I do not own My Hero Academia nor Ben 10, all rights reserved to their respective owners
Before I begin, this fic's premises were merely inspired by "The Omntrix Chronicles" and will not be a slightly modified copy of it, as I would be ashamed to look myself in a mirror if I were to blatantly steal a great piece of work I really enjoy from a respectable other member of the community. Now that the humble brag about who owns what and who was inspired by what is over, let's dive in.
Chapter 1: The shooting star
Heavy legs, a broken heart and shattered self esteem
Those were only 3 things ailing a young green haired boy walking down the streets, without a goal or destination.
Barely an hour passed since his lifelong dream was crushed by the same man who sparked it in him when he was a little child. The words of rejection still ringed in his head, making him numb to his surroundings.
"No, I don't think you could become a hero"
The one phrase he never expected to hear from the Symbol of Justice. But at least the man tried to put it nicely. He tried not to make him feel absolutely worthless about himself. But really, what did he expect? For him to just smile and nod his head?
It's not like it was the first time he was told to abandon his dream. But it was a first time someone tried to sugarcoat it.
"Fucking useless Deku, think you can be a hero without a quirk? Forget it!"
Yes, that was the common phrase he was used to hearing from the age 4 upwards. The words that were uttered by the person he bellieved to be his best friend growing up, turned his bigget bully. Why did he put up with this? Lack of faith in himself or his abilities? Feeling that Bakugou was actually right and he deserved what he got? Or did he fear abandonment from one person who still "socialized" with him? Probably a mixture of all three reasons and possibly more, but his mind was too fogged to think about that.
At least his own mother believed in him and his dream, right? That's what he was thinking to himself,clinging to a dim hope, trying to convince himself to it being true. He wanted to have at least one person backing him up,he really did.
But deep down he knew,that she only "supported" his dream out of her own feelings of guilt and duty. Did she want to make up to him for the universe not blessing him with a quirk? Did she want to make up for him not really having a male role model of his father growing up? Did she want to mask their ongoing divorce portrayed as his father "working overseas"? Probably all of them, one after another. But again, he could not care nor think about it at this moment.
His legs felt heavy, he has been walking for a long time without stopping. As he ventured further, the buildings became fewer and fewer and after time the concrete of the streets turned to ground. He tried to get as far from the city he associated with his burdens, tried to get somewhere he could clear his head out. Somewhere quiet, like a forest. A forest closest to him would be not far from the trash ridden Dagobah Muncipial Beach. Yeah, that would work.
He didn't make it halfway through the forest, when his legs gave out and he fell face first into a mound he was walking on. Good thing it was covered in thick moss, otherwise he would say goodbye to at least few of his teeth.
He laid motionless with his face in the moss, not having any strenght to turn over nor willpower to do so. His mind was finally unclouded, and it started to go over the events of the day all over again against his will.
He did not know how long he was lying there, but when he finally turned over and looked at the sky it was dark already, with stars shining bright. This view made his mind a little at ease. He admired the view, not only from the beauty of it, but also because it always posed a question to him whether we were really alone in the universe, and how insignificant we truly are compared to the never ending space. He could lay all night,just staring at it.
That's when he saw a shooting star. Of course it was explained to them in their Science class at school that a shooting star was just a meteorite burning up in Earth's atmosphere, but even after chipping at it's grandeur, it was still a wonderfull occurence to witness.
He never believed himself to be a person who believes in superstitions like broken mirrors bringing 7 years of bad luck or a shooting star granting you a wish if you make one while watching one. But despite that, he decided to make a wish, not knowing if it was just to joke, or hope for a miracle.
"I want to get a power that will let me be a hero and prove everyone putting me down and stomping my dream otherwise"
Of course, nothing happened. He chuckled to himself. What did he expected, a quirk falling out of the sky just for him? Chances of that happening are so miniscule we don't even know a number so small and-
His inner ramblings were cut short,as he noticed that the object he identified as a "shooting star" changed directions and instead of following it's original course and appeared to be flying in the direction that he currently laid at a very high speed.
"Holy shit!" was the only phrase he was able to say before he got up from his place on the moss and started running as the object started to close in.
He jumped behind a rock many meters behind the spot and fell to the ground, covering his ears expecting a loud crash.
And did it crash hard
He laid in his hiding place for a few minutes before he even started to think about peeking out of his cover to see the object. But once he did, he could only see the hole in the ground and no rock based object sticking out of it.
Curious, but still on his guard he left the cover and made his way to the crash site. When he cautiosly approached the edge of the crater he noticed two things. For once, it was not really that deep, it was roughly two times his size.
And for the second, the thing that crashed was not a meteor, but a sphere made of metal.
He tried to lean closer to look at it, but the ground beneath his feet gave way and he fell flat on his bottom right into the crater. He almost screamed, expecting it to burn him with it's massive temperature it must have accumulated flying through the atmosphere, or radiate him with some weird space radiation. But when he felt that nothing was coming out of it and he didn't feel any change in the temperature Izuku got more confident in checking out the sphere.
He walked around it. He observed that it was not really bigger than the rock he hid behind just few minutes prior. It shape reminded him of a fossil he saw in one of his textbooks and remembered better as a Helix Fossil from his favourite game.
He found it weird that even tho the object passed through Earth's atmosphere, it did not emit any heat whatsoever. For some ungodly and utterly stupid reason Izuku thought to check it's temperature with his hand.
But the moment his hand touched the sphere,it opened, revealing an object inside.
He jumped back and almost lost his balance from the sphere opening so rapidly. He did not expect it to be a machine, much less to be a working one.
He got back to his feet and cautiosly looked inside the sphere.
What laid inside was and object that could be described as a mix between a watch and a big wristband. It had a display screen of green and white with the base it resided on being black with 4 white metal pieces close to the display.
For another and even more ungodly and even more stupid reason, he thought it to be a good idea to reach out his left hand and touch the device.
The moment his hand came close to the device it springed to life and jumped on his wrist like it was a living creature and locked itself around the boy's wrist.
He jumped back and tried to shake that..."thing" off from his wrist. But not even flailing his arm like he had no bones did the trick and it did not budge. He tried to use his teeth, tried to remove it with a heel of his shoe, nothing worked. Resigned, he brought the watch closer to his face.
One thing the boy did not notice before,was the fact that the shield had a big crack on the side. He tried to run fingers of his right hand across the crack, when a voice echoed from the device, catching him off guard and making him fall back to his butt yet again.
"Damage detected. Functions not avalible" was all that it said.
"Since when do watches talk?" he thought to himself
He tried to run his fingers across it again,but he got the same effect.
"What is up with that thing? First it jumps on my wrist like an angry squid, and now it's not working? How could it do the first thing while malfunctioning?" he muttered to himself.
Rather than touching the crack he tried to click a button down from the watch's shield.
"Function not avalible,please standby" the device repeated.
"Seriously, what is up with this? And why didn't I see if it was cracked before? Wait, don't tell me that it wasn't cracked before I tried to kick it with my shoe? Did I make that myself or-" he muttered, panicking, before he heard the watch utter a new phrase.
"DNA sample matched. Proceeding calibration and reconstruction" it said, before it started to flash green all of a sudden.
It flared green before it started to shrink itself and turn less wide. It finished transforming in a flash of green, yet again.
He had to close his eyes after the initial blast of light so he did not see the process the watch has undergone. But once the light disappeared he was able to look at it.
It now looked like more like a regular watch, while still having the same color pallet on the band and the watch's shield. It had 4 grey buttons on the shield's sides,and one light green down from it,and had two light green diodes on opposing ends of it. The shield itself did not change aside from the crack disappearing, and the base itself growing a little bigger and sticking out from the watch,and not being fused with the belt like before.
"Now I'm freaked out. What sort of device works like this? How is this even possible?" he looked with both amazenement and fear at the watch.
He, against his better judgement and his instinct of survival, decided to try and poke the device. He clicked the button.
Suddenly,the shield turned on it's own and displayed a hologram of a figure standing on the display. That made his eyes go wide and amazement, combined with excitement overpowered his fear and restraints.
He examined the figure. It was a tall, bulky man, covered in patches and stitches, wearing no shirt and metallic looking black pants. He had,what Izuku could only describe as electric coils coming out of his back.
"Wow, that's even more weird. What is that?" he exclaimed.
He looked at the shield. Would it be a bad idea to try ant turn it to the side?
Of course it was, to any sane man who does not want to toy with a device that came out of the outer space, but in this moment Izuku Midoriya was not a sane man, he was a man immersed in finding out what the mysterious watch did. He turned the shield to the right. Suddenly the man's hologram disappeared, replaced by another.
It appeared to be a humanoid being,with wings resembling a butterfly, or a moth, or something, he could not really tell. It had it's feet with only 3 sharp-looking toes, unusually straight teeth and mesmerizing eyes.
"Wow, so there's more of these? What are they? Why are they shown here?" Izuku asked himself another question.
Now he was on a roll. He wanted to see what frames the watch displayed. He decided to twist the shield yet again, while walking around the crash site.
He turned the shield to the left back to the man with coils coming out of his back and then turned it to the left, yet again. The only thing he could see about the frame was that it was of a being without a mouth, with three horns on it's head, the longest one coming out of his forehead and two from the sides. Suddenly, his feet got caught up in a root coming out of the ground. He, mesmerized by the watch, could not see it and lost balance.
Out of instinct to protect his face from the fall to the ground, he put his left hand in front of it, forgetting he had the watch on it.
And a hologram showing out of it.
Before he collided with the ground, the watch's shield came in contact with the ground, pressing it with an audible click.
What happened next was a flash of green light and Izuku's eyes going wide for the second time. But as the flash ended, the body of Izuku Midoriya could not be seen anywhere on the ground. In his place, a being of black celestial body, with starts shining bright on it's skin was present, floating few feet above the ground . It possesed green eyes, three horns coming out of it's head, and most importantly
The symbol of the watch on it's chest
"Alien X" the mysterious being said in a voice that sounded like three voices combined into one, saying it's apparent name at the same time before it fell silent, and motionless...
For reference,the description was of the Omnitrix's version I found on DevianArt,all rights reserved to the owner of the drawning.
www. deviantart thehawkdown/art/Omnitrix-Activation-771024210