Author's Note: I own nothing. I'm gonna go a bit deeper into some things with this story, hang in there with me.
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Jen had been on edge for a while, ever since she spent what was nearly two days alone on an alien planet with a Highbreed. Though it had only been a few hours on Earth which still sort of confused her but Kevin had explained that it had something to do with the axis of the planet she'd been on and the rate it had spun around its suns. But the experience as a whole had her questioning things. It had shown her that the Highbreed weren't completely irredeemable, maybe. It was making her truly question what was happening and why. It was clear that the Highbreed were in charge. The DNAliens were a work force built on planet to carry out their plans. What exactly that plan was still wasn't entirely clear though Jen had a horrible feeling that Reiny had been serious when he'd said every species other than pure blood Highbreeds should be whipped off the face of the universe.
She shook her head as she pulled another box out of her closet and tossed it aside. After a few more minutes of rummaging she found what she'd been looking for. It was an old shoe box she'd kept since she was ten years old, filled with souvenirs from the summer when she'd found the Omnitrix. She grinned at the gold sumo slammers card that sat proudly atop the mish mash and pushed it aside. After a minute of digging she found what she was actually looking for. Pulling out the small silver device she grinned slightly as nostalgia washed over her. It was a little bigger than a regular holo recorder and rectangular instead of circular. It was a device Azmuth had given her on Xenon, the planet he'd been spending his self imposed exile on, after he'd decided to stop the self destruct of the Omnitrix. She'd been about to leave with Grandpa Max, Gwen and Tetrax when the inventor had pulled her aside and pressed it into her hands.
"The Omnitrix was always meant to be a tool for learning and teaching. You have found a new use for it, and a noble one at that. But I would see it still teach something." What exactly that meant Azmuth had told her to figure out on her own. So she'd started making video logs about all of her aliens. There were twenty in here so far. Jen set the souvenir box back in her closet as she cringed slightly at the thought of her ten and eleven year old self geeking out about her aliens. She shook her head, it was unlikely that Azmuth even watched these. He was a very busy Galvan after all. But it had helped her work through her thoughts before maybe it would be helpful now, to just get it all out in the open. She set the recorder down on her desk and checked the time on her alarm clock and nodded. Her parents would be out at dinner and their movie for another few hours. She sat down in the desk chair and tapped the recorder, blue lights flashed over her and she smiled slightly.
"Entry twenty one, Swampfire." She went through each of her aliens in turn. Some got more detailed entries than others, the incident with Big Chill's unexpected pregnancy and the problems and symptoms it had caused got a full twenty minutes to itself. After making the newest ten entries, and ranting about Serena and Belicus for a good ten minutes straight, she paused. Then she nodded and turned the recorder back on.
"Entry thirty one, newly aquired Alien. Ok so I haven't tried this one yet but I think I know for sure what it is. I think it's an Apollonite." She spun the dial on the Omnitrix to the newest alien and held it up for the recorder to see. Its silhouette stood with feet slightly apart arms up as though drawing a bow but only the arrow was present. "I haven't been around that many aliens recently, except the Highbreed and the DNAliens but I'll get into that in a minute. But this new alien being an Apollonite is the only thing that makes sense. Last time I got a new alien without it being unlocked like Way Big, was because I got bit by what we thought was a werewolf. I ended up with Jenwolf after that, also thinking about changing that name if I ever get that transformation back. But…" She paused going red and hoping that Azmuth wouldn't notice if he did end up watching these. "Albrasix kissed me, that could be considered a DNA transfer right?" She sighed and smacked her head into the desk to try and clear her mind. Rubbing away the redness on her forehead she sat back up.
"I haven't tried this one yet cause I'm kind of scared. What if it's not what I think it is? What if it's some kind of after effect of Alien X? What if I get stuck again? What if this time I can't get back out again?" She shook her head again. "I'll add an addendum to this entry once I try it." She flicked off the recorder and shook her head again, running her fingers through her hair until it was sticking straight up. She shook her head again and spun her chair, thinking. Azmuth had said he wanted this to be a learning tool. Maybe she should share what she learned. She spun her chair back to the desk and flicked the recorder back on.
"Entry number thirty two, Highbreed and DNAlien. If you're watching this Azmuth…" She trailed off and shook her head again. "You're probably not watching this. Ok so I've now cured two DNAliens, my cousin Ken Tennyson, and the mother of a friend of mine Sarah Daniels. It's been an experience both times. It was… It was like I went into the Omnitrix and separated the DNA manually. I think I could do it again if I tried, it seemed almost easier the second time." She fiddled with the dial on the Omnitrix as she spoke.
"At first I wondered why the Omnitrix didn't pop up a DNAlien transformation after I literally held their genetic code in my hands, but I think I've figured it out." She looked back up at the recorder. "None of the species in the Omnitrix are Parasitic, they can all live and survive on their own. DNAliens can't they need a host. The Xenocyte attaches to the host's DNA and breaks it down until there's only enough left to hold it together. The Omnitirx cant copy it because it's not a complete DNA sequence on its own. But what I don't understand is why it hasn't copied the Highbreed." She explained the incident with Reiny on the desert planet, up until his arm was sliced off by the bug that had been attempting to kill her.
"If my theory is right and the Omnitrix uses me as kind of a receiver for new DNA like it did with Jenwolf then why don't I have a Highbreed transformation? His blood was all over my arm when I fixed him. Albrasix first kissed me when I was Alien X, it shouldn't matter that I was Swampfire at the time. If that's how it works then the transformation should be there but it's not…" She shook her head. "Maybe that's not how it works, I don't know. I just had to get all these ideas out of my head." There was a knock at her door and she shut off the recorder quickly stashing it in her desk drawer.
"Come in!" A head of red hair peeked around the door.
"Hey Jen, I need a sparing partner. My usual one is out of town and well I can't use my powers against him anyway but the coach gave me free reign of the gym for the next few hours, feel like a workout?" Jen grinned and nodded grabbing her coat.