Hello, everybody! I am back with a brand new story. I was a fan of Ben 10 for many years. And I was disappointed by the Omniverse and Reboot series(but it had many ideas you could use for). I didn't like Omniverse because of art and BenLie break up. (WHY?!) I hope to see her in the reboot series.
I am also a big fan of Ben 10: Guardians, Ben 10: True Omniverse, Ben 10 and Jen 10, Avengers of Multiverse. They inspired me to write this fic. I advise reading their stories. You will not be disappointed.
Also, I read many Ben 10 fics about AlternativesUniverses. But there wasn't one where Julie found Omnitrix. And that what helped me to write idea about Ben and Julie with Omnitrixes. I hope that her presence will change Ben to be a better person.
I don't own Ben 10.
Unfortunately; or else Ben and Julie would never break up.
Chapter 1: Ben 10 Returns! Julie 10 Appears! Part 1
It was a good day in Julie Yamamoto's life. She had received an 'A' for her essay; her tennis coach congratulated her on her tennis training (she even said that Julie has the potential to become a tennis champion in the future); and she met a very cute boy, who kinda looks like a dork at first glance, but there was something alien about him that she couldn't put her finger on.
But now not the time to think about boys. The school is over for today and now she can rest with her grandma at home. She couldn't believe that it was almost 6 months from the moment when she moved in here. At first, she was against her parents' decision to send her to America. But she must admit that life in Bellwood is not so bad.
With these thoughts, she opens the door to her house.
"Grandma, I'm home!", Julie greeted her with a smile but when she entered the house, she noticed that the lights were turned off and that there wasn't any food ready on the table. But the most notable thing was that her grandma wasn't at home.
It was strange, her grandmother usually never leaves the house. Even when she did, she would leave some note about where she was going. It's confusing and scary to say the least.
As she believed that things couldn't become any worse, Julie then heard some rustling and steps in the home, startling the poor girl. She thought that it was a burglar, as she proceeds to pick up her tennis racket and flashlight to investigate.
"Why do I feel like a final girl in a horror movie?" Julie asked herself with a gulp. With having the lights turned off, being seemingly alone in the house, and a possible intruder inside the house, her statement was not far from the truth.
Hearing some growling from one of the rooms, she enters her grandmother's. It was a complete mess. Everything was trashed, ransacked, or broken. It was awful.
"Who is there?" Julie asked in fear before quiet growls were heard from behind her. It startled her making her let out a tiny squeak of fear. A burglar in the same room as her. She then frantically waves her flashlight to find an intruder and until she finally finds him. But she regrets it immediately. Because it wasn't a human. It was a monster. It had a light brown humanoid body with black hands and feet with a small purple creature-like head with a singular eye containing a red pupil, a small black slit iris, and green sclera with a visible brain and a black line that runs down the center, around their eye and mouth.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!" Yamamoto screamed in disbelief and fear. The creature only snarled at her before shooting at her some yellow goo from his mouth. Fortunately, he missed her completely. With a roll away she runs and tries to attack him with her racket but only ends up breaking it.
And then the monster starts to attack but Julie dodges it before kicking the creature in the head making it fall making a perfect opportunity to escape. But the creature followed her.
However, Julie was hiding much better than it. It didn't even notice her crawling up from behind it's back with a fire extinguisher.
"Take that!" she screamed activating the fire extinguisher. The stream of foam made him fly through the backdoor before it ran away and disappeared. Seeing that monster was gone, Julie finally falls to her knees and starts to breathe hard from panic. She could never imagine that she would fight an unknown creature in her house. "What was it doing in my grandma's room?"
Wanting to find answers, Julie enters whatever is left of her grandma's room and tries to investigate it by herself. But after 15 minutes she finds nothing. She looked everywhere except for one place.
Julie went to the closet and found a strange box. When she opens it, she sees a big black and green capsule with a large plain badge. It was the size of her hand and was total grey. The exception was the front symbol, which consists of a large green hourglass and two black triangles on the side.
Then Julie accidentally touches the faceplate activating a little hologram. It was a tall Japanese woman in her late 60's. She had grey short hair, brown eyes, and small wrinkles. She had a kind and wise smile. Despite her age, you could feel her aura of strength, knowledge, and confidence. Her name is Aoi Yamamoto. Julie's caring grandmother and her only caretaker in this country.
"Hello, Julie", hologram said. "If you see this message then it means that something terrible happened and I needed to leave the house temporarily. I wish I had more time to explain to you everything but unfortunately, I don't. I am sorry. I didn't expect my past to come back to me. Remember when I told you that I was a plumber, but what I didn't tell you is which kind I was."
"I want you to give this pod to my old friend Max Tennyson. He will explain everything to you. And he will give you answers to everything you want. At least I hope so. But if you want to follow my footsteps, which is something that I don't want or advise you to do, you should open this pod. But I must warn you. If you open that thing then you would have no way back. Julie, I love you. And I am sorry for everything."
With these words, the transmission ended. However, it didn't give Julie any answers. Who was this monster? Why did it break into her house? Was it searching for this pod too? What are Plumbers? And what was her grandma's past?
What she learned is that her grandmother is connected with that creature. And she needs to find this Max Tennyson for answers. At the mention of this name her eyes widened, because she remembers something important.
"Max Tennyson. Tennyson. This boy's name is Ben Tennyson. He told me that he has grandpa. Maybe that's him? Maybe he knows something about my grandma?" Julie deduced in some thought before she made a decision. "I need to find out."
Without any other explanation, she picks up her sunglasses, a black and pink jacket with a hood, hides this mysterious pod into her bag, and goes on her journey.
What she didn't know is that this day will change her life forever.
When Julie decided that she would find Ben Tennyson at any cost. She forgot one tiny detail.
She has no idea where to search for him.
She doesn't know anything about him. She tried to ask her friend and didn't learn anything useful. Only basic things about him. Benjamin Kirby Tennyson. An average boy with C+ results. Loves soccer, comics, Chili Fries, Mr. Smoothy, and popular Japanese franchise Sumo Slammers. It was interesting for her but it was nothing that she needed. It was even strange that there wasn't anything interesting about a boy who was supposed to have an interesting grandfather.
Fortunately, Julie did find something else. Ben is revealed to be a cousin of Gwendolyn Tennyson. She was a legend around the school. The beautiful, smart redhead has a black belt in Judo and Karate. Every boy wanted to date her. And almost every girl was jealous of her or wanted to be like her.
And good that Julie knows where she trains.
Now in the evening, she goes to Gwen's karate dojo. And she was greeted by the surprising arrival.
It was Ben, Gwen, and the strange man with a blaster. Except for the fact that it wasn't a human. It didn't look like the creature back at her home. It was a tall, fish-like humanoid with mauve-colored skin and yellow eyes with black, slit-like pupils. His neck is covered with long black gills on either side. He wears a white and black suit with a helmet filled with a water-like liquid. But what caught attention is the fact that he was holding the same badge that her grandmother left.
Julie didn't catch everything that they were saying but she was sure that she heard words such as "Max Tennyson", "Plumbers", "Investigation", "Missing" and "Aliens". She also did hear something about an "Omnitrix", but she had no idea what it was.
Before these three could exit the building, Julie noticed some strange-looking and large wristwatch on Ben's left hand. It was primarily black and grey, with a black dial in the middle, which had a green hourglass shape like the badge on her hand and a single green button. It has a circular tube.
Then she hears some beeping and realizes that the sounds and pink light coming from her bag more specifically the mysterious pod. When she accidentally opens the thing up, she sees something unbelievable. It was the same wristwatch that Ben has only in different colors. The black is replaced by pure white, what has been green is bright pink. Before she could ask what it was that the watch jumped on her left wrist and then it stopped glowing.
"EEEEAAAAKKKKKKK?!" she squeaked in shock and fear before trying to get this thing off from her hand without any success. Unfortunately, her scream attracts the attention of the familiar group. Not wanting to get caught, Julie hides in the bushes.
"Gwen, did you hear something?" Ben asked in confusion, his right hand hovering above his watch.
"I don't think so, Ben", Gwen said in deep thought before her eyes started to glow pink. "It could be anything. There were a lot of people today and there still traces of them flying around in the air."
"I am sorry that I am interrupting your talk but we don't have enough time", the fish monster said suddenly. "We need to hurry or else we would be late."
"Magister Labrid is right, Ben. We need to go", Gwen pressured him firmly.
With a tired sigh, Ben left to join his friends. Not even suspecting that he was being spied on by the last person he had ever expected.
Seeing that she was now alone, Julie let out a sigh of relief.
"Good work, Yamamoto. You are the worst scout in existence.", she commented sardonically before looking at her new watch. "Now what am I supposed to do with this thing? Every moment I seem to find myself with more questions than answers. I need to learn more."
With these thoughts she began to tail the trio on her scooter, thinking that everything weird was over.
But she was very wrong.
Julie didn't know whether she was sane or had gone mad because what she was looking at right now was something that she couldn't even have imagined in her wildest dreams. It looked like a weapon trade of some kind, between the mafia and some guys… who are wearing some kind of medieval armor, much to her bewilderment. "What's wrong with this town?"
It then becomes terrifying when one muscular young man, who was showing off a lance-like blaster as he shot it at a nearby train car, vaporizing it, much to her ever-growing surprise.
With a gulp, Julie finally understood that this was too much for her. She didn't stand a chance against them. She can learn the information by asking Ben tomorrow. And now she just needs to escape without gathering attention.
However, before she could run away, she was startled by Labrid.
"Hands above your heads, air breathers!", he announced, making himself known, showing them his badge and wielding his blaster. Then he was joined by Ben and Gwen. "By authority of the Plumbers, you're all busted."
Unsurprisingly, no one listened to him. The knights started pointing their lance-like blasters at them and the mafia guys… took off their disguises revealing them to be the same creature that attacked Julie at her home only this time, there were many of them.
"I think now it's another way around", she thought nervously watching as they were surrounded at the front by the knights and by the monsters from behind. That was bad for them. They were toast.
Or maybe not?
"It's Hero Time!" Ben shouted and slammed his hand on his watch…only for nothing to happen. The hourglass on watch started to glow blue and started to beep loudly much to the trio's confusion and panic.
"Ben!" Gwen screamed at him for fooling around.
"Watch!" he points at it showing its state.
"Ben, seriously!" Gwen cries in hope that he is ready.
"This is really a bad time for a reboot", he commented in dread trying to fix his watch without any success.
Without any warning, Julie's watch started to glow blue and beeping as well, making herself known. Now all monsters know that she is here and she gained all their attention much to her fear and panic. "Eh, hi?"
The creatures only snarled and ran at her.
Like any normal person, Julie tries to escape from them while trying to turn off her watch, which keeps beeping and giving out her location. Fortunately for her, she easily runs zigzags to fool her chasers but when she was running she didn't even notice that she ran into something, or more specifically someone.
"Ouch. Watch where you are…" Ben started to say before he sees who is before him. "Julie?! Is that you?!"
"Hi, Ben", Julie greeted him sheepishly with a wave.
"What are you doing here?!" he asked in worry. "Did you spy on us?!"
"You see, it's not easy to explain…LOOK OUT!" she answered before pointing behind him to see a monster ready to jump on him. Fortunately, Ben dodges him then he takes Julie's hand and runs away from here.
"What were you thinking that made you follow two teenagers with a literal alien?!" Tennyson asked in disbelief dodging another alien.
"I have my reasons, but I don't think you would believe me anyway", Yamamoto muttered sadly before catching what he was saying. "Wait, did you just say that these creatures are aliens?!"
At that moment, an alien screeched before jumping at them. Fortunately, for the humans, they slid on the ground completely dodging it.
"How about we talk after we survive?!" Ben asked, seeing that the alien was chasing them.
"Ok, then", Julie agreed in panic before both teens went over the box.
It looked around for the annoying teenagers before he was suddenly pinned under some girders making him fell unconscious.
"Oops", Tennyson commented sarcastically before trying to fix his watch again.
"That's the thing that gives away our location" Yamamoto moaned in annoyance, fiddling with her watch. And now Ben finally noticed the device on her wrist.
"Hey, when did you get yourself an Omnitrix?!" Ben demanded in anger.
"I got this thing today. You can say it's my grandmother's gift", Julie answered sheepishly. "'Omnitrix?' Is this what you call this thing?"
Then without any warning, both Omnitrixes started to glow blue before both of the watches let out small green and pink beams of energy at each other. However, beams didn't even damage them if anything it looked like data transfer between them.
After the beams finished, the watches suddenly started to glow green and pink respectively, and they started to shift their parts before becoming something new. The Omnitrixes now resembled a slimmer and sleeker watch-like shape, only with different colors for each user: with a green wristband, and the face of the dial becoming black and green for Ben; with a pink wristband, and the face of the dial becoming white and pink for Julie.
Nobody knew who was more surprised by this upgrade of the watch. Ben, who had years of experience with this thing, or Julie, who never had anything close to aliens. What just happened?
"It never did that before", Ben commented in disbelief at the Omnitrix's sudden recalibration.
"Ben, what are these watches?" Julie asked in concern.
They then adjusted the faceplates and accidentally activated them, which also shows holograms of new alien forms for each of them now.
"I don't recognize any of these guys", he added looking at the current checklist of aliens. Tennyson then looks at his friend and sees that she is scrolling through her list also. Now he has a choice to help her and risk destroying her current normal life to use this watch or help her to escape and leave her alone so that she wouldn't get hurt. "If I told you to hide you wouldn't do it, would you?"
"And leave you here? No.", she answered firmly and seriously.
"I thought as much", Ben commented with a sigh. But deep inside he was very happy that he wouldn't face this cavalry alone. He then chooses for himself and for her hologram of aliens that look like living plants. And then he raises his hand high. "Ok, Julie, repeat after me!"
And then both of them proceeded to slam their hands down on their respective Omnitrixes.
And then everything changes. Both Ben and Julie were engulfed into the green and pink sphere of energy as they both hunched over as their forms and DNA were shifted. Both of their skeletal structures morphed to fit their specific forms, with their blood was changed into chlorophyll in their veins, and bodies were grown like a plant-like.
In the places of Ben and Julie are two humanoid, plant-like aliens that have an overall green and black colored body, mostly with red flame-patterned heads and root-like feet, seemingly holding black rocks. Their eyes are oval-shaped with points at each end with pupils copying the shape but are smaller. Also, their shoulders and head have red petals and their elbows and legs have green frills sticking out. They are taller than an average human and also have a distinct rotten stench. The Omnitrixes symbols are on their chest in green and pink color.
"Swampfire!" Ben now as Swampfire shouted his name proudly before noticing Julie looking confused and scared. "Julie, how do you feel?"
"I feel like myself only different", Julie, as an alien, answered still in awe at her new body. It looked the same as Ben's only with some gender changes. Like her green plant-like skin was in lighter olive, her body looks more hourglass-like with breasts bigger and hips curvier than her old ones, her head petals are longer making it look like a small ponytail, her feet were made with little hills on the back of her leg, her eyes are pink, a contrast to Ben's green ones, her shoulders, and head have pink rose petals and her frills look like thorns. In total, she was a completely different person. "It's too sudden and incredible at the same time."
"Tell me about it", Swampfire nodded in agreement remembering the first time he transformed. It was the good old days. "Are you ready to fight? Don't worry about everything. Just look at me and repeat whatever I do."
"Ok, I will", she said with a simple nod before covering her new body with her hands. "Just don't stare at me. I am embarrassed."
"What do you mean?" he asked cluelessly before realizing that her new proportions are very curvy and very appealing to him. Finally finding out her problem was, he somehow blushes too. "Oh, I get it. I won't stare at you. I promise."
Then they go back and see that Gwen and Labrid are surrounded and bound by the goo of aliens.
"Get away from my friends!" Swampfire shouted before preparing a battle pose. "I take Forever Knights, I got beef with them, you take the walking brains. Understood?"
"Why am I taking the ugly ones?" Julie moaned in disgust by only looking at her opponents.
"Because I know Forever Knights, and they are much stronger than the uglies over there", he explained firmly and seriously surprising her. "A perfect task for a newbie."
Julie shakily nodded in agreement. Despite her new form, she knows that she doesn't have enough experience in fighting, especially aliens or monsters.
With a shared nod. They run at their respective group of enemies. Swampfire was happily punching each one of them while grinning happily. "I forgot how much fun this is."
"Fighting against aliens in a life and death situation is fun for you?!" Julie asked in disbelief while dodging and kicking a brain-like alien away. Instead of an answer, he gave a sheepish shrug. "You have got a strange definition of fun!"
"Touché", he agreed with her with a smirk, punching another knight.
Unfortunately, Julie found herself surrounded by a couple of aliens. And none of them looked friendly. She then nervously raises her hands only to get surprised when her hands gained two balls made of fire. Startled by the sudden powers, she panicked and threw one of them at the enemy while juggling the other one.
"It's hot! It's hot! It's hot!" Julie panicked before realizing that these fireballs aren't hurting her. "My hands are on fire and it didn't hurt, not even a little. It's incredible!"
"Now you see why I called this guy Swampfire?" Ben asked rhetorically with a light smirk knocking another knight.
"Name? Maybe I need one too? How about Blazerose?" Julie asked in intrigue while looking at the fireball on her hand and rose petals on her body. With a slight smirk, she throws more fireballs at the aliens while shouting. "Woo-hoo! This is amazing! Check me out! I'm hot!"
"Yes, you are", Swampfire agreed in his head while looking at Blazerose in awe. For him, she was the hottest thing in the universe. And he is not talking about her fire. He was caught off from his thoughts by the shooting lasers that pierced through his plant-like skin but it didn't hurt him a little. It made him tickle. "Cut it out! That tickles!"
However, his carelessness was his mistake because one of the shots cut his right hand much to the disbelief of heroes.
"Hey!" Swampfire screamed in shock thinking that he would stay as a one-armed man forever. Others shared his expression. Then soon something completely unexpected happened. From his hand, a vine shot out and reattached itself to his socket as the growth sealed up.
"You guys are in so much trouble", he grinned seeing that he is free from his blasts. Then he runs at them and knocks a couple of knights, who are still dumbfounded by the regeneration ability, down.
"It means that we have plant-like abilities. I wonder…", Blazerose said out loud. Seeing something like this gave her an excellent idea. She concentrates carefully and from her hand shoots out a single vine that ties the last alien. Realizing that her theory worked, Blazerose let out a small grin before swinging her vine around. "Hey, creeps! Take that!"
With the last shout, she throws her hostage at the last group of Forever Knights knocking them down completely much to her shock.
"Wow. Nice job for the first time", Swampfire commented sounded impressive. "You can think quickly on your feet."
"Thanks, but it was nothing. I was just looking at you", Blazerose admitted shyly.
"Really? I didn't know I could create vines. It was smart", he admitted with a shrug. His compliment made her blush a little, or at least equal to what was possible for this alien.
Unfortunately, their talk was interrupted by the person they forgot.
"Oh, please pass me a bucket", the man who was bordering the deal in the first place. And because his deal was broken, he was the least happy. "Hey, Tennyson."
"Do you know him?" she asked in concern and slight fear.
"His name's Kevin Levin. He was one of my enemies five years ago", Swampfire explained while glaring at his archenemy. "What do you want?
"Let's see", Kevin said sarcastically. "You trapped me in the null void for all those years."
"You did that to yourself!", Swampfire countered angrily but Blazerose was sure that she caught a note of regret.
"And you've ruined my deal today. I'm thinking I want revenge", Levin smirked smugly and then he kneels and places his hands on the metal train tracks before his body is coated in the same metal. "The good news is, since I can absorb anything, I've got more than enough power to take it. And you and your girlfriend here are no match for me."
"She is/I am not my/his girlfriend!" both Swampfire and Blazerose exclaimed loudly.
"Whatever", Kevin commented amusingly. "I don't care anyway."
And with this, the fight between two rivals started again.
With a loud shout, Kevin punches Swampfire in the stomach. But he didn't expect the fact that his strike would pierce through the body. While Levin's face showed a struggle to free his arm, Ben was calm by the fact that his stomach was pierced, if anything it was a mixing feeling between bewilderment and annoyance.
Seeing a perfect chance, Swampfire slams both of his hands on Kevin, completely disorienting him. Before Levin could counterattack, Blazerose runs at him and kicks him in the chest sending him to crash into the crates.
Blazerose smiles seeing what she has done. But it was far from over, as Kevin got up with a groan before lifting a huge crate with his immense strength that surprised both shapeshifters. Then he throws it at her much to her terror.
"Julie, look out!" Swampfire screamed while pushing her away from the way but it leaves him vulnerable to the upcoming object. And he was squashed much to Julie's horror.
"Ben, no!" Blazerose screamed in despair thinking that he died.
"And that's what happens when you mess with me!" Kevin boasted before looking at his second opponent. "Don't worry about your boyfriend. You will join him soon."
"No, I will not", she answered seriously and in anger. "Because I am gonna take you down right now!"
"And how do you plan to do this?" Levin asked sarcastically.
She didn't answer, instead, Blazerose simply raised her hand. And from the ground grows the long and thick vine, which the plant alien grabs and pulls it out. Then to her opponent's shock, the vine grows spikes on itself making it look like a makeshift sword/club. "This is how."
Kevin could only glare at her defiance. With a scream, he runs at her. Unfortunately for him, even though Julie doesn't have any fighting experience in this form or any form at all, Blazerose holds herself very well. Using her weapon, she can attack him like with a sword or club, spikes are making a good defense, each blocked attack irritates Levin more and more. It even becomes more surprising when the vine comes to life and binds his arms much to his surprise. Before he could do anything, Blazerose punches him in the face slightly denting it.
"You think you are so tough? But how will you act without your boyfriend or your weapon?" Kevin taunted before ripping bounds on his hands. For a moment Blazerose thought she was done for. But then she notices that behind the metal man, vines are growing from behind before its reform back into Swampfire, much to her joy. "Hey! What?"
"Peek-a-boo!" Swampfire greeted him before he dual punched Kevin in the face before Blazerose kicked him in the gut.
Losing all his patience, Kevin picks up the train car with his immense strength and he tries to throw it at the duo, but the alien duo nods at each other before shooting powerful flamethrowers at it that causes it to explode.
The last thing Kevin saw before losing consciousness is a happy and giggling Blazerose hugging Swampfire tightly.
When Kevin woke up, he felt the biggest headache in the world. It was even worse after his wild parties with Argit's. He also smelled that something stinks around there.
When he opened his eyes, he was greeted by a very unpleasant sight. It was Tennyson and his girlfriend in their alien forms before transforming back to their human forms, the fish alien and…beautiful young redhead that he couldn't keep his eyes off. It was the best thing for his sore eyes.
But he didn't want to waste time, as he started to move his arms, only to find his hands were bound by some kind of cuffs that also blocked his powers.
"Energy cuffs you can't escape. There is nothing there to absorb.", Labrid explained with a glare before he looked at Julie. "And now, while our friend is resting, I need to know. Who are you girl? And why are you here? And how did you get a second Omnitrix?!"
"Easy Magister Labrid. She is not an enemy! Her name is Julie Yamamoto. She goes to our school. She is not dangerous." Gwen exclaimed in panic when she saw how Magister pointed his blaster at her. Seeing that Labrid lowered his weapon made her sigh in relief before she turned to Julie and asked, "But it still doesn't explain to us how you got a second Omnitrix. Why does it exist in the first place? Azmuth never said that he made a copy. Care to explain that, Julie?"
"I don't think I can help you with that. I have no idea myself", Julie admitted with a tired sigh while looking at her Omnitrix. "It started when I came home after school. One of these aliens broke into my house. I found a mysterious pod with a message from my grandma in her closet. She told me to give it to Max Tennyson. And then I remembered that you are a Tennyson too. I hoped that you could help me but I saw you with this alien guy and decided to follow you. On the way here this thing just jumped on my arm. And everything else you know. I know it sounds crazy but it's true."
"Julie, five years ago, during my summer vacation this watch came to me from space and jumped on my arm too", Ben explained reassuringly to her pointing at his Omnitrix.
"At the same time, I learned that I can do this", Gwen continued with a smile, creating a platform made from pink light. "Never was the same after that summer, everything that may sound crazy to you was every other day for us, we believe you."
"Thank you.", Julie thanked them gratefully. If she explained this story to someone else, they would think that she was insane and would lock her up in a asylum. "But it still doesn't help me much. I still have no idea where my grandma got this thing. She did mention that she was a Plumber in her youth. But she never told us about what exactly she was doing. Has your grandfather ever talked about her? Her name is Aoi Yamamoto."
"Sorry, Julie", Ben and Gwen apologized with a shrug. "We never heard about her. We only knew about grandpa Max's partner Phil. And the meeting was far from pleasant."
"You don't, but I do", Labrid added, seriously surprising all teens. "I know Aoi Yamamoto. She was one of the greatest plumbers. At the same scale as your grandfather. But she retired, just like him."
"How can plumbing and aliens be connected?" Yamamoto asked in genuine confusion.
"Plumbers are intergalactic space police." Ben explains with a smile. At her next expression, he chuckles a little. "I had the same reaction when Grandpa Max explained everything to us for the first time."
"Can I continue?" Labrid asked sarcastically. Seeing that he got their attention, he continues, "Thank you. Like I said she is one of the greatest Plumbers on your planet. But her true strength is her intellect. Even though Earth is not as technologically advanced as others, she could understand and build many devices with her bare hands and could use any alien equipment. She was also a good friend of Azimuth and was your grandpa's partner."
Even Kevin looked at the alien in disbelief. No one had any idea how to process with such information. For Ben and Gwen knowing something like this was nothing new. But it was only about their Grandpa Max's past, not other people. It's still admiring and outstanding.
However, Julie was surprised more than anyone. All her life he thought that she knew her grandma better than anyone. Despite her parents, her grandmother was the one she had a deep connection with. She believed that her grandma was the only person who would never lie to her, the one with whom she can share any of her secrets, the one she wanted to be like in the future. And just now she learned that her grandmother's life was a lie. She doesn't know what to think or who to believe anymore.
Seeing a mental battle in the girl's head, Gwen decides to give her a little hand.
"Listen I know it's too sudden for you. Ben and I were in the same situation five years ago", Gwen started slowly and carefully. "It's not easy when you learn that your old, caring and funny grandparent was a space cop in his prime. It was difficult for us to accept it too. But what was most difficult was keeping it a secret from our parents."
"Listen, what I am trying to say is that even if it looks like an impossible situation, everything could be solvable if you work together with your family or your friends. My name is Gwen Tennyson. Pleased to meet you. Let's be friends."
"Thanks for your kind words. My name is Julie Yamamoto", Julie thanked with a kind smile before shaking Gwen's offering hand. "Yes, I heard about you. You are kinda school's legend."
"I am?" Gwen asked in surprise.
"Of course, you are", Yamamoto answered seriously. "You are the gorgeous and redhead, who is smarter than some teachers. Don't forget the fact that you have both black belts in Karate and Judo. Everyone talks about you."
"Wow, I would've never guessed", Tennyson commented in disbelief at her popularity. When she was moving her head, the redhead caught something disgusting on her hair.
"You still got some of that stuff in your hair", Julie explained with a sweat drop and wince. At times like these, she is grateful that she has short hair.
Gwen checked her hair and found nothing.
"Other side", Kevin added, looking at the right side.
"Ew!" she exclaimed in disgust. She hopes that this thing can wash out.
"Now that we learned everything we need. It's time we talked, tough guy", Labrid stated while glaring at Kevin. Then he disassembles the laser lance to show him an important part. Judging by the dangerous red glowing, you can guess that this little thing is radioactive as a core reactor. "These weapons run on ether-point energy cells; a dangerous technology way too advanced for humans. They shouldn't even be on this planet."
"So? How's that my problem?" Kevin asked with a shrug not thinking that it was his problem.
"While we were fighting, the Forever Knights got away with a crate full of them", Ben added the fact that everyone forgot. Seeing the confusion on Julie's face he explains further. "It's an anti-alien society of some kind. Don't ask me why they are wearing knight armors. We have no idea ourselves."
"You set up the deal", Labrid continued before demanding. "You're going to tell me where they are."
However, Magister's threat didn't work at Kevin at all. He doesn't care what they say. He will do whatever he wants and no one would tell him otherwise.
"Kevin, people could be hurt", Gwen pleaded with her cute and gentle face. And this did the trick.
"You're in a lot of trouble, son", Labrid warned him but this time gently. "I'm giving you a chance to help yourself here."
"You don't have to convince me", Levin unexpectedly answered, surprising others. "Those guys ran off before I got paid. I'm happy to help find those deadbeats."
Seeing as Levin was ready to cooperate, Labrid didn't see any other choice except to free him from the energy cuffs. Who immediately is trying to reassure his sore hands.
Unfortunately, all of them forgot about one important detail.
"How are we gonna catch them?" Julie suddenly asked. "I mean knights got away on a truck. How can we catch them on foot?"
"Don't worry Tennyson's girlfriend. We have our wheels", Kevin smirked before pressing the button on his keys. Immediately the roar of the engine was heard before the cool green and black muscle car drive itself appears out of nowhere. "I never go out without my ride."
It was really surprising to know that Kevin E. Levin owns such an awesome car. Where did he get money to afford such beauty?
Before anyone could ask him, a question Gwen exclaims with a grin, "I call a shotgun."
Such a bold statement surprised both Ben and Julie, especially when Gwen was intentionally moving her hips before opening the door to Kevin's car and sitting at the front passenger seat.
Looks like it will be a long drive.
20 minutes later
"I still think I should drive", Labrid complained sitting in the back with Ben and Julie, who were busy with their Omnitrixes.
"Nobody drives my car but me. And that's final", Kevin said firmly while driving them to the Forever Knights' hideout.
"You were telling us about the aliens", Gwen reminded the older alien about his past words.
"I don't know anything about the ones we fought today", Plumber Magister answered with a sad sigh.
"Never met that kind before", Ben confirmed looking at his new list of aliens. No one of his old and familiar aliens was here. "I don't see them in here…not that I know how to work this thing anymore."
"Maybe after you get your license, pee-wee", Kevin teased with a smirk.
"Who won our fight again? Oh, I remember me!" Tennyson boasted loudly.
"Not alone!" Levin reminded him. "Without your girlfriend, I could defeat you easily."
"We are not dating!" both Ben and Julie exclaimed with blushing faces. "We only met each other today!"
"Kevin, stop teasing them!" Gwen scolded him before turning to Julie. "But he got a point. You two show awesome teamwork in using a brand new alien. Especially you Julie, I bet that before this day you would never believe that aliens exist. That vine sword/club with spikes was something else."
"Thanks for the compliment, but transforming into an alien was really something else", Julie commented scratching her head in embarrassment. "Say, Ben, what did you feel when you transformed for the first time? How was it for you when you felt that your body changes in every way? Was it amazing and thrilling or scary and terrifying?"
"Well, it was scary for the first time but the next time it was incredible. I felt like I became different like I could achieve everything but still I stayed as me", Ben answered with a nostalgic smile. He would never forget that summer vacation. "I was spooked when I first used Omnitrix. But I calmed down pretty fast."
"Really?" Gwen asked with a teased smirk that made Ben gulp. "I remember it quite differently. You were screaming that you are on fire before making a forest fire."
"GWEN!" Ben hissed with a red face while everyone else was laughing. Even Julie much to his growing embarrassment. "If It can save my face, at that time I was ten years old and I was literally made from fire. Of course, I was terrified."
"It's okay. If I was on fire, I would scream so loud that the entire planet could hear me", Julie joked, calming a poor boy down. She then continued to look at her list of aliens and noticed that they are the same species as Ben's only with a different gender. "Ben, can you help me with names for my aliens? I don't think I would give them the right names. Would you help me?"
Ben let out a goofy and silly smile that Julie indicates as yes.
"I will continue. Your grandma noticed a lot of alien activity on Earth lately. Don't know why", Labrid continued his story looking at the young girl. "Your grandfather thought maybe the weapons deal would lead us to whatever's causing all the interest. Now both of them are missing."
"Knowing Grandpa Max, he's probably at a restaurant enjoying a roasted cockroach salad", Gwen joked trying to ease the situation. "It's a wonder that all that weird food didn't kill him."
"He's not dead! Stop making jokes about him!" Ben screamed at her in anger not appreciating his cousin's sense of humor.
At that moment, Kevin stopped his car so fast that you could hear the tires screeching.
"Don't talk to her like that", he growled at him in frustration.
"I'll talk to her any way I…", Ben started before realizing what he is doing. His words hurt Gwen very deeply. And it scared Julie a lot. Now he sees what he has done. His allies are afraid of him. "You're right. I'm sorry, Gwen."
"I know you're worried about grandpa", Julie reassured him, putting her hand on his shoulder. "I feel the same about my grandmother."
"I just wish he were here. He would know what to do", Tennyson continued looking at his watch in despair. "He always knows what to do."
"Funny. I am always telling the same thing about my grandma", Yamamoto continued with a small smile. It made him feel better, even for a little.
"Well, they aren't here. You two are the one with the Omnitrixes", Labrid reminded teens about an important point. "You two are going to have to figure out how to get things done on your own."
Both Omnitrix wielders could only look at their devices before giving each other a silent nod. They know that Magister is right and both know that they need to figure things out by themselves. Fortunately, they are not alone in this journey. They have loyal allies and friends for help. They can do this.
Seeing that the problem is over, Kevin revs up his car before continuing his way to the Forever Knights' base. After a couple of more minutes, they finally got to their destination. "This is it."
"Subtle", Ben commented sarcastically looking at the building. That was understanding of the century. Forever Knights' hideout was a giant rock fortress that looks like a castle with big towers that could be seen from miles away. There was even a moat with drawbridge and river. How people didn't notice it before? No one could answer. "Nobody would think to look for Knights here."
"You didn't", Kevin pointed like others exiting the car.
"Touché", Julie agreed with the older teen.
"How do we get in?" Labrid asked in confusion. He had no idea how to get into this building unnoticeable.
"Gwen?" Ben suggested with a large smile.
Gwen stood in front of the drawbridge and then shot out her pink energy beam that grabs it before lowering it down to their level so they could cross the moat.
Then she used her powers to light them the way into the dark castle. Unfortunately, it didn't help them much because everything in this building was knight themed: there were old, broken, unused things or just doesn't needed at all.
"There's no one here. You sure this is the right place?" Gwen asked in confusion seeing that there was no one here.
"There's a hidden door. Keep looking", Kevin insisted before noticing a pile of jewel and putting it into his pocket but Ben and Julie noticed that.
"Maybe you should have brought a shopping cart?" Tennyson asked in a disapproving tone.
"I don't like the looks of this", Julie commented in fright because everything was too quiet here. It didn't help the fact that statues of fighting knights looked alive and ready to attack her. She was staring at them for so long that she didn't notice that she knocked out the suit of armor. "Aah!"
"Julie, are you okay?" Ben asked in concern and worry.
"Come on, girl! What are you doing?" Kevin asked annoyingly. Gwen elbowed him in the gut for such words.
"Sorry, guys", Yamamoto apologized sheepishly. "Guess after today's events, I'm just a little…"
She stopped when she realized that everyone was looking at something behind her back. She turns around and immediately, drops her jaw because it was a giant dragon creature looming before her and others. And the dragon is growling hungrily and hatefully at them.
"…paranoid!" Julie squeaked in disbelief at seeing the living dragon. It was the last thing she or her friends ever expected. Now she truly believes that she needed to ask Ben tomorrow instead of today.
But she doesn't have time to think about it further as an entire team is preparing for the huge fight.
Well, that's all for now. I know it's not long but I hope it's enough. Tell me your thought in reviews.
My first idea was for Julie to make her own investigation far away from Ben's group but she would still help them. It's just they wouldn't know each others' identities.
Don't worry Ship will be in the fic. I would never get rid of him.
Also, I gave ideas for Julie's aliens. I mean her names:
Swampfire - Blazerose
Echo Echo - Sound Wave or Sonic wave(or should I just leave as Echo Echo)
Humongasaur - Terrazilla or Megalosaurus
Jetray - Can't think of one
Big Chill - Coldsnap or Frostwing
Spidermonkey - Widow or Arachnoprimate
Brainstorm - Thinker
Goop - Sludge
Chromastone - Gemstone or Crystalia
Alien X would be Ben and Julie's shared alien. Just like from Ben and Jen 10: Alien Force by Jake H Voronkov.
If you had a better suggestion for alien names would like to hear.
P. S.: Should I make a fic where UAF Ben fights OV Ben(who supposed to be Eon in the future.)?