I know, I know, I said this was practically done, and let me tell you ...

I didn't lie.

I finished two days after having published the previous chapter, I just did not want to publish it (I am very impatient I had to make a lot of effort not to publish it) I don't want to saturate you with chapters published one after another without a certain time difference, which is why I will not publish yet the next one, which, by the way, has passed the testing phase and now it only remains to correct a few things, it may be ready in another two days, but you hold on and wait. Yes, that goes for me too.

Ben 10 and Monster High belong to their rightful owners

Grammar issues ahead

xxx

"Again, are you ready?" Frankie asked as she looked at an already very exhausted Upgrade, the alien camouflaged as a human had an irritated expression on his face, she had kept them in the truck for about fifteen minutes just to make sure he didn't cause a fuss. "No laser eyes, no merging with machines, no eating anyone. " His expression only became more annoyed at the latter and the young woman noticed it. "I'm sorry, I just want to be sure you won't do anything dangerous. "

"Frankie, if the boy says he won't do anything, he won't." Clawdeen commented, the werewolf was still sitting in the passenger seat and with her feet on the dash, even though Upgrade had made it clear to her to not do that. "Can we go at once? Cleo was way ahead of us, she must have empied all stores by now."

"She is right." Draculaura seconded. "Come on Frankie, he's a good boy."

"Girls, I just want to be sure he didn't… " the girl was interrupted when the back door opened, Upgrade, exhausted from all this, got out of the vehicle, causing the young woman to sigh. "We must follow with him. "

"Finally!" exclaimed the werewolf.

The three young women followed their extraterrestrial friend, who had stopped a few steps from the truck, his gaze was fixed on the building in front of him, it was quite large, three stories high in total, and with the exterior painted in purple, he could see a dome made of glass at the top and a terrace with some chairs.

"So they were referring to a Mall." The alien commented. "Good pun. "

"Remember, you can't speak, you have your notebook with you? " Frankie questioned, the alien rolled his eyes and showed it to her, that girl was already acting like his mother instead of his friend.

"Perfect, now come on! " Clawdeen exclaimed as she began to advance followed by Draculaura.

Frankie looked at her space friend who began to write something on the pad and then showed it to her.

"To avoid problems, call me Ben. "

The group of young people entered the Maul, the place was even more impressive inside, shops everywhere, monsters walking or working in the shops and a very curious design, Upgrade could not help muttering that Halloween was early that year, but his friends were more focused on seeing the place than on paying attention to him.

He was guided by Frankie, while the other two girls didn't miss the opportunity to enter every clothing or accessory store they saw, at some point, they join to Cleo, who was doing the same.

Seeing how his friends were spending so much left him a bit disturbed, especially when Cleo and Draculaura showed up with a pair of gargoyles who were dragging two huge mountains of bags.

Seeing the space teenager's disconcerted expression, Frankie couldn't help but laugh, perhaps she should have warned him that her friends could be a bit passionate about fashion.

Although Upgrade had better words, those two went overboard.

After shopping for a while, the alien had been a little behind, it was so long since he had done something like this, he did not remember that it was so difficult, perhaps because in his reality none of his friends compulsively bought everything they came to or from, least not when he was present.

He was sitting in an armchair, which had space for another person, his friends were concentrating on touring the store, he chose to rest a little, seeing so many clothes had saturated him.

"Green boy. " Upon hearing Clawdeen's voice, the alien turned his eyes in her direction, the girl was holding two different outfits, one was a purple one-piece dress with black stripes, while the other was a set made up of a red skirt and black blouse. "Which one do you like more? "

He blinked a bit confused, he didn't know exactly what to say, no one had ever asked his opinion on fashion issues or things like that. He looked at both outfits and just shrugged.

The werewolf momentarily frowned at this, but a somewhat evil idea appears in her mind.

"Hey, how about I put them on and you tell me what you think? " Before he could even answer, his friend disappeared behind a fitting room door, momentarily leaving him alone.

His sound sensors picked up some murmurs, he didn't need to turn to know what was going on, the whole store was looking at him and whispering about him being a Normie, in every one of the above the same thing happened, he loved the attention, it was a kind of superstar in its reality of origin, but not this kind of attention.

He preferred to focus on something else, his eyes then swept the store, it was a rather curious place, the monstrous design that it had given it a unique appearance, but at the same time very attractive, there were several people in the place, either observing the garments, trying them on or in the case of his friends ...

"And with this one, I have the complete collection. " Proud Cleo exclaimed as she tried to take a bag, but another person took it before, the mummy, totally outraged at that, went after the poor wretch who had done that, Frankie did not hesitate to go after her to avoid causing a ruckus.

In Cleo's case, she goes to get them kicked.

" Ben, look at this! It's perfect for you! " Draculaura came running to him with a jacket in hand, this was black and had two green lines on the forearms. "Matches with your outfit. "

"I won't buy that, I don't have money. " he wrote.

"I know, but I can buy it as a gift. " she answered. "I saw a green cap, oh and some sneakers, do you like jeans? " Resigned to being used as a dress-up doll, the alien dropped onto his back in the place where he was sitting. "I'll take that as a yes, I will back! "

Seeing that the young vampire left, the alien returned to his thoughts again. Tried to ignore that the murmurs about him persisted.

"Ben, tell me, what do you think? " Clawdeen's voice caught his attention again and he turned his eyes to see her, he was grateful that he was not in his true human form because without a doubt he would have been nervous just seeing her, she had on that dress that he had shown her and it fit enough well, she was beautiful.

Now that he thought about it, everyone around him was quite attractive, for being monsters. Maybe hanging out with alien girls for so long altered his perception a bit? Or had he ended up developing some kind of fetish without realizing it? Both options were possible.

Clawdeen for her part let out a small laugh when she saw the idiotic expression that her space friend had, she did not believe that little plan would work, apparently, she could mess with him a bit.

"I'll take that expression as "You look good." " Her words managed to get the alien out of his stupor, who shook his head and chose not to respond, the werewolf made fun of this a bit and returned to the fitting room. "Wait until you see the other one! "

He let out a defeated sigh, apparently, the girl just wanted to make fun of his reactions a bit, that was cruel, but two could play that game, he just needed a little more time for the clock to get back online.

The sound of the bell that signaled that someone had entered the place was heard, out of sheer curiosity he directed his attention towards the door, there were two young girls if he had to guess they were twins, two cat women with gray fur and wearing identical outfits, but of a different color. They headed somewhere in the store and he didn't bother to follow them with his gaze, instead of keeping his gaze on the door.

He quickly turned to the place where his friends were, he could see Frankie holding Cleo who was holding a bag, which was being held by another young monster, then saw Draculaura, who was collecting all the male outfits that she could. His gaze returned to the door and without hesitation, he got up and walked towards it, leaving the store.

Moments later, Clawdeen emerged from the changing room, now wearing the blouse and skirt ensemble she had shown Upgrade and a sly smile on her face.

"Ben, what do you think of this one? Ben? " The girl looked for the alien, but it was nowhere. "This isn't good. " she whispered, Cleo's cry of victory caught her attention and she turned, just to see how the store employees were ready to run her out of the place, preferring to avoid scolding her too, she returned to the interior of the fitting room, then she would warn them to her friends that the alien was gone, what was the worst that could happen?

Upgrade walked through the Maul, the site was huge, some areas were a bit difficult to access due to the number of people circulating the place, and because possibly someone would bite him if he tried to go to those places, the looks that some monsters they gave him chills.

Not knowing exactly where to go, he decided to walk until he reached a music store, he saw there a promotional poster that had the same image of the pink-haired cat girl, only in a different pose, with curiosity he approached and examined the shop window. There were some instruments on display there, although his attention was focused on the guitars more than the others, whenever he had a small window of freedom between his work as a superhero and his slightly bullying fans, he enjoyed being in his room playing video games or practicing with a guitar that was once his father's, so seeing those guitars in such perfect condition made him wonder if he might be able to buy one for himself, perhaps in the future when he returned home.

"Ben? Is that you? " A feminine voice and quite familiar to him was heard to his left, the boy looked away from the display case, meeting a certain young plant monster, he recognized her easily, it was that girl who had helped him get her money back, Venus.

She had left the store he was looking at.

He raised his hand to greet her, the young woman gesturing back as she approached him.

"Wow, it's been a while, I thought I'd see you around. " The young woman observed him take his notebook and write.

"I've been to a friend's house. "

"Five days locked up? " she questioned, only to laugh when she saw how the young man put on a dejected expression and nodded in response. " I see you still can't speak, do you have hard learning to speak English? "

"Not really, I just can't do it. " He replied, seeing the confused expression of the young woman, decided to write again. " A long story. "

"Is a curse or something? " she questioned, the alien simply shook his head. " Anyway, what a coincidence to find you here, and right in front of my favorite music store, are you coming to buy a CD? "

"Not really, I came with some friends. " The girl was patient when she saw him write, after a few seconds the boy handed her another sheet. " If you see a girl made of human parts, let me know, I'm sure she will not be very happy that I was escaped. "

"Human parts? Wait, are you, friends, with Frankie? " Upgrade nodded surprising her. " And you're a human, then you ... are her mysterious cousin! " she exclaimed.

The alien gave her a blank look, he couldn't believe that someone had believed that, but it would be best to go with the flow until he could clear everything up.

"Only with her left hand, can't you see the resemblance? " The girl contained a small laugh when she saw the young man raise his left hand.

"Everyone is very curious to know who you are. " She watched as the boy's expression became quite dejected. "You read those comments, right? " He nodded, the young woman felt a little sorry for the boy, she could easily put herself in his place, being judged without being known was not something pleasant, remorse slapped her at that moment, she had behaved the same way. The first time they met, maybe he could make it up to her in some way. It was then that he came up with a little idea to make him feel a little better. " Hey Ben, do you want to take a walk? I'm sure you are not familiar with the place, I can be your guide, what do you say? "

"Depends, you won't drag me to other clothing stores right? " He asked through his notebook, the girl gave him a look that could only be translated as "seriously?"

"No Ben, I won't do that, I already did that last week. "

"Okay then, lead the way. "

xxx

Albedo finished giving the last repairs to a machine that was in front of him, the boy observed his creation with an arrogant smile, he had managed to link the Malware code to that machine, which would allow him to control it as if it were a drone and see what that he sees.

He wasn't sure if the dimensional lag would harm them in any way, so having a Guinea pig, like Malware was certainly very helpful.

"Let us go! " The boy rolled his eyes when he heard how a certain pair of Galvans with brains the size of a peanut continued to demand their freedom.

What part of "Hostages" did they not understand?

"Jah, this is almost as fun as the sewing channel. " Animo commented while teasing the little prisoners, Khyber arched an eyebrow at that comment. " What? A man needs to spend time. "

Albedo chose to use his selective hearing at that moment, it was enough that Eon had decided to use that human in some way for his plans, he did not need to have in his head the stupid things that he was capable of saying.

And speaking of the time traveler.

The man walked up to him, he had his arms behind his back and a fairly neutral expression on his face.

"Are you done? " He questioned.

"Yes, with this ready, we can see what awaits us on the other side. " he replied as he took the black sphere with red lines.

"I still don't understand why you insist so much on this, inter-dimensional travel has no side effects. "

"And what about the molecular lag that occurs when passing through the wormhole? " He questioned arrogantly as he walked past him, Eon frowned at that, but let it pass. " I just want to be sure that the first thing we will find will not be a very angry Celestialsapien, did you memorize the wave frequency? "

"I did it. " He answered while walking next to him.

"Okay then, let's start with the experiment. "

The boy's body was covered in red light, transforming into a small frog-like creature with gray skin and red eyes, it had a black suit with a red chest similar to an hourglass.

His body shone once more, this time it tripled in size, but it took a more spherical shape, his body changed and now it seemed to be more of a head than anything else, he was sitting on a small red technological chair that had two turrets integrated into his head grew exaggerated and a third eye appeared on his forehead.

The now hyper-evolved alien emitted a beam of red energy from his third eye, which enveloped the black sphere and made it levitate.

Both villains headed for the center of the crater, it was easy for Eon to float in place creating small time waves, while Albedo propelled herself thanks to her chair.

"When we do this, we will have all the plumbers on us," the Galvan commented casually. " I suppose you have a plan."

"We won't stay long enough for us to use it." he replied, then extended his hand.

This violet-colored glow and a bolt of energy emerged from it, striking something in front of them and causing a white flash.

The time traveler had to focus a lot to do that, the rift was almost closed, so opening it once again would use a lot of his energy, which meant that his life span would be shortened accordingly, but that didn't matter now.

A pink portal opened in front of both villains, it had a vortex that mixed various colors, such as gold, mint green, and purple, in addition to pink.

"Cute. " Albedo commented, and then threw the sphere, it went through the portal, out of sight. "I will return to the computer and activate the Malware system, keep it open. "

"I would appreciate it if you hurry up, this isn't precisely pleasant for me. " The time traveler answered with some difficulty.

Albedo floated back and without wasting time activated the Malware system.

xxx

In a cozy coffee shop, two young people were arguing about certain events.

"I'm telling you the truth! " exclaimed an angry Spectra, she had been in the Coffin Bean with Lagoona for the last fifteen minutes, the young ghost was trying to convince her of what she had seen that same day at school, but the saltwater girl did not show herself at all convinced.

"Spectra, just listen yourself, you think I'm gonna believe that a, what did you call it again? "

"A metallic slime, possibly from space. " answered.

"Sure, that, do you really expect I'm believe that thing was what fell in the woods last weekend, and that thing went to school, only to beat up Heath and Manny and lock them in lockers?" she questioned, the young woman in front of her nodded in response, earning an exhausted sigh from Lagoona. " I thought you weren't gonna lie anymore. "

"I never lied! " She responded very offendedly at that criticism, the look of her friend made her clear her throat and speak again. " Maybe I was a little careless with the information I had, but this is different! I swear! I saw it! "

Lagoona just looked at her, Spectra was many things, but not a liar, that had been clear a while ago, but this was definitely off the charts.

It was one thing to unintentionally slander one of her friends, but it was quite another to claim that she saw a slime alien that got fused with a cell phone and hit two Monster High students.

She was ready to give her answer once more, but the sound of the door opening made her look away from Spectra and turn her attention to the front.

Her eyes widened slightly when she saw the people who had entered, one was Venus, she knew her since she shared some classes with her at Monster High, it was not strange that she stopped by that place during the afternoons and asked for a coffee, usually sun was at, so see it with a human was strange, she was sure she did not like them so much.

"And here is Coffin Bean, the best place to hang out and have the best espresso. " The human next to her nodded and his gaze drifted around as if analyzing the place. " Go to one of the tables, I'll go order something for both of us. " The boy nodded again and walked away from the monster plant, to then take a seat at a table by the window.

Lagoona stared at him, it was really strange to see a human in that part of the city, especially in the Maul, what was he doing there?

Spectra had an expression quite similar to that of Lagoona, although her eyes reflected total curiosity, a curiosity that possibly bordered on dangerous, hundreds of questions formed in her mind, the possible answers of why a Normie was now in that place and why he accompanied to Venus, she needed answers and to her fortune, they were getting closer.

"Hey girls. " greeted the vegetable monster.

Lagoona quickly looked away from the human and focused her attention on Venus.

"Hi Venus, the same as always? "she asked, receiving a nod from the girl. " I'll bring it to you right now. "

The young woman moved away from the counter, directly towards the machines that were used to prepare the drinks.

Spectra wasn't going to get this chance, so she risked asking.

"Hey Venus, who is that boy? "

"You mean Ben? " questioned the plant monster. " He's a friend, at least I think so. "

At the clear doubt in the young woman's voice, the ghost's mind raced, her imagination took flight, possible scenarios formed in her mind.

Since she and he were simple acquaintances, passing to that they were a couple and that they had to hide their thing from everything. Romantic, yes, but quite cliché, perhaps she shouldn't have read Romeo and Juliet.

She shook her head trying to get her imagination to stop creating so many possible scenarios, it was because of that that she had problems in the past and had promised to change, so if she wanted to be a true reporter, she had to investigate thoroughly.

Lagoona for her part kept working, but at the mention of the boy, she concentrated her adduction on both girls, she wasn't going to deny that she was also curious.

"So, are you two on a date or something? " she asked again, this caught Venus by surprise, who quickly denied with fervor.

"No, no, no, not at all, I came across him by chance. " The girl looked in the direction of her new friend, he seemed to be concentrating on looking out the window so he was not paying attention to them. "Actually, He is Frankie's cousin. "

This statement took both Spectra and Lagoona by surprise, the latter was distracted enough to spill the drink she was preparing.

"Damn! " she exclaimed.

Hearing her say that, Upgrade turned his attention to the counter, only to see the young water monster run towards a door that said "Personnel only", she left almost as fast as she had entered there, but now was carrying a mop, he deduced that she threw something out, so he didn't have to worry, so he returned his gaze once more to the window, with a question on his mind.

Could a Mechamorph eat or drink anything?

"So, he is the mysterious cousin of whom they always whispering? " Spectra asked again.

"That's what he said, he doesn't talk much, I couldn't get anything else." she explained, she was silent for a moment, thinking about what else she could say. " It seems that he separated from Frankie and since he is a Normie and also doesn't speak, he could not get help from anywhere and ended up lost. "

"And that's where you found him. " Venus nodded, the ghost girl wasted no time writing all that in her ICoffin, since she had written for the first time about her friend's mysterious cousin she did not manage to get any new information, and both Frankie, as any of the other three girls who They knew about him, did not give her any information, stating that it was something private. "At last I will have a new gossip! " she exclaimed with joy, and then floated towards the boy. " Hey! Normie, can I ask you some questions? "

Venus patted her face at that reaction, of course, Spectra was going to do that, she had to see it coming, she just hoped it didn't bother her new friend.

Shortly after, Lagoona came over with two cups of coffee

"Your order. "

"Thank you, Lagoona." The girl took out a couple of bills from her bag and handed them to the saltwater girl, who kept them in the cash register.

"So, is he Frankie's cousin? " she asked with genuine curiosity as she looked in the direction of the boy, who seemed to be only listening to Spectra's questions.

"It was what he said, do you think you can call Frankie to let her know that he's here? He does not have a telephone to do it himself. "

"Sure. " was her answer and then search her pockets for her ICoffin and send a text message to the monster made of parts. " To tell the truth, I'm dying to meet him, Draculaura had described him as an incredible boy, although outside of his outfit, he seems ... "

"Pretty normal. " Venus finished, Lagoona nodded, she didn't want to use that kind of adjective, it was like calling a monster "strange". " He has his quirks. " She answered, earning a confused look from her friend. " To start, Spectra stop bothering him! He can't talk! " She exclaimed with enough force for the aforementioned to hear her.

" And you tell me it now?! " replied the ghost.

"I repeated it like three times! " answered the plant girl, Upgrade for his part contained a laugh, that reaction was quite funny.

"Hey! Don't laugh, I left my voice in those questions. "

He simply took his notepad and began typing a quick reply.

"I didn't understand anything either, you speak very fast." That was what he wrote.

"At least you can write, something is something. " murmured the ghost. "Let's go again. "

Back with Lagoona and Venus, the first one looked with some disapproval at the ghost, she could understand that she was excited, but bombarding someone with questions without even knowing him was not very polite of her.

"Want to come to sit with us? " Venus offered.

"Sure, it's almost my break anyway," she replied.

The two young women then went to the table, Venus had two coffees in her hands, when she arrived, she handed one to Ben, who accepted, although he just put it in front of him, she then sat on his right, and Lagoona shortly after to his left.

"So, your name is Ben, right? " Spectra asked, he nodded. " Ben Stein? "

"Tennyson. " Was the written reply, his gaze went to Lagoona and he handed her a sheet, which she took and read. " You're Lagoona, right? Frankie said you hear about me. "

"Me and then the whole school. " she replied while giving a glance to a certain ghost, who just looked in another direction. " I'm Lagoona Blue, nice to meet you, Ben. "

"Enough of introductions! " interrupted the ghost. " I want to know everything, how come you and Frankie are cousins? Where are you from? And most importantly, do you have a partner? "

Ben arched an eyebrow at that last question and didn't hesitate to write his answer.

"What does that have to do with Frankie and I being cousins?"

"Oh nothing, but everyone is interested in knowing about other people's love lives. " Hearing her say that as if it were nothing important took him a bit by surprise. "And please, do not omit details, there is the important thing. "

"Excuse her Ben, some Ghouls don't know when to stop sniffing. " the saltwater girl apologized, he just denied it, it wasn't like it bothered him either, as long as he didn't actively try to harass him like his fans at home. " But, you could answer the questions. "

Seeing the smile that the girl had on her face, he just chuckled under his breath, and then nodded, he could do that.

The three girls saw him write for a few moments, Spectra was impatient, so much that she tried to read from her place which was what he was writing, but did not get many results.

When he finished, he handed the sheet to Spectra and she took it.

"I'm a cousin of her left hand, you know because she was made of parts. " She wasted no time and wrote that down quickly and then read on. " I'm from a town called Bellwood, you will not find it on any map, it is quite small and easily lost, and I prefer to keep my private life, private. "

Venus let out a laugh when she saw Spectra's expression at that last line, the girl was not going to have the gossip she wanted so much.

"Oh, come on! Please! Something small, do you have a girlfriend or not? "

"Spectra, stop bothering him. " scolded Lagoona, then looked at Ben with a somewhat complicated expression, the idea that the boy is familiar to Frankie by a member was strange and quite grotesque in a way, so, with some doubt, he asked. " Ben, doesn't it bother you that a part of your cousin has been used to create Frankie? "

The table fell silent at that question, both Venus and Spectra focused their attention on the human, who seemed to be quite confused by the question.

He had already expected someone to question that, the lie itself had many flaws, but if he had to lie to get out of that situation, he would, so he began to write and then handed the page to the girl.

"Not really, it's strange, I admit it, but it's like my cousin continues to live through her. "

"So it doesn't bother you that your cousin's corpse has been desecrated to create Frankie? " the ghost questioned in an unscrupulous way.

"Spectra! " exclaimed Lagoona.

"What? Come on, is the damn truth. "she defended herself.

"Maybe a sensitive thing for him! "

For her part, Venus just shook her head, that girl needed a filter sometimes.

A page slid in front of her, which she noticed and read quickly.

"Your friends are funny. " A small smile escaped her lips, then he looked up at Ben, who winked at her, the boy was also smiling at all that situation.

"You should see how the others are, Monster High is on top of people like them. " Commented the plant girl.

The teenagers continued talking, or in the case of Upgrade, just listening, he did not have much to tell without being taken as a lunatic, but he gave them a little more information, such as that he had stopped attending school half a year ago, or that in his spare time he played soccer. Lagoona couldn't help but scold him for dropping out of his studies and claimed about how important they were, to monsters and humans alike, but he just shrugged, he went occasionally, but with his last year being arguably the craziest of all just barely, he could be up to date, he didn't care much either, he was a superhero, after all, saving the universe was more important than learning equations.

He found out a little more about some things thanks to the three of them, for example, Spectra was the owner of the Ghostly Gossip, the girl was quite energetic, but at the same time, she was shy about some things.

Contrary to her, was Venus, she barely knew anything about her during their first meeting, but now she learned a little more, she was a girl with a quite marked character, she hated very much that the environment was damaged and for that reason, she created her own club to protect it. It was a great relief for the one that she would never find out that he was responsible for all that deforestation in the forest, he was sure she would kick his ass if she found out.

Finally, there was Lagoona, the girl was quite friendly, but at the same time very direct with her thoughts and opinions, she did not hesitate to point out to Spectra about her behavior, and scolded her when she got too carried away, even so, she was quite a girl, she didn't bother with him just for being a Normie unlike Venus the first time they met, he was sure he could be her friend.

"And now I live with my uncles here in New Salem. " Lagoona finished recounting, Upgrade nodded in response. " At first, it was all very strange, but I got used to it, so don't be intimidated by a few monsters. "

"Intimidate? What is the worst thing they could do to me? " He wrote, his expression reflected clear amusement, the young man was clearly joking with them.

"I can give you a detailed list." Spectra commented but was silenced by the gazes from Venus and Lagoona.

A few seconds later, the door of the Coffin Bean opened and the four of them turned their attention to it, there was Frankie, accompanied by Clawdeen, the first had a really worried look on her face, while the second seemed to be quite amused.

"Ben! " The girl made of parts advanced towards the board clearly angry, which intimidated Upgrade a bit, he did not want to be electrocuted again. " Do you have any idea how worried we were?! "

"Yeah Green Boy, do you have any idea how worried we were? " Clawdeen questioned, a smile full of amusement formed on her lips and she spoke again. "Left me like that and without giving me your opinion on my outfit, you are so cruel. "

The alien just rolled his eyes in response, of course, Clawdeen was going to insist on that.

"Quiet Frankie, your cousin hasn't done anything bad. " Lagoona commented. " In fact, he is quite nice, he told us a little about him. "

"He did it? " she questioned, her nerves leaking a bit from her voice, and seeing Venus nodding her bolts sparked slightly, she then looked worriedly at Upgrade who just shrugged instead.

"Oh yes, I admit that I am a little disappointed, his whole story is too normal for my blog. " Spectra commented as she waved her ICoffin with one hand. "The only thing that stands out is that he is an excellent goalkeeper, or he said that."

"He is? " she questioned, that reaction caused a bit of confusion among the three girls, did she not know anything about her cousin?

"Aha, he told us about his family, about his parents, and those things, by the way, I still believe that you should resume your studies." Lagoona's hard gaze embarrassed the alien, who just scratched his head.

Frankie looked at his "cousin" with a really confused expression, when he saw her, he just winked at her, giving her to understand that he had lied or at least that's what she deduced.

Clawdeen was about to say something, but at that moment her ears caught a strange sound as if a "Boom" was produced right above her, with curiosity she approached the window and looked at the crystalline dome of the ceiling, only to have it totally shattered by a spherical object that hit the center of the Maul.

The sound caught the attention of all of them, who looked at each other, the first to react was Upgrade, his hero instinct was activated in that instant, and without wasting time he went outside, to make sure that no one was hurt.

The young women were a bit surprised at his speed, but quickly they went after him, curiosity had taken hold of them.

A small crowd had gathered at the scene, preventing the youth from seeing what was going on.

"Spectra, could you fly and tell us what you see? " Clawdeen asked, the ghost girl nodded and began to rise.

When he was about ten feet from the ground, she stopped and without hesitation activated the video camera of her ICoffin, thus beginning to record the place.

A crater perhaps two meters in circumference was there, and in the center of it was a kind of black and red ball.

She got a bit confused at that, what the hell was it? It had fallen from the sky, some kind of meteorite perhaps?

"And? " she heard Clawdeen say.

"Looks like a ball. " answered. " I think it's a meteor. "

This caused different reactions, but the most prominent one was that of Upgrade, who did not hesitate to advance towards the crowd, he was sure that the meteorites did not look like balls when they hit, it had to be something else.

It was easy enough for him to push his way through the crowd, they were too focused on whatever hit the Maul floor than on him.

When he managed to see the mysterious object, a chill ran down his spine, that thing couldn't be what he thought it was, right?

To his horror, the sphere liquefied as it flowed into a pool of viscous black liquid. Red lines of circuitry glowed on the puddle as a hand with four sharp fingers rose. Many gasped as a humanoid body was formed, it was tall, exceeding seven feet tall. Standing there was a being made of nanomachines, a solitary hexagonal eye was on its face, morphed below was a crevice simulated as a toothed smile and its interior glowed orange and yellow. Its form could pass to be a human being. But it was too far as its arms were very disproportionate to its body, being so long, thin, and elongated.

"Malware ..." he whispered when he recognized that creature, its appearance was radically different from the last time he saw him, but this could not mean anything good.

Fearing for the safety of those present, the camouflaged alien backed away and looked for something to disperse the crowd, his eyes caught a fire alarm nearby, he had to activate that thing.

Without wasting time, he went towards her, ignoring the fact that Spectra had seen him, the young ghost was confused a little before his actions, she watched him sneak up to that alarm, she could not see what he did, but seconds later, all alarms went off.

The people in the place were confused by the sudden sound of the fire alarms.

The creature that had emerged from the sphere looked around the place as if inspecting everything.

His eye gleamed slightly as he did that.

The visual assessment of his surroundings stopped as his gaze fell on a brown-haired young man who was several meters behind all those people.

They both exchanged glances for a second. Second, that was enough for something inside him to stir.

As if the blaze of an ancient hatred ignited within him.

The pain of his body calcifying before a constant discharge of energy.

The fear and helplessness of seeing how his body was used as an experiment by other villains.

He had felt everything. Any changes that they made to his code, every discharge, every stroke, the second calcification. Fear and anger began to stir in his body.

His fragmented mind began to unite little by little until the image of that same young man was formed there, only that he had a different outfit and on his left wrist he wore a white and green digital watch.

His fists clenched at the sight and his body trembled, his lines flashing brightly and he released a powerful electric shock that slammed into the ground, hitting a few monsters, who screamed at the sudden and unconscious attack.

" Te… nny… SOOOON! " roared the creature, its cry slightly hurting monsters with more developed hearing.

The strange entity lunged forward, taking several monsters ahead, but they were not its target.

Upgrade for his part smiled when he saw that his plan had had the desired effect, Malware was running at full speed towards him.

...

Malware was running toward him!

The young man threw himself to the side when the alien was close enough.

He could not stop in time and went through the wall, destroying everything in his path.

He took advantage of this to back off and away from the scene, he had to remove his mask right now if he wanted to face him.

"Ben! " Shouted Spectra when she saw the young boy run, she did not hesitate to go after him, in a situation like that, it was likely that he would be injured by some monster by accident.

She was a bit surprised to see that the young teenager practically disappeared from her sight very quickly. She floated around the place, there was no one in that area and there were several places to hide. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a flash of green light, and curiously stepped closer, only for a tall, black and green-colored figure to appear.

A cybernetic roar was heard; it came from the same place where the strange monster had passed through.

Panic exploded like a powder keg when a powerful beam of crimson energy shot out of the hole, destroying everything in its path, walls, shop windows, and the columns that served as support for the building's structure.

The monsters present began to scream in horror at that and began to flee in all directions.

Malware then emerged from the hole and gazed at the brown-haired young man, his presence scaring the monsters even more.

"Back inside now! " Lagoona yelled as she took Frankie's arm and pulled her into the Coffin Bean, Venus did the same with Clawdeen, and then closed the door.

The four young women hide behind the counter, hoping that by a miracle that thing was not behind them. Venus poked her head slightly, relieved to see the creature take another direction, away from the cafe.

" What the hell is that thing ?! " exclaimed Lagoona, scared, " Spectra said it was a meteorite! That thing doesn't look like one at all! "

" Where are Spectra and Ben?! " Venus questioned when she realized that none of them were there. " Please don't tell me that that idiot is out there recording. "

As if it were an invocation, the ghost girl crossed the wall with a truly scared expression.

"Lagoona! I saw it! I saw it again! " she exclaimed.

"Saw? Saw what? " she questioned, her answer came in the form of the sound of a laser being fired.

The five young women turned to the outside, then they saw how that black and the red creature was sent away by the blow of a torrent of green energy.

Clawdeen and Frankie looked at each other, they both recognized that attack, it was the same one Upgrade could do after all.

Seconds later, the green and black alien appeared in their range of vision, he was walking with clenched fists in the direction in which Malware was sent.

" That's the one I saw in the school! " the ghostly girl exclaimed as she pointed at him, her gaze then digested to Lagoona and gave her an arrogant smile. " I told you it was real. "

" You really going to get me the fact that you were right, now?! " questioned the saltwater girl.

Outside the cafe, Upgrade looked at Malware, both aliens measured each other, before starting to run against each other.

The first blow was thrown by the red, who raised his right arm and launched a downward slash with his claws, the green avoided it by leaning his body to the left and then punched him in the face, causing him to recoil and complain.

The sudden pain in his knuckles made him look down, his eye narrowing as he saw how small parts were covered by a material similar to rock. His nanites were deactivated as soon as they came into contact with Malware's body, that was going to be a disadvantage, he needed to merge with something to attack correctly.

His thoughts were interrupted by another attack, but this one failed to dodge it.

Malware and had fired his laser beam against him, hitting him in the chest and sending him toward the Coffin Bean.

His body easily passed through the window panes and stopped when he collided with the counter causing him to groan.

"Someone wrote down the license plate of that villain? " He asked stunned by the blow, the alien stood up with some difficulty and shook his head, just in time to avoid being hit by Malware's claws.

The black and red alien did not stop his attack and with his other arm tried to hit Upgrade.

He melted the lower half of his body and pulled away, then grabbed a chair and hit the villain with it, momentarily disorienting him.

He took advantage of this to continue attacking him.

He lifted her arms and strode toward him, then swung him across the face, sending him backward.

The villain tried to respond to the blow by slashing with his claws, but Upgrade tilted his body to the right and delivered a series of quick blows, ending with a jab directly to his chin.

The blow sent the villain through the air until he fell on the remains of some tables.

"Those Boxing classes were useful for something. " He commented with amusement, but without lowering his guard.

The sound of a gasp reached his sound sensors and he turned toward, his eye could have opened more he would have, there were his two friends and those three girls with whom he had spent the afternoon.

They observed him with a mixture of emotions, fear, gloom, terror, and curiosity mainly, but he worried, if they were inside there, it was possible that other monsters, instead of fleeing, had hidden in the other tents, which is involved a big problem.

"Watch out! " Clawdeen exclaimed as she pointed behind him.

He quickly turned around to try to defend himself from Malware's treacherous attack, but to his surprise, the villain managed to grab him by the right arm and slashed with his other arm, severing Upgrade's limb from his body at the horrified gazes of the youths.

The mechamorph backed away, grabbing onto his affected area, it bubbled up for a few seconds before his regeneration created an exact copy of his limb much to his relief. He then watched as his tip was still in the hands of his rival was turned into a piece of rock, his nanites were absorbed by Malware, who, to his surprise, reacted strangely.

The villain raised both hands to his head and held on, almost as if he was in pain.

His body trembled and his chest began to turn white, giving him an appearance as if he were wearing a T-shirt.

Upgrade's eye narrowed at that and pointed accusingly.

"Hey! That's my style, get yours! " His rival responded with a roar, to then point his arm at him, it transformed into a cannon and fired continuous bursts of energy, forcing him to dodge and use a table as cover. " You know what? You can have it! White is out of fashion! " The alien looked around, searching for what to attack until he saw the coffee-making machines and an idea appeared in his mind.

Three small black and green spheres formed in his right hand and without wasting time he threw them towards the artifacts.

The young women who were on the other side of the counter watched in surprise as those spheres hit the coffee machine and quickly spread around it.

The physical structure of this trembled and an eye appeared in the central part, to then be thrown at full speed in the direction of Malware, hitting it and removing it from the place.

"Booyah! " the Mechamorph exclaimed happily, his eye quickly went to the young women, those who did not know him felt nervous before him, believing that perhaps he was going to attack them, but he simply turned and left the store.

Frankie looked at her friend with concern, seeing all those abilities consecutively made her think about how little she knew about him, how much power did he have? How was he able to regenerate his severed limb so quickly? And were those his only abilities or was he hiding even more?

Seeing that both aliens and the coffee machine now possessed by an Upgrade shard begin to fight once more, Lagoona exclaimed.

"Girls, quick! We must go! " The young woman was standing by the door with the sign that said "employees only" "There is an exit from the back, it will keep us away from those things! "

"You don't have to repeat it twice! " Venus answered as she walked towards her.

Clawdeen walked over to Frankie and whispered to her.

" What do we do? " asked, the young woman made of parts once again directed her gaze towards the green alien, she could see how his fragment had created a kind of turret with what was previously a simple coffee machine and was firing continuous bursts of energy against Malware.

"We'd better go, this is too dangerous. " The doubt in her voice was clear, she didn't want to leave Upgrade behind, but they couldn't help him either, the best thing would be to leave.

Both girls went in the direction of the door, passing Lagoona.

"Spectra come on! " exclaimed the saltwater monster.

"One second! " The ghost replied while recording the fight. " This is gold ... "

A torrent of energy went through the Coffin Bean, forcing both young women to duck, the structure of the place shook and several pieces of the roof collapsed, a signal that Lagoona took to leave.

"Spectra! " She shouted once more, this made her come back to reality, she had to put away her Icoffin and follow her friends.

Upgrade narrowly dodged the blow from Malware's claw, his fragment tried to attack him from behind, but the villain struck his fist against the ground, releasing part of his body on it, several sharp pieces of rock covered by a black substance and Red emerged and headed towards the fragment, which failed to dodge the attack and ended up being pierced and petrified.

The green alien frowned at that, while Malware again trembled and held his head, that smile he had on his face disappeared behind a layer of nanomachines and his eye became a four-pointed star that glowed orange.

The villain roared and charged towards him, forcing him to spill his body into a puddle and move quickly out of the way.

He reformed shortly after and took rubble from the ground, then threw it at his opponent, who received the impact, and his body flattened against the ground.

Although this did not stop him, his nanites quickly parted and coalesced on the rubble, easily releasing him.

"Man, you're tougher than I remembered. " He commented, his answer came in the form of a laser that he narrowly dodged. " Come on Malware, no monologues? Without telling me how are you going to end up with me? Nothing? " The only response he got was a roar from his opponent.

The villain charged once more towards him, which surprised him a bit, Malware was a smart guy, he had learned that the hard way, but now he was attacking him blindly, his blows were strong, yes, but they were meaningless, he just balanced his fists waiting to strike, which was odd considering the wide range of attacks he could deliver.

Upgrade reached an arm towards a column and held on tightly to it, to then pull his body and avoid the attack, Malware instead continued until crashing against a wall, destroying it completely.

"God, it seems that someone got up in a bad way." he joked, but his fun ended pretty quickly, from the ground, a group of rocks covered by a black substance with red lines emerged, he barely managed to avoid the blow of those things, jumping in the air, but this left him to at the mercy of a torrent of energy fired by his opponent.

This sent him flying until he crashed into the music store he had been observing when he found himself next to Venus.

"That's hurts. " He complained as he massaged his head.

Someone's gasp made him tilt his head back, there was a small group of monsters there, vampires precisely, they were all looking at him with scared expressions, one, a young woman with black hair with violet streaks and glasses on her face did not hesitate to take a guitar that flew to her feet and point it at him.

Even so, he could notice how her legs trembled at his presence.

Seeing the young woman use that instrument as a weapon, an idea appears in his mind, his body melted and rushed into the store a then reform in front of the girl and take the instrument from her hands.

"I'll take this, thanks," He said, but no one understood.

A part of his body slid to the instrument, covering it completely, its physical structure was shaken and disturbed, making it look more refined, the "box" grew in size while the mast just became thinner, the result was that the instrument will take the shape similar to a kind of ax, although without the blade area.

The monsters were horrified when a green energy blade projected from the instrument's "box". Upgrade instead smiled to himself.

Malware approached the music store and poked his head through the window, there was no sign of Upgrade, but he knew he couldn't be far, his instincts told him that that boy, whoever he was, was still nearby.

His subconscious screamed at him that he should hunt him down, that he should kill him, that he was to blame for what happened to him, and that he should pay for it.

Not seeing him outside, he peeked through the shop window, his eye emitted a red light, similar to a flashlight, and searched the area, there was no sign of his opponent, but he managed to see some heads that were poking out and quickly hiding, they were not and that made him angry even more.

Willing to blow that place up into the air, the lines of his body glowed, his blood energized and all the energy was directed to his eye.

Until a voice interrupted him.

"Hey, Malware." The villain turned to his left, only to receive the blow of a kind of green energy weapon, it cut his chest halfway and made him go back.

The damage was minimal and his nanites weren't affected, but he had felt it.

The pain made him even more enraged.

"Now you're not so rude are you? " He questioned arrogantly, only for his eye to widen in surprise when he saw that the villain's hands transformed into two swords of orange energy. "Me and my big mouth. "

Seeing that both strange monsters were too focused on killing each other, the vampires from the music store took advantage of this to flee the place.

The girl who had tried to confront Upgrade couldn't stop looking in his direction as she ran, wondering what those two things were exactly.

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The young monster girls ran to the exit of the Maul, some other monsters were also fleeing in the same direction, the sound of the battle was still audible, anyone could imagine the destruction just by hearing it.

"Are you all okay? " Lagoona asked when they managed to get out.

"I think so. " Clawdeen replied. " Frankie, are you still in one piece? "

"Very funny," she replied.

"Girls! "

The voice of a certain young vampire caught the attention of the group, the five young women turned towards their origin, then they saw Cleo and Draculaura running towards them.

The young vampire did not hesitate to jump up and hug her two best friends, who almost lost their balance due to this.

"Lala, calm down, we're fine. " Said the werewolf, even so, the little vampire did not stop and continued hugging, Clawdeen was sure that by that time she was crying.

"Girls, we were so worried. " Cleo approached them both and inspected them, she was relieved to see little more than a few scrapes on her friends. " When we heard the explosions, we didn't know what to do, what happened? "

Frankie freed herself from her friend's embrace and approached the mummy, to then whisper something in her ear, she opened her eyes puzzled at that.

" There are two?! " She exclaimed, Venus, Lagoona, and Spectra turned to her confused, which made her close her mouth.

"Yes, and Upgrade seems to be facing the other one. " whispered Frankie.

"What? Why? " The mummy questioned, but her friend didn't have an answer for that.

"Hey, have any of you seen Ben? " Lagoona questioned, Cleo was confused by this and looked at Frankie for an answer.

"He was with them. "

"Frankie, we should find your cousin, he could be in the crowd. " suggested Venus.

"Uh yes, we should do it, you three go to the right, we will go to the left. "

The three young women nodded at that plan and parted ways with them, leaving the group of four friends alone.

Frankie didn't hesitate to grab Cleo's arm and pull her away from the crowd, Clawdeen and Draculaura followed shortly after.

The four young women wandered far enough away not to be heard by anyone.

"Explain right now Frankie, that is all that there are two Upgrades and they are fighting in there. " demanded Cleo.

"Two Upgrades? " Draculaura asked confused. " A friend maybe? "

"I doubt it, that thing attacked him as if it were personal. " said Clawdeen. " you must have seen it, it came out of nowhere and suddenly, the whole place was a damn war zone!"

"I told you that stupid alien would only bring trouble! " The mummy exclaimed angrily with her friends. " But not! We had to be good ghouls, look what he brought us! And now two aliens are destroying the only place where we can hang out! "

Clawdeen frowned at that and didn't hesitate to face the mummy.

" Did you really just say that!? Our friend is in there fighting that thing! And you only think about Maul!? "

" Friend?! We have known him for a week! " She answered, her voice raised quite a bit, she felt like her authority was in danger from Clawdeen, so she exaggerated more than she should. " If it weren't for you, we would never have met him, he would be far from us and the Maul would not be being destroyed! "

"How can you say something like that !?" replied a very angry Clawdeen. " He has been very kind since we met him, he did not care that we attacked him, he even gave us those gems! And you just say you don't care? "

"I do. " Cleo was sentenced and then crossed her arms. " He's not my friend and he never will be. "

"You're a…! "

"It's enough! " Frankie intervened at that moment, putting herself in the middle of her friends and separating them. " Clawdeen, Cleo, stop arguing right now, we should be thinking of a way to help Upgrade! "

" Are you crazy?! " questioned the mummy. " Frankie, for RA, we're talking about two aliens fighting in there, it would be suicide! Draculaura support me in this! " The only response she got was silence, which made her even angrier. " Draculaura I told you ...! " At that moment, she realized that the little vampire was no longer in the place.

At the same time, Frankie and Clawdeen did too.

"Lala? " Clawdeen questioned as she looked around.

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"This is already ridiculous! " Upgrade complained as his weapon collided with Malware's, the strength of both was quite even, but the red mechamorph was slightly higher, so the green one began to lose ground.

The villain's energy swords began to come dangerously close to him, only being held back by Upgrade's own energy construct, which was beginning to crack.

"Don't you want to discuss this? How about with some Smoothies? " he asked jokingly, but very scared.

Malware roared in response and applied much more force, managing to destroy his opponent's weapon, causing a small explosion that separated the two opponents.

"A simple " no " was enough. "

Having the upper hand, Malware began hacking various cuts and hacks at Upgrade, who did everything he could to avoid getting hit by those things.

Even so, the edge of the weapons managed to pink his body, causing small sections to look petrified.

"Upgrade! " The scream of a certain vampire girl took him out of his concentration and his eye was directed towards the origin of the voice, only to see in horror as Draculaura was running towards them.

Faced with that opening in his guard, Malware did not hesitate to take advantage of it, the villain advanced ready to stab his rival. Upgrade's reflexes made him react, but he barely managed to pull his body back.

Still, the blow landed, though not against Upgrade.

The one that received the damage was the dial on his chest, the energy blade hit and it released a wave of green energy in response, which hit Malware and threw him backward.

Although he did not receive the attack directly, Upgrade did feel it, it was a horrible feeling and forced him to hold his chest where the Omnitrix rested, if it were not for the security system of the device, who knows what would have happened.

"Upgrade! " Draculaura came running to his friend, very concerned to see her state, he observed her and his eye turned into a frown, clearly angry with her. " Are you okay? "

" What are you doing here!? " He questioned, the girl did not understand what he said, but even so he detected that he was not exactly happy to see her.

"I couldn't leave you here! " she said, which made him relax a little his gaze but even so seemed annoyed. " We have to go! The police are already on their way they will take care of it! " The young woman tried to pull her friend's arm, but the difference in weight was clear at that moment, she couldn't move it a single inch, this worried her "Upgrade, please! "

The Mechamorph stared at her, it was clear that she was scared, but even so, she managed to gather enough courage and possibly also driven by her idiocy, to enter the Maul and search for it, fearing that something bad would happen to her. He was glad to know that in this world there were also people who acted that way, which only made his determination to help them grow and the first step to help was to stop Malware.

The alien turned when he heard a cybernetic groan, his eye again curved down when he saw his rival standing up once more, but he looked quite stunned by the blow he received from the Omnitrix.

When she saw the villain, the little vampire stood behind her friend, but even so, she poked her head out, she was very curious to see another being equal to Upgrade, the differences were clear, the color and shape of both were very different, while his friend was more curved and gentle in shape, his enemy was polygonal and sinister-looking.

This made her wonder if they were two rival species, like vampires and werewolves.

"You're starting to wear out my patience Malware. " growled the green mechamorph, his body leaned forward and his lines glowed, his blood energized and all the energy was directed towards his eye.

Malware meanwhile roared in response and charged at him like a runaway bull.

Draculaura screamed in fear at the attack, but Upgrade responded with his own, releasing all the energy he accumulated into a powerful laser beam.

It slammed into Malware and sent it flying backward with such force that it pierced the middle of the Maul until it was out of sight of both of them.

After this, Upgrade fell to his knees, that amount of energy was exaggerated.

"Are you okay? " Asked her friend with concern, he nodded, and with her help, he stood up, his lines faded slightly, his nanites were going to need time to recover the energy. " We have to go now. "

He wanted to reply, but chose to resign himself for the moment, the best thing would be to get her out from that place before Malware returned, he was sure that attack did nothing more than leave him unconscious indeterminately.

The two of them advanced towards the exit of the Maul, they were going to have to give a lot of explanations when they saw them leave together, but that would be later, now that he thought about it, where the hell did his camouflage mask go?

"There they are! " exclaimed the voice of a certain werewolf, both teenagers looked straight ahead, his eye turned into a straight line when he saw the other three girls who knew about him, run towards them, ¿no one in this place had a sense of self-preservation or was it a common thing to run into a war zone? " Draculaura you have no idea how furious I am! " Clawdeen exclaimed as they stopped in front of both of them, the vampire gave a nervous laugh at that, but her friend quickly wrapped her arms around her. " Never do something so stupid again please! "

The vampire lost her balance at that and was forced to release Upgrade, who managed to stand without her help.

"Clawdeen, now, calm down, I'm fine. " the werewolf even so did not let her go.

Frankie could sigh in relief to see that her friend was safe and sound, her eyes then went to Upgrade, who seemed to be somewhat exhausted from the fight, she was about to ask him how he was, but Cleo went ahead.

"This is your fault! " The mummy yelled as he pointed to the alien, who opened his eye in surprise and then curved it down, he was not going to accept that he accused him of something like this. "You brought that thing! "

" Cleo, stop, this is not the moment! " Frankie got in her way, taking her away from Upgrade, but the mummy did not give up.

"Not! I won't take it anymore; this madness must end now! For Ra's sake, Frankie I thought you'd be the one to understand! " The mummy gave her friend a disappointed look but quickly returned her attention to Upgrade. " He's a danger! That other thing was surely following him! You said it, they are exactly the same! "

The alien became quite angry at that statement and advanced towards her, the difference in size was enough for the shadow of the mechamorph to be projected on the mummy, giving it an intimidating appearance, even so, she did not back down, she was blinded by the anger of at that moment, her eyes locked on the alien's lonely eye and her brow furrowed even more.

"Gu-Guys, please. " Draculaura tried to put herself in the middle of them, but her nerves played against her, both were just as intimidating.

Clawdeen decided that was enough and got between them, managing to push them away from each other.

"Cleo, enough! "

"No! " The mummy replied, she surrounded Upgrade and advanced, pointing out all the destruction around her. " Look! Look around us! It's his fault and that other thing! "

"Upgrade didn't do this on purpose, he was trying to…" Frankie tried to reason but was silenced by the mummy's gaze.

"How you can say that? We can't even understand him, whoever tells us that he's not a criminal and that red guy is a space cop who's trying to stop him! " Upgrade frowned at that, ¿who was supposed to be? The weasel of Baz- l? " We have to get rid of him now! This is our chance! "

"It's enough! Cleo, stop being just five minutes and listen to yourself for God's sake! Are you suggesting that we drop Upgrade here?! "

"Yes! He is not our problem! "

"He is our friend! "

"He isn't! It's just a stupid alien we found by chance! "

"Girls, stop! " Draculaura held her best friend by her arm, trying to calm her down, the whole situation was beginning to affect her, even small tears formed in her eyes.

Their discussion was more heated quickly, even Frankie had joined Draculaura to try to calm her two friends, none of them noticed that Malware was coming at full speed.

"You're even worse than your sister! "Clawdeen yelled.

"How you dare!? She and I are not alike! " Cleo answered in the same way.

Suddenly, Upgrade pounced on Cleo, her friends observed this action surprised and then scared to see how the mechamorph hit the young mummy with its forearm, pushing her several meters to the right.

Cleo complained of pain when her body hit the ground, her fury exploded at that moment and she looked in the direction of the alien that had attacked her, but she stopped her outburst only for her eyes to widen in surprise and terror.

"Oh my god…" Frankie whispered fearfully.

"Upgrade… " Clawdeen added, while Draculaura gasped and tears welled up in her eyes.

"You're so insistent ... " said the green alien while holding the arm of his rival, which was going through his right shoulder, his arms and the area quickly became stone, this "infection" began to spread is through his body calcifying him.

The green mechamorph held back a groan of pain, he could feel his nanites quickly deactivate, soon he would be nothing more than an inert rock, but he was not going to leave without giving his all to take Malware with him.

Using what little energy he had left, he energized his blood, thus releasing some electric shocks.

Being practically next to his enemy, the damage was instantaneous.

Both aliens were covered in green electricity that crackled through their bodies.

Malware growled at that and responded by slapping his other arm against Upgrade's chest dial trying to push him away, but the grip of his rival against him was absolute.

A female and cybernetic voice was heard then.

Massive damage in the user DNA detected.

LiveSafe protocol initiated.

Warning.

Warning.

Bio-Feedback at critical levels.

To the surprise of the teenagers, a kind of wave of energy formed between both contestants, their bodies almost seeming to merge with each other, only seconds later to be ejected in opposite directions.

Upgrade passed through some walls, while his body petrified and a green glow covered him completely.

While Malware was sent in the same direction it had come from, his body bounced off the ground, forming a pool of metallic liquid, apparently becoming inactive.

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And with this, we finish.

A lot of hidden references for the one interested in catching them all. Gotta catch ' em all.

As always, thank you for your support, there are almost ten thousand visits, I screamed like a little girl when I saw those numbers.

This is already a tradition, so please, notes ...

Notes

1- There is certain black humor present in regards to Frankie's existence as an amalgamation of body's and Spectra's lack of tact, since, well, she is dead and death is quite indifferent to her, jokes of that style should not be missing, nor was the subtle threat.

2- For those who didn't know, Ben plays the guitar, he is a decent musician, he also stopped going to classes, but did not leave school as such, rather, he has an excused absence, and his work with the Plumbers, counts as Work and study. Still, he shows up a few times to present his homework. He also has his priorities a bit skewed and he hasn't even thought about his career plan.

3- Malware and Upgrade, as members of the Mechamorph race are capable of energizing their blood and projecting it in two ways, (three in the case of Malware), as energy projected through their eye, like an electric shock, through of his body, something like an eel and in case of Malware or when Upgrade fuses his body to something, like energy weapons.

4- Continuing with Upgrade, he can divide his body and create "clones" of himself that will work independently of him, but will continue to be him. Not the same as with Ditto or Echo Echo (either Ship, since technically, it is a Mechamorph infant and Baz'l is his father) examples of this, as has the Proto Tool Rook without merging this completely. Examples here, the coffee machine and the guitar.

5- I already said it, but being biomechanical, mechamorph have high-speed regeneration since their nanites double very quickly.

6- Malware's life code is damaged by all the experiments they did on him and his mind is very shattered (basically he is in a Rampant state), when he absorbs the arm and the Upgrade clone, he tries to heal himself, but as Upgrade is a "hybrid" the changes are very different than if it absorbed a normal mechamorph.

7- Finally, the Omnitrix to equal the Nemetrix, emits a lot of energy, the Bio-Feedback is also present here, only that the sample be sentients no damage. But because Malware directly attacked the dial twice, this caused not only the device to defend itself, but also an overload as the watch tried to safeguard Upgrade's and Ben's DNA. Basically, a small genetic bomb.

Uh ... just 7? This time they were less. I did not want to put some things like the uncles of Lagoona, I think that is already known from the series, but I will say it here, she lives with her uncles in New Salem.

By the way, nobody cares about this, but an author that I follow and that I love his story, read my story. I never thought I could scream so loud, even less when I'm sick. Apparently, it is possible and I also have a Fangirl complex, great.