Fuyuki finally found peace at night as the rates of coma and murder seemed to dropped completely, allowing people to be able to go out at night again. The School reopened shortly after with many students fully recovered from the attack and the building has been repaired. But what about our hero of the fifth Holy Grail War? What is going to happen to them now that the threat is over and things are finally going back to normal? Well let's view each of them to see what they are up to!
Shirou continued his routine at home, but with a little more liveliness than before and would continue to strive to be the hero of his destiny. No longer seeking a destiny of self destruction full of sorrow and death. He plans to stick with his friends to keep himself from being the man that the red knight, Archer, was.
Rin and Sakura have started a new beginning at being sisters again. With Shinji gone, Sakura was able to begin to heal from the abuse and become the confidant new Captain of the Archery team. During her time re-bonding with her sister she now begins to better control her powers so that she would be able to help her Senpai's when they need it the most.
Rin herself was preparing an application letter to the Clock tower to expand her skill as a magus. Although, thanks with a little help from a Diamond Head she would able to get the funds to go there without financial trouble. She also plans to have Shirou come with her just to see what it like at the school to see if he was interested in expanding his powers.
Illya remained at the Emiya household while her castle in the forest gets repaired and some modern-day additions get added. She now enjoys spending time with her brother and is helping him with his magic skills. Soon she reveals that her body wouldn't last long due to the abuse from the Einzbern's. Shocked, Ben calls on Azimuth to help her live a longer life which he did thanks to DNA augmentations technologies that were used in the Omnitrix.
Taiga was released from the hospital along with the other victims and was happy to see everyone in such a cheery mode even though Saber and Caster had to return to England at short notice.
After a good talk with Rin and Ben, Hakuno promised to keep the whole experience a secret with the trade of Rin training her magic better so she could defend herself better so she does not get herself capture once more. The girl now keeps to herself but grows a healthy friendship with Sakura as Hakuno has decided to transfer
Ben continued to be his usual self throughout his time in Fuyuki. The nightmares stopped, everyone was safe and he got a new alien out of all this. Sadly both him and Shirou would have a portion of their hearts opened, waiting for their loves to return home. But Both would stick to the paths they have chosen as they knew Arturia and Tamamo would be waiting for them at the end.
Now the two heroes are being dragged to a stuffed animal shop by Illya because she wanted to see what they had. Normally, Shirou would suggest Sakura to go with her instead but then both boys were cornered by Sella and Liz
"Come on Illya your hand to drag me here too!" Ben whispered as he entered a stuffed animal toy store isn't the manliest thing to do but Illya had Her maids drag both of them to the shop.
"I wanted to have some fun with both of you since Ben is leaving soon!" Illya said spinning around taking in all the toys. Shirou and Ben looked around, pretty much all the customers and staff were women and they didn't look pleased to find two boys in their sanctum. Shirou then let out a sigh and got up.
"Come on Ben, once She wants to hang out with you, there's no stopping her."
Ben got up and followed Shirou and Illya as they looked through the store. "Oh, Onii-chan look at this Bunny! Oh, look at that Cat!" She said running out the isle.
"Illya slow down!" Shirou called out to his sister as she danced around the store.
"Oh hey! Look at his Onii-chan!" She pointed to an item on the shelf that was out of her reach. Shirou walked up and saw that it was was a stuffed lion and for some reason, he couldn't stop smiling at it.
"It reminds you of her doesn't it Onii-chan?" Ilya whispered and he nodded. "Hey, she did have the look of a lion." Illya then got an idea.
"Why don't you buy it!" Shirou looked at her like she was crazy, A guy buying a stuffed animal in this place? He was already feeling the stares of disapproval from the females that filled the store for daring to encroach on this sacred ground
"Come on onii-chan! You know she would love it!" he then thought of Arturia playing with a stuffed lion and it sent his cuteness meter into overload. "Alright fine, But don't mention it to the Taiga." Shirou then took the lion off the shelf semi-reluctantly while trying to think of a hiding spot for it in his room.
"Now for Ben!" She then ran around the shop looking for a fox with even asking Ben if he wanted one.
"Hey, Illya!" Ben said stunned that again he was getting dragged into something and when two boys caught up with her, she was pouting.
"Aww phooey! There sold out of foxes!" Ben sighed and was about to say it was alright but when something caught his eye hiding deep in the shelf of bears. Ben reached in and pulled out two pushes, one was Illya's wild mutt plushie as she put her name on the tag. The other was a fox plushie with a peculiar aspect to it
"How did you get there!" Illya quickly grabbed her Wildmutt plushie while Ben looked at the fox one. Its colours were matching to Tamamo's tail it but had nine tails compared to her singular appendage.
"Is this a defect or something?" Ben asked confused as there was a poster showing it with just one. Illya then got an idea from the nine tails and smiles.
"Oh wait, Ben, you don't know? Tamamo originally had Nine tails. But she removed eight them as they gave her god-like powers and she didn't want to scare humans."Illya explained as Ben eyes widen to the thought of Tamamo having nine tail wagging about...Also maybe petting them all at once
"But how did my Wildmutt get here?" Illya pondered.
"I guess it's better to ask a professor about that one," Ben answered as he guesses Paradox put both of them in a spot were Ben would find them.
Illya looked at him with puppy dog eyes. "Alright. Alright, I'll buy this one," he said caving into Illya's plot. They all go the cashier getting looks from all the women in the store and rushed out. Both boys now having a plushie that reminded them of there loved ones...Not wanting to admit it, they both agreed that this eased the pain a bit.
End of Ben's trip.
Ben was sitting in the main lobby of the Fuyuki airport waiting to board as Shirou and the others came to wait with him. "Can't wait to go home, Ben?" Shirou asked
"Yup, but I will always see this as a home away from home. If that's not an issue with you guys." Ben said as he would want to come back sometime in the future
"No, not all Ben! You are such a good, well-mannered young man and you are always welcomed here!" Taiga was cheerful and thankful as it seemed that his visit lightened everyone's life. "Yeah! You can come back anytime Ben." Sakura said cheerfully since he has done so much for her that the purple-haired kouhai would make sure to send letters to him.
"Oh, Ben your flight is ready to board!" Shirou saw the announcement and Ben got up and grabbed his luggage.
"Well, this is it." Ben turned around to say his farewells. Iliya did motion for him to come to her height and once he did. She hugged him.
"I'm going to miss you Ben-nii chan."
"Same here you little snow devil." Ben hugged her back. Rin was next and she offered a handshake. "I will never forget Ben Tennyson, you're a good friend." Ben shook her hand. "You too Rin, Keep Shirou in check for me eh?"
"Will do. Goodbye Ben."
Ben then went to Sakura who was getting emotional. "Sakura" Ben didn't want to see her upset She then hugged Ben tightly.
"Thank you for everything you have done, for all of us." She whispered. "Hey, It's what I do." Ben hugged back and then sakura let go and wiped away her tears. Ben finally went to Shirou. Both thought about their entire adventure in the Holy grail war, The battles they fought, the beliefs challenged. For all Ben knew, Shirou was a brother in arms and a hero in the making. "Hey, Shirou?"
"Yeah?"
"When lives are on the line." Ben waited for Shirou response.
"Its Hero time," Shirou said and both gave a good handshake with the promise of kicking bad-guy butt in the future. Ben the walked to baggage check but turned around to say one last thing.
"Until we meet again."
And that ends the story of Ben Tennyson adventures in Fuyuki.
Ben continued his hero life alongside Kevin and Gwen with the same fighting spirit as before. After the green-eyed hero returned home he decided to hold onto the secret of the Holy Grail War as he wanted to wait until he can Embrace her once again….
Some time passes as Ben continued his duty as a hero in Bellwood. Now was facing a new enemy from another dimension, Vilgax and the reforged Forever Knights
(Ben 10: Ultimate Alien finale)
Ben, Gwen and Kevin were on the run from Vilgax who had just absorbed the power of Dagon, A foreign god from another dimension. Gwen teleported them away to the base in Mt Rushmore to come up with a plan. Sadly Vilgax immediately found them and is now sending his esoterica minions to kill them.
"I do not like our odds," Kevin said as he looks at the monitor. "You would if boys ever read the manual." Gwen began to type in commands into the terminal "What manual?" Ben asked
"The Plumber's manual, like the instructions for this bases self-defence systems" She then activated the defence turrets and they began to blast away the oncoming enemy forces. Vilgax watched in anger as his minions would not be able to get past the defences. "NO! You will not escape me again!" He then morphed from his massive monster form into his default alien form and dashed at the mountain. Gwen set the turrets to fire at vilgax but they were useless against his god-like powers as he smashed into the face of the mountain. He then gripped onto the face of the president, pulled it off and discarded it down the mountain.
"That's going to be a problem to cover up," Kevin commented at the destruction around them.
"More immediate prob-GAH!" Gwen was interrupted by Vilgax blast his way into the base knocking both Kevin and her out. Leaving Ben remaining to fend off the overpowered Vilgax.
"And here we are again.," Vilgax said as he approached Ben, confident he can finally end his nemesis.
"Me, on the cusp of total Victory. You, the last man standing. The only slim hope left in this world, this universe! Who will it be? Diamond head? Swampfire? One of your tiresome ultimate aliens? Or perhaps you have a new transformation to spring on me?" Vilgax listed out all the times he was defeated by Ben and mussed himself with guess what would Ben do.
"No transformations, Not this time." Ben then reached under the rubble and pulled out Ascalon. Sir George's sword.
"Instead of a watch, How about a Noble Phantasm instead!"
"Azimuth Sword." Vilgax curses himself for not securing the blade but he still felt confidant in his odds.
"Goes nicely with the watch don't-cha think?" Vilgax the pulled out a chunk of metal from the wall.
"I am going to miss these get-togethers." he then threw it at Ben. With one slash Ben cut it in half. "This is a good sword!"
'Wonder how this would fair against Excalibur?' Ben thought in his head. He then looked at his watch and smirked. "Ok, I'll be honest one more transformation." He activated the Ultimatrix to and transformed into the Anodite guardian: Steelguard.
"Figured this would suit the sword well," Steelguard said.
"Now in the words of Sir George, Have at the!" Steelguard then dashed at vilgax.
"Gah another form?" Vilgax then threw purple fireballs at Steelguard but he deflected them away with Ascalon. Vilgax then charged up a powerful blast that held a tenth of his total power and threw it at him. He braced himself and continued running headfirst and with one swing his reflected the blast at vilgax.
"GAH!" He was sent back into the hollow caverns of the mountain but got back up seeing Ben running at him. Doing the same Vilgax ran at him charging his powers.
"Somebody should've done this a long time ago!" Steelguard said right before leaping at vilgax stabbing him with Ascalon."
With a flash of light, Vilgax was on the ground clutching his chest, There was no visible wound but he felt like he was stabbed. "You...Stabbed me."
"Don't be such a Baby, I merely siphoned the Dagons power from you?" Steelguard said propping the blade over his shoulder.
"Well that's a new one," Kevin said walking out of the hole in the base. "Well good thing you used it," Gwen commented.
"Then you are a fool." Vilgax looked Ben in the eyes with a challenging glare.
"You have the Ultimatrix, the sword of Azimuth and the power of Dagon at your fingertips."
"Yeah so?" Steelguard raises one of his metal "eyebrows" on his helmet. "You claim to be a hero, what will you do with all that power?" He asked Ben.
"Cure every human soul on earth for starters." Ben answer and Vilgax laughed at his answer
"You think too small. We are alike you and I. We take the universe in our hands and mould it to our will. Do you say you want peace and Justice? Use your power!" Vilgax knew Ben had the same temptations as he did deep down inside him.
"With a little more than a thought you could wipe out all evil." Vilgax words rang in his head. Could he do it? Can this bring peace to the universe like he always wanted? "Slay all evil.." He said looking at the sword seeing the reflection right
"Ben, what are you saying?" Gwen asked worried that Ben was taking advice from Vilgax of all people. The person who just tried to kill him with god-like powers just moments ago.
"That the end of your struggles is at hand! He can create whatever universe he imagines. Do it" Vilgax yelled challenging Ben's resolve.
"Just wipe out evil…" the temptation set in and Steelguard was considering doing it. 'This is like the holy grail but without a monster hiding in it.'
"Are you taking moral advice from Vilgax?' Gwen said with dismay in her voice then the low rumble sound of jets echoed and everyone looks up to find Julie flying in with Mechamorph Symbiote, Ship, formed as her power armour.
"I thought we'd agreed to make all our big decisions together." She said to Ben hoping to get clear to him
"We? I broke up with you. Why are you here?" Steelguard asked as his heart belonged to someone else now.
"Regardless of that your still my friend and we all love you, Ben. But if you go through with this. You're now different than Vilgax, Dagon or Aggregor. Or any of the others." She said trying to remind him on who he is.
"You'll try and stop me?" Steelguard asked everyone in the room and Kevin stepped forward. "We would stop you" he answered.
"You're not afraid of me?"
Julie commanded Ship to power down leaving in her in the tennis uniform from the match she escaped from. "You never gave me a reason to."
"You always said that I should use my technology to help people. Now, I can help everyone at once!" Steelguard was tempted and losing the side of him that was screaming to not do it.
"Look there's a line...I'm not sure where it is exactly but I know this is way on the wrong side of it"
"Power is meaningless if it isn't used, Do it," Vilgax reminded Ben of the power he wields at his fingertips
"Be quiet!" Gwen said running up to Steelguard.
"Don't you see ben? It's the power! You're tempted like I was when I was about to go full anodite!" Gwen tried to reason with her cousin.
"Just like when I lost control of my powers," Kevin said recalling when he was a monster after the events in the Forge of creation. "You can't force your answer on to everyone! After all, we been through this how you want to end?" Julie said to try to break through to the real Ben
With those words Steelguard heard a voice crying out deep within his head, A voice he knew very well...
"Silence, everyone! I need to think!" he said frustrated and walked away to get some breathing room. He then closed his eyes remembering all that has happened over the years. The Battle against the Hybreed, The return of vilgax, the rise of Aggregor and The Holy Grail War.
"Goshujin-sama?" Ben opened his eyes to find a vision of the woman he loved sitting in front of him, smiling.
"Tamamo..." He then looked into the sword and got a flashback of the lasts moments of the Holy Grail War. Remembering the evils of the grail he faces made him realize that changing the world into his image would not be the same saving it. It would make him no different from the monster that is the avenger. He then turned around to face his friends, all looking at him wondering what he was about to do.
Steelguard places both hands Ascalons handle and his friends got ready to fight him. Instead, however, he raises the sword to the sky and a bright light shot out of it, sending light across the earth.
"What did you do?" Kevin asked. "What I said I was going to do. Cleanse the souls from Dagon's curse." Ben has returned to his senses and saved everyone on earth once again, relieving his friends and disappointing his enemy.
"Coward" Vilgax grunted. "I prefer hero." he deflected.
"I knew you would do the right thing Gwen said running up to him to hug him. "Whoa, there I still have the sword. We need to find a spot for safekeeping of such dangerous blade." Steelguard laughed but then a small burst of blue light came from behind the group.
"I suggest you return it to its creator!"
"Azimuth!" Steelguard then walked over and held the blade handle facing azimuth. With a tape of the Galvins finger, it teleported away.
"That blade is too dangerous for mere mortals. Eh..?" Steelguard looked at Azimuth confused as it looked like he still wanted something.
"The Ultimatrix! Give it to me." Ben then powers down the ultimatrix and lets it unclamp from his wrist. It fell to the ground and teleported away as well. "But Azimuth, I thought I proved I was worthy?" Ben said confused as now he had no watch to transform him.
"As usual you don't understand, you have proved your worth! But his inferior copy of my Omnitrix isn't worthy of you." He said but ben was confused.
"I don't understand?"
"OH FOR THE LOVE OF- Look at your wrist!" Azimuth yelled in frustration and Ben quickly looked at his wrist again. What was there was a white smartwatch looking device with green accents? The faceplate was square and black with green lines forming the familiar hourglass symbol.
"An Omnitrix?" Ben said with delight in his eyes. "THE Omnitrix. An improved version I was working on since you received the prototype six years ago"
"I don't know how to thank you"
"Keep doing the right thing," Azimuth answered with confidence in Ben.
"Don't suppose you'd give me the master control?" Ben asked for the Master control that would allow him to transform with thought and not time out. "Maybe for your eighteenth birthday" Azimuth smirked and then teleported away along with vilgax.
"Figures." Ben sighed but he was happy to have an Omnitrix again.
"Hey sorry for going crazy back there." Ben apologizes to his friends.
"We all go through situations where we get temptation rise. We just need people to help fight against it." Gwen smiled...
"Or smack them upside the head," Kevin added and everyone laughed. "How about we all go to Mr Smoothy? My Treat!" Gwen offered
"I think I'll pass, Gotta figure out how to work this Omnitrix….And trigger the holograms to cover up this mess." Ben said surprisingly putting down an offer of smoothies
"Really? Alright?" the group walks out leaving Ben alone in the base. He looks up at the moon, it reminded him of that night where he promised Tamamo. He then pulls out his phone and goes to his pictures of Tamamo. "Thanks for reminding me who I am." After taking a moment to remember the good times with her he puts the phone away and begins to fiddle with the new watch. "No dial…Whoa!" the Omnitrix faceplate projected a ring with his aliens faces on it. "So this is how you to it...Ah and I can select playlists better!" the front plat was now a touchpad and it allows him more ease selecting aliens. "Lemme see...Is he in this one."
To his disappointment Feedback wasn't a selectable alien. "Dang, I guess the failsafe is still working." Ben sighed and continued to learn the controls. "At least Steelguard is still an option." Ben nodded. "Time to test bad boy out!" Ben dialled in Humungousaur and the black faceplate slides forward revealing the familiar Omnitrix core. Ben then slammed down on the watch and was engulfed in green light.
"OH come on!" Grey matter grumbled.
And thus the end of the era for Ben Tennyson as things finally began to calm down once more for a while. Enough for Gwen to start thinking about going to College and Kevin joining her. Leaving Ben alone for while until he get's a new partner keep the peace in the galaxy.
Ben 10: Omniverse
Episode: An American Benwolf in London
During his time with his new Omnitrix, he has continued his heroic adventures. He has been working alongside the plumbers as a full sanctioned officer. But he becomes to see himself more of a superhero rather than a plumber as his ego made a return but his desires of selflessness and heroism have remained. Both Kevin and Gwen were now out of town these days due to Gwen post-secondary education demanding her full attention. Kevin himself got a job nearby the school so that he can stay close to her. Now Ben as a new partner named Rook Blanco, A Revonnahgander who just graduated from the Plumbers Academy and was assigned to him. He was one of the top honours from the Academy and proved himself working alongside Ben. Unlike Ben, however, he was more of a by the books person and always followed Plumber protocol. Preferring to think before acting whereas Ben likes to jump in most of the time. He is normally found getting Ben out of situations he put himself in and keeping the Plumbers up to date on what's happening. Overall he has become a great ally to Even though he is a bit naive when it comes to earth cultures and sayings.
Ben himself had expanded his arsenal with many new aliens counting up to over seventy new forms for him to fight crime with. One of those aliens includes his old childhood favourite Feedback after overcoming the loss to malware and nows uses him along with all his other aliens. Now Ben and Rook were heading to London England as an old childhood friend, Kye, has called for help.
"Seriously Rook You didn't have to come with me," Ben said while sipping his smoothie and trying to convince Rook that he was fine going alone. "Whatever this thing in London is I can handle it myself."
Rook wasn't buying it though as he has been with ben for nearly a year now and could read his actions like a book. "Are you saying that because you have a childhood crush on Kai Greene?" Ben the spit his drink out at the mention of his old childhood crush and then looks at him wondering how did he know about that.
"Even though she only found you interesting when she thought you were a werewolf?" Ben was still stunned.
"Gwen and I talk" Rook explained the source of the information. The last time Ben met Kye he was slowly turning into Benwolf due to a glitch with the prototype Omnitrix after obtaining the DNA sample. Mimicking the werewolf transformation process from folklore.
"It wasn't a crush ok!? I thought she was...different." Ben looked away and put his drink in the cupholder as he suddenly lost interest in it. "And I am not into her anymore." Ben mumble but Rook didn't notice but did however sense the change in mood. "Well, I am excited to explore a different area of the earth! Did you know that…" Rook then proceed to list out facts about the weather in London that was little interest of Ben and he decided that his smoothie was suddenly worth drinking again
"When I say 'do tell' I mean don't tell," Ben said clearly not interested in the weather.
"I hope the English are better at speaking English than you are," Rook says as they come in for a landing on a bridge. The Proto TRUK then shifts to its truck mode allowing it to blend into earth traffic. Ben and Rook hop out to greet Kai but Rook quickly pokes his head in the truck and hits a button to move the steering will to the right side to match European standards.
"Thanks for coming Ben, I didn't know who else to call." Kai greeted Ben who was taking the time since they last saw each other. "Wow Kai, Your so...um taller," he said to her looking at the older Kye
"Well, of course, I am silly! It's been six years. Your taller too you big goof." Kai laughed but she was really glad the Ben came. Ben then decided to take one verbal jab at her that he was working on since they left Bellwood. "Yep, way too tall to be someone's house pet." When Ben was turning into Benwolf Kai was only interest in him by that fact she thought she could keep and train ben.
"Oh come on! You had furry ears and a-" Kai the shook her head to focus on the important issue that she needs to call Ben for. "I have to rescue my grandpa."
"You mean WE have to rescue your Grandpa." Ben the gestured to his partner. "Kai this is Rook." Rook then introduced himself.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, miss-"
"I only called you for backup anyway" Kai interrupted irritated a small amount.
"Backup? I am a superhero! I saved the universe more times than I can count!" Ben did like the idea of being called backup and it didn't help Kai was suddenly mad at him. "The official count is three times." Rook corrected.
"It has to be more than that! But that doesn't matter. The point is that Ben Tennyson is nobody's back up!" Ben said as he wasn't taking Kai's words without saying something.
"So, you're not helping?" Kai asked
"Oh, we are still going to help. Come on, you can tell us more in the truck." Ben did a complete one-eighty on kai and refocused to help her rescue her family. Ben walked over to the truck leaving both Kai and Rook dumbfounded. The three were now driving around the streets while kai filled Ben and Rook in on what's going on.
"Wait you said you were in 's lab? Like and ? That's just a story!" Ben didn't believe that was a real person as he heard the story from cartoons and books. "Says the guy with the magic watch that turns him into aliens." Kai retorted.
"The Forever Knights were taking my Grandpa to a Castle to help them get a sword," she said to explain the situation. "No problem, England has what? Three Castles?" Ben guessed.
"Over eight hundred actually." Rook corrected.
"Oh, how much with swords?" Ben asks to see if he narrow down the number.
"Substantially less so...But it would still take a considerable amount of time to…"
"Guys, I already know where he is." Kai then reached into her pocket. "One of the knights dropped this." She then handed a piece of paper to Ben.
"Howl's Moving Castle and Storage?"
The group then drove up to the storage warehouse and exited the Proto TRUK. Ben was the first to reach for the door but immediately got a chill right before his hand touched the door. Ben pulled away and shook himself.
"Ben? Is something wrong? " Rooked asked confused as he has never seen ben react like this.
"We are not the only ones here. There some magic spell around here and do not think its any of those bozo's" Ben explained as he reacted similarly back in Fuyuki.
"I thought Gwen was the one with magic powers?" Kai asked and Rook just shrugged.
"Let's find another way in." Ben then ran over to the alleyway to find a side entrance.
"Here too?" Ben tried the door but got the same reaction.
"Ben? Is there a possibility that Charmcaster is involved in this situation? Something like That lab may be of interest to her." Rook suggested as she was always one to look for magical artefacts.
"No, I've been around her magic enough to tell that this is something different but...familiar.." Ben scratch his chin as it wasn't like the Forever Knights to start accepting mages to their ranks. "Well, how are we supposed to get in?" Kai asked as she looked around. Ben looked up and saw an open window.
"Up there." Ben then began to dial in his aliens to help reach it.
Ben took the form of diamond head and raised a pillar of crystal below the group to bring them up to the window. Once inside Ben's sensitivity to the magic continued to flare up. "Ben what-" Diamond head then pushed kai as the climbed down the shelving units. Once all three were on the ground Diamond head scanned the room with his eyes. 'Still got that feeling...it's not like Rider's sigils since she's gone…' Ben thought as he walked about.
"Hmm, maybe they left? Wahhh!" Diamond head then took another step then was blasted into the air crashing landing in some boxes.
"Ow!" Diamond head grumbled. The out from the rafters was a rain blue bolts of magic targeted at Rook and Kai.
"Get to cover!" Rook yelled and both of them dove behind a desk. The desk cracked as it wasn't going to take fire much longer. "Hold up I got you!" Diamond-Head got back up and made crystals Rise from the floor for them, making much more suitable cover. He then proceeds to fire shards from his fist at the source of the attacks.
"Eat this!" The shards then explode forcing the attacker in the open. "To quickly recover and force me out of my position!? What kind of golem are you!?" The women said floating in the open air. Her attire was mainly a blue collared dress with matching stocking and arm sleeve gloves. The attacker's hair was blonde with tube-like pigtails that made up the locks.
"Hey! I am no golem!" Diamond head then jumped at her using a spike as a springboard.
"Hah!" the mage then blasted him back down…"Ben! Maybe try a different approach!" Rook said still taking fire from another angle.
"Yeah, maybe I'll-" As diamond head got up he froze up and couldn't move…"Gah! What's... I...Can't move!" he struggled as his bodied stiffened up. "Ohohoho. It's foolish to send a crystal golem to fight a magus who is a master at gem magic."
Diamond head then looked at the floor and saw that he landed on a rune. "Magus?." the woman then floated down to the floor and walked up to Diamond head. "For shame that we have to discard such a well made familiar." She pointed her blue star wand at him ready to blast bento pieces.
"BEN!" Kai yelled worried for her friend.
"LUIVA! Stop!" Another voice calls out as the rain of magic stopped and the woman in front of Diamond head cancelled her spell. Diamond head eyes light up as he knew that commanding voice anywhere.
"Rin? Is that you?" Diamond head asked and the Girl in question lands beside the other and walks up to him. She was wearing a similar outfit but red.
"Ben? What are you doing here?" Rin asked.
Both Rook and Kai were not confused but relieved that the hostilities seemed to have ended.
"I could ask you the same thing but first. Can you let me out?" Ben asked and Rin nodded.
"Ruby, Sapphire dispel all traps," Rin said.
"Will do!"
"Yes,' madam rin" Both wands suddenly spring to life and glowed.
"All done Rin! And I told you that was Ben Ten!" the pink star wand said with pep in its voice.
"Hey don't blame me! I never asked for a list!" Rin yelled back at the wand. Diamond stood up and flashed back to Ben.
"Ben are you ok?" Kai ran up to him. "Yeah, I am alright," Ben said stretching his limbs.
"Wait, are you, Benjamin Tennyson?!" The one who ben now assumes is named Luvia. "The one and only," Ben confirmed. She then stepped forward and bowed much to Ben's surprise.
"My name is Luvia Edelfelt and I am sorry for attacking you It was my partners plan to trap those knights."
Rin then gave a burst of anger, "HEY! You suggested to lay out the traps!"
"Well, clearly you didn't recognize in his form," Luvia said repeating what Ruby just said.
"What you expect ME to keep track on all his aliens?!" the two then began arguing and there wands then popped out of each of their hands. Both of them then flew to Ben and the others.
"I wish to apologize but those two tend to argue a lot." The blue one said mimicking a bow with its body.
"Yeah, those two are troublesome. I wonder why the boss even assigned us to them in the first place!" Ben looked at the two wands with confusion as he is not used to objects talking to him.
"I believe Ben would like an explanation on what exactly you two are," Rook spoke up.
"Oh! I am Ruby and this is my little sister Sapphire. And we are Kaleidosticks!" Ruby said with cheer and joy" But it didn't fill in the blanks for Ben's group.
"So your like some form of Mystic code?" Kai guessed surprising Ben.
"Wait you know what these things are?"
"Yeah. I and my Grandpa tend to run into some magical artefacts while treasure hunting." Kai answered
"Correct madam, We are a powerful set of Mystic codes that provide our masters with abundant amounts of magic enhancements such has unlimited mana and flight," Sapphire answered.
"Basically turning them into magical girls!" Ruby added causing chuckle in Ben as he took another look at the girls.
"I guess that explains the Cat ears and tail." he laughed pointing out the extra detail that he couldn't understand. Kai then walked up to the arguing girls. "If you too are done acting like kids, can we get a proper explanation on what you two were doing here?" she said getting the girls attention.
"Oh umm yes," Rin said straightening herself as did Luvia. "We were assigned to track the sudden increase in activity of the Forever knights posted in London," she said. "With the school of mages being posted here, we can't risk them exposing us," Luvia added.
"Well, those very same knights took my Grandpa to look for some sword. Think you can help us? Oh and the Names Kai Greene." She offered a handshake and Rin accepted. "Sure thing." Rin accepted the handshake and kai took a moment to explain the details along with rook introducing himself.
"Ah I see well with Ben Tennyson on our side I have high hopes of stopping those knights," Luvia said praising Ben and fueling his ego. "About time I get some recognition." Rook then facepalmed.
"I take that mister Tennyson is a bit egotistical?" Sapphire asked Rook in a hushed tone...
"You do not know the half of it." Rook groaned.
The group then decided to look for clues on where the Knights went with Kai's Grandpa. Ben found and desk with leftover takeout and a TV with the volume muted. "Ew, Well somebody was here," Ben said he took a whiff of the food.
"Nice detective work Sherlock," Kai said mocking Ben. "That is quite the compliment, Ben. Sherlock Holmes, although fictional, was the best detective in all of London." Rook again misinterpreting a mocking statement.
"Is this a common thing with him?" Ruby said appearing over Ben's shoulder.
"Pretty much, yeah."
Kai then walks over noticing Ben's watch. "New Omnitrix?" Kai's asked as she took a look at it.
"Careful! You might turn me into Walkatrout or something. It's got a bunch of new aliens."
"So you couldn't change into Benwolf even if you wanted to," Kai smirked at him trying to bait him into transforming.
"Oh, I can! I just choose..not too. And I don't call him 'Benwolf' anymore. His name is…" Ben was lying that he stopped calling him Benwolf and needed come up with something quick. He then looked to the still running TV and got an idea. "Blitzwolfer!"
"Hah, you just made that up!"
"Whatever. Rook did you find anything?" Ben decided to drop the subject again to Rooks surprise. "Yes, Ben I have found these notes and maps under the rug here." Rook then showed everyone the clues.
"That's my Grandpas handwriting!"
Rin and Luvia then took a look at the notes. "Those markings show the statues in parliament square along with an old map a London." Luvia Said.
"But why would he pair it with an old map of London?" Rin added looking over the notes Ben decided to pass by fiddling with the Omnitrix while Ruby watched.
"Can it talk?" Ruby asked a very odd question. "Nope, only when it's something like a new alien is around or if I am using another function," Ben answered and Ruby dropped a bit.
Rooks's eyes lite up noticing a clue every time Ben unintentionally providing light. Kai then grabbed Bens arm and focused the light on to the papers. The light causes the location of the statues to appear through the old map of London "Each statue represents a London landmark!" Kai figuring it out.
"A hidden code," Rook confirmed. Sapphire then took a look and saw that there was an X marking. "Perhaps that identifies something of importance."
"X normally marks the spots," Ruby added simply as is.
Luvia looked at the map again. "The statue is Cromwell's but it's corresponding with the observatory in London."
"Something's not right. That map is dated 1860 but that Statue was not installed until 1899." Rook said comparing with his recent studies of the city. "He's right! Before then, there was another statue in the other part of the square. My Grandpa would know that." Kai put the pieces together.
"He must be leading the Knights to the wrong statue on Purpose!"
Ben got excited as it sounded like it was time to kick some Buckethead. "Then let's go to the wrong place and kick us some forever butt!"
"No, My Grandpa is risking his life to make sure they don't find the sword there looking for. It's that important. He would want us to get to it first."
"She's right Ben, Worst case scenario we could be dealing with a Noble Phantasm," Rin said and Ben grew reflective remembering how powerful those things were.
"Like Saber's?" Ben asked and Rin nodded. "Or worse."
Kai and Rook looked at each other again as they seemed to be out of the loop. Rook then wanted to confirm with Kai. "Are you sure about this? Once the forever Knights figure out-"
"Like he said 'once a Plumber, Always a Plumber' He can take care of himself' Kai confirmed that she understood the risk her Grandpa was taking.
"So where's the old Statue?" Ben asked.
"Across the square," Luvia said.
"That would make it at Stanford," Kai said and everyone then left for Rook's Truck.
On the way to Stanford.
"Ben, May I ask a question?" Rook needed to know how did he know Rin Tohsaka and wasn't surprised that she could use magic. "Alright, Shoot," Ben said.
"How did you and Ms, Tohsaka meet?" Rooks question almost got the same reaction when he was about Feedback. Closed body language but didn't have the face of misery. "It was on my trip to Fuyuki," Ben said simply but the Ruby flew over the sense that ben was keeping a secret. "OOOOOH, I smell a secret…." Ruby pushed on
"And how did you know that she could use magic?" Rook questioned again but Ben was still against answer. "Ben, What are you hiding?" Kai asked.
"Look….I was involved in...Rin can you explain?" Ben then quickly reflected Rin and she nodded reading Ben's discomfort.
"We both were participants of a game called the Holy Grail War."
"That does not sound like a game." From how Rin expressed it and how Ben was being closed up. Rook understood that this was no game.
"What do you do in that?" Kai asked.
"It was a Battle Royale where seven magi summon heroic spirits as servants to fight to the death for the Holy Grail" Both Kai was stunned and amazed that such thing exists.
"When you talk about the Holy Grail, Do you mean the cup of Jesus Christ?" Rooks asked for clarification.
"No, But it's power wasn't to be joked about. To put it simply it was a wish-granting device" Rook understood that if Rin was telling the truth this was another moment where the world could've been at stake.
"How does this involve Ben? He can't use magic if I recall."
"Hey, I have as much possibility as Gwen!" Ben retorted speaking up and Kai gave him a look of disbelief. Rin could read Ben's discomfort and decide to give a rough summary "Ben was selected as an eighth master and received a servant to fight alongside him. Eventually, I and he teamed up with another master proceeded to end the war. "So what about the Holy Grail?" Rook asked.
"We destroyed it," Ben said finally adding to the conversation. Then he faced to rook and Kai with a very serious look. "For a VERY good reason." Ben stopped there and the rest of the ride was in silence.
"Whoa Cool" Ben said as they walked throughout the cemetery. "
Yes, it is! A lot of Famous earthlings are buried here." Rooks said with interest, He then looked to the nearby gravestones. "Michael Faraday, Karl Marx, Douglas Adams." He listed as the walked by.
"And they all been waiting for you," Kai said to try to creep out Ben.
"Please Miss Greene, Benjamin here has been in much more scarier situations than a graveyard," Luiva said laughing at Kai's attempt.
'Ok, I am beginning to see why you two argue.' Kai said in her head.
Rin then walked up to Ben and pulled him aside for a quiet chat. "Ben, are you ok?" Rin asked concerned for her friend. Ben's eye's darted away for a moment but looked back at her.
"Yeah, I'm good it's just. "
"It is that fact you fell in love with your servant?!" Ruby said jumping in sending Ben into a blush and Rin grabbing the Code.
"Ruby! Can you just shush it!" Rin grabbed the code by its wings and stretched it.
"Ouchiiiiiieee." Ruby groaned in pain and Ben took that as a moment to check in on the others. Rook, Kai and Luiva were trying to figure out a clue.
"The secret lies between hall and wall…"
"But I don't see a wall or a hall," Sapphire said looking around.
"Both wall and hall are capitalized. Does that make them names?" Rook said and then looked at the gravestones in front of them with the last names of Hall and Wall
"Barnaby Hall, Joseph wall." Rook said and Kai then walked to the coffin between them and brushed off some the dirt Revealing the Forever Knight logo.
"This is it!-Whoa!" Kai was then surprised by Fourarms lifting up the lid. "Boo, eh eh eh." He then used his second set of arms and picked up the only items in the coffin. "No sword, Just these two things." The items looked like a set of magnifying glasses in a line all attached to together. Then three shurikens hit the lid he was holding and everyone turned around to find the red ninja android of the Forever Knights. Fourarms then threw the stone lid at him but he dodged it and unsheathed its energy blades. It dashed passed Fourarms focusing on Kai. Lucky for her, Rook pushed her out of the way shifting his Proto Tool into an energy blade and clashed with the Android with his high skill training.
The android retreats as he was facing a foe of skill and Rook give chase.
"Wow, Your Partners good." Kai amazed by Rooks skill.
"Yeah I taught him a bunch of stuff," Fourarms said but in reality, he was bluffing to look cool.
"Apparent not to look out behind ya!" the British Knight, Sir Morton, ran at Fourarms but then was tripped by Kai. "Hold them off! I get these out of here!" she said putting the artefacts in her bag. "We'll give you cover Ms, Greene," Luvia said and Rin nodded in agreement
"You ready Ruby?" Rin asked.
"You kidding? This is the most action I got in years!" Ruby said in excitement.
Both then flew into the air using the magic to blast away the knights that ran at Kai
"RAHHH!" Fourarms the shoulder charge Sir Morton through a stone wall. Morton got back up and got into a hand lock. "Your girlfriend is much better at fighting then you are."
"Hey! I am already with someone else nimrod!" Fourarms then pulled away and did a haymaker punch knocking Morton down. Morton gets back up and charges at him but Fourarms stops him and slams him down to the ground.
"STAY YOUR HAND! All of you!" A commanding voice said getting both the knights and Ben's group Attention.
"If you value his life…" The forever King said with Kai's Grandpa held hostage. "Don't listen to him, Kai!" He begged but everyone surrendered as they didn't want him to get hurt. Even both Rin and Luvia surrendered by disabling there forms reverting to there casual clothes and the Knights took the Kalidosticks.
"The Oculatta if you please." The King asked and his knights retrieved them from Kai's bag.
"Wait, Grandpa, the sword there looking for can't be-" Kai Just realised the purpose of the devices they found. "The Sword of Sigurd., Beowulf and Arthur. Anyone who wielded it was unstoppable in battle." The Knights then handed over the Ocultas to the king. "It was known by a hundred names around the globe but you may know it as…"
"Excalibur," The Greenes and Rook said in unison but Ben raised his eyebrow.
"That can't be possible!" Ben then Looked to Rin and she was just as confused. "With Excalibur in hand, I will restore the Forever Knights to our rightful dominion over the World. No Alien will set foot or tentacle on Earth ever again!"
Moments later on the canal
Ben and the other were taken along by the knights as the King wished to slay Ben with Excalibur. They were all in boats heading towards the location of the sword wondering whether or not Excalibur was real or not. Ben, Kai and Rin were placed on the same Boat just behind the Forever Kings boat.
"Ok Rin, Is this even possible? Excalibur? Like Arturia's sword?" Ben Knew the power of Excalibur from the Holy Grail War and was worried that the forever knights. "Most likely but at the same time it can't be Because of Shirou a vision a few months ago from her telling Bedivere to return it to the lady of the lake." This entire conversation gave Ben a feel of nostalgia as he remembers his friends in japan.
"Wait, Are talking about-" Rin the covered Kai's mouth. "The last thing they need is for them to learn about 'That'. "
"Alright, But seriously who is this 'Arturia' you are talking about? It was Arthur who had the Sword from the stone" Kai was in for a big revelation as Rin and Ben looked at each other.
"During that Battle in Fuyuki, I fought alongside King Arthur...Only to realize that he actually was a she." Ben said. "Yeah, Right, and next you're gonna tell me your servant was Tamamo no Mae." Ben flinched a bit hearing that name and turned silent. Rin decides to take over for him after realizing what was wrong with him.
"He's telling the Truth, She hid her gender after she pulled Caliburn from the stone. Excalibur Came from the Lake by the way." Rin said with zero signs of lying. "You are serious." Kai taking Rin truthfully and then looked to Ben.
"So who was your servant, Ben?" He was silently looking away at the water.
"Don't Jest yourself with lies, Witch." The king said insulting rin who glared at him. "No wonder She kicked your order out of Camelot," Rin grumbled.
"Sooo..where are we going anyway?" Ben needed info and it was no better than now to ask since the forever king had a tendency to reveal his plans to his enemies via boasting. "This device was developed by scientists loyal to them forever Knights." He then looked to Westminster Palace "When placing a top of the Palace on the night of a full moon, Such as this. They will reveal the location of the vault of Britannia."
His eyes then grew power-hungry.
"Where Excalibur rests since it was last used against Napoleon and his troops."
"Dude, I just asked where we were going, Nobody asked for a history lesson," Ben interrupted as he was done getting information. Moments after they landed the forever knights guided them towards the rooftop of the Palace. "You three take Mr Greene, the Alien and the blue mage to Victoria tower. I and the Red knight will take the other mage, Tennyson and his girlfriend to Elisabeth tower " The forever king ordered his troops.
"He is NOT my Boyfriend!" Kai quickly yelped feeling her face turn red but immediately went away with the words that came from Ben's mouth.
"Yeah! I am already taken for someone else!" Ben said surprising Kai and Rook.
"Wait, what?" Kai said confused and Ben quickly changed the subject. "So where is Elisabeth tower?"
"How have your of all people never heard of Big Ben." The forever king then pointed towards the said building. "Of course I heard of Big Ben! Giant Clock, can't miss it." Ben said as he knew what it was. "Actually, Big Ben refers to the 16 and a half-ton Bell inside the-"
"Pst hey! Don't correct the Bad guy" Kai Whispered.
"I was correcting Ben," Rook assured.
"Enough with the playful Banter! I have an invincible sword to claim!" The Forever king said and the two groups went to there respective towers. "Rin was that story that dude said back on the boat true?" Ben asked rin.
"The legend of King Arthur was a very convoluted story in the first place but If you ask me that the sword we are looking for is a sword that is meant to imitate Excalibur," She said lining up from what Arturia told them from the past and what the knights have told them. Since Forever Knights of the past had a grudge against Arturia after she banished them for trying to take Excalibur. They may have tried to forge their own sword and named it so after the word got out that the king was dead.
"Preposterous, The sword is genuine." the King scoffed at her refusing the idea.
Once they reached the top of the tower Kai was then force the step up one of the Oculatta on the railings and line it up with the moon. "Ben Ten on Big Ben! How awesome is this? A million times awesome " He then looked to Rin and Kai who gave him an annoyed look as this wasn't the best time to act tourist.
"Ahhhh, It shan't be long now…" The forever King then looks through his telescope to make sure the others were ready at the other tower. Sir Morton gave a thumbs up and with another second both devices began to focus the moonlight onto one spot in the river. Then a hidden island with a stone door rose from the waters revealing the vault that the knights were after. "Dammit, we have to do something," Rin whispered.
Kai then walked over to Ben. "In about ten seconds there will be a distraction. Once it happens, you gotta fly down there and get the sword"
"Distraction? What kind of-" Ben was then cut off by Big Ben ringing with the passing of the hours stunning everyone with loud noises... Everyone then covered their ears to block out the noise but the Red android began to spark and malfunction due to the shock-waves.
"What are you waiting for?! Change and go get the sword!" Kai yelled and Ben nods activating the Omnitrix.
"Come on Omnitrix! Give me anything that can fly!" Ben dials in Jetray and slams down. After a green flash, Ben blinked realizing that he was furrier than the Aerophibian and then realized that the watch gave him the wrong alien again. "Blitzwolfer? Now?" and ding from the bell and Blitzwolfer then cried in the pain due to ultra-sensitive hearing "WOWOWOW My ears" He whined.
Once the ringing stopped the Red knight rebooted and released Ben had transformed. It throws shurikens at Blitzwolfer. He shakes his head and unleashes a supersonic howl sending the sharp projectiles back at the Knight. The Red Knight blocks them and unsheathes his swords, he lunges at Blitzwolfer with slashes. He dodges all the attacks and jumps towards the rooftop of the tower.
"Ruby! Get over here!" Rin yells.
Meanwhile on the other tower.
"What in blue blazes is going on there?!" Sir Morton looks from his post at the chaos at Big Ben. He then turns around and sees that Rook, Mr Greene and Luvia are missing. "Who was looking over the prisoners?!" Both knights point at each other. Sir Morton slaps his hand on his faceplate.
"What this tech called again?" Mr Greene asks while hanging on to Rook as they zip line across the river. "A proto tool sir" Rook answers.
"I sure wish they were invented when I was a plumber!"
Luvia managed to get both Sapphire and Ruby free as the knights did not know that they were sentient beings. She was now in her magical girl form flying across the river holding onto both wands
"Come on! Were missing on the Ben 10 action!" Ruby said excitedly.
"Nee-san, please focus on the goal here." Sapphire chastised her sister.
Blitzwolfer continued to dodge the Red Knight attacks. "Hate to do this to ya man, A robot ninja is a terrible thing the waste!" he then swung around the spire of the tower and kicked the robot off the tower and onto to lower buildings. Sadly landing right where Mr Greene and Rook were and it quickly got back up.
"I got to go help them!" Kai and Rin then began to climb down the tower but her a crack in the metal railing while. "Gaah!" it detached from its screws sending both of them falling down until they lucky grabbed one of the hands of Big Ben's clock.
"Ben!" Kai Called out.
"Luvia!" Rin yelled.
"Kai! Rin!" Blitzwolfer then jumped down to where the railing was and figured out what happened. "No time to try for a flyer!"Ben looked around. Seeing the railing broken, he got an idea. He ripped it off its screws, reshaping it into a makeshift ladder. Unfortunately, it was too short to reach them so ben had to improvise. "Listen Omnitrix if this doesn't work I am really going to need something that can fly!" he then jumped down, passing the girls, grabbed on to the minute handle swing himself back up and grabbing both of them. And finally having her foot claws cling on to the ladder. "Good boy!" Kai then patted Blitzwolfer's head praising him like a dog. "Ugh," he sighed.
"Rin!" Ruby yell flying over to her.
"Rin are you alright?" Luvia flew over to her partner to make sure she wasn't hurt.
"Relax, I am fine thanks to Ben here. " She then grabbed Ruby and tranced into her magical girl form. "I'll take kai and go help the others. Rin get Ben to the sword!" Luiva suggests and Rin nods. After Luvia takes kai's hand they both fly off to help rook and Mr Greene.
"You going to need to transform back, we can't lift you as Blitzwolfer," Rin said.
"Alright give me a second!" Ben adjust his position and powers down the watch. "Hang on!" Rin took his hand and flew down to the vault doors in the middle of the river. "There no handle or anything to open it with!" Ben said trying to figure out how to open the doors. "You have the watch, just bust it down!" Rin deadpanned. Facepalming himself, ben dials in Humungousaur.
One flash later and Rin facepalmed to the result of who Ben picked. "Steelguard!?, I appreciate the nostalgia fare watch of mine. But I really need someone else!" Sighing Steelguard then unsheathe his sword and inserted it into the crack between the doors. Pulling on the blade to act as a crowbar, it didn't budge and snapped his sword. Trying a different plan of attack his brought out his shield guns and blasted the door with full power. Seeing door cracked but still standing Steelguard was about to fire again. "Hey didn't your grandma said you can transform your weapons?" Rin said recalling the meeting with Verdona.
"Quick think of something bigger to blow that door away!" Ruby said excitedly. "Alright." Steelguard the imagined rook's proto tool, how it transformed and reshaped into different weapons and gadgets
With the sound of clanging metal, his right arm transformed into menacing-looking mana powered cannon.
"Hah! Say hello to my little friend!" he took a few steps back and rin out of a barrier to protect herself. The cannon did a quick "whirl" Sound and Steelguard released the trigger.
BOOM!
The door closes against the might of the cannon and all the remains are the smouldering rocks scatter around. "The more I use Steelguard the more I want to add him to my dangerous list...Regardless of how astounding that felt!" The two then run down the stairs into the vault.
Once they reached the bottom, they were greeted by a largely empty chamber with clockwork gears running on the stone walls and the prized sword. With no time to waste they run-up to the sword in the stone to inspect it.
"Well it's been a while but tell me if I am wrong but This sword looks nothing like the blades lady Arturia welded," Steelguard exclaimed as the sword in question looked nothing like Excalibur or the real sword in the stone: Caliburn. The sword had a white silver blade and a golden hilt with a ruby-like gem in the middle of the crossguard.
"This definitely proves my theory that this sword is just a counterfeit out but it's is giving off loads of magical energy we better-"
"Stand aside or your partner gets it witch!" a loud grovelled voice yelled behind them. Both Rin and Ben turn around to find a Humungosaur sized, purple and ape-like version of the Forever King.
"You heard me! Let me the sword or your friends die!" he yelled.
Steelguard's eyes widened in fear as Rook and the others were held at gunpoint with Luiva unconscious in the forever king's hands. "How did you transform?!" Rin demanded with worry for her blonde partner.
"He had a vial of Doctor Jekyll's formula…," Kai said with shame for not mentioning that one of the vials survived after her Grandpa smashed the others.
"You tell us that now kai!?" Rin yelled with anger as now the health of her friend was unknown.
"Rin. Shan't it's not the time to get angry with the enemy holding our allies hostage." Steelguard said trying to remain calm in the situation and think of a way out.
"Trust me, Magister Greene, I have a hundred per cent faith that Ben will not let the forever king take Excalibur," Rook whispered to . Steelguard's eyes darted around as Ben thought of a way to get his friends free. He looked back to the sword thinking about the legend of both King Arthur and Sir George and got an idea. "This may look stupid," he whispered to Rin.
"Alright! you win to take the blade but only if you let my friend go...Gently." everyone gasped at Ben.
"Ok...Eighty percent.." Rook said worriedly now. "Hah! Victory for me-er the Forever Knights!" he then drops Luvia but Steelguard quickly runs over and catches her. "Luvia, are you ok?" Rin said running over to check on Luvia.
"Ughh Rin...He came out nowhere...one moment he was human the next…" Luvia then looked up to see who was holding her and blushed. "Oh-oh my. Ben thank-"
"Hey!" Kai yelled annoyed.
Before Kai could get angrier, Steelguard then lowered her to let her stand. To Ben She was a nice looking lady, he could imagine a lot of guys his age going heads over heels for her. But he was loyal to Tamamo...Plus there was a mutant king to stop. The Forever King walk up to the sword "With my strength I shall take this sword! From this day forward, I assume my rightful place. Not just as the king of the forever knight but as king of the world!" He then begins to pull with all his enhanced strength with high hopes that he can pull out the sword. "Hgnh! Hnnngh!"
"Back to ninety!" Rook said relieved as it seemed that the sword wasn't going to let the Forever King take it. "Gahh!" The King yells and frustration then stomps over to Steelguard angry. "You there! Change into a stronger alien and retrieve my sword!" he demanded.
"Alright your beastly majesty but there's one issue," he asked the angry king.
"Gahh what is it?"
"One..judging from the fact that you could not pull the blade out with your freakish strength. None of my aliens will brute force it out.
"And two…Are you getting a little a-HEAD of yourself!" Steelguard then whips around and fires his hidden shield guns at the Red Knight. Blasting its head off and releasing rook's Proto tool.
Before the King could react Steelguard swings at his shins with a mace made from his hand. "Gah! Why you LITTLE!" the King then began to lose his calm demeanour and lets the mutant rage take over! Rapidly swing his giant fists, he tries to crush Steelguard. "The guy went Berserk!"
"Would you two ladies care to assist me?" Steelguard said as he jumps and smacks the King in the face with the mace. Rin looks back to find that the others have freed themselves laying the smack-down on the remaining knights. Rin looks to her partner, She was back on her feet thanks to Sapphire. "We are ready Madame Rin."
"Come on let us go beat up that ape!" Ruby said dancing for a fight.
"Raah! You damn alien scum! You did this! I WILL CRUSH YOU!" The king yelled as he tried to crush Steelguard. "Nope...Too..slow, TAKE THIS!" Another leap over the King's head and Steelguard Slams his foot into his face.
"Scatter Shot!" Rin yells raining magic pellets on the monster King.
"Liner Beam!" Luiva Charges magic and fires a straight beam of light into his face sending him into the wall of clockwork. Observing, Sapphire spoke up "I would advise caution! We don't know what would happen if the machinery in the room would-"
"RAAAAGHHH!" he the pulls a pipe off the wall and threw it at Rin in anger. She dodged it and it embeds itself into the wall. "Hah, your gonna…uh oh.." Water rushed in from the broken pipework and began to flood the room.
"Get damaged…" Sapphire said
Steelguard then took a punch from the king, sending him flying into another pipe rupturing it. "Gah! When you do stuff like that It makes me not want to go easy on you!"
Meanwhile, Rook and the others were fighting off Sir Morton and his goons. Mr Greene was using rook's Proto tool using it to fend off the knights while rook runs over to what seemed to be a control panel for the valves. Kai kicks a knight sending him sliding but then slips causing her to slide across the room. She tries to get a grip on something to stop her slide and get her bearings. Her hand lands on Fake Excalibur stopping her for a moment...and slightly move to the side in the stone. "Wait did it just?-AH" She loses her grip and slides again.
notices the water has gotten to waist level leaving only the magical girls dry. "We can't keep wasting our time fighting or none us will get out of here alive!" he tried to reason with the knights. "A knight always obeys there king!" Sir Morton stating his loyalty.
"Your king has turned into a power-hungry monster, Literally!" Mr Greene stated and Sir Morton looks over at their now mutated king being held down by both girls magic. "Drowning us all is not going to get you that sword! Cause and effect your majesty! Learn it and live it!" Steelguard said but then the king broke free sending him flying into ANOTHER pipe.
"Gah! I really am getting tired being someone's pipe bursting arrow!"
"Very well. Temporary truce of necessity." The knights agree to find a way out while Ben dealt with the king. Kai the surfaces from the water. "I think I found a way out!"
"She's good." Sir Morton then dives with her finding the mentioned way out that was a large rusty hatch with a padlock. Both of them try to force the lock apart but to no avail. Both of them then get up for air. "This is definitely a way out but we do not know where it leads," Sir Morton said.
"Any way out is better than here!"
"We just need some leverage!" Kai then looked over to Steelguard and got an idea.
"Ben! We need you to get this hatch open!" Steelguard nods. "Keep him busy, If he shall not snap out of his rampage we'll leave him here." He said to the girls and runs over to the hatch. "What do you need Kai?"
"Just make something to pry that lock off!" kai said he gets into action morphing his hammer and shield into a large Warhammer. He then pries the lock off using the spiked end as a fulcrum.
"It's open! Everyone out!" Rook yells and everyone begins to swim down to the open tunnel. "What about him?" Luvia asks about the king but it seems like the formula had taken the rest of his intelligence to become the monster of hyde.
"I'll send someone to find him. Let's go!" both girls then flew towards the hatch and took a deep breath. After they swam down the tunnel only Steelguard and The forever king remained. "Last chance you overgrown Buffoon."
All he got was a growl and the steel guard took the plunge down into the drain pipes.
Outside in a drain.
"Waaah! Oof!" Ben groans as he landed out of the pipe. After shaking off the water he looks around and does a headcount. Everyone made it out alive but the knights were missing. "Everyone alright?"
"Yep! wet...But alive!" Ruby said ringing the water out of her body. "Where did the Forever Knights go?" he said standing up.
"They must have gotten sucked away to another pipe." Rook suggested.
"Well, At Least we won't seem them for a while with their leader stuck down there," Ben said as the vault began to sink back into the river. "
"Yup. I got my grandpa and the sword sealed away. I also got to see Blitzwolfer again…" Kai said getting an annoyed look from Ben. "Think I'll add that knight form of yours to the list." Ben had enough of her teasing him.
"Look, Kai, I get it, You like Blitzwolfer! But can you at least acknowledge that it's still ME fighting." Kai was found speechless at ben snapping at her.
"Ben I-" Kai was then interrupted by Ben
"Look I'll admit I did have a crush on you when I was ten but that has changed. I moved on unlike you who kept on antagonizing me and only acted nice because I was either a fluffy puppy or dashing knight! So how about you grow up for once!" he then began to walk away from the group.
"Ben! Wait!" Rook tried to run after him but was stopped by blue light. "I would recommend giving him some space. The young man had it rough these past couple months." Paradox said getting everyone's attention.
"How? I have been with him since I was assigned to him and he seemed like his usual state of mind. He had even regained access to Feedback after overcoming his self-blame." Rook said giving his observation.
"But he didn't tell you about the Holy Grail War after all this time," Rin said stating the missing link.
"Holy Grail War!?" Mr Greene said shocked. "Wait Grandpa you know about that?" he nods. "A long time ago I was contacted by a family called the Einzberns about receiving an artefact for them." He then grew a grim face as he was told the whole process as he hunted for the artefact. "To think that he was chosen."
"Yes, and I would say it was a situation that really put Ben out of his comfort zone but he hand people by his side to back him up." Paradox looked to Rin and she smiled.
"He wasn't alone in that fight. Especially since his servant was very reluctant to leave his side. " Rin then began to give a much more detailed explanation on what happened while Kai herself recovered from Ben's words. Ben needed a moment to himself as he could not take Kai's Childish comments anymore. He has dealt with so much over the years and she still acted like was the only good when Blitzwolfer was the face. "Uuuggghhh." Ben let out a long sigh. Normally he would be happy after kicking bad-guy butt. Especially since he got so see old friends again, yet it also that brought back old memories of the nightmare that was the Holy Grail War.
"You ok Benjamin?" Luvia said behind him, Slightly startling Ben. "I guess…" he didn't really talk about the grail war ever since he came home. Not even to Rook, so only his grandpa only knows about it. "You suffer from the traumatic memories of war." Luvia words hit the nail on head to Ben, he nods acknowledging his discomfort. "Yeah, There some really..bad..moments."
'Grant our wish…'
Ben quickly shook his head. "You of all people should know that not talking to any about things like that isn't healthy," Luvia said with a comforting voice. "Yeah, I let my macho mind kinda keep stuff like in the back of my head... " Ben said stated his one big flaw in his personality
"Unless Tamamo no Mae was around." Luvia saying her name brought a blushed smile on his face. She was right, Tamamo was the only one he could open up about his demons. Ben's mood lightened as he remembered the good times in Fuyuki. Meeting Shirou and his friends, helping Sakura and heck, he got to meet King Arthur!
"Yeah...Now that I think about it. I shouldn't focus on the bad things. That just drowns out all the fun I had in Fuyuki." Ben wasn't going to let this become another Feedback episode, it wasn't his fault that bad things happen. What he needed to do was to push forward and keep being the hero he is.
"And Tamamo would kick my butt if she saw me all mopey!" he laughed and Luvia smiled as it looked like he was back to his normal self.
"Thanks, Luvia."
"No problem Beng- I mean Ben. I may act like a little...heated...Around Rin but I like to help friends. Furthermore, I admire your loyalty to your love." She smiled understanding that she wasn't going try and swoon, Ben, as his heart was for someone else. Shortly after that, they returned to the group and both Ben and kai apologized to each other, burying the hatchet between them and starting off fresh. With a quick spell from Ruby to get the sewer stink off of them, Ben and rook decided to head back to Bellwood. "Well, it was fun seeing you all," Ben said.
"Yeah, even with our little fights, I was glad you came Ben," Kai said honestly.
"I was good seeing you again Ben. Maybe come around Fuyuki sometime eh?" Rin said with a smile and Ben nods. "Totally, Hows is everyone by the way. I forgot to ask."
"Everyone doing good. Sakura had moved into my place and Shirou is still pursuing his dream to be a hero in his own way."
Ben then looks over to Luvia. "It was nice meeting you Luvia, I will admit you really got me out of a tough spot."
"No problem, Ben farewell!"
Rook and Ben then hope into the Proto TRUK and fly back home.
"Ben, may I ask something?" Rook said.
"Sure."
"Do you still miss Tamamo no Mae?" Rook needed to know so he could get a full understanding of his feeling for her.
"Yes, Not a day goes by without thinking about her." Ben turns on his phone and goes into his pictures. "But I know I will see her again in future." he then smiled and Rook nods.
"When we return to base, Shall I call up Kevin and Gwen for some smoothies?"
"That would be great, dude."
AN: And the story is coming to a close as Ben continues on his path. But Don't worry, I still have one more goodie-fluff Chapter to give you all in the works along with a little chapter about the man on the moon.
So yeah I am making Rin and Luvia a form of dynamic duo with there magical girl powers. I always found the whole idea of them butting heads to the point of fighting annoying, But I did like them when they worked together. So I made them a middle ground compared to what you normally would read/watch.
Without clogging up the next two chapters, I am just going to put my thanks to you readers for reaching this far in my story and I am very thankful for it. This story was, at first, a way to vent stress I was facing. Then I decided to actually post the damn thing later down the line as I discovered I really like writing Crossover Fanfics. Thanks the to the feedback I made some adjustments and added some more story to it. Yes, I totally made some stenches in Fate lore and maybe went a little OC on Ben but I hope it wasn't too jarring as this was made in good fun.
(I will still be adjusting some things grammars sake once I get time off)
So Thank you readers for checking out this story as I plan to write more and improve while having fun along the ride!
Cya in the next one!
