able to turn into ten different aliens. Ben used his watch to fulfill his dream of being a hero.
As time passed, an alien warlord named Vilgax came to Earth seeking the Omnitrix. During his first encounter with Vilgax, Ben and Gwen discovered that their Grandpa Max was actually a retired member of a group called the Plumbers, an intergalactic group that protected planets from alien threats and that he had a past with Vilgax. As they continued their journey, Ben learned more about the Omnitrix, gaining more and more aliens, figuring out certain functions of the device, and even meeting the creator of the Omnitrix, Azmuth.
Five years after he got the Omnitrix, Ben had taken off the watch and resumed a normal life. But when his Grandpa Max disappeared investigating suspicious alien movement, Ben and Gwen decided to investigate, with Ben putting the Omnitrix back on. When they investigated the aliens Max had been tailing, the DNAliens, they ran into an old enemy from Ben's childhood, Kevin Levin, a halfbreed alien called an Osmosian that could merge their bodies with earth and steel and other sorts of things. In the past, Kevin tried to absorb energy of the Omnitrix and turned into a eleven-way hybrid of himself and Ben's ten original aliens.. Now Kevin had better control of his powers. After a brief fight between Ben and Kevin, they enlisted Kevin into helping them investigate the DNAliens and as they kept discovering more and more about them. They found out that the DNAliens were originally humans turned into DNAliens through the actions of the Highbreed, an ancient alien race that viewed all other races as inferior and valued racial purity above all else. The Highbreed were a dying race and so they sought to destroy all other alien species so that they would go extinct as they would. Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and a small army of allies decided to attack the Highbreed base on earth and restore all the humans turned into DNAliens. They then set off to the Highbreed home world in order to stop the Highbreed invasions. In a bold move, Ben used the Omnitrix to rewrite the DNA structure of all the Highbreed. Though against it at first, a Highbreed Ben befriended in the past persuaded the Highbreed elders that in order for the Highbreed race to survive, they would need to put aside their race purity perspective. Thus the Highbreed invasions ended and Ben was hailed a hero.
But soon after that, Ben's old enemy Vilgax and a Galvan named Albedo, who took the form of an anti-Ben, stole Azmuth's newest creation, the Ultimatrix. The Ultimatrix had the ability to actually evolve Omnitrix aliens. Albedo used the Ultimatrix to kidnap Kevin and Gwen and forced Ben to hand over the Omnitrix in order to save them. After escaping the duo and a brief talk from Azmuth, Ben returned to confront Vilgax and actually had the Omnitrix self-destruct to prevent Vilgax from using it. Ben then took the Ultimatrix off of Albedo and defeated Vilgax.
After that Ben had to deal with a lot of things: his secret identity being uncovered and the world finding out about him, an evil Osmosian warlord named Aggregor abducting five different alien races and absorbing them to get his hand on the energy of the ultimate alien race, Kevin mutating into another alien Hybrid monster and going on an energy absorbing rave, and finally the appearance of the Diagon, an ancient alien monster that was an ancient enemy of the Forever Knights, one of Ben's enemies. After a great battle which eventually led to Ben's enemy Vilgax absorbing Diagon and fighting Ben, with Ben winning using Azmuth's invention Ascalon. With the power of Diagon, Ascalon, and the Ultimatrix, Ben could be the most powerful being in the Universe. But Ben only used the power to undo all the damage caused by their battle before he returned the sword to Azmuth.
It has been a month since the whole Diagon affair ended and now Ben was trying to resume normal life for him.
"Well how about you, me, and Kevin head out to Mr. Smoothies and-"
Ben stopped talking when he turned around and saw Professor Paradox, his time traveling ally, sitting on his bed.
"-...Sorry Gwen, something just came up, I've gotta go" Ben hung up his cell phone "This can't be good Professor"
"It isn't" said Professor Paradox "But if it makes you feel better it has nothing to do with saving the Earth or the Universe...yet"
"Oh boy" Ben sat down in a chair facing Paradox "So what is it?"
"I'm afraid that a being more powerful than even the Diagon is going to start trouble"
"Hold on. Someone stronger than Diagon?! What are we dealing with Professor Paradox"
"His name is Bill Cipher" said Paradox "He's a reality bending being. He's a mysterious being that even I know little about. All I know is that he gets around by making deals with humans in his own universe"
"His own universe? So that means he's from another dimension?"
"Correct, but this isn't like a time travel or a Multiverse situation. Bill Cipher aims to actually conquer the separate universe. He's already made an alliance with a powerful being called Mewtwo and has constructed an army of creature called the Garthim"
"So when's he coming to this universe?"
"Not this Universe, another universe" said Paradox "You see, this all started-"
Ben listened as Professor Paradox described all about the current situation.
"So because of an incident in one universe, it pulled people from five different universes into the first universe, including the universe which Bill Cipher resides in. Bill Cipher then decided to use the situation to caused mayhem in the first universe by building his own army for his plans we have no idea about"
"That's correct"
"And let me take a guess, you want me to go to where Cipher is and beat the crap out of him"
"No"
"No?"
"If I did send you to fight Bill Cipher, it wouldn't end well. Bill Cipher's powers exceed even those of Alien X with full control" said Paradox "And I wouldn't want the Ultimatrix to fall into his hands. No, I want you to travel with the Straw Hats and prepare them for when Cipher does make his move"
"...What's the worst that will happen if Cipher has his way?"
"Cipher is omnipotent. If we make a move too late, Cipher could rule the Universes"
"...All right, so what's this group like"
"Currently their a pirate group that wants to find a treasure called One Piece, so your Hero status won't do you any good with the local authorities"
"That figures" said Ben "Oh well, so what do I do once I get there?"
"Find the Straw Hat Pirates and join them. And explain to them the current situation"
"Alright, mind telling Gwen, Kevin, and Grandpa Max goodbye?"
"Of course Ben" said Paradox "Good luck"
As the words left his mouth, Ben felt his body slowly disappeared until he was gone.
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"...So, someone besides myself sensed the disturbance in the borders of the Universe" said Cipher as he sat on the Skeksis' throne, chewing on the gumball Paradox left behind. The eye that was usually covered by the eye patch glowed as it showed the scenario that occurred between Ben and Paradox.
"What now?" asked Mewtwo.
"It doesn't matter if that Tennyson boy joins the Straw Hats, but I can't let them know about me" said Bill "Go into the Pirate Universe and find that boy. Then use your psychic powers to alter his memory. I want it so it seemed like he was sent into that Universe by Paradox but because of an unknown threat, not because of me"
"You do realize that they will find out about you eventually" said Mewtwo.
"I rather not they find out about me this early, especially not Stanford Pines" said Bill.
"An old enemy?"
"Something like that" Bill swallowed the gumball and made a bottle appear in air and began to drink out of it "He might look like an old man, but he's not what he seems"
"I've been meaner to ask" said Mewtwo as he eyed the Garthim standing on the side of the room "You've shown me the strength of these Straw Hat Pirates. In a full frontal assault, the Garthim wouldn't stand a chance against the stronger members of the crew unless they were in great numbers"
"That's why I've got a great idea concerning that" said Bill "I'll watch the Straw Hats from the side and work with their powerful enemies to get where I want. Sort of behind the sides sort of thing"
"And meanwhile you have your way?"
"Glad your getting to know my insanity" said Bill as he finished his drink, then shoved the bottle down his throat and swallowed. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
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Well now we add our first new series.
As you may have noticed, this has taken place before Omniverse. I have nothing against Omniverse, but I prefer the Alien Force/Ultimate Alien designs and characteristics. Omniverse just felt too goofy for me, no offense to hard core Omniverse fans. But Omniverse aliens will appear later in the series.
Also Ben still has the Ultimatrix over the New Omnitrix. I want the Ultimate Aliens to appear in this story.
Aughra and Bill Cipher's history will be in the further future and will be explained like during one of those flashback episodes they have in One Piece. Those are usually dramatic and can make anyone cry.
Like it was said in this chapter, Bill will make deals with the big One Piece villains. Like image during Crocodile's meeting with Baroque Works and Bill Cipher just shows up, offers Crocodile a deal, and intimidates his flunkies a bit.
The next arc will be the filler Warship Island Arc.
Next Chapter, Ben meets Apis, Ben vs Mewtwo, Straw Hats meet Apis and Ben.
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