Tigerclaw97: Plus there is the fact that as he is a prince and his dad is a big time hero, his only REAL friends have ever been his siblings. They have been the biggest constant in his life since his parents can be busy. And if he skips a few grades... is that him betraying them? Would they THINK he is betraying them? Could he handle being away from them?
Lonestar88: Nope! This arc is only half done! No bad guy here, this arc is all about character development!
Here are a few reviews answered by Ghost:
Guest October 15: ...Did you mean Vegito's Harem? New chapters WILL be out, so please don't whine about it.
MiseryWolf97: Thank you for your support.
Mighty TAB X: Thanks for the continued support. And have you ever seen/played The Last of Us? They're kinda like them...only aliens.
Tigerclaw97: I think we were going for more The Last of Us. But yeah Atem IS worried about leaving his siblings in class.
Co-Writter: GhostKaiser23
Artist: GhostKaiser23, he goes by Hangman12 on Deviantart. Either look him up, or go to my profile to see links to all of his official work for this story
Disclaimer: Cartoon Network owns Ben 10
Authors Note:
Darn, we are going wild here! This was real fun to work on!
Krystal's Harem
Chapter 19: Secret of the Ship Part 2
*Two hours ago*
"Okay everyone, be careful. This is a fungal infection; we're going to need the hazmat suits." Max spoke to the Plumbers. They nodded, gearing up while Euince was messing with Krystal's Matrix
"You've been keeping your Matrix up to scratch. I'm impressed." Eunice spoke
"What's that supposed to mean?" Krystal asked feeling insulted
"I only meant: dad used a screwdriver and bashed rocks with his original Omnitrix. You've kept your fully functioning." Eunice answered
"Of course he did." Krystal chuckled
"I've extended the time limit." Euince nodded as she pulled back
"So how long do I have now?" Krystal asked
"Twice as long." She smiled
"Oh sweet." Krystal answered happily "Thank you, Eunice."
"Ready to get working?" Ship asked
"Always." Krystal smiled, kissing her
'We have THE weirdest family.' Eunice thought with a smile, shaking her head lightly "Now, if that's all, I'll be heading off."
"Better to be safe, I get it." Krystal nodded, hugging her sister "See you soon. Family drama at home, help would be good."
"I'll head there now, if you want." Eunice answered
"No, it's fine." Krystal nodded "Okay, see you later sis." Euince nodded, teleporting away
"Alright, you ready now?" Ship asked
"Yep. Let's get moving." Krystal nodded
*1 hour 40 minutes ago*
"This...Fungi is disgusting..." A plumber spoke as they were collecting samples of the fungi for sterilization. The fungi was rumbling lightly, but nothing has reacted yet
"Okay, okay...That was close." One of the plumbers spoke
Krystal sighed as she finished getting the samples as well "I've got mine." She spoke as she was in her Thep Khufan form
Everyone was ready... When suddenly the fungi shot up, grabbing several plumbers who were screaming "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Each screamed, begging for the fungi to be 'gotten off' them
"No!" Krystal yelled
"Everyone out!" Max ordered
"We're out!" Ship dragged Krystal out of there.
"The fungi is spreading!" Krystal called out
"Help!" A Plumber yelled as he was swallowed by the Fungi
"Zombies...Zombies, Clickers, Walkers!" Krystal's psyche began to snap
"Hello pet." Khyber's ghost grinned as he appeared
"GAH!" Krystal halted and fell to the floor, her eyes wide as her fear filled her "No...No-no!"
"Krystal? Krystal, what's wrong?" Ship asked
"Him! Him! Get him away!" Krystal yelled, pointing at the ghost of Kyber who existed only in her mind
"Krystal, there's no-one there." Ship spoke "Come on, we've got to move!" She pulled up her girlfriend, but Krystal was pinned to the floor. Ship frowned, wrapping her body around Krystal and running 'Why did this turn into a god-damn zombie film?!' Ship thought before she noticed she had lost the other Plumbers where gone
*1 hour 20 minute ago*
"W... What happened?" Krystal whispered, her eyes flickering open
"Oh thank goodness. You're back to reality." Ship sighed in relief "You started freaking out. Shouting at something that wasn't there."
"Shouting?" Krystal frowned
"You said 'Him, get him away'. Who's 'him'?" Ship asked
"I... Kyber." She frowned
"Khyber? The...The...Monster, who captured you?" Ship frowned "Captured us?"
Krystal nodded and touched the Nemetrix in her neck "Yes... I... I've seen seeing her all over the place."
"Khyber... Here? But... He's dead." Ship frowned "Krystal. It's your mind."
"Y... You're saying... It's all in my head?" Krystal asked
"Yes, I am. After everything that's happened...I don't blame you for seeing these." Ship answered "You have a form of PTSD."
"PTSD?" Krystal asked
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." Ship frowned "It's when you have an even so traumatic it carries on even after the incident is over."
"O... Okay..." Krystal nodded with a frown
"We've got to get moving. Those Fungi-Zombies are coming." Ship spoke, helping her up
"Fungi zombies?!" Krystal screamed
"That's what they look like." Ship answered
Krystal sighed in worry, nodding "Do...they have a weakness?" Krystal asked.
"Aside from your immunity as an Anur System alien? Not really." Ship answered "Besides when Zed ripped it's throat out."
"Of course." Krystal nodded as the sounds of the Fungi-Zombies banging on the barriers "What?!" She gasped
"Damn it. We've got to move. They might get through." Ship spoke
Krystal looked around before she spotted a plate on the wall. The quickly kicked it open, crawling through the vent that was revealed with Ship on her tail "Stay by me." Krystal spoke as she and Ship crawled through vent.
"Got it." Ship nodded
*1 hour ago*
"Is Plumber HQ evacuated?" Krystal asked Max
"Yes. You and Ship are the only ones left in the base." Max nodded over coms
"Good...Why did this have to be a zombie flick?" Krystal frowned
"It's not Zombies. More like mind possession." Euince commented over the coms "I've been studying the fungi more and those it 'encases' are basically used like puppets on a string. You have three hours to save them before they die from it, however."
"Thanks for that info, Eunice." Krystal answered. "Is there an antidote?"
"Still working on it."
"Do your best, Eunice. We'll keep the infected down here." Ship spoke
"I know you will. Good luck." Eunice answered
"Thank's." Krystal sighed at that's looking up
"Ready?" Ship asked gently
"Just... Let's just do this." Krystal answered "We need to get moving...I'm not taking chances." Krystal spoke transforming into her Loboan form. The two nodded, moving out
"Are you getting the scent?" Ship asked as they were walking through the halls.
"Of?" Krystal asked
"The fungi-zombies." Ship answered
"The entire PLACE smells like them." She sighed
"Damn it...I'm sorry, stupid question." Ship frowned
"Well, we gotta keep moving." Krystal ordered lightly
"Alright." Ship nodded and followed, then stopped as she heard something in one of the other rooms.
"What?" She frowned, opening the door
"I thought I heard something." Ship answered
Krystal frowned in worry at that. The door then slammed shut as one of the fungi-zombie tried to break through the door "Fuck!" Krystal panted
"Not very smart." Ship commented as she shot the lock on the door making that room inaccessible.
"Now what?" Krystal frowned
"The armoury. There might be some stunning weapons in there." Ship answered
"On the other side of the base..." Krystal sighed
"Give me a minute." Ship nodded, merging with the computer
Krystal nodded and checked the different corners to make sure she wasn't surrounded. She was guarding Ship, her eyes narrowed "We're okay for now, Ship. Anything on the servers?" Krystal asked
"There is a lot here, going through it." She said simply
"Okay, I'll keep an eye out." Krystal answered.
"Will you?" Khyber's voice asked as his figure appeared in Krystal's vision, leaning against the wall "CAN you protect her?"
"Shut it." She snarled
"What? I'm only saying what you're thinking... How you can't protect her AND yourself..." Khyber taunted her
"I don't care about myself." She glared at him, trying to ignore the man
"Really? Not even when you degraded yourself? When you bowed to me... When you... BEGGED... To be my dog." Khyber smiled maliciously.
"Shut up." Krystal muttered as she closed her eyes, holding back tears while trying to ignore Khyber
"You KNOW... You want to be broken... You BEG for it... Being a weapon, a tool... A means to an end." Khyber smiled, his form taking on a more sinister glare. "You want the Nemetrix to take over."
"SHUT UP!" She yelled
"Krystal? What's wrong?" Ship asked, being distracted by Krystal's voice.
"N... Nothing." She lied
"Bye, dog... Oh... one last thing... You better run." Khyber spoke as he vanished
"What? Wait? What're you-?" Krystal asked as her Matrix began to beep "What?" Her eyes widened "No... No, no, no!" Krystal gasped as she changed back to normal.
"Krystal?" Ship asked
"I... I'm normal... I... I'm back to normal!" Krystal panicked, that was when the door was flung open with a small horde of infected Plumbers coming through it.
Ship frowned, getting protectively in front of her "I've got this Krystal. I won't let them get you." Ship reassured Krystal
"Ship." Krystal whispered in fear for her
"AAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEE!" The fungi-zombies screeched and rushed at them
"Oh god!" Krystal screamed
"RUN!" Ship ordered at her, ready to fight
Krystal turned tail and fled as she ran, leaving Ship on her own "Oh fuck! Oh fuck! Ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck!" Krystal screamed as she ran from a near army of the fungi zombies
*Present Time*
Krystal panted, collapsing in a room as she hid away 'Oh god, oh god, oh god! What-What am I going to do?' She thought, her emotions running high, her heart pounding so hard that she could hear it in her ears 'W... What did I do?! I... I just LEFT her!'
Khyber's 'ghost' reappeared before Krystal, smiling darkly "So you do abandon everyone you pretend to care about."
"I... Shut up!" Krystal covered her ears, hissing at the ghost while trying to remain quiet "Shut up!"
"You know that you'll leave. Being afraid of everything." Khyber taunted
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Krystal shook her head as she hid in a room. She had walked into the room where Kyber 'kept her' "Oh... God... No, not this... not here...!" Krystal's eyes shrunk back into her head. She began to cry, falling to her knees
"Back here again...Where you belong..." Khyber smiled darkly
"SHUT UP!" Krystal screamed
"Why? Why should I shut up? You KNOW you're only a pet." Khyber snarled
"NO I'M NOT!" Krystal yelled "I KILLED you! Right HERE! With my own HANDS! I am the farthest thing from a pet you could get!"
"Like a good killer." Khyber answered "Like I train my pets."
"SHUT UP!" She slammed the door shut and panted in fear and anger. She was conflicted. How was she supposed to be a hero, if she just couldn't face her fears?
When she was broken
She began to weep, shivering in place with her back to the door 'D-Daddy... What... what do I do?'
'Krystal?' an echoed voice asked out of nowhere
"D-Daddy? Is... Is that you?" She whispered but as she looked up she realized it wasn't him. It wasn't her lovers. Her mother's. Or any of her siblings. She was looking... At a younger, 10 year old, version of herself "Y-You're me..." Krystal gasped seeing her younger self. "I...I must be going mad!"
"Please. Mad are people Daddy beats up, bad guys are mad." 10 year old Krystal scoffed "Don't be silly."
"But...I'm seeing my younger self...and TALKING to you!" Krystal rebutted
"Stop acting like a baby." 10 year old Krystal said, ignoring what Krystal said as she crossed her arms and huffed with a pout
"I'm NOT a-" Krystal began to shout
"Yeah you are." 10 year old Krystal interrupted "You're hiding away like me when those big monsters attacked us before we met Daddy!" 10 year old Krystal said, stopping her foot
"But...I..." Krystal frowned "I... I left Ship."
"Well? Go and get back to her!" 10 year old Krystal answered "Daddy said that everyone gets scared! You trust Ship, you trusted her so you didn't need to hesitate to run!"
"But I'm BROKEN!" Krystal answered... And then 10 year old Krystal slapped her
"Don't. You. DARE. Say that about yourself!" 10 year old Krystal snapped "You are being selfish! You lost! A hero doesn't give up! Look at Daddy! Now get up and kick butt! Helping people is the important bit, the stuff like what happened to us was bad but we shouldn't let it hold us back! We! Are! Krystal! Tennyson!"
Krystal shook in place and then looked at her Omnitrix...Clenching her fist...She slammed down her hand onto the dial, transforming into a random alien. She became Amazon, her Tetramand form
"Krystal!" Euince yelled in her ear, making her jump
"GAH! Eunice! The heck?" Krystal panted
"I was trying to get your attention for ten minutes!" Her sister frowned "But you didn't do anything!"
"I... Sorry... I-I was having a crisis." Krystal answered
"I heard." Euince said sadly "But I found out how to beat the fungi."
"How?!" Krystal gasped
"Fire hurts them but they need a very high temperature to burn or melt, temperatures you can't safely reach." Euince started to explain "They also use a weak form of electricity to clump together, your shocks hurt them but it just makes them stick together stronger. You COULD freeze them but that would kill their hosts."
"How about instead of telling me what WON'T work you tell me what WILL!" Krystal snapped lightly
"Okay, okay." Euince waved off "Listen. Just 'shake them up'. Okay?"
"Shake them... What?" Krystal blinked
"Good luck!" Euince smiled, hanging up
"'Shake them up'? ...Oh...I get it." Krystal spoke
*With Ship*
Ship panted as she stumbled back, her arms currently in the form of high tech cannons "Come on... You bastards..." Ship panted. Suddenly Amazon burst through the wall, slamming her hands together making the fungus monsters back up before she reverted to Krystal "Krystal!" Ship called out
"Hi Ship." Krystal answered. She smiled, hugging her as she fiddled with her Matrix
"You have a plan?" Ship asked as the fungi-zombies screeched
"Nope!" Krystal grinned, activating her Matrix and shifting into a new alien. Krystal transformed into a white-skinned alien with blue accents going down her arms and her legs. Her eyes were almost robotic and headphone shaped ears and slightly bulky arms and legs, her Matrix on her chest while she had a form of backpack on her back "And... I got nothing." Krystal blinked, unable to come up with a name as she transformed causing an almost anti-climactic feel
"That can wait." Ship responded as she did an anime fall.
Krystal shrugged, multiplying "Sonic. WALL!" Krystal and her clones proclaimed, giving off a great sonic wail at the fungal-zombies, disrupting the fungus on the plumbers and causing it to be atomized.
"Wow." Ship whispered. The plumbers screamed in agony as the fungi were now being removed and dissipating into harmless dust.
"Oh my head." One groaned
"What...Happened? Ugh..." The other groaned as they fell to the floor
Krystal smiled as she and her clones merged back into one and she fell to the floor in exhaustion. The adrenaline had left her body "Oh god." She frowned, exhausted
"Are you okay?" Ship asked, holding her.
"Yeah... Yeah, I'm okay now..." Krystal answered "Just tired."
"Okay. Grandpa Max. The Plumbers have been neutralized." Ship spoke through her com-link
"Good. And now we know how to get rid of the mass at the bottom of the ship now. You're safe Ship. Get out of there." Max nodded through the com's
"Thank goodness. Coming back now." Ship responded
*time skip*
Krystal was resting up in a Plumber Medic Bay bed, she was just exhausted but he was concerned "She did great." Max smiled
"Yeah...But, I think she has PTSD." Ship answered "I'm worried."
"You seen her at the end. She's Ben's daughter." Max smiled "We will be there when she needs us but she has this."
"Yeah...That she is." Ship nodded... Que worried girlfriends running in with a very worried Helen
"Mr Tennyson!"
"Max!"
The two groups spoke at the same time in worry for Krystal "Madjister Tennyson-Wheels. Girls." Max nodded at the group
"Is she alright?" Greer asked
"Of course." Max smiled "She's just tired."
"What was that hunter thinking?" Helen frowned
"It's a last defense, a 'just get rid of this place and run' situation." Max explained
"Sounds like a Predator." TwoTwo answered
"Yea." Michelle agreed
"We should let her rest." Ship spoke quietly
Everyone is nodded in agreement at that The group left, leaving Krystal to sleep. While the hero girl slept, in her dreams she was back home with her family.
She was happy
*With ML-E*
ML-E was lying on her stomach, listening to the song James made for her while she was looking at her phone "Hmm..." She hummed as she was looking on the apps but as she was looking around the net... She found an odd website "The heck is this?" ML-E wondered, sitting up
A... Game competition?
"Is...Is this real?" She thought, being told not to trust everything on the internet. Looking all over it she was getting exited, grinning "I-I wonder if Mama will let me join this?" she thought
But she saw the time. 9 at night. She was supposed to be in her pyjamas by then.
"Oh... Crapbaskets." ML-E whispered but... she... she wanted to go. She would go. 'I'll just sneak out. No one will know.' she thought, knowing she'd need a disguise because the news that ML-E Tennyson was at the gaming contest would be all over the news and her parents would know she went there 'Okay, just a few random things. And I'll get going.' She thought, setting it up so that she appeared to be in bed. She smiled in excitement, yet also nervous
This... Was big
She had never done something like this before!
'Mum...Everyone...I'll be back soon.' She thought, heading out through her window. A black and blue blur took off.