Note: This is just a to test the water type chapter. This is a very old story idea of mine that I had never fully committed to turning into written form, and updates might be slow. Like with the cartoon, every chapter will be its own episode, though the length may vary. Also though I'm going to be using most canon aliens, most of their names will be changed. Part of the reason is that where I come from the dub gave them different names that I really enjoy and another part is that, let's be real, there's a very low chance that when somebody gets the Omnitrix, they will name their aliens the same way Ben did. So when a canon alien appears for the first time their original name will be written next to the new one, like this:
Fire Force (Heatblast)
Fanon aliens will be given small profiles at the end of the chapter. Also, canon characters will appear in this story, but most of them will have a changed backstory, as they are supposed to be alternative versions in the first place. Thanks for reading all of this, reviews and all forms of feedback are highly encouraged, so please enjoy.
The 6th of September was a strange day from start to finish. It started with a highway chase, with several police cars driving after a grey Audi A8. Two masked men fired back at the cops with their handguns, trying to get the police off their tails as the driver himself was busy starting at the road ahead. He looked at the mirror-view mirror, keeping track of the white and blue cars.
Perhaps somebody should have told him to look at what was in front of him instead of what's behind him when driving a car at about 160 km/h. But considering that these fellas have gotten themselves in a high speed, highway chase with the police, they would have probably ignored such advice in the first place. So, when a giant fireball suddenly hit the front of the car and exploded, everyone was understandable, surprised, confused, and above all, scared so much that the white underwear some of them wore was in shades. All they could see was the flames outside the window.
There was a rough-sounding poof as the front tires of the car melted from the heat. The man at the wheel immediately lost control of the car afterward, and it drove off the round. The grey card flew into several large bushes. A few moments later several police cars stopped behind them, blinking in confusion, they were unsure of what had just happened but were glad that this chase was over.
"That seemed to have done the trick." A loud, rough sounding voice muttered, as he shook the smoke off his hands before closing the car window.
The creature was by no definition a human. With green and black skin, a red flame-patterned head with a black face, orange eyes, and strange red petals on each shoulder, the creature in question was a Methanosian, or more specifically, as the red hourglass symbol on his stomach would suggest, he was a Methanosian transformation that went under the name Swamplant (Swampfire).
The plant-like creature hit the hourglass symbol on its stomach, changing in a flash of red light into a pale-skinned male with brown hair and eyes. The young man was about eighteen years old, wearing a black hoodie with red stripes on both arms, and the number 10 on the left side of his chest; a red shirt with a black collar underneath it, along with black pants with red pieces on the back, and black loafers. His name was Alexander Bloodson.
"I hope no one got hurt. They crashed at a very high speed." The girl sitting in the middle backset spoke out.
With the same eyes and long brown hair tied into a ponytail, the girl sitting on Alex's left was his 17 years old sister Alexis, who was wearing a short sleeveless green vest over a long-sleeved white shirt, black stockings under a black mini skirt, and her favorite green sneakers.
As for who was on Alexis' left, that would be the last of the siblings – Kalin, wearing a normal black shirt with blue stripes and the number 10 on the center of his chest, with blue pants and black loafers, the fourteen years old had his face pressed against the window, as he stared back at the smoke that was coming from the direction of the car his brother had hit with a fireball.
"That's definitely not something you see every day." Their father commented from the front, as he drove the car.
"You mean a highway chase or such stupidity?" the mother asked.
"Both?" The father glanced at the raising smoke through the rear-mirror. "I wonder how they were planning to get through the border patrol without getting caught."
Alex listened to his parents, chuckling as he leaned back and put his headphones back onto his head, blasting music into his ears, as they headed toward their destination, their late-summer vacation on the beaches of Greece.
"You know, I could have done the same thing," Kalin muttered.
"Not without asbestos seat covers." Alexis scolded him. "Or else mom's going to have your head."
Kalin looked at his mother and smirked. "Listen, if Fire Force ends up burning the seats, Alex has enough money to buy new ones. Right?"
"If you burn then, you'll be the one paying for them." His mother looked back at the boy through the rear-mirror.
"But I'm underage~! I don't have any money!" Kalin said with a grin. "As my older siblings, Alex and Alexis should be the ones to pay. But don't worry, I'll return you the money, once I grow up and start making millions."
"In your dreams." Alexis rolled her eyes.
She was trying not to show it, but she was starting to get a slight headache from her brother's annoying antics. It wasn't so much because of him specifically, there was some group that was trying to steal the tires of a car in three in the morning last night that she had to stop, and by the time she managed to fall asleep, her mother had already come to wake her up, because they had to drive off in seven in the morning if they wanted to be at the beach at noon, so she was tired, sleep-deprived, and her brother wasn't helping her.
"I said it last year, but I'll repeat it again; I hate how our summer vacation is always at the end of the summer, for just a day." Alexis groaned. "Also why are we with a car? We got a teleport back at home. It would have taken us seconds."
"And what would others think when they see five people manifest out of thin air?" her father asked.
"And how are we going to get back afterward?" her mother added.
"Alex hates traveling," Kalin gestured toward the older boy, who remained unresponding, listening to his music. "We could have left him at home to manage the equipment and teleport us back."
"He could have also gotten himself a job instead of sitting at home the entire summer, but he did, which is why I'm not going to let him stay home this time."
"I…" Alexis raised her voice to try and say something, but quickly paused, rethinking her decision. "-should probably not say anything, so let's just leave it at this."
"Why, are you scared that I'll bring up the fact that you're unemployed as well?" Alex groaned and placed her head into her palms; there it was, mom wasn't going to show mercy this time.
The tall blue car stopped in an empty parking lot. The family stepped out of the car and looked on as the frothy, blue-green salt water crashes into the sun reflected shoreline in waves, then gently rolls up to the increasingly rising tide line. Alexis took in the smell of saltwater that was being carried by the gentle wind. She opened her eyes again, and looking toward her parents, she quickly addressed the elephant in the room.
"There's no-fucking-body on the fucking beach in September!" She yelled, pointing at the empty beach line. "We could have totally just teleported here instead of driving like crazy for six hours!"
"I could have probably saved a lot of money from gas too." Her father muttered, before walking to the back of the car. "Oh well, it's too late for that anyway. Come on, who's going to help me unload?"
Alex and Kalin look at each other and groaned before walking over to their father. They both knew that he was calling them to help him get everything to the beach, and neither of them wanted to get scolded the same way Alexis was, so they complied without much protest, while their sister looked on at the empty beach with her arms crossed and a small vein popped on her forehead.
"Listen, it's not the destination that's important." Her mother walked over and placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. "It's about the journey, and it was fun, wasn't it?"
"All you did, aside from occasionally yelling at us whenever Kalin tries to set the car on fire was playing on your phone." Alexis pointed out.
"Well, you had a phone too." Her mother patted her on the shoulder before moving on, leaving the girl with her mouth hanging in surprise.
"Close your mouth before a fly flies into it." Kalin snickered as he walked past the girl with several bags in his hands, with Alex and their father following suit.
Shaking her head, Alexis headed toward the beach with the rest of her family. In no time at all, her father had put down an umbrella to keep shade, while her mother and Alex put down the beach towels. During that time, Alexis sat down in the sand in her white and green two-piece swimsuit that showed the green number 10 tattooed on her shoulder. She just stared at the sea, as small waves splashed against her feet, waiting for something to do.
"Whelp, I'm going into the water!" Kalin shouted. "Bro?"
"Can we use the watches to swim deeper, mom?" Alex turned to ask.
"If Alexis agrees to come with you, then yes." Their mother replied, then lied down on her towel.
The moment she said that Alexis felt her brothers' eyes falling on her. Because she was able to remotely control their watches, she was often required to go with them, so she can make sure that there are no glitches or other mistakes. Plus that, since neither of them could swim, if they ended up timing-out in the middle of the sea – they would both drown without her around to watch their backs.
"Yea, yeah. Let's just go." She waved her hand and gestured for her brothers to go on.
Wasting no time, both boys raised their wrists, which had strange watches attached to them. On Alex's right wrist was a white wristwatch with a black square faceplate with two red stripes forming an hourglass outline on top of the faceplate, while on Kalin's left wrist was a black watch with a grey dial in the middle resembling a watch face that had a blue hourglass shape on it, two blue lines on the sides of the watch's body and a small blue button on its right side.
Both of them activated their watches, Alex by pressing his index and middle finger against the faceplate, while Kalin by pressing the small button. The watches' cores shot up and activated their holographic interfaces. The duo jumped into the water and in a flash of red and blue light respectively, they disappeared from view. After her brothers had disappeared from view, Alexis stood up as well. Her brown eyes turned black with a green hourglass symbol inside each of them, her neck split open, creating gills, as green fins grew from the back of her hands, and she jumped into the water, following after her brothers.
"You don't seem happy with this vacation." Alex glanced back at his sister.
Currently, both he and his brother were using a Piscciss Volann transformation that they had named Jaws (Ripjaws). A large humanoid aquatic creature with grey skin, green fins, and huge jaws filled with razor-sharp teeth. The monsters had black fishtails covered in grey triangular lines, small pink eyes, and a small glowing lure sticking from their foreheads. The only difference between Alex and Kalin, aside from their size, were their outfits. For Alex that was a black metal collar around his neck with red water tubes, and the hourglass symbol on his right shoulder, while for Kalin that was a black chest plate with a smaller blue shoulder plate on his left shoulder that carried the hourglass symbol.
"I'm just tired because I was out there stopping a crime last night." Alexis sighed. "But I guess that's true for all of us, seeing how mom doesn't even bother to deal with our shit anymore."
"You know, I had completely forgotten that you can get tired," Alex admitted.
"It's the same as it's with your transformations; its biological needs such as eating and sleeping can't be shut-off; that's not how living organisms work."
"Do you think we could find shipwrecked on the bottom of the sea?" Kalin asked.
"We're not THAT far away from the beach." Alexis retorted.
"Maybe it could have a hidden chest filled with gold," Kalin muttered, ignoring his sister's words, as he dove deeper.
"If he drowns while we're looking after him, would we get charged with murder?" Alex asked.
"Are you really more worried about that than our brother!?" Alexis exclaimed as she dove after her brother.
Alex shook her head. "I mean, we have the alien equivalent of a nuclear arsenal attached to our wrists, so if he ends up drowning to death it would just be pathetic."
But those words fell to deaf ears, as both Alexis and Kalin were already too far to hear anything that their older brother was saying underwater. He followed after them as the trio went deeper. When transformed, the user could see how much time they had left based on how much of the hourglass was still glowing. Like how in normal hourglass sand would flow from the upper bulb to the lower one, so the light on the watch would slowly be reduced from the top to the bottom for every minute that has passed, and Alex was keeping an eye out for his remaining time as an alien.
The group slowly reached the bottom of the sea, passing various types of small fish that the two Piscciss Volann were just dying to take a bit from, they turned their bodies around, as both Alex's and Kalin's tail split apart, revealing two legs that the creatures used to land on the ground, as their tail turned into a long skirt around the body.
"See? No old shipwrecked." Alex gestured around. "No exotic sea life either."
"We haven't looked around yet." Kalin pointed out.
"We won't be looking around." Alexis insisted. "Your watch can keep you transformed for only fifteen minutes, and I won't reprogram it to increase your time. The moment you get under five minutes, I'm pulling you out."
"And how much do I still have? Twelve minutes?" Kalin smirked.
"Around seven minutes," Alex told him, even though they had swum for only eight minutes, the Piscciss Volann came from a world covered in nothing but water, so they were used to swimming more than any other species the siblings had access to.
"Oh…" the younger Piscciss Volann muttered, transforming his legs back into his tail, as he moved forward. "Then we better hurry!"
"We're at the Mesopelagic zone, right?" Alex turned to his sister.
"Yep. Why are you asking exactly?"
"Just wanted to be sure that pulling that idiot back to the surface won't be a problem." Alex rubbed his back fin.
"Hey!" the blue Trix used shouted, having at his siblings. "Come see what I found!"
"I swear if you actually found a-" Alex was about to finish that sentence when he moved closer and saw what his brother wanted to show them.
It was an underwater cave. Not just that, it was an underwater cave that wasn't filled with any water. There was a blue force field at the entrance preventing water from getting inside. And of course, if somebody had decided that putting such an advanced piece of technology here was worth it, then,
"I don't believe it," Alexis muttered.
"What did I tell ya?" Kalin laughed. "Come, let's check it out!"
Yet again, the young boy didn't wait for an answer from his older siblings and ran through the force field, dropping on the ground on the other side with a loud groan that caused his siblings to shake their heads in disbelieve. Alex returned back to the walking mode and simply walked through the force field before reverting back to human, as Alexis stepped beside him and retracted her fins, returning to her fully human appearance, excluding for her green hourglass eyes, which remained.
"Sure didn't expect to find something like this underwater, did ya?" Kalin asked, slapping his hourglass, reverting back to human with a blue flash of light.
Alex looked at the walls, which had small rusted machines attached to them. Though their shapes were different from what he was familiar with, he could tell that those machines were anti-gravity disks. A total of four anti-gravity disks, in fact; all located on every side of the entrance to prevent water from moving further into the cave.
"These are old," Alexis commented.
"Somebody's been here for a long time?" Kalin raised an eyebrow.
"Or they abandoned it." Alexis sighed. "Maybe even died. Cave diving isn't safe for humans, and despite the more advanced technology, it's not safe for most alien species either."
"You know, maybe I don't think like a normal person, but if I wanted to do Cave diving, I wouldn't travel through half the galaxy for it." Alex shrugged. "But hey, the human mind works differently from that of an alien, so maybe I just can't comprehend the logic behind it."
"Let's looked around this place, see if there's anything we can scavenge," Alexis muttered as red rocks started to form around her left arm, and her wrist grew slightly in size before a flame ignited from the cracks between the rocks, illuming the cave.
"Don't you have anything that would be less visible?" Kalin asked.
"I'm wearing only a swimsuit in a cave two hundred meters under the water. I can get cold too, you know?" Alexis replied as she walked ahead.
The brothers followed after her, with Alex pressing his fingers against the faceplate of his watch and then twisting it, causing a new holographic menu with different options to show up. He chose the option that looked like a phone and several numbers appeared in front of him, with the names of the contacts written after the numbers. He pressed one of the numbers and the hologram disappeared, as the watch beeped.
"Hello?" the voice of their mother came out of the watch.
"Hey, just giving you a heads up that we're going to be late," Alex told her. "We found some interesting things and are checking them out. You don't have to worry about us, we aren't drowning."
"If you were, you wouldn't have been able to call me." There was a loud sigh followed by a small pause on the other end of the line. "We will be leaving in about three hours, make sure you get back before that, ok?"
"As you command," Alex replied before pressing the faceplate again, closing the call.
"Three hours? We can practically have lunch here then!" Kalin laughed.
The group continued moving deeper into the cave, with Alexis' flames illuminating their surroundings. But soon, the group began to see a light coming from the other end. Narrowing her eyes, Alexis used her powers to reduce the flame that she was holding, so it would be harder to detect. She glanced back at her brothers, both of whom had raised their hands close to their watches.
As the trio moved closer, reaching a large open area that had strange purple crystals growing from the walls and ceiling; radiating light. But more importantly, large machinery was located in the center of the open area, with its bottom half seemingly dug into the hard rocky ground.
"That looks new." Alexis turned her arm back to normal.
"Looks like something you wouldn't find here," Alex commented. "Do you have any idea what it is?"
"Mining equipment?" Alexis guessed. "I don't know, I'll have to take a closer look to be sure, and…"
She paused for a moment, then turned around and jumped toward Alex. As she did, her skin turned grey and her entire body began to shrink down, turning a small, bipedal frog-like creature with large green eyes and short brown hair. The female version of a species known as Galvan, this transformation was referred to by the siblings as Big Brain (Grey Matter).
The little creature landed on her brother's arm and quickly climbed up his hoodie, getting all the way up to his shoulder. Once she had safely secured herself, Alex and Kalin activated their watches and changed.
For Kalin, the form he took was an Arburian Pelarota. A hulking white, broad-shouldered alien covered in natural, yellow armor plating on his back, shoulders, and the backs of his arms. He had four claws on both of his hands that were similar to that of a panda. With black outlines around his yellow eyes, a black stripe on his chest, and a blue hourglass symbol on its forehead, the creature was known by the group as Cannonforce (Cannonbolt).
And standing next to it, was the prime specimen of an Aranhaschimmia, or as they called it, Spidermonkey. A small blue monkey-like alien with four arms, two pairs of yellow eyes, two legs, three fingers on each hand and three toes on each foot, and a long tail with two white stripes on its ends. The hourglass symbol was connected to a red collar located around the creature's neck.
Alex jumped into the air and fired a web from his tail that attached itself to the top of the ceiling as the monkey swung over the ground and landed next to the machine. He grabbed Alexis and placed her down on the machine.
"Well?" Alex asked.
"Doesn't look like a weapon." Alexis rubbed her chin, then tapped a metal plate. "Mind removing that? I want to take a look inside."
The blue monkey nodded, firing another web that blasted the metal plate. He grabbed the web with all four arms and pulled on it, tearing the metal plate off the machine, creating a hole big enough for the little grey girl to jump through it.
"So… are we just going to stand here as guards?" Kalin walked over with his arms crossed.
"If there are aliens around here, I don't want them to see our human faces," Alex replied.
"I mean, what's the point hiding it when they don't know who we are?" Kalin raised an eyebrow.
"It's safer this way if something suddenly jumps out and-!" Alex was about to finish his sentence when he felt his senses tingling.
"Heads up!" Alex shouted, jumping into the air in a backflip, doing a red energy blast that blasted Kalin straight into the face, knocking him over with a loud thud.
"Get away from the boss' machine!" A large grey humanoid with four pedunculated eyes linked to the side of its head roared at the duo before firing another energy blast at the blue monkey.
"Hey now!" Alex rolled to the side, dodging the attack. "Don't chimp out on me!" He chuckled and fired a web blast into the alien's face.
He pulled on the web, causing the armed alien to lose balance and drop its rifle before it grabbed the web with its right arm and using its strength, swung it around with Alex still holding on the other end, he slammed the transformed human into a wall, knocking the wind out of him.
"You will anger the boss!" the alien roared, as it struggled to scrap the goop off his head when a large yellow sphere came rolling, smashing into the grey alien with enough force to send him flying into a nearby rocky wall.
The sphere unrolled and Kalin stood up with his brother jumping back on his feet before joining the large white and yellow creature. Both of them turned toward their attack, who was struggling to get back up.
"Who's that boss you're talking so much about?" Kalin asked. "I wouldn't mind having a talk with him about the way his employees treat guests."
"Boss not here…" the huge creature groaned, as it got back up and pointed toward the two brothers. "Me boss here… Get those cops for the boss!"
At the creature's order, a dozen small humanoid aliens wearing red and black suits, with grey goggles with straight yellow lenses and a belt came running into the large opening, each of them armed with a heavy pickaxe, and several of them carrying uneaten food in their free hands.
"I think we just ruined their lunch break." Alex gulped before jumping back, avoiding a swing aimed for his head before kicking the alien that tried to off him in the face.
"You think…" Kalin asked nonchalantly while several aliens were taking swings at him, only for their hits to all bounce off his body with enough force to knock them on the ground. "Um…Should I tell them that I have armor? Actually, can they understand what I'm saying at all?"
"I've got bigger problems than that," Alex muttered as he fired another web blast at an alien's face, catching it by surprise for long enough to slam all four of his fists into its face and knock it down. The monkey then quickly grabbed the fallen alien's pickaxe and swiped the legs of several others, knocking them down.
"I don't want to sound impatient, but did you figure out what that machine is, sis?" Alex asked again, dodging an incoming attack before kicking the red and black minion in the crotch.
"Well, good news, it's just a huge drill. Probably for deep mantle drilling." Alexis's voice spoke from the hourglass symbol on Alex's collar. "Bad news is, I'm standing right in front of a Planchaküles' Dark Matter Engine."
"What's a whatever-matter-engine?!" Alex shouted, as he leaped back and fired several blasts of webs, hitting multiple minions and webbing them to the ground or to one another. He turned to check on his brother, only to see a huge pile of minions where Kalin stood moments ago.
"It's an engine that was banned from production because it tends to make very big boom booms when you turn it on!" Alexis shouted. "Imagine the destruction caused by a nuclear warhead, then imagine something that's a few thousand times more powerful and that could potentially tear your planet apart."
"Then disable it!" Alex yelled.
The large pile of minions began to shake and suddenly with a high-pitched scream, all the pickaxe aliens were sent flying into different directions, as a large yellow sphere speeded through the area, steamrolling anything that was moving and wasn't a four-armed blue monkey.
"Wish I could, but Planchaküles' engineering is… I don't know when the thing starts and where it ends!" Alex jumped against the wall and looked down at the hourglass symbol as his sister explained the problem. "Everything in here looks like it's going to fall down soon. If I touch anything, I might set it off."
"Then come back here and help us with-" Alex kicked the wall he was hanging from, jumping away as another energy blast hit the space he had occupied moments ago. Spidermonkey jumped on the ground and then did a side flip, to avoid another blast that hit the large drilling machine behind him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Alexis screamed from inside as the blast flew past her and hit several circuits and cables behind her, causing them to catch fire.
"I got enough of you meddling with boss's work!" the huge alien shouted as it charged another blast when he noticed a large shadow coming down upon him. The alien looked up in surprise, just in time to see as a large yellow sphere landed on top of him with a crash, knocking him out cold for good.
"Ugh, should I have knocked him out could earlier?" Kalin asked, as he rolled back and stood up on his tiny feet.
Alex narrowed his eyes and looked back at the smoking hole in the strange drill. "Let me guess, that shot hit the dark matter engine, didn't it?"
Alexis' little grey form showed from the hole, coughing from the smoke. She jumped from the hole and her body began to rapidly grow midair, transforming her back into a human by the same she hit the ground.
"No, but something definitely caught fire in there." She pointed out.
"I'm on it." Alex sighed, hitting the symbol on his collar, morphing back to his human form before activating the watch again and selecting a new alien.
Another flash of red light later, and a broad-shouldered alien whose entire body was covered in natural blue armor appeared. Its head was merged with its chest. A pair of yellow eyes flashed brightly; underneath them was located a large mouth without teeth, while above them was a yellow horn with an orange crystal on it. Only the upper part of its arms remained unarmored, revealing its natural purple skin, while the lower part of the hands was bulkier and with a blue device built into each palm. The red hourglass symbol was located on a black and red shoulder-plate on its left shoulder.
The robotic alien that was called Sandbox raised its arms and the devices on its arms began scanning the large drilling machine, in the process causing pieces of it to start breaking down from matter into data that was absorbed into Sandbox's palms. Sparks start to fly from the Dark Matter Engine, when the blue light flashed over it, causing the large metal core holding dark purple energy inside of it to break down into data all at once.
After absorbing it all, Alex turned around, quickly reworking and rewriting all the data that he had stored up, after which the orange crystal on his horn flashed a light over his open palms from which all of the reworked data flew back out, turning into matter, creating a long metal staff with dark purple circuit lines all over it.
"From an unstable Dark Matter Engine into a bulky Dark Matter Battery," Alex smirked, as he placed the large battery on the ground next to him.
The metallic alien then turned to the large four-eyed alien that was lying unconscious on the ground and the large pile of pickaxe aliens they had taken out. The drill has been disabled, but there was still the problem about that entire group of miners and why they were trying to kill them.
"I and the boys were having a lunch break when I heard voices coming from the direction of our driller, so I grabbed my rifle and went to check if boss' rivers haven't found out super-secret mine. Then I saw the strange symbols you wore and remembered that my boss told me to avoid them so I thought 'Oh shit, the cops are onto us', so I opened fire to try and kill you." The large four-eyed alien admitted.
Both he and his entire crew were tied together by vines formed from a humanoid plant with flytrap-shaped flaps with teeth covering its head. The creature had a single large green eye in the center of its face and bulb-like hair on the sides of its head with five vine-like legs, and two hands with four long fingers on each hand. A green hourglass symbol was present on the alien's stomach, meaning that the plant-like alien known to some as a Florauna, or Thornshell (Wildvine) was Alexis. And standing next to her were Cannonforce and Sandbox.
"So you mistake us for cops because of the intergalactic peace symbol?" Alexis crossed her arms, thinking about what the huge alien was saying.
"More importantly, how did you get your hands on a large mining drill with a nuclear bomb as its core?" Alex asked.
"Boss buys equipment. Boss gave equipment and told me to get my crew to Earth and mine some iron." The alien replied.
"Hold it. All of this was for iron?" Kalin crossed her arms. "So, super-advanced aliens that can fly across half the galaxy need iron from Earth?"
"Iron can be surprisingly rare in some parts of the galaxy," Alexis informed her brother. "And doing deep mining for iron on a plane whose core was made of iron, like Earth's…"
"I get it," Alex muttered, then turned to the large alien and the pickaxe aliens. "Listen, we're not cops, so we can't arrest you, and despite how much I dislike alien life, I've got no good reason to execute you all, so how about we let you guys go as long as you don't come to do mining on this planet again, but we get to keep the dark matter battery and your drill. Sounds fair?"
"I don't think that fair." The large alien muttered.
"Ok, listen here… um… do you have a name I can call you by?"
"I don't remember name. Boss just calls me Knucklehead."
"Yeah, I wonder why." Alex muttered to himself before turning back to 'Knucklehead'. "You're getting out with your life, your crew, and your ship, wherever it might be. And all of that after you almost blew up Earth. So, I don't know how you look at this situation, but I believe I'm doing you an effort by taking a broken drill that's good for nothing but scrap."
"What about the dark matter?"
"It's my payment for saving your skin." Alex patted him on the shoulder. "But look at it from the positive side. If you want iron so badly, Earth's orbit is filled with parts from human spaceships and satellites. You can take the iron from them to your boss instead. I'm sure that if nothing else, the scrap up there should be enough to cover some of the expenses, shouldn't it?"
Knucklehead titled his head to the side and thought about it for a moment, or at least tried to. While he was a big and strong worker, he lacked in the intelligence department, which is why he usually did what the boss told him to; because the boss was smart and knew what he was doing. All Knucklehead had to do was follow the boss' instructions, and both of them would get lots of money.
"Deal's fair." Knucklehead nodded.
"Good, good." Alex patted him on the shoulder and turned to Alexis, gesturing toward his sister.
The vines that were wrapped around the aliens' bodies came undone and retracted back into Alexis' body. The pickaxe minions grabbed their pickaxes while Knucklehead took his blaster rifle and the group moved back into the depts. of the mine, their bodies disappearing in the darkness. Once all the alien miners were out of sight, Alexis shifted back into her human form, as her brothers hit the hourglass symbols and transformed back to normal.
"You know that space rockets aren't made from iron, right?" Alexis turned to her older brother.
"Eh, I don't think that he would be smart enough to figure that out." Alex shrugged. "Plus, it will clear some of the debris, so it's a lose-win situation."
"But when you think about it, isn't it crazy that if we haven't found the entrance to this cave our planet might have been destroyed?" Kalin asked.
"There was is an eighty percent chance that a reactor like this would blow up, but this type of drill must have at least half of its body buried under the ground if you plan to drill without gear to stabilize its stance. And seeing how they had decided to dig the hole around it after placing it down, instead of digging the hole first and then lowering it inside; they probably wouldn't have gotten it active for a very long time." Alexis explained.
"But still, we wouldn't have been able to find out about it until it was too late, if we weren't lucky, right?" Kalin asked again.
"What can I say," Alex chuckled as he hit his brother on the shoulder. "The galaxy is a strange place where strange things happen all the time. Just think of this as another strange day."
Sandbox
Species: Threldat
Planet: Hecapus
Abilities: Data Conversion, Digital Materialization, Mechanical Intuition, Technological Disassembly, Technological Repairment, Technological Modification, Technological Constructs
Extra: Sandbox's name, as well as the whole idea behind the alien, is inspired by the term "Sandbox" used in gaming. Like how in Sandbox games the player is given the tools to craft his own gameplay, this alien has the power to craft anything with the only limit being his own imagination.
Also, I'm aware that the name Sandbox was used for an official alien, but when I made this Sandbox I never expected that Tom Perkins would make his own concept for the Sandbox alien, so if I decide to use that "Canon" alien, it would have a different name.