Ben 10 Guild Mage
Chapter 21: Bellwood or Bust
AN: Ok, before I start this story Arc, I've got some bitching to do. Recently I've stumbled onto some confirmed images of the rebooted Ben 10 series for a few of his aliens, plus Max and Gwen on YouTube. Some are decent, such as Gray Matter and Upgrade. While others are really similar to the original series such as Fourarms and HeatBlast. But two forms, I am down right livid over are Overflow and Stinkfly. For starters, Overflow isn't a brand new alien, it's just a bulkier Water Hazard with water tanks on his arms. Really, there's a description with it, he's actually Water Hazard. Stinkfly, unlike the other returning aliens, doesn't even look like StinkFly of any series. He's a purple/ blue Big Chill from Alien Force/ Ultimate Alien with dragonfly wings. Cartoon Network, I get it, you want a new series for the next generation, just don't forget your roots OK.
On a more positive note, HAPPY 10TH Anniversary, Fairy Tail. Yep, it's been ten years since the series began. This is especially nice since Mashimo originally wanted to end the series with the Phantom Lord Arc.
It was about noon, as Kagura walked into the front of the Fairy Tail guild hall with a duffel bag over her shoulder. Today, he would be going with her boyfriend to his hometown. Needless to say, she was nervous. However her nerves were replaced with shock, seeing Natsu and Gray fighting. A wave of fire and ice constantly clashed between the two.
"That all you got stripper!" Natsu bellowed infuriated.
"Not on your life hot head!" Gray spat back.
"ENOUGH!" Megahurtz shot a sonic blast at the two stopping their fight. "I'm three days behind schedule because you two couldn't stop fighting."
"Well one of those was because of that job with the mole." Lucy explained.
"Hi sweetie." Kagura said, walking up to the armored alien. "What mole are you talking about?"
"The giant, perverted kind." Lucy shuttered. She then explained how a village that lived around a large lake filled with mud had a problem with a giant mole that Underbite couldn't keep up with. Apparently it had a thing for women that didn't wear armor and had large breasts, so Lucy got suckered into wearing a wedding dress to find him. Then Virgo dragged her all over the lake, trying to get her to safety. Needless to say, everyone got muddy.
"Wow," Was all Kagura could say.
"Oh you have no idea." Lucy admitted with a groan.
"Ready to go?" Erza asked, hauling a massive amount of luggage around.
"You aren't taking all that." Ben said, reverting to human. "We're just going for a few hours to see my friends and family."
"So, who's all coming?" Kagura asked.
"Aside from you and Erza, it's Devlin, Gray, Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Carla, Happy, and Juvia." Ben explained.
"I'm surprised Aaron's not coming." Kagura admitted.
"He's off with the Thunder Legion on a job," Lucy explained, adjusting her backpack. "He and Laxus really hit it off being they are second generation dragon slayers."
"Well that makes sense, but what about the others?" Kagura asked confused.
"I refuse to set foot in that nightmare you call a hometown!" Cana bellowed, then turned to her barrel.
"Legal drinking age in his country is 21, she's under age by three years." Erza explained to her friend's confused face.
"Last I heard Gajeel was off shopping somewhere with Pantherlily." Natsu explained.
"Then let us be off." Juvia said with a smile. Everyone going nodded, however no one noticed the dark look on Juvia's face. "I won't lose Gray to some alien broad out there." She thought menacingly.
Levy, who was sitting at a table near the window reading, took a moment to look up from her book. "Don't forget, you promised to bring me some of your literature!"
"I won't." Ben assured her. "I'll bring back some classics."
Levy turned back to her book, and paused a moment hearing someone yell. "That's not it!" Looking outside, she could have sworn she saw Rogue from Sabertooth.
In the back part of the room, Devlin and Makarov stood in silence over the completed portal. For Devlin, this was a both a bad omen, and a sign of joy. It was a massive white circle, not unlike the Null Void projector. In the master's hands was his own smart phone, modified by Tech-Support to work between dimensions.
"You ready for this?" Ben asked Devlin, sounding very concerned.
"I've been both a dead man, and a wanted alien for 15 years." Devlin admitted with a sigh. "This is about as ready as I'll ever be."
"Fair enough man, no one could know what you're going through right now." Natsu admitted sympathetically. "But I'm sure once this whole thing is cleared, everything will turn out for the better."
"Thanks hot head, I needed that." Devlin said with a weak smile.
"Are you sure you don't mind getting rid of us for a few hours?" Erza asked the master.
"Of course, I don't exactly trust Servantis, and I do want to see he was brought to justice." Makarov admitted with a smile. He secretly just wanted to go one day without Natsu blowing something up. Makarov would have felt bad for Bellwood, but from his stories, Ben did say he's done worse damage.
"So basically, if you don't hear from us in 5 hours, go in guns blazing." Ben said with a smirk.
"With pleasure." Makarov said with a joyful laugh.
"So we are strictly going to your dimension with this thing?" Gray asked skeptically.
"Paradox already has the coordinates preprogramed, we'll be fine." Ben assured him, secretly crossing his fingers behind his back.
"Let's go already, I want to eat alien fish!" Happy said with a smile.
"You and your fish." Carla said flatly. Makarov pulled a level and the portal opened up.
"See you later!" Ben said, jumping into the portal with the others right behind him. Makarov was about to pull the switch to stop it, when something pink went in, followed by four others, just as the portal closed.
"Was that?" Makarov asked confused. He tried to call Ben, only to see it say "Unable to Connect" on his phone.
"Should we go after them?" Mira asked concerned.
"No, we'll give Ben his five hours, if not it would show we have no faith in him." Makarov admitted with a sigh.
The team landed near Main Street where Ben took center stage.
"Hello Bellwood!" Ben said with a smile, being home for the first time in over a month. Only to discover, it was strangely dead. "Ok, it's never this quiet." He said, adopting a confused and concerned look.
It was here, Natsu produced a Fire Dragon's Iron Fist. "Awesome."
"Natsu, what are you doing?" Kagura asked confused.
"You ever hear about Edolas?" Natsu asked. Kagura nodded, not seeing his point. "In that dimension, we couldn't use magic, I'm just making sure we can." The mages realized he had a point and began to do the same.
"I'm good," Gray said, making a small statuette.
"Same here." Lucy said, summoning Plue.
"I'm fine." Wendy said, creating a small gust of wind.
"As am I." Kagura said, channeling some gravity magic.
"No problems here." Juvia said, creating a small water bubble.
"I'm good." Erza said, requipping into her Sea Empress armor.
"Hey howdy hey, what's this?" Devlin asked, pulling a piece of paper off a nearby closed Burger Shack. "Plumber's ordinance Alpha-9321, all restaurants and places of public groupings are shut down for security reasons?"
"The ordinances don't go anywhere near that high." Ben said firmly.
It was here, a nearby electronics store showed a broadcast of the Harangue Nation. However what confused Ben was who was doing the broadcast.
"How is Harangue human again?" Ben asked confused.
"Good Day planet Earth, Will Harangue of the Harangue Nation Live from Bellwood Park where the leader of the resistance against the great Magistratus Servantis, Gwen Tennyson will be executed in just 15 minutes." The egotistical human said, shocking Ben to no limits. Will Harangue was an arrogant man who just loved to be on the air. And when Ben's secret identity was made public by Jimmy Jones, he turned his sights on Ben, doing everything to make sure the menace was brought to "Justice", even going so far as to make a giant robot capable of matching majority of his aliens at the time. After the Incursion Invasion of Earth, Will's popularity went downhill, siding with the benevolent warmongers. So to save face, he decided to join up with the newest gang of Forever Knights to turn all the aliens on Earth human, unaware their machine was meant to kill the aliens. So Ben altered it with Harangue, turning him into an ugly, one eyed squid like alien. Which ironically, boosted his ratings. "As a reminder, attendance for the humans of Bellwood is mandatory."
"Uh, did he say he's going to kill your cousin?" Natsu asked enraged.
"Did he just say Servantis is the Magistratus?" Devlin asked confused.
"What's that?" Carla asked confused.
"The leader of the entire Plumber's organization." Ben said, clearly infuriated.
"So, are we going to crash a public event or what?" Erza said with a devious smirk.
"Hell yeah, let's break some stuff!" Natsu shouted happily.
"Aye sir!" Happy agreed. The team went off, intent on saving Gwen. However, none of them were aware a certain frog costume exceed was right behind them. At the same time, Sting, Rogue, Lector, and Yukino walked out of the alley confused.
"Where are we?" Yukino asked confused.
About 15 minutes later, the park was filled with humans, all looking either afraid or infuriated. Keeping them in check were an assortment of Techadon robots painted like Alpha unit Plumbers. Will Harangue was to the side, ready for the scoop of the century. Ben, in the crowd with his hood up, looked up in annoyance to see the Vengers leading this spectacle. The team of four were people Ben had been aquatinted with since his first summer with the Omnitrix, and were more focused on showing up Ben really. The first person was Kane North, aka Kangaroo Commando. When he was little, Ben loved watching the TV show staring his twin Abel. However Kane soon became jealous of Abel's success, claiming he invented everything, and turned to a life of crime, using weapons that gave him enhanced jumping abilities.
The second person was Captain Nemesis, another idol of Ben's turned supervillain that wore a high tech suit of armor. Nemesis' popularity sunk like a stone after Ben's identity was revealed, so he did everything to bring it up. He ordered the kidnapping of actress Jennifer Nocturne, he released robots from Dimension 12, and tried to save the day again. Eventually he kidnapped Ben's now ex-girlfriend Julie and Jennifer, started calling himself Overlord, but the name never really stuck.
The third person, who was shorter than Wendy, was Billy Billions, next to his robotic babysitter Mazuma. Billy was an incredibly rich kid that went to school with Ben back in 5th grade. Billy was apparently jealous of Ben to the point where he decided to banish him to Dimension 12. Which horribly backfired and Billy was sent their instead, and in the process, prevented Billy from aging. His attempts to destroy Ben were really more on the lines of making Billy look good in front of the camera.
And finally, and most shockingly of all, Jennifer Nocturne herself, clad in a white plumbers outfit. After the whole thing with Nemesis, she apparently fell in love with the armor wearing nut. But that lasted about three months after a faked kidnapping scheme of theirs. Something about a bad night in the Bahamas, or Costa Rico. No one knew fully, but Gwen wouldn't stop smiling for a month after that.
"This is going to be interesting." Kagura admitted, standing right near him, alongside Lucy, Natsu, and Erza in the crowd. Erza requipped into her white blouse with blue skirt. The others were in the back, ready to help if needed. That, and Gray's stripping habit would be a big give away.
"Everyone ready?" Lucy asked, gripping the Proto-Whip.
"Why don't we just take them now?" Natsu asked rudely.
"We don't know where Gwen is you twit." Kagura whispered harshly. "We can't risk these bozo's killing her."
"Hurry it up, we don't have all day." Billy said rudely, as several Techadon robots brought Gwen to the main stage, chained up to the point her hands were behind her back.
"You always were pathetic Billy, this just proves it." Gwen said, clearly exhausted.
"Sticks and stones Gwen." Billions smirked.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Will Harangue of the Harangue Nation here, reporting live as we witness a great day in the legacy of Magistratus Servantis." Will Harangue said into the camera, after moving onto the stage.
"Legacy, that crab head's a monster!" One member of the crowd shouted out in rage.
"We were better with the other lady in charge." Another agreed.
"Wow, this Servantis guy really knows how to rile people up." Gray said harshly.
"Speaking from experience, yes he does." Devlin reminded.
"People please, the Great Servantis is merely doing what's best for the universe, he always knows what best." Billy said arrogantly, trying to calm the crowd.
"So what?" Ben called out, walking over to the stage, his hood still up. "If Servantis was so great, why isn't that coward here himself?" Everybody in the crowd gasped in shock.
"How dare you, who do you think you are Ben Tennyson?" Billy demanded infuriated.
Ben pulled off his hood and smiled. "Last time I checked Barney."
"It's Billy, Tennyson!" Billions bellowed infuriatingly. It was here everyone paused hearing what the rich boy had said.
"Ben's back?" One man in the crowd said excitedly.
"Who are his friends?" Another asked confused.
"Does anyone else think Ben's dating the purple haired girl?" A third said, clearly approving of this.
"Dude, they look straight out of some anime." A fourth pointed out.
"You, why couldn't you just stay dead!" Captain Nemesis demanded with a whine.
"I heard you guys were causing trouble, so I decided to pull my cousin's bacon out of the frying pan." Ben said, clearly irritating Gwen.
"Oh that's him." Gwen said with a slight chuckle.
"What are you nimrods waiting for, get him!" Billy demanded infuriatingly.
"You want Ben, you go through all of us!" Natsu declared, a fire burning in his fist. Lucy pulled out the Proto-Whip, switching it to fire mode. Erza requipped into her standard Hearts Kruz armor, while grabbing a few swords. Kagura grabbed archenemy, ready to strike.
"And you losers are?" Billy demanded confused.
"We're Fairy Tail!" Natsu declared, taking a deep breath. "FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" The fireball blasted the stage, sending Billy and the other Vengers flying.
"Actually, I'm with Mermaid Heel." Kagura reminded, offhandedly.
"Show off," Devlin said, taking off his mask. "Let's do this!"
"Aye Sir!" Happy said, hiding in Wendy's backpack with Carla. The two exceeds hopped out as Wendy conjured a vortex at three Techadon's that got too close to the civilians.
"Water Slicer!" Juvia blasted away several Techadons.
"ICE MAKE: HAMMER!" Gray slapped his hands together, slamming one away that got to close to a civilian.
"Time to go." Jennifer muttered under her breath, ducking away.
"Open Gate of the Lion: Lo- Capricorn?" Lucy asked confused. Instead of Fairy Tail's resident playboy, the formal clad goat man appeared in a flash of light.
"I apologizes Miss Lucy," Capricorn began. "But Loke is unavailable at the moment, something came in the celestial world, and the king asked him to look into it, so he asked that I come in his place." Kangaroo Commando lunged at the team.
"Excuse me." Capricorn shifted his glasses a bit, then elbowed Kangaroo Commando in the stomach. He pivoted, delivering a powerful punch to the man's face, shattering the helmet.
"Thank you Capricorn." Lucy said with a smile.
"Of course ma'am." The goat replied with a smile. He then noticed Jennifer trying to get away. "I'll get her." Lucy nodded in agreement.
"We are so going to be here a while." Natsu said with a laugh as several Technadon's surrounded them.
"Are you insane!" Billy demanded, pulling himself from the rubble.
"Duh," Natsu said with a smile. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu roared a fireball straight into the Techadon.
"Take these guys down, I'll go for Gwen." Ben ordered.
"Aye sir!" Happy said with a smile.
"Get him!" Billy ordered with a rising rage.
"As you wish master." Mazuma said in her usual tone, leaping down, claws extended. Nemesis was right behind her. Before anyone could say anything, Mazuma was stopped by Archenemy.
"If you want Ben, you go through me!" Kagura declared furiously.
"Who are you, his girlfriend?" Mazuma quipped.
"Yes, yes I am." Kagura said with a smirk. With a quick strike, Mazuma was reduced to a pile of scraps.
"Well then, looks like I get to!" That was all Captain Nemesis got to say, before being frozen up to his neck by Gray.
"I've heard you talk twice already, and I'm sick of your voice." Gray smirked.
"You've all seen it here first people, the greatest menace, Ben Tennyson has returned to this planet, with an assortment of freaks." Will said into his camera, trying to put on a brave face. "To make matters worse, one of them is half naked."
"God damn it all!" Gray shouted, seeing he was in his underwear.
"Miss me cuz?" Ben asked Gwen with a smile.
"Like a root canal." Gwen said with an equally large smile.
"Don't even try it Tennyson!" Billy threatened, pointing his gun.
"Or what?" Ben asked, not showing any fear.
Before Billy could react, Captain Nemesis was tossed at Billy, courtesy of Erza. "Hurry it up, we don't have all day." She tossed him a sword.
"Alright already." Ben shot back.
"Uh, not to sound ungrateful, but who are they?" Gwen asked, as Ben undid the restraints with.
"Well long story short, I wound up in a dimension of magic, where the Omnitrix completely rebooted, I joined a guild, fought in a tournament to find Malware, (We won, in case you were wondering), learned Ragnarok is both alive and Kevin's dad, and stopped a big four-way team up between Vilgax, Eon, Albedo, and Malware." Ben explained with a shrug, cutting the chains.
"What was Vilgax doing in another dimension?" Gwen asked confused, rubbing her sore wrists.
"Long story." Ben said with a shrug. "So, resistance leader, what's up with that?"
"Long story short, NOW!" She shouted this command into an ear piece communicator. A few stray plumbers ran out and started backing up the Mages. Ben recognized a few, such as Molly Gunther, and of course Rook.
"Ben, hurry up and transform already." Natsu demanded eagerly.
"I told you we'd never hear the end of this." Gray muttered under his breath.
"Alright Natsu, it's HERO TIME!" Ben gratefully slapped down the Omnitrix core, becoming a familiar green scaled dragon.
"EXCALIBURN!" The dragon alien shouted, firing an ice blast at several incoming techadons.
Those that weren't frozen raised their hands, firing a several rounds at the mages. Gwen raised her arms, creating a mana field around them.
"It is a great pleasure you managed to return when you did Ben, things have not been easy without you." Rook said with a grateful grin.
"I missed you too partner." Excaliburn said, moving his neck above the mana wall and firing a lightning blast at an oncoming Techadon army.
"Oh yeah, Ben 10 is back." Gwen smiled.
"Fro thinks so too."
"Oh, hi Frosch." Natsu said offhandedly, only to realize what he said.
"FROSCH!" The Earthland natives and Ben shouted in surprise.
"Hi." The Exceed said with a smile.
"Uh, a friend of yours?" Rook asked confused.
"He's with a different guild." Lucy explained offhandedly.
"What are you doing here?" Excaliburn asked, firing a blast of lightning at a few Techadons that got too close.
"Fro was out shopping, except Fro got lost." Frosch explained, telling a tale. "Then, Frosch realized Fro was near Fairy Tail guild, so Ben 10 could help Fro get home, and now Fro is here!" Frosch explained with a smile, then got confused. "Where is here?"
"You could come home with me?" Kagura offered, picking up the exceed with a blush on her face.
"Uh honey, I get you like Frosch but-?" Excaliburn began.
"Maybe I wanted the little guy?" Gwen shot back.
"You wish." Kagura said calmly, slowly going for the sword at her hip.
"Whoa, tie-breaker, neither of you are keeping Frosch, Rogue's his partner." Excaliburn pointed out.
"But." Gwen and Kagura began.
"No, to neither of you." Ben said firmly, then turned to the frog. "Go hide in that building until we get you." Excaliburn pointed his tail at a nearby Mr. Smoothies.
"Ok." Frosch said, doing as Ben instructed. Gwen looked at him oddly.
"What, the little guy's a fan." Excaliburn said with a shrug.
"Fair enough." Gwen admitted. Kagura still pouted.
"So, now that Frosch is safe, let's take them down." Natsu declared. "I'm all fired up!"
"You heard the man." Devlin said, firing several energy blasts.
"It is so weird, last time we saw him, Ragnarok tried to kill us." Gwen admitted.
"I know right." Excaliburn said with a shrug.
"Ben, we could use some Tech-Support right about now." Juvia pointed out, seeing the legion of robots approaching.
"Good plan." Ben slapped the Omnitrix disk, becoming said alien.
"He can become a Quitmentian now?" Rook said surprised, then adopted a serious expression. "You are most defiantly upgrading the Proto-Truk later."
"Noted." Tech-Support said, raising his arms. With a flash of light, the robots were dismantled.
"Killjoy." Natsu pouted.
"So what Tennyson." Billy shouted infuriated, as a large black ship landed in front of the heroes. "Fortunately, I came up with a backup plan."
"You did not, Servantis did." Kangaroo Commando pointed out, rubbing his sore and bleeding nose.
"Whatever, meet Brute." Billy said smugly. Brute then appeared out of a ship, landing right in front of Tech-Support. He was essentially a Vaxsaurian with a more humanoid face. Lanky and greasy black hair fell over his eyes. The only form of clothes he wore were black proto-tech armor pants with a tear in the right kneecap.
"Well, Sheldon has been busy since I've been gone." Tech-Support pointed out.
"Sheldon?" Gwen asked confused.
"Same day we found out about Ragnarok, we found out that's Servantis's real name." Erza explained with a smile.
"You're kidding me!" Molly laughed.
"Oh no really." Wendy explained, an equally large smile on her face.
"Brute, smash!" Brute raised his arms and slammed them into the ground, sending a shockwave at our heroes. Tech-Support raised his arms, creating a force field.
"Ben, we could really use Cannonbolt right now!" Gwen said, seeing the damages done.
"Uh, slight problem, remember how I said the Omnitrix rebooted, I lost a lot of aliens in doing so." Tech-Support said sheepishly.
"How many is a lot?" Rook asked confused.
"I'm down to about 30." Tech-Support explained. "But I did pick up an old trick, can you guys give me cover for a bit."
"You got it!" Rook said, switching the Proto-Tool over to blaster mode. Lucy switched the Proto-Whip over, intent on doing the same, but Natsu pushed her to the side.
"Let's go this, FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!" Natsu leapt up and slugged Brute right in the face. The attack caused the monster to stumble back several feet.
"Is he always like this?" Gwen asked confused.
"You have no idea." Lucy said flatly.
"Hey Lucy, can you do me a favor real quick?" Tech-Support said, floating over and whispering something into her ear.
"Done." Lucy said with a wicked smirk. She ran off to do as Ben asked.
"Why does she get to go?" Happy asked confused.
"It's a surprise." Tech-Support said with a smirk. "Now let's see him take on Humongasaur!" Tech-Support slapped the disk, becoming Wing-storm.
"You should." Rook began.
"I know!" Wing-Storm shot back. Before Ben could do anything, Brute grabbed Wing-Storm, and slammed him into the ground.
"I kill bird man for master." Brute said dumbly.
"To hell you will." Kagura shouted infuriatingly. She leapt up and swung Archenemy at Brute. The attack caused Brute to stumble back a bit.
"ICE MAKE: HAMMER!" Gray constructed a large ice block that slammed into Brute's stomach. Instead of damaging him, it seemed to infuriate Brute more.
"Cold, Brute no like cold!" Brute declared infuriated.
"Oh, so how about some water!" Juvia fired several water whips at Brute, which did about the same.
"Well, plan B." Wing-Storm said, pulling himself out of the ground. He noticed Wendy had tried to heal him. "Thanks." He happily said, patting the smiling girl on the head. Wing-storm then slapped the Omnitrix disk. Gwen was surprised at the changes happening to the alien.
"ULTIMATE WING-STORM!" Ben cawed victoriously, his guild mark was still in the same spot. Ultimate Wing-storm fired a cyclone blast at Brute, which disoriented him.
"He can go ultimate again?" Gwen asked, happily surprised.
"I know, you should have seen it when Ben went Ultimate Freezer-burn on Natsu yesterday." Happy laughed, reminded of how Natsu challenged the alien that helped beat Vilgax.
"We agreed we'd never speak of that again!" Natsu bellowed infuriatingly.
"You agreed, we didn't." Gray laughed, reminded of how Natsu was stuck to the ceiling for an hour, incased in ice.
"Finally, the Vengers have Vengeance!" Billy said lamely. Before he could say anymore horrible lines, a feminine hand, with an iron manacle attached to it, shot out of the ground and pulled Billy underneath.
"To whoever did that, thank you." Nemesis said with a smile.
Meanwhile, in a nearby alleyway, Jennifer was running away frightful. Capricorn jumped overhead, landing in her path.
"Going somewhere?" Capricorn asked rhetorically.
"Because we may need to have a conversation with you." Lucy said, brandishing the Proto-Whip in energy mode.
"Nice try blondie, but I'm an official plumber." Jennifer said, pulling out her blaster. Lucy whipped Jennifer's hand, causing the blaster to fly into the air. Capricorn grabbed the blaster, and crushed it effortlessly.
"Wow, Servantis must be desperate for members." Lucy said darkly. Jennifer gulped horrified.
Erza at this time requipped into her Flight armor and ran at Brute, full speed with Kagura not far behind. The two collided with Brute's face, causing the monstrosity to take several steps back.
"Brute no lose to you!" The titan declared, slamming his fist into Erza's location. However, she quickly reappeared on top of Brute's arm, running up. Gwen fired a series of mana blasts, aimed at Brute, who tried to swat them away.
"Natsu, firebird maneuver!" Ultimate Wing-Storm said with a smirk. Natsu smirked victoriously at that.
"Uh oh." Wendy said timidly.
"What is firebird maneuver? Rook asked confused.
"Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" Natsu shot his all-powerful fireball at Brute, while Ultimate Wing-Storm fired a concentrated wind blast at it, pushing the attack. The results amplified both the speed and intensity of the fireball. The attack blew up right on Brute's chest, causing a massive explosion.
When the smoke cleared, Brute was unconscious, and laying on top of Kangaroo Commando, Captain Nemesis, and Will's News van.
"Well, that works." Rook shrugged offhandedly.
"I just got that thing!" Harangue cried, dropping to his knees.
"Look what we found." Lucy and Capricorn walked over, with Jennifer, her hand tied behind her back by the proto-whip.
"Nice job, she'll probably have some answers we could use." Ben said, becoming human.
"I'll tell you anything Ben." Jennifer said, with a wink.
Kagura walked over to Jennifer and pulled her up to her eye level. "I will gut you like a fish if you try to hit on my boyfriend." She threatened, giving off a wave of violet and violent magic energy.
"Ok." Jennifer whimpered, horrified.
"So, what was that favor you needed anyways?" Gray asked confused.
Ben pointed, and everybody laughed hysterically. The favor as it turned out, was to summon Virgo, who was sitting on a bench, spanking Billy repetitively.
"Ow, ow, ouch, stop it!" Billy demanded painfully.
"If you keep struggling, I will bring out a bar of soap." Virgo said in her usual monotone.
"Alright, I'll go get Frosch, and we'll head back to base." Gwen said, after recovering from her laughing fit.
"Great idea." Ben said, as Lucy went to go stop Virgo.
"Come on Virgo, we have to go." Lucy said with a sigh.
"Then is it my turn for my punishment?" Virgo asked hopefully.
"Not a chance!" Lucy shot back.
"Very well then." Virgo stood up and gave Billy's underwear a hard tug, then hung him from a nearby tree. "I look forward to punishing you again Master Billions." Virgo said respectfully with a bow, disappearing in a flash of light.
"Ow." Billy groaned in pain.
"Let's go." Gwen said, with Frosch in her arms, who was happily slurping down a smoothie.
"Smelt Petunia is yummy." Frosch said with a smile.
"Ironically, that is the least popular flavor." Ben said, with a smile.
"Let's get going." Erza said, tossing a sword into Harangue's camera.
"I love these deranged sociopaths!" Molly chuckled happily.
"The feeling is mutual." Juvia said with a smile. The rescue team left, with one goal in mind, victory.
The Resistance Headquarters turned out to be Argistix Security, in Undertown, as two members of the resistance took Jennifer to a holding cell. It was also here, Ben was greeted by two all familiar faces.
"Mom, Dad." Ben went over and happily hugged his family.
"Ben!" Carl and Sandra Tennyson gladly hugged him back.
"It's a beautiful moment." Happy said, tears in his eyes.
"Weren't you wearing pants five minutes ago?" Gwen asked Gray.
"DAMN IT ALL!" Gray shouted embarrassed and horrified.
"Uh, Ben, what have you been up too exactly?" Sandra asked confused. Ben began his lengthy discussion of what happened during his time on Earthland, the fight with Vilgax, he and Kagura dating, everything.
Needless to say when he mentioned a girlfriend, Sandra went ecstatic. "She's cute." And immediately started squeezing the air out of Kagura.
"Uh, Mrs. Tennyson." Kagura began, losing consciousness fast.
"Oh please, call me Sandra." She insisted.
"Wow, moving that fast in a relationship already?" Lucy asked confused.
"No, Aunt Sandra's always been like that." Gwen admitted.
"Ben, good to see you buddy." Argit said, walking over.
"I'm just surprised no one's used you as target practice yet." Ben admitted.
"We do, frequently." Rook said with a smile.
"Any who, someone's been waiting for you, and I do not envy being golden eyes over here." Argit admitted, a bit reluctantly.
"Ben." Julie said dryly.
"Julie." Ben said, in the same tone.
"Wow, the Ex and present in the same room, never good." Erza said dryly.
"So, what is it?" Ben asked in a serious tone, one reserved for villains.
"I thought they ended on good terms?" Carla asked confused.
"No, that was Ester of the Kraho, Julie was before her, and it did not end well." Rook explained. "Apparently, Julie partially blames Ben for the Insurcean Invasion of Earth."
"That's a low blow." Natsu said, not really liking this girl.
"Aye." Happy agreed.
"Should we?" Kagura asked concerned.
"Let them sort this out, I've had Julie on a short leash." Gwen insisted, however did look ready to let Ben's new girlfriend have a chat with his old one.
"I'm just surprised you even bothered to show your face, what with you abandoning us." Julie said rudely.
"That's not how it went and you know it." Ben shot back.
"Oh right, you decided to be the big hero, and save the guy who tried to kill you!" Julie shouted infuriatingly.
"No one, not even Servantis, deserves the coward's way out." Ben said coldly.
"And yet you were fine trying to end Kevin when he absorbed all that power." Julie reminded.
"That was different, Kevin was sick, his choices weren't his, Sheldon on the other hand." Ben pointed out.
"Just say the word, and I will punch the girl in the face." Natsu said, holding up a flaming fist.
"I'll let you know in three minutes." Gwen said, agreeing with the plan.
"Face it Tennyson, you just can't help that ego of yours, can you?" Julie said, rudely.
"At least I'm honest about it." Ben said coolly after a moment of silence.
"Say the word, and I will unsheathe Archenemy." Kagura admitted with a sadistic smile.
"Fro thinks so too." Frosch said.
"Incoming stragglers." A deep voice said. Ben and the others saw Tetrax, another Petrosapien walk in, with four others.
"Rogue!" Frosch said happily, running to his partner's arms.
"FROSCH!" Rogue happily ran over and hugged his little buddy.
"Hello." Yukino said timidly.
"Hi." Lector said, who was hung by his tail, upside down in Tetrax's grip.
"Joy, now the gangs all back together." Sting said dryly.
"What are you guys doing in Ben's dimension?" Lucy asked confused.
"Blame this idiot," Sting said rudely, pointing to Rogue. "Lector lost track of Frosch while he was out shopping so we spent most of today finding him." He then pinched the bridge of his nose in irritation. "We find Frosch almost instantly, but Rogue is all "We have to let him do this on his own." And now we're here."
"These four gave me the abridged version, and about you." Tetrax said, looking over to Devlin, after letting go of Lector. The petrosapien then walked over, then extended his hand. "It's an honor."
"Likewise rocky." Devlin said, shaking it.
"So, where's Grandpa Max, and how is Sheldon in charge?" Ben decided to ask the one question that had been bugging him since his return. Instantly, everyone got quiet and nervous.
"After you were sent to Earthland, Grandpa and Magister Patelliday tried arrest the Rooters with the Magistrata, but Servantis used his crystal to neutralize her after officially disbanding the Rooters." Gwen began, sorrowfully.
"Then what, he just took over?" Ben asked confused.
Gwen nodded. "Best we can figure, he's had this planned for years. Most of his followers are some of the local criminals, and I'm not just talking about the Vengers, I mean the likes of Psyphon and Fistrick."
"At our last reconnaissance, Magister Tennyson and the Magistrata are presently inside the main Plumber Facility on Earth." Rook explained. "Very highly guarded."
"So, what's stopping us?" Natsu pointed out.
"Among other things, A massive army, weapons up and down the block, shall I go on?" Gwen asked sarcastically.
"Please do, I'm getting all fired up!" Natsu said excitedly.
"Are you insane?" Gwen asked.
"What gave you the idea I wasn't?" Natsu shot back. Gwen was about to reply, when even she couldn't come up for anything on that one.
"Among other things, no one has seen first thinker Azmuth either." Rook explained. "After his ascension to Magistrautus, Servantis put a large bounty on his head for creating the Omnitrix."
"That bastard." Gray growled angrily. Wendy, Carla, and Juvia nodded in agreement.
"I'm calling Makarov." Ben said, pulling out his phone.
"What happened to the five hours thing?" Kagura asked confused.
"Servantis made this personal." Ben said, only to get a busy signal.
"I knew there was a blackout field covering the planet, but I didn't think it worked on dimensions too?" Gwen admitted.
"Then I guess we go without the others." Ben said determined.
"I thought you'd never ask." Erza said with a smirk. The Fairy Tail mages nodded in agreement.
"Do you even have to ask if I'm in?" Kagura said with a smile.
"You've kept Frosch safe, it's the least I can do." Rogue declared victoriously.
"Agreed." Yukino said with a smile.
"I might as well," Sting said with a shrug. "I'd get a chance to outshine Tennyson."
"So, what's the plan?" Gwen said with an equally large smile. The multitude of resistance members all agreed in full unison. Julie on the other hand, well, she didn't even look at Ben.
Alright, part one of the Return to Bellwood arc has started. Before we go any further, yes I am kind of bashing Julie. It's just after Alien Force, I began to lose respect for her, what with why she broke up with Ben in Omniverse, and the whole thing with the Flame Keeper's Circle. I'm sorry, but it's just how I feel about her. Anyways, I also have no idea how many chapters this will go on for. I'll try to push for five total, no promises. And yes, expect Bullfrag, Ditto, and Upchuck to reappear during the events.