Chapter 50: Omniverse: Part Two

I Don't Own Ben 10 Or Any Of The Characters

Author's Note:

* Hello and welcome to the big chapter fifty! I honestly can't believe that this story has gotten as far as it has. I know I've said thank you several times in the past, but I have to say it again. Six days ago marked this story's one year anniversary, without all of my readers and supporters, I probably wouldn't be writing this story today. So, thank you.

* So, if it isn't obvious enough, Ben has found himself trapped in a timeline that is not his own. You guys can say what you want to say about what's going on, I won't confirm exactly what's happening yet. I will say that a lot of stuff, starting this chapter, is going to happen.

* So, with that being said, let's get into the next part of the Omniverse story arc!

Ben

Bellwood, 2047

"Vilgax is always watching." the voice said, before the intercom shut off.

Once the signs of prolonged silence returned, I began to look at my surroundings, trying to figure out what was going on. The entire street I was on was utterly destroyed. And there were no signs of life whatsoever.

Not seeing any other choice, I began to walk down the street, towards the ruins of the Downtown area. As I walked, I picked up on the fact that I had my cell phone on me. I pulled it out, deciding to attempt to call Gwen and see where she was in all of this.

As soon as I dialed her number, the call disconnected. I tried again and again, but got the same results. This made me worried. Wherever I was, Gwen was nowhere to be found. And that scared me.

I didn't know what to make of my surroundings. It seemed like I was in Bellwood, but it also seemed like I wasn't in Bellwood. Do you understand what that means? Have you ever gotten a feeling like that?

Anyway, I continued walking down the street. All of a sudden, I ran into a group of people that would make someone question what they were seeing. I was looking at what looked like people from the Knights of the Templar. Yes, in modern day.

There were five of them. They all wore the same silver armor with red and black alternating fabric covering their chests. On each of their chests, was a logo. An alien face, with several elongated appendages, like tentacles, growing from the chin. The symbols almost looked like a squid.

"Hey, it's one of them!" one of the "knights" said. "We haven't seen another one of them for a week or two now!"

"Under the authority of the Order of Emperor Vilgax, we are taking you in for questioning on possible threats to the Emperor." Another one of them said, looking to be the main man.

"Hey look, I just got here and I have no idea what's going on!" I exclaimed. "Cut me some slack, I'm not going with you!"

The lead guy eyed me with hatred for a few seconds, before pulling what looked to be like an advanced firearm out.

"Attack! He's a threat to our Emperor!" he said, as his boys pulled weapons as well.

They began to fire at me and I dodged their shots, whilst activating the Omnitrix.

If I hadn't mentioned it yet, I'll say it now. I'm never calling it the "alien watch" again. It's called the Omnitrix. And I might as well call it by it's true name.

I transformed into Heatblast.

"Okay, you punks want some? Bring it on!" I exclaimed, as I shot fire balls at them.

One of them fell down from one of the blasts, and didn't get back up. I grabbed two of them by the head, and fried their helmets.

"I've had a very long day. I just learned that my oldest enemy is back from the dead and I've been teleported into - well, whatever this is!" I exclaimed, as I brought their heads together. "So, I'll say it like this: I don't have the fucking patience for this!"

I threw the two knights into the last two knights, knocking them down for good. I let out a sigh of relief, and sat down, finally being able to think for a second or two.

Heads up...

I sprang up in an instant, familiar with the voice in my head. It was the Omnitrix, trying to communicate with me, I knew it was!. I looked around, but saw no one around. And then I heard the voice. My voice.

"Congratulations, you sludge head!" the voice said. "You just alerted the Order to our presence in this area! I'm going to be really angry if you get us all killed!"

I looked around in all directions, until I saw the person who was speaking. And you may be surprised with what I saw. I saw myself! He stood at the other side of the street, wearing black jeans, black shoes, a black jacket, well, black everything!

It was as if this guy were a clone of me, kind of like Albedo. Unlike Albedo and I, he had long, unkept black hair, going down to his neck. He had green eyes as well. I was in awe at what I was looking at. Was this seriously me that I was talking to, as weird as it sounds?

Before he could say anything else, I heard a shout of distress. I turned to see one last knight running away from the area, as he tossed some kind canister behind him. The canister exploded, and I was surprised to see that I was reverted back to my human form.

"Oh, damn it!" the black haired version of me said. "He threw an EMP grenade, both of our Omnitrixes were forced into standby!"

I think I'm going to call this guy "Emo Ben".

"Wait, they have those?" I asked.

"Yes, you idiot!" Emo Ben said in a hushed tone.

"Hey, you don't have to berate me! I can understand!" I said.

"Yes, I do have to berate you, you idiot! You got us found out in this area!" Emo Ben said. "The Emperor's Order will be here any minute to flush us out! And we have to get out of here and back to base!"

He turned around quickly and began to run down the street. As he ran, I noticed a device on his right wrist. It was an Omnitrix, with a black and grey color scheme. He stopped in his tracks, and turned around.

"Well? Are you coming or not?!" he called to me.

I was confused. I thought he was talking about his other teammates, not me. But apparently he was talking about me when he said that we have to get back to base. Seeing no choice, I ran to catch up with him.

Eventually catching up to him, we ran alongside one another down the street. Eventually, we came to another destroyed house. I stood there confused, as he grabbing a few branches and moved them, revealing a hatch of some kind. He opened the hatch and ushered me down.

I didn't question him. I moved down the ladder and he did his best to place the branches against the hatch cover, so when he put it down, they would conceal it again. It took only a few seconds for me to touch the floor of the tunnel, it seemed I was in.

"What is this place?" I called out, as he closed the hatch and began to descend the ladder.

"It's a secret passage to and from the rebel base." Emo Ben replied angrily. "Now, stop asking questions, be quiet and try to keep up!"

He activated a flashlight and handed me one.

"Here, have my spare flashlight." he said.

I took it and activated it.

"You have a spare flashlight?" I asked.

"Yeah, and now I have to give it up." he said, as he slowly walked forward. "It's what I get for helping your sorry ass."

Albedo and Emo Ben would get along great!

"Remind me to let you meet Albedo. You two would get along great!" I said, as we walked side by side.

"You have an Albedo in your universe?" Emo Ben asked.

"Universe? What do you mean?" I asked. "Are there more than one of you? Please tell me you're the only copy of me!"

"Hush up! And no, I'm not the only one!" Emo Ben said in a hushed tone. "And we're not copies of you! There's a dozen of us in total, maybe more, including our leader."

"Who's your leader?" I asked.

"An old guy." Emo Ben replied. "We call him "Old Man Ben"."

"Why do you call him that?" I asked.

"You'll have to wait and see." Emo Ben said, as we continued to walk. "No more talking. We have to be quiet. For all we know the Emperor's Order could be above us searching for us and we can't risk being caught. Don't say another word."

He looked at me and I nodded my understanding. We continued to walk and I didn't say another word.

Ten Minutes Later

Emo Ben brought us to another hatch after a good ten minutes of walking.

"Okay, this is it!" he said, as he climbed up the ladder and opened the hatch.

He climbed out and stuck out his hand for me to grab. I gripped his hand and he pulled me up quickly. He quickly closed the hatch, as I looked around our area. We were in a garden of some kind. However, there weren't a lot of plants that were still alive here.

There was a bunker of some kind up ahead in front of us. It might have been two stories high, no higher than that. I couldn't tell how big it actually was from where I was at. There were two types of walls here. Brick walls, which were the most prominent in this garden.

And then, there were metal plates, that were held into the ground and stood with the help of support beams. Walls around the bunker. Atop the metal plates, were coils of barbed wire. Don't even ask me how they got those up there. I noticed something on the brick walls.

I walked up to them and began to analyze what I was seeing. There were names all over the wall. It seemed to be paying respects to the people's names on this wall. I didn't recognize any of the names I had read so far.

"What are you- oh, The Wall of the Lost." Emo Ben said, as he walked up to me. "I highly recommend looking at all of the names, but now is not the time. Come on, we have to get inside."

We lightly jogged over to the door to the bunker. He pulled out a key-card and put into a slot. The slot glowed green after a few seconds, and the door opened. He pulled the key-card back and slipped it into his pocket.

"When we get the chance, we'll get you one of these." he said as he looked at me, before jogging into the bunker.

Not wanting to be left behind, I jogged behind him, trying to catch up. We eventually came to a stairwell and went down two flights of stairs. We went through a door and jogged down a hallway.

Eventually, we went through another door and into a room which had several cots. Each cot had a duffel bag or footlocker in at it's foot.

"Whoa, what's this room?" I asked him.

"It's our Barracks, where we sleep." Emo Ben said. "If you really are one of us, we'll pick out a cot for you to use. But right now, we must proceed to the Command Center."

So with that, I followed him out of the room, to another stairwell, down another flight of stairs, and finally, down a long hallway. As we neared a set of double doors at the end of a dimly lit hallway, he looked at me and put his finger over his mouth. I could hear voices coming from the other side of the door.

And that's when it hit me. Every voice I heard on the other side of the door, sounded like my voice.

"Maybe we go this way?" one of the voices said.

"No, we can't go that way! Sector Five has been closed off, thanks to the new guy's idiotic choices." another voice said.

"Idiotic choices yes, but I'm sure he has a reason behind his choices." another voice said.

This voice sounded similar to Grandpa Max's voice, so I got excited for a second. That's when I realized that it may not be Grandpa Max.

"Let's go." Emo Ben whispered to me, before opening the door.

He walked in, and I slowly followed.

"Hey fellas, I'm back! And look who I have with me!" Emo Ben said, as he stopped a few feet away from the rest of the Bens. That's right. You heard correctly.

There was an older man with the younger version of me. He had medium length brown hair and an unkept brown beard. He eyed me with annoyance. The other "me", looked really young. He looked like he was age ten years old. And I knew the kid was me. We had the same features, minus the green eyes, but he did have short brown hair. His posture was even strikingly similar of that of how I held myself at that age.

And the other guy was Kevin, in his mutated form! But something was wrong. He was overly skinny in that form, he wasn't muscular.

Oh, boy. What have I gotten myself into?

Author's Note:

* And that's it for this chapter! I hope ya'll enjoyed!

* So, do any of you get the idea, why this arc is called "Omniverse" yet? Who do you think of the different versions of Ben that you are seeing? What do you think is going on in this time period that Ben has been teleported into?

* One of the new original characters, "Emo Ben", mentioned that their leader was a guy called "Old Man Ben". Who do you think Old Man Ben is? What do you think has happened to Bellwood? Because it certainly does not seem normal!

* Anyway, that's all I have. I'm going to go, so have a great day and, bye.