[REDACTED!]trix (Mrs. T)- turns the user into [REDACTED!]
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-Milky Way Galaxy, X'Nelli-
In a distant star system far away near the outermost corner of the swirling mass known as the Milky Way, a small planet orbited a bright yellow sun.
This planet was covered in ice caps in the northern and southern most poles, with strange continents dotting the vast oceans as a vast expanse of forests, mountains and deserts in every direction imaginable.
The camera zoomed towards the eastern most point of the planet where a small continent of sand was positioned as the clouds parted and the vast yellow and black particles of finely graded rocks and particles became visible to the naked eye.
The heat was unbearable as in the distance, hot air rose and filled the desert with scorching winds unsuitable for most life, although that did not stop some animal life to eke out a living as small reptiles of unknown genus and phylum scurried across the landscape, hiding under the sands or behind sand dunes that dotted the landscape.
Swish.
A single footstep broke the fine sand as a figure walked across the desert, sweating from the heat and looking for any sign of water, food, or shelter that they could locate.
The camera moved closer to the figure as it was revealed to be a tall man with short brown hair, green eyes, covered in robes of white and black bandages, a turban and had a large backpack on his back as a red hourglass symbol was hanging from a silver chain on his waist.
This was Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, an archaeologist specializing in the cultures of offworld species and the leading expert on pre-earth based civilizations. Currently on the run from the Incursian Empire for smuggling artifacts off one of their planets, this adventurer of the stars is on the planet X'Nelli for the sole purpose of locating an ancient Manzardill kingdom lost to the desert so that he could learn the secrets of the Manzardills, who seem to regard their planet's unusual axel orbit as curse from the God Who's Touch Was Like Fire.
According to their traditions, millions of years in the past an event called the Scorching enveloped the planet with flames of hate that destroyed their original civilization and splintered them into different tribes and burnt the Great World Coral to the ground, making X'Nelli's orbit still and unable to move in it original 289 degree orbit.
However, Ben was not one for superstition, even though he knows about magic after learning his cousin was friends with a real magician, especially alien superstition as he is a man of logic and adventure.
But...right now he was lost, running out of food and water, and about to pass out from the heat itself.
"Ah...ah…" he panted while falling to his knees. "Damn...it…" 'Three days of walking through this continent of sand and now...I'm going to die. Just my luck, I guess the Kingdom of X'Ili will never be found...by me at least.'
As he felt his body overheat from the mid afternoon sun, the sand started to part from his knees as they began to sink.
"Huh?" he looked down and went wide eyed. "Shit! Quicksand!"
Sssssssshhhhhhhhh.
Ben tried to move his legs out but they were too deep into the sand as his body began to sink deeper into the sand, with only his head visible at the moment. "Shit shit shi-GLUP GULPMMMAMMMAAM!"
And just like that, he vanished into the sands, leaving nothing to verify his existence.
(Later)
-Deep under the desert-
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ben screamed as he fell out of the ceiling and into an underground cave system, landing on his face in the process. "Ow...wait? I'm alive? I'm alive!"
As he thanked his lucky stars for surviving the quicksand, he noticed that the walls were covered in elaborate carvings and semi eroded paintings from a bygone age.
'Huh, Pre-Manzardill artwork, and judging by the detailed brushstrokes and the over abundant use of serpents.' he thought while looking at a carving of a Manzardrill worshipping a ten headed serpent with bone like wings. 'I can say that this is about the time that the planet was still under extreme climate changes. Huh, is this really part of the Kingdom of X'Ili's Pre-Scorching Dynasty. I must be close to one of it's cities or...maybe the capital? No, Li'X'x was destroyed long ago, it couldn't have survived under the sand.'
'C….m….'
Ben felt a cold chill behind him and turned around. "Huh? Who said that?"
Silence.
"...ok, not creepy at all." he said sarcastically while looking back at the carvings.
'Co….me…'
The man turned and looked around while feeling like something or someone was talking to him. "Ok, who's there!?"
Silence.
'What's going on?!' he thought before noticing that there was a strange set of stairs on the right hand side of the cave system, one that seemed to have been placed there recently if not for the centuries of erosion and dust that layered the top of each triangular step. 'Ok, this screams horror movie...but still! If this leads to the most important archaeological find in the universe, one that rivals the lost kingdom of Atlantis, I'll take that chance.'
And just like that, he took his first steps down the stairway, which spiraled into the oblivion known as the depths of the unknown.
(Later on)
Ben continued walking down the stairs, the bottom obscured by pitch blackness, as he felt like he had been walking for years and still was nowhere near the bottom. 'Just how deep am I even going?'
That was when he felt solid ground and stepped off the stairs, which gave him a chance to pull out a flashlight from his bag, as he was uncertain about taking it out during the descent.
Click.
And just like that, a bright light illuminated the area and revealed a massive stone gate covered in chains made of pink stones and had the carving of a ten armed humanoid without a head in the center of it.
"What the?" he muttered while walking towards the gate and examined the chains. "Mmm, this looks familiar but...what was it exactly?"
'Com...e…'
Ben looked around while the strange voice became clearer than before, but didn't know where the source of it was coming from. "Hello?"
'Come…'
He looked at the gate and felt a strange feeling overtake the reptilian part of his brain, making him afraid yet curious of what lay beyond the decorated exterior. He pulled out a small knife and moved it towards one of the chains.
FUSH!
KABOOM!
This in turn caused a large explosion that sent Ben flying against the wall, his robes catching on fire as he struggled to put them out, thankful for the black and white Plumber suit he had underneath, a gift from his grandpa for graduating from the Galvan Archaeological Committee with flying colors, as the gate was completely destroyed and covered in smoke while the walls seem to crack from the explosion yet didn't break apart or caused a cave in.
"FUCK! I knew it! It was fucking Element X! Fuck!" he yelled while stomping on his own robes and put out the fire. "Fuck, that almost killed me...but why the flying fuck did they use Element X for chains!?"
The smoke cleared and revealed a long passageway with carved statues of Manzardills in loincloths and holding long dead wooden torches lining the sides, their ruby eyes gazing at the human as if testing him or looking into his very soul.
Ben blinked while his body seemed to move on it's own as he walked down the passageway and into the unknown.
(A few minutes later)
The man walked down the passageway, the ruby eyes of the sutures still 'looking' at him, as he noticed a light at the end of the darkness. 'Thank god! There is an end to this passageway!'
As he ran towards the light and exited the passageway, he noticed that the entire area was a giant underground valley with stone ruins at the bottom that seemed to have been burned by a fire and a large primitive stone bridge that went from his side of the valley to the center of it, where a massive stone temple complex in the shape of a ten headed serpent stood, it's nine heads forming a spiral base towards the ground as the tenth head formed the temple's top and was covered in gold and silver.
"...oh….my…..god….." Ben muttered in shock while falling to his feet. "This...this...this...is the capital of Li'X'x! Oh my god! It still exists! The greatest city of Manzardill history, the most advanced city of it's day….it still exists…." 'Oh my god, the history and knowledge this place holds could change the history of the entire universe!'
'Come.'
He looked around as the voice seemed to be all around him, but was the most prevalent at the temple itself. 'Ok, this is getting too creepy. I better get out of here and come back later with the right tools and equipment.'
CRASH!
That was when the cave walls behind him collapsed and blocked the passageway with large stones and boulders.
"...fuck." he muttered while getting up and begrudgingly walked across the bridge towards the temple. 'Looks like I'm going into the spooky temple.'
(Later)
-Inside the temple-
Ben grumbled to himself about how creepy the entire area was while shining the flashlight into the temple, revealing a single chamber with various pictures on the walls and pillars while a pedestal rested in the middle of the chamber protected by a thick pink glass-like substance that seemed to glow under the light.
However the most interesting part of the chamber was what was on the pedestal itself. That part was an object resembling a small gold arm band with a circular glass ruby in the center of it, which seemed to be almost enticing for the archaeologist.
"...that's it? That's the treasure that required the Element X chains? An arm band? Ok, that's kinda lame….although it does also look historically significant." he muttered to himself while not noticing that something was moving in the shadows behind him.
"Turn around."
Ben blinked while looking around the room, only to notice a strange black fog moving away from the spot his flashlight shone on, seemingly afraid of the light. "Who's there?"
The fog moved behind the human as Ben felt a dark chill going down his spine.
"I know kung fu!" he yelled in fear, not knowing that a pair of flashing yellow eyes appeared on the right side of the screen for a few seconds.
"Benjamin Kirby Tennyson." said a voice, one that was both feminine and otherworldly, from all around the human.
"Wh-"
"Relax yourself. I wish you no hard." the voice said as Ben's fight or flight responses were reaching a critical level. "I only wish to assist you."
"How!? Your...you're….what are you!?"
The voice chuckled while Ben felt something blow into his ears. "Let's just say I've been here for a LONG while, mmmm, about a few million years or so."
"...what!? But-"
"You have met species that have existed in other dimensions yet my very age frightens your logic? How naive you are, but where are my manners? The name is T, Mrs. T." the voice said with a chuckle. "And I have been waiting for you for a long while."
Ben, who was slowly calming down but not by much, took a minute to process what was going on here and said. "And you know my name. But...what exactly does a fog want with me? And are you somehow part of the Pre-Scorching Period?"
"Oh Benny boy, I am FAR older than that. But yes, I was a part of that civilization, even made heroes in my time, but when the planet's orbit went still, well, they assumed it was my doing and locked me away." the voice said with a sad tone. "Superstition is a fickle thing really."
"Yeah, it's true. Every civilization is like that at some point in time. But you said you made heroes, elaborate on that."
The voice chuckled. "I was spawned from a white hole into your material plane, from where and when is unknown to me, however when my shell, the band in the glass, was found by the inhabitants of this planet, they thought I was a divine instrument of power and enshrined me in this very temple. It wasn't until a prince decided to learn what I did was when they learned of my abilities and used me to help construct their cities, their technology and their very library of information, all in the span of ten years. I could've made them gods in a year, but they were unaware of that part and just used me to fashion heroes to combat their enemies and regulate their society."
"Wait, you're the reason the Kingdom of X'Ili was formed!?"
"Among other things. But yes, I formed their society, and what was my reward? Getting locked in this temple for a few million years." the voice sighed.
"And this has to do with me how exactly?"
"Simple, I was the one who picked the right candidate for heroism and you have that spark within you, under all that sophisticated archaeological knowledge and drive for adventure is a need to protect the innocent. And with my band, I can make that a reality." the voice said while Ben looked at the arm band with amazement. "If only you break me out of that little old prison."
"..." he blinked in shock while feeling the urge to take the band. "And what is the catch?"
"None. I am perfectly safe, but you still have to take care of it."
"Wait? What do you….wait. You're some kind of AI or something right?"
"Yes, no, or maybe. That is your decision, but go ahead, break the seal and become the hero you are meant to be." the voice said in an almost hypnotic voice, as Ben moved closer to the glass and pulled a pickaxe from out of his bag.
SMASH!
Shards of pink glass landed on the ground as Ben carefully picked up the band with his right arm and studied it for a few minutes.
'The design, the composition, the craftsmanship. It's so….perfect.' he thought while the eyes appeared behind him and seemed to glow. 'I must...use it.'
"Put on Benny." the voice said with glee while the band seemed to twitch as Ben placed it on his right wrist. "And say goodbye to mediocrity, because now, you shall become a hero."
The band twitched before suddenly extending itself outwards like a massive spider web and began to envelop him in a strange cocoon of yellow energy, the flashlight falling to the ground as a result.
"My hero and everyone else's worst nightmare that is." the voice said with a dark sadistic laugh as the cocoon twitched and spasmed, the flashlight slowly dying from low battery power as the screen went black.
(Several months later)
-Milky Way Galaxy, Shadow Realm Star System, Vilgaxia (Formerly Murray)-
In the vastness of space, the camera zoomed towards a teal colored planet with two small moons orbiting it as the camera began to rush quickly towards the planet's surface and into a vast fortress like city full of beautiful seaweed like structures and turquoise buildings as the resident Chimera Sui Generis species were going about their daily lives.
This included a young male of the species who was reading a newspaper and drinking a strange coffee-like substance from a cup, on the back of said newspaper was an image of a human male and the words 'Terran archaeologist lost on X'Nelli? Search continues.'.
"Terrans, always getting lost." he muttered while drinking his drink and sighing. "Especially on backwater planets, hopefully they start getting more intelligent and less stupid."
ZSSSSSSSSSSHHHHSSSSS!
"Eh?" he looked to the side and saw in the sky a large burning object, akin to an asteroid, moving right towards the city at a great neck speed. "Holy-"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
And just like that, half of the western portion of the city was destroyed as a large crater formed on the spot, which also caused a small earthquake for about a few minutes afterwards.
Sissssssssssssssssisssssssss.
Smoke emanated from the crater as the citizens that survived rushed towards the crater to figure out what exactly happened and if this was a concern they should present to their ruler, Vilgax the Benevolent.
"What happened here?!"
"No clue, but look at the damages!"
"Oh crap, that was my shop!"
"What's that?" asked a small child to his mother while pointing to the center of the crater.
She looked down and noticed something moving as the smoke seemed to cover the area like a heavy fog. 'What is that? A ball of...something? I can't see.'
"Should one of us go down there?" one male asked the other.
"Maybe?"
"But what about our lord?"
"He can't be troubled by something like this, plus we might as well find out if it's dangerous or not."
"But who will go down there?"
As they debated on what to do, the 'thing' started to emit a loud screeching sound that caused many to cover their ears in pain.
SWISH!
QISH!
"AHHHH!" screamed many of the Chimera Sui Generis citizens as thick black tendrils with red lines on them impaled them in the chest, causing many to either die or faint from the pain.
The smoke continued to cover the crater as the tendrils began to bud several identical tendrils and shoot out like bullets towards the rest of the crowd, the camera getting cracked in the process as the screen changed to a large throne room where Vilgax was sitting on a throne of copper and turquoise.
SLAM!
"My lord!" yelled a guard, who was covered in thick turquoise armor and holding a large spear, while running into the room, coated in green blood and looked as if he saw death itself. "My lord! Something happened in the town square!"
He raised an eye and looked more annoyed than anything. "Then spit it out or I will let my pets consume you for charging in my throne room unannounced."
"I-I-It's horrible! It's a horrible creature and it killed everyone!" he yelled while shaking in fear. "It killed everyone, and..and...it's on its way here!"
Vilgax blinked before noticing that the guard's head was tilted and only looking at his knees, not his face, which was odd as no one in his elite guard dared to look down at him while talking or awaiting orders. "Look at me."
He stood still while not moving at all, the camera slowly zooming towards his face.
"I said look at me."
Silence.
"Look at me soldier!" Vilgax yelled in anger as the camera moved towards the guard's face, static slowly forming on the screen.
"Yes…" he said before jerking upwards and revealed a pair of black eyes with dark purple eyes and ten zigzag lines going from all corners of his eyes, as the screen suddenly was covered in static that obscured everything. "MY LORD!"
And just like that, the sounds of broken bones, the ripping of skin and the cries of battle and pain were heard as the camera suddenly changed locations to the main gates of the palace where the same thick fog loomed over a field of corpses, all coated in liquid metal and strange purple spikes that jutted from their eyes and mouths.
"Such fun, one I haven't felt in ages." the voice chuckled in sadistic glee while 'seeing' the body of Vilgax getting thrown out of his own palace with no limbs and his tentacles ripped off. "Oh, and here comes our hero. He he he."
FLASH!
A blinding yellow light covered the gates as a figure walked towards the nearly dead alien monarch, revealing themselves as a tall man with thick long blackish brown hair, dark yellow eyes, a cracked jaw with exposed teeth, sharp clawed nails, wearing a dark black shirt that was ripped near the right shoulder and had claw marks on the chest that were covered in blood and went deep into the muscle itself, tattered blue jeans with what looked like scorch marks and sharp rocks on the legs and hip areas, thick black boots that seemed to be partially melted at the soles, a broken silver chain around his waist with the red glass parts of the hourglass symbol missing, and thick white and black bandages running down his left arms and were attached to it with thick black nails.
Vilgax tried to open his working right eye, the left one getting ripped out during the fight, as he noticed the figure's right arm, which had a thick black shoulder length gauntlet with white bone-like protrusion on the sides that seemed to pierce his very skin right to the bone, long black spikes that jutted from the fingers, a yellow topaz on the shoulder with a single tube of glass jutting from the base of the gemstone to his shoulder blade, and a triangular faceplate made of white jade sporting a symbol akin to an hourglass that had a large crack going down the upper right side towards the lower left hand side of it at its center. 'What? The omnitrix...but it was destroyed. I saw to that…'
The man wheezed as he opened his jaw and moved his hand towards the faceplate. "It...s...hero...time…"
The screen began to static as a flash of yellow light covered the figure, revealing two small orbs of black energy before the camera cut back to the mysterious fog, the sounds of scream being heard in the background.
"Oh Benny." the voice chuckled while the fog began to coagulate into a solid form. "How far have you fallen to become the hero of your own story, or should I say nightmare to be exact?"
As the fog took a more tangible form, it was revealed to be a tall gray skinned woman with sunken pupiless black eyes, two yellow flaming protrusions that were hooked and framed her eyes like eyebrows, black tarsi on the eyelids, black lipstick, red shoulder-length hair with yellow flames near the tips, yellow circuit patterns on her arms, legs and ribs that seemed to solidify in certain areas to give her the appearance of an emaciated skeleton, sharp dagger-like teeth, a pair of white hands with four sharp gray fingers at the ends, three horn-like protrusions on her forehead, black paint on her cheeks along with zigzagging black markings below and above each of her eyes, three gill-like slits under her cheeks, a H cup chest and small ass, on her back were two large bat wings with bright yellow magma on the membranes along with dark gray rocks covering the arms and fingers, ten large scythe like back spikes protruding from the ends of her spine with the ones near the shoulder blades forming two long gray arms with silver gauntlets at the ends, four goldish gray-colored scythe-like limbs situated on her sides and acted like an extra pair of legs, above her normal left arm was a enlarged muscular left arm with two spikes below the elbow as a black tentacle protruding from the elbow with yellow circuit-like patterns and gray stripes near the tip, wearing a tight-fitting gray and black spandex jumpsuit with yellow stripes on the arms, seven yellow orbs on the right arm that seemed to glow with power, a black hood that hung down her back, small shoulder pads on her normal arms sporting five silver spikes, ten large reddish gray cylinders-like objects that pierced her normal left arm, tiny white star-like spots all over her jumpsuit, flat gray shoes, and a large black top hat with an amber eyeball in the center of it and decorated with a strange symbol, one that looked like an hourglass that had a large crack going down the upper right side towards the lower left hand side of it, that seemed to be on fire, as she licked the air with her long and slender tongue, which was both on fire and had a pointed tip, with sadistic pleasure.
"Still, he has a long way to go before the gate is opened." she said with a dark hollowed voice that filled the air with cold and spite. "But I have all the time in the world for that. When those twenty four objects of power show themselves, we will be there to remake this place, this Ben 10 omniverse. Fu fu fu, now to let him grow and learn."
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
"Until he is the instrument of 'heroism'." she cackled as her amber eyeball seemed to glow even brighter. "Well, the darker version and superior version that is."
The screen then suddenly became black as a small omnitrix appeared on screen and blinded the audience….
Crack.
The screen started to crack apart as crooked lines of red light formed from the center of the blackness.
Crack….
The screen began to develop static as the cracks began to grow larger, with blood red letters forming from the cracks themselves.
Coming soon...
Crack….
The omniverse will be rewritten...
Crack….
The darkness will taint the worlds of light into those with….
Crack….
Hate!
Crack!
The lines began to widen as from within the blackness, a strange symbol slowly formed and seemed to ooze a strange black liquid, filling the words with a viscous substance as they dripped downwards like honey.
Madness!
Crack!
Betrayal!
Crack!
Hopelessness!
Crack!
And despair! For this isn't your normal omniverse, not by a long shot!
CRACK!
SHATTER!
For in this place, everything wrong is wrong and everything good is snuffed out!
The screen broke into a billion pieces as the strange liquid oozed out of it like a flood from a collapsing dam, revealing a strange symbol that caught on fire and illuminated the now red screen.
This is….
The flames died down as the symbol was revealed to be a shattered hourglass with a large crack going down the upper right side towards the lower left hand side of it, the black liquid emanating from both ends as words solidified into existence.
The Brokenverse!
A maniacal laughter rang across the red void as the screen began to catch on fire.
We hope to see you soon…
The flames licked the sides and through the screen itself as the image of Ben Tennnyson's face formed and smiled at the audience, only for a pale clawed hand to break the image in half as a pair of dark green eyes illuminated void itself and a set of golden teeth grinned at the screen.
YOUR TOMB STONES ARE READY, FANS OF THE WEAK OMNIVERSE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The teeth opened up and chopped down over the screen as the darkness covered all and the world became silent once more.
—-
The Taintrix (Mrs. T)- turns the user into any being from the Brokenverse, but can only be used by a being tied to said omniverse aka Ben. It is also a linchpin to said omniverse and is capable of opening a special door with twenty four slots on the gate, but details are unknown at the moment. For some reason unknown to many, it is capable of opening the special tears in reality to the Brokenverse, but it can't not be interacted with by the senses or other conventional means, however they can allow a person to visually peer into the Brokenverse itself.