S1 EP9: Runs in the Family Part 2
Sup. Last time you saw me, I had just met Victor, a bionic kid from the future who's apparently Logan's son! He came back to basically stop me from becoming a total dick in the future, but somehow also led Holocaust, the future son of Apocalypse, back to our time period. Now that you're caught up, back to the action!
I looked at Victor, my eyes wide.
Trey: "Victor, what have you done?" He put his hands up in defense and exasperation.
Victor: "I don't know! Future you defeated Holocaust years ago, back in my original timeline. I must have done something when I travelled back here."
Logan: "Wait, future Trey? Original timeline? You're from the future?!"
Charity: "You're a bit late there, Loges." I looked at her.
Trey: "You knew? How?" She gestured to her ear.
Charity: "Demon hearing, remember?"
Trey: "So you know about..." She nodded.
Charity: "Don't worry, I won't threaten Victor's existence. But for right now, I think we need to get to the city and see what this guy is all about." I nodded and so did the others.
Ben: "If he's as powerful as his dad, we may need to tread carefully." He activated his watch and turned into Nightshade, then phased into the ground, leaving us.
Trey: "Hey, wait up!" I glowed red and became Stealth, another Kyle form, then phased after him.
Logan: "Oh no way, you guys aren't showing me up!" He zoomed off, Victor following. Charity shook her head, then opened up a portal and stepped through.
...
In the city, Holocaust wasted no time in fucking stuff up with his weaponized planet and his powers. He blasted a car with ice, blasted another car with radiation, used gravity powers to collapse an entire building, then ordered the plant to fire submachine gun rounds at the street, making it split in half.
Holocaust: "You see, citizens of Bellwood? These are the repercussions of siding with an alien and his cohorts, total and complete destruction! He is nothing but a magnet to destruction."
Voice: "That's pretty rude, dog." He turned around and saw me phase in from the ground, "If you're gonna talk shit about me, can you at least write it on the bathroom stalls like every other hater?" He smirked.
Holocaust: "Arsenal. I recall hearing that you still cracked jokes in this time period. I also recall you not being as powerful as you are in the future."
Stealth: "Really? Well, I'd tell you to ask your pops how powerful I am, but he's about six feet under, at the moment." His eyes widened and he roared, charging at me.
Stealth: "Whoops, did I touch a nerve?" I let him reach me, then went Under Wraps and wrapped his fists up in bandages, then slid under him, went Spitter, and blasted him into a pole. He stood up and cracked his neck, completely unfazed.
Holocaust: "That is your best? My father must have been weakened if he was killed by something as weak as you, Sergauson." I gritted my teeth and went UltraTreez.
UltraTreez: "Oh, that's it!" I leaped at him and prepared to punch, only for our fists to collide, sending me sliding back on my heels. I went right back at him though, nailing two hard blows to both sides of his jaw. He stumbled back and I charged at him to follow up, only to be stopped in mid-air by his telekinesis. He increased pressure on my neck, intending to choke me, but I became Gravattack and sent out an orbital wave, making him release me. Then I increased the gravity around him like Kyle taught me, pushing him down into the street, He seemed incapacitated, only to look up at me with a smirk on his face and start walking toward me. My eyes got wide and I increased the gravity even more, literally creating craters in the street, but he kept walking toward me. I groaned and glowed blue, going ultimate, then me and my mini planets all put 100x earth's gravity on Holocaust, finally stopping him.
Ultimate Gravattack: "Seems like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, right? Well, that's because it is." He suddenly turned his whole body into some kind of metal and stood up straight, then immediately charged and rammed me into a building. He caught up to me and grabbed me, then started punching me.
Holocaust: "Metal skin, a mutant ability that I believe you are familiar with due to coming into contact with Colossus." He continued to punch me until I went Ghostfreak and phased through him.
Ghostfreak: "So you have every mutant power too? Just like Apocalypse." He nodded.
Holocaust: "And less restraint. Meaning, I'm not afraid to go all out!" He summoned lightning from the sky and combined it with a plasma disc, then launched it at me. I tried to phase through it, but it hit me anyway and I fell to the ground, smoking. He zoomed up at super speed and kicked me in the side, making me cough up blood. He picked me up, but I opened up my chest and lashed at him with my tentacles, making him drop me, then went Chromastone and nailed him in the stomach with a rainbow charged punch. I went straight through his stomach, but it healed almost instantly.
Chromastone: "Always hated that cheating shit." I powered up a blast and launched it at him, only for him to absorb it into his palm and fire it back, only darker and larger. I held my hands up to absorb it, but he zoomed at me and held my arms back, allowing the blast to hit me and him. He healed, but I shattered into pieces.
Holocaust: "So this is the end, eh, Arsenal? I have to say, I was largely unimpressed." I suddenly reformed as Diamondhead and launched a diamond pillar out of the ground, shooting straight for him. He was caught off guard and it nailed him, sending him flying into the air. Victor zoomed up a building, leaped off, and slammed Holocaust back to the ground. He landed on his chest.
Victor: "Did you really think you could just come to the past and start running things, dude?"
Holocaust: "Oh the contrary, young bionic, it is because of you that I am even here." He blasted Victor off with eye beams, him sliding in next to me.
Diamondhead: "Vic, what is he talking about?"
Holocaust: "The only reason I even discovered this time period is because of Victor Gold. When he traveled back here, I sensed the tachyon residue from his running and traced it back to this time period. You could only imagine my excitement when I discovered a weaker version of Arsenal, here. One that couldn't easily stop me with a snap of a finger."
Victor: "So...this is my fault?" I put a hand on his shoulder.
Diamondhead: "No. There was no way that you could have known, don't beat yourself up about it." I looked back at Holocaust, "And the death planet? What's the deal with that?"
Holocaust: "Oh, that? Just a perk from a little alliance I formed before I left. The creator calls it War World, the most deadly, weaponized planet in existence. It was formed through pure hatred, created for destruction, made to-" He was cut off by double sonic wave blasts from Ben, as Reverb, and Logan.
Reverb Ben: "Yeah, Trey isn't the only one who gets tired of those villain speeches. Nice hit, Loges." They fist bumped.
Logan: "You too, Benster." They both came over to us, followed by Charity stepping through a portal.
Charity: "Hope you didn't cause too much damage before we got here, babes." I smirked.
Diamondhead: "Hey, without me, the cleanup crew wouldn't have jobs." Holocaust recovered and looked at us, smirking.
Holocaust: "The gang's all here, huh? Won't make much of a difference, but your determination is cute." He looked over at Ben and cocked his head to the side, "Ben Tennyson? You still have your Metamatrix at this point in time? I figured you would have lost it by now."
Ben looked confused.
Reverb Ben: "What are you talking about, ugly?"
Holocaust: "In my present, you are a powerless teenager whose spirit was crushed long ago. You failed as a hero, Tennyson. I guess that hasn't happened yet." Ben hung his head.
Reverb Ben: "Oh man.." I put a hand on his shoulder.
Diamondhead: "Don't listen to that cocksmoker, dude. You create your own future. As for you, Holocaust..." I glowed red and became Kuruma.
Kuruma: "I'm predicting one hell of a beat down in your future. Attack, guys!" Victor and Logan both zoomed at him, while Ben slapped his symbol and became El Diablo, then flew at him. Charity and I nodded at each other and charged too. Logan and Victor zoomed around him, creating a tornado, only to be slapped back into a building. Ben and I both launched large fireballs at him, slamming him to the ground, where Charity pulled out hellfire SMG's and let off rounds at him, pushing him deeper into the street. He recovered and opened up a black hole, which started to suck us in, but Logan launched a lightning bolt at it, which immediately closed it, then zoomed at Holocaust and nailed him with his strongest punch, sending him crashing through a few buildings. Before he could recover, I appeared above him and flip kicked him over the head, knocking him toward the street, where Charity wrapped him up and chains and flung him toward Ben, who breathed fire at him. He flew toward Victor, who shot him with a combined force of his eye beams and sonic yelling. He crashed to the ground, smoking. Knowing he'd heal, I kept up the attack by slamming straight into his head and becoming Power House, nailing him with blow after blow after blow to the jaw. I went Crash and spun into his stomach then leaped up, became Cannonbolt and slammed back into him. He eventually pushed me off, but Ben, as Shuriken immediately nailed him over the head with his bo staff, making him stumble. He blasted Ben back, but Charity caught Ben with a cloak that she grew, then set him down and launched chains at Holocaust, lacing them with necroplasm so they burned on contact While Holocaust was chained up, Logan and Victor charged at him. Victor threw a laser sphere, which Logan gave more power. The laser sphere nailed Holocaust dead on and he fell to his knees. I quickly went Alemo and pulled out my golden sword, then plunged it deep into Holocaust's chest, leaving it there.
Alemo: "If the weapon is still in there, he can't heal the wound. You're done, dude."
Holocaust: "Impossible...how could you be so strong together?" I reverted to normal, as did Ben.
Ben: "It's called being a team, dipstick. You bad guys wouldn't know anything about that, though." Suddenly, War World came down and landed on the street, opening up. Out came an alien. He was yellow, had on purple armor, silver pants, and purple boots. His eyes were red.
Alien: "That is quite enough, heroes. I will be taking my partner and leaving." Holocaust weakly looked up.
Holocaust: "Mongul...about time you showed up." I raised an eyebrow.
Trey: "Okay, 'Mongul', I don't know why you decided to team up with buddy, over here, but I can tell you that you two aren't going anywhere." The others nodded in agreement.
Mongul: "If you must have it the hard way, Trey Sergauson." Right after he said that, he zoomed over and nailed me in the nose, cracking it and sending me flying into a car.
Charity, Logan, Ben and Victor: "TREY!" Charity pulled out her hellfire SMG's and shot at Mongul, but he walked right through the rounds and picked her up by the head, slamming her into the street with full force. She immediately reverted to normal.
Logan: "What the fuck is this guy?!" He zoomed at Mongul but he pulled out a cube and threw it on the ground, creating an EMP field, electrocuted Logan as soon as he ran into it. Ben held up his watch, but Mongul's eyes glowed red and the Metatrix immediately went into recharge mode.
Ben: "No way!" Mongul looked at Victor.
Mongul: "You should have warned them, Gold. This is all on you." With that, he picked up Holocaust and walked back into War World, which flew up into earth's atmosphere.
Victor: "This is all my fault." The sky suddenly turned red as tubes came down from the sky and connected to the ground, sucking the nutrition and life out of earth itself. Buildings started to crumble, the ground eroded onto itself, and the trees started to wither away. I stood up, holding my nose.
Trey: "What the fuck is going on?" Victor looked at me.
Victor: "The end of the world." I looked at him, then back up at War World.
A few minutes later, we were all in the Armory 2.0, sitting in the Lair. Logan was sitting in the chair in front of the super computer, Ben, Charity and I next to him, standing up. Victor was sitting on the couch behind us. We were watching the news.
Vicki: "This is Vicki Vale at Bellwood News Headquarters, where we have just gotten word that the earth is literally falling apart. Trees are dying, the sky is turning an ominous shade of red, the air is getting harder and harder to breathe in, and our great city is starting to crumble into nothing. We are also receiving word that this is happening all over the world. Our only question is, why-" She was suddenly cut off by the broadcast switching to a new one. The screen showed static and when it went away, Mongul was there, sitting on a throne.
Trey: "This can't be good."
Mongul: "Attention, people of earth, this is a public service announcement. I am Mongul, an all-powerful being that hails from the future. Now, you may all be noticing that your planet is starting to slowly die as we speak. This is because I have taken the liberty of connecting my War World to the very core of earth and right now, it is helping itself to earth's planetary force, which a planet needs to survive. Soon, your world will be nothing but a dry rock, floating in space. And you all? I hope humans can survive without a planet. HAHAHAHAHAHA!" After that, the news came back on.
Vicki: "Now we know why. Signing off, Bellwood." Logan shut off the monitor and turned to us.
Logan: "This is really fucking bad, guys. Not only is Holocaust still free, but Mongul and his parasite planet are gonna devour the earth! We need to think of a plan." I thought about it for a second, then turned to Victor.
Trey: "Vic, you're from the same time as Holocaust and Mongul, right? Do you know anything about War World?" Victor looked up at me, sadness in his eyes.
Victor: "All I know is that War World is virtually impossible to disconnect from a planet once it has connected. Mongul made a deal with Beerus himself to create the perfect tool of destruction that War World is."
Ben: "Beerus? Who's that?"
Victor: "Not important." I eyed him suspiciously.
Charity: "Well there's gotta be a way to stop it. What if we fly up to it and bust it up before it finishes devouring the earth?"
Victor: "Won't work, I'm afraid. That thing is made of living Vibranium, the strongest symbiotic alloy of my time. It's completely indestructible from the outside." Everybody hung their heads, but I realized something.
Trey: "What about the inside?"
Logan: "Huh? What are you getting at, Treez?"
Trey: "Okay, Vic says that War World is indestructible from the outside, right? Well, what if we go inside War World and fuck it up from the inside."
Charity: "That's a pretty good idea. We know it has an inside because we saw Mongul come out of it. You're a genius, baby!" She pecked my lips and I smiled.
Ben: "Yeah! We could get in there and destroy the planetary core that Mongul was talking about and BAM, no more War World. The world is saved."
Logan: "I'll call the Plumbers and see if they can get us a blueprint of the planet, don't wanna go in blind." He stood up and zoomed off. I nodded.
Trey: "I'll hit up Azmuth, gonna need to know about a few more of my forms if we're gonna beat Holocaust, Mongul and take out War World." I kissed Charity on the cheek and left the Lair, along with Ben. Victor sighed.
Charity: "What's wrong, Victor? We have a plan to stop War World and save the planet, I thought you'd be excited."
Victor: "I'm happy about that, Aunt Chare, believe me. But this isn't even supposed to be happening right now. This is all my fault."
Charity: "Don't say that! There was no way of knowing that you were bringing Holocaust and Mongul here, you just wanted to see Trey." Victor shook his head.
Victor: "I don't know why you and Trey are saying it isn't my fault because it is! When I first started using my bionics, especially my speed, Dad always told me not to do anything that could hurt anyone. Matter of fact, he specifically told me not to time travel. And what did I do?! I disobey him and ruin everything." Charity sighed.
Charity: "Look, Victor, you made a mistake, it's a part of being a hero and definitely a part of growing up. I can't begin to tell you how many times Trey's fucked up with his powers, but he's also done a whole lot of good. As long as you learn from them, mistakes are nothing to be afraid of." She smiled at him and he returned the favor, then they hugged.
Victor: "Thanks, Aunt Chare, you're right."
Charity: "Of course I am. Now, I have a question; am I your aunt because Logan is my brother or because Trey is his brother and I'm Trey's wife?" Victor chuckled.
...
Later, the five of us were in the RV, ready to execute our assault on War World. I was going over the plan with the others one more time.
Trey: "Okay, one more time before you do this thing. Team Arsenal, your assignments?"
Charity: "I'll demonize the RV and use it to get us up there, then use it as a distraction while you guys find a way in. Then once you do, meet up with Logan and Victor." I nodded, then looked at Logan and Victor.
Logan: "Victor and I will phase in through the rear end of the planet and work our way through the south sector, then meet Charity at the capitol mark."
Victor: "I'll let Da-I mean, Logan take the lead in case we run into anything." I nodded again.
Trey: "Good, Ben and I will go straight through the north sector, where Mongul's throne is. We'll do our best to take him down, but the core needs to be destroyed no matter what happens to us. Understood?"
Charity: "Trey..."
Trey: "The earth is more important, love. Understood?"
Charity, Logan and Ben: "Understood." I nodded.
Trey: "Now, let's rock and roll." Charity went demon and placed her hands on the RV. It suddenly burst into flames and looked pretty badass (A/N: Think of the truck from Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, but in RV form.) The others and I were in awe.
Logan: "That is so wicked!"
Ben: "Totally wicked!" I smiled at her.
Trey: "I see you've been practicing. Very cool." Charity blushed a bit, then made the RV fly up and take off into the air toward War World. When we got close, Charity stopped the RV and it floated in front of War World.
Charity: "Now, guys!" I opened the door, jumping out along with Ben, Logan and Victor. Logan and Victor zoomed on to the planet's surface, then zoomed to the back of the planet, phasing in.
Trey: "Ready, Benster?!"
Ben: "Always, Unc!" We fist bumped in the air, then both transformed, him becoming El Diablo and me becoming Void Matter. I turned a section of War World into liquid, allowing us to pass right through to the inside. I poked my head back out.
Void Matter: "Good luck, baby, love you!" Charity blew me a fiery kiss.
Charity: "Good luck to you guys too, love you too!" I brought my head back inside
CHARITY'S POV
After Trey and Ben went inside, I got to work on my end of the plan, which was to distract Mongul from the outside so the others could make a run for the core. I powered the RV up with necroplasm, then had it grow a cloak. After that, I charged at War World, shooting double hellfire machine gun rounds at it. It cracked a bit, but immediately reformed.
Mongul's voice: "This is your attempt at resistance, demon? As futile as it is foolish." War World fired ice at the RV, but I swerved around the blast and fired chains at the planet, wrapping it up and pulling it toward me. It bounced right off the RV, so I quickly landed the RV safely on a roof top and flew up to War World myself. Fire blazed in my eyes and I pulled out my necro-scythes, then started slashing at the planet. It brushed off al of my strikes and blasted me back. I braced myself for it, only flying back a few feet, then went back at it with my scythes. I charged up and tried to drive my scythes directly into the planet, but was immediately electrocuted off.
Charity: "Okay, Victor wasn't kidding." I summoned my hellfire skulls and launched them at War World, them shooting flamethrowers out at the planet. War World easily brushed them off and sent out tendrils to wrap me up and pull me toward it. My eyes blazed up and spikes came out of my body, forcing the tendrils off of me. I then powered up even more and completely covered myself with hellfire and necroplasm, then charged straight into War World, knocking it back a few feet and actually managing to drill a hole into it. I flew inside and landed, panting.
Charity: "YES!" I reverted to normal out of fatigue, "Now to find Logan and Victor." I ran off.
LOGAN'S POV
Victor and I zoomed down the corridors of War World, turning around corner after corner, then stopped at a wall.
Victor: "Another dead end. This place is endless." I looked around.
Logan: "Yeah, it does seem like we've ran into this same wall like six times. At this rate, we're never going to find the core." Victor looked at the wall in front of us for a minute.
Victor: "Should we phase through it? See what's on the other side." I thought about it.
Logan: "It can't hurt to try." Victor nodded and we both vibrated at a super fast level, phasing clean through the wall. Holocaust was standing there, arms crossed.
Holocaust: "On the contrary, Gold, it's gonna hurt a lot." He blasted us with eye beams and we flew back into the wall.
Victor: "Sorry, another bad idea." We stood up.
Logan: "Fuck all that, dude, let's kick his ass!" We both zoomed at him, me leaping up and nailing him with my enlarged fist. He flew back and slammed into a wall.
Holocaust: "My beef is with Arsenal, Overdrive. It would be wise for you to step aside." I smirked,
Logan: "Believe me, beef with Trey isn't a hard thing to develop. But he's my best friend and the fact that you're trying to kill him doesn't sit right with me." I shot an ice blast at him, but he countered by blasting it back toward a wall, then zoomed at me. I braced myself for impact, but looked up to see that Victor had morphed into his upgraded mode and caught Holocaust's fist. He turned around and roundhouse kicked Holocaust across the face, sending him flying, then shot out a doom disc exploded on contact with him. We both fired electric blasts at him, but he recovered and deflected both of them, then had vines trap us to the floor, taking the opportunity to completely engulf us in flames. My eyes glowed blue and I suddenly turned into MY upgraded mode, which looked like Iron Man's Ablative Armor. Then, Victor and I burst out and fired repulsor beams at Holocaust, nailing him spot on and sending him to the ground. I enlarged my fists and powered them up with eye beam energy, then slammed straight into his stomach, slamming him straight through the ground, where he bounced on his head. Victor summoned his energy disc shield and through it, making a net come out of it and wrap around Holocaust, trapping him. Then, Victor summoned a miniature storm over the whole plant and reigned down on Holocaust with lightning strikes. When he was done, I saw Holocaust already healing, so I screamed sonic waves at him, then zoomed straight at him, formed an energy staff, and nailed him across the face with it. He spun around in a circle and Victor bounced off a wall and kicked him in the jaw, dislocating it.
Victor: "Had enough, dude?" Holocaust stood up, blazing with fury and zoomed at Victor, growing claws and impaling him straight in the stomach. Victor spit out blood and fell to the floor.
Logan: "VICTOR!" I powered up and zoomed at Holocaust, only for him to grab my whole head and start draining my energy.
Holocaust: "You Golds are all the same, pathetic and delusional." He punched me in the stomach and slammed me to the ground, face first. He tried to step on me, but I created an electric dome around me so he electrocuted himself, then zoomed away from him. I combined my sonic screams with my eye beams and my electric blast and nailed him spot on, but his wound healed right away and he slammed the ground, sending a rock pillar at me, I punched right through it, then formed energy staffs and both my hands, zooming at him. He swung at me, but I slid under his fist and plunged a staff into his spin, making him double back in pain, giving me a chance to leap up, enlarge my fists again, and slam him head first into the ground. I zoomed over to Victor.
Logan: "You alright, dude?" I quickly blasted a minor ice beam at his wound to stop the bleeding and he stood up with little difficulty.
Victor: "Yeah, just needed to catch my breath." We were suddenly lifted up by our necks and levitated over to Holocaust, who was using his telekinesis to lift us up.
Holocaust: "I've had about enough of you two." He was suddenly hit by a hellfire shotgun shell. We looked up and Charity dropped from the ceiling, in full demon form and holding her shotgun.
Charity: "Sorry I'm late, guys. This is a huge fucking planet." She helped us up.
Logan: "Better late than never, I guess."
Holocaust: "The demon makes no difference, you will still...all..DIE!" He charged at us and we charged right back.
TREY'S POV
Ben and I were walking down a corridor, on the lookout for anything threatening. Well, I was. Ben was just staring at his watch with a sad look on his face.
Trey: "What's up, Benster? You keep looking at the watch." He looked up at me and sighed.
Ben: "I'm just thinking about what Holocaust said. What if he wasn't lying? What if I actually mess up so bad with the Metatrix that I lose it or get it taken away from me? And what Logan said earlier about me being always second best doesn't help either." I face-palmed.
Trey: "Fucking Logan. Look, Ben, if anyone knows about the pressure that comes with having these powers, it's me. When I first found the Omnitrix last summer, I felt immediate pressure to be the best hero I could be. That doubled when I became a Doppelganger. The best thing I can tell you is not to worry about it." Ben looked at me, confused.
Ben: "Huh? How can I not worry about it when I think of it, every time I look at my wrist?"
Trey: "You wanna know why I quip and joke around so much? The real reason?"
Ben: "I have always been curious."
Trey: "It's because I'm fucking terrified. Not so much of dying because I know I'm more powerful than 90% of my enemies. But, I'm terrified of failing and letting everybody down. The pressure combined with the fact that these villains keep getting more and more powerful could make someone extra paranoid, so I joke around to lighten up my mood."
Ben: "Wow, I never thought the great Trey Sergauson ever got scared. It makes sense, though." I nodded and we continued on until we got to a huge room with a throne and a large glowing sphere that was hanging from the ceiling. Ben's watch suddenly showed a holographic exclamation point.
Ben: "My watch is picking up a HUGE amount of planetary radiation. This must be the core." I nodded.
Trey: "Bet. I'll radio the others to let them know we found it." I pulled out my phone and set it to the private Team Arsenal frequency, "Arsenal to Overdrive, come in." No response.
Ben: "That can't be good. Try Charity." I nodded.
Trey: "Arsenal to Hellspawn, come in, Hellspawn." Again, no response. "This isn't good, anything could've happened to them on this death trap."
Voice: "Yet, you thought it was a good idea to bring them here. I question your judgement even after all this time, boy." I was expecting Mongul or Holocaust, but out of the shadows came...RYAN?! My eyes got wide.
Trey and Ben: "Artillery.."
Ryan: "That's right, children, the ultimate life form has returned and this time, there will be no escape." After the initial shock, I put on a serious face.
Trey: "How are you even alive, Gold, Logan stabbed you straight through the chest." Ryan chuckled.
Ryan: "You see, it's funny you should mention that, Trey, my boy. When my dear son stabbed me with the spellcaster's staff while I was in my Celestialsapien form, something happened. Sure, I died, but I could still feel my spirit close to my body, just waiting for an opportunity to reconnect with my body."
Ben: "Where are you going with this, dude?" Ryan glared at him.
Ryan: "Silence, child. As I was saying, I was waiting for an opportunity. One that I thought would never come...until I felt a sudden death and recreation of millions of lives." My eyes got wide.
Trey: "He's talking about when Cash destroyed the earth and I used Alien X to reform it." Ryan pointed at me.
Ryan: "Bingo. When you did that, it gave me the perfect opportunity to reconnect my body and spirit. So I guess thanks are in order, Arsenal." I tightened my fist.
Trey: "You would think that after getting a second chance at life, you would change your ways. But nope, here you are, working with more assholes."
Ryan: "You mean the mutant and the alien warlord? Spoils from my trip to the future that I took a while back. Far better than my Negative 9, don't you think? Speaking of, Mongul, Holocaust! Bring our guests to me." After he said that, Mongul walked in, carrying Logan and Victor. Holocaust followed, carrying Charity, who had some kind of muzzle on her. I gritted my teeth and looked at Ben. He nodded.
Trey: "I get it, you're too much of a bitch to take me on yourself so you had to go form another team. Makes perfect sense." Ryan chuckled.
Ryan: "It's that same ignorance that'll cost you your planet, boy. You can't take on all three of us by yourself."
Ben: "He doesn't have to. That's right, liver spots, I'm a shifter now too." He held up his watch. Ryan didn't bat an eyelash.
Ryan: "Cute. Mongul, kill the Tennyson boy. Holocaust, time for you and I to avenge your father."
Mongul and Holocaust: "Gladly." They dropped the others and advanced toward us. I looked at Ben.
Trey: "You're gonna be on your own for this one, dude. You got this."
Ben: "I won't let you down, Trey." We fist bumped and my eyes glowed red, while Ben slammed his watch. Ben became Plant Guy and wrapped vines around Mongul, then jumped up and used them to fling him to the other side of the room. Holocaust charged at me and swung but my body unleashed a red light and I caught his fist as Boltneck, then charged up and socked him in the face, knocking him back into the throne.
Boltneck: "How about you take a seat, bro. You look tired." Ryan slammed his watch and became Shocksquatch, then charged and nailed me in the stomach, making me slide back on my heels. I recovered quickly and blasted an electric beam at him, but he easily absorbed it and became Chromastone, then blasted a rainbow beam at me. I put up my arms to block it, then became Godspeed and zoomed at him, kicking him across the face when I got to him. He stumbled back and I landed, then became Nanomech and blasted him back with an ion beam, knocking him completely back against the wall. I flew after him, but Holocaust pulled me back with his telekinesis, then started spinning me around, but I became Ventrilosquid and countered with a telepathic push, making him let me go, then used my powers to lift up the throne and launch it at him. He punched right through it and blasted me back with eye beams, sending me flying to Ryan, who became Atomix and slammed me to the ground. He tried to blast me again, but I became Igneo and made a rock pillar come up from under him and launch him into the air. I built up rocks around my fists and punched him as hard as I could when he fell back down. I became Cannonbolt, rolled up, and charged at him, but he became Alemo and smacked me back with his sword. I bounced off the ceiling and became Big Chill, then phased through the wall, breaking back through as Rath. I charged at Holocaust, ducking under an eye beam, then elbowed him in the face, dazing him. He stumbled back and I drop-kicked him in the chest, knocking the wind out of him. I became Firecracker and nailed him in the face with hundreds of shotgun punches, then jumped up, became Goku, and finished him off with a Super Kamehameha blast. Of course he healed and came at me with sonic screams, sending me back a bit, but I became Boombox and countered with my own sonic waves, easily overpowering his. He stumbled back and I flew at him, becoming Wildmutt when I got to him and slashing at his face multiple times. He pushed me off, but I became Web Head, shot a web line at him and pulled him up to me, slamming him down as Power House. I became Astrodactyl and wrapped my energy whips around his arms, then flew up into the air, pulling him with me. Once I was high enough, I let go, sending him flying, then became Biohazard and nailed him with to boo-yah blasters. He fell to the ground, smoke coming from his body. I landed and charged at him, but he suddenly turned his arms into spinning saw blades, forcing me to fall back to keep from being hit.
Biohazard: "Your dad could never do that."
Holocaust: "Pretty sure he could. From what I was told, he was kicking your butt so bad that he didn't need to use all his powers." I smirked.
Biohazard: "Maybe if he had, you wouldn't have to sit around on Father's Day while all the other little supervillains went to baseball games."
Holocaust: "OH THAT'S IT!" He charged at me with his saw blade arms, but I turned my arms into twin battle axes and deflected them.
Biohazard: "New build, call them the Bad Axes. Get it, Holocaust? Huh, Huh? Do ya get it?"
Holocaust: "SHUT UP!" He charged at me with amazing speed and socked me in the stomach, sending me flying up and making me slam into the ceiling. I became Teleportal and teleported behind him, then became Swampfire and nailed him with a huge fireball to the spine, knocking him back. He recovered and came at me with spear arms, but I became Smoxe and became smoke, easily dodging his spears, then became solid and transformed into Scorch, reigning down on him with fire bullets and fire rings. He got burned to a crisp and before he could heal, I became Sandbox, turned my body into a huge sandstorm, and completely engulfed him in it. I became solid again and stood in front of him.
Holocaust: "Pathetic attempt, Trey Sergauson. What is a little sand going to do?" I shrugged.
Sandbox: "Nothing, by itself. But if I heat it up.." I glowed yellow, becoming a combination of Celsius and Scorch. I was a being that was one-half pure fire and one-half pure ice with a black line going down the middle. I had yellow eyes, a red belt, and a yellow Ultimatrix symbol. I finished off as a form I call Equinox and shot a massive flamethrower at Holocaust, making the sand on him start to melt together, slowing him down.
Equinox: "It starts to melt. Now, if I keep heating it up, it'll turn into glass and we wouldn't want you being as see through as you already are. But, if I were to add intense cold." I held up my hand on the ice side of my body and fired a powerful ice beam at him, freezing the melted sand and keeping it in a melted state, effectively trapping Holocaust in a statue-like form, "Not only does the sand stay melted, it creates a comfy little home for you, dude. Maybe your dad should have sent you to science class instead of being, you know, dead."
Holocaust was furious, but since he was trapped in the sand, he couldn't move.
Equinox: "Sorry, pal, you can't heal out of sand, it's not hurting you. Which means..." I reverted to normal, "You're done."
I turned my back to Holocaust and looked at Ryan, who had reverted to normal too.
Trey: "Some teammate you are, you stood and watched while your partner got owned."
Ryan: "If you believe I cared for that mutant freak, you are sorely mistaken. I used him for his connection to Mongul and War World. Thanks to my expert planning, your world will perish and there's nothing you or your protégé can do about it. Face it, Arsenal, I win this time." He became Humongousaur, then Ultimate Humongousaur.
Ultimate Humoungousaur Ryan: "Now all that's left is to take care of you." He ran at me, shooting torpedoes, but I side-stepped all of them, then became Spidermonkey and shot webbing in his eyes, blinding him.
Spidermonkey: "If it's a battle of ultimates you want, dude..." I became Ultimate Godspeed, who was jet black with white streaks across his arms, legs and neck. The lightning bolts tuned snow white and my eyes turned blue.
Ultimate Godspeed: "That's what you'll get." Before he could even blink, I had zoomed to the top of his head and kicked him in the eye. He yelled in pain and tried to grab me, but by the time he got his hands to the top of his head, I had already zoomed off of him and was standing in front of him, "Too slow!" He growled and became Fasttrack, then Ultimate Fasttrack, then we zoomed at each other. Unfortunately for him, I was faster and easily dodged his strike, then zoomed behind him and roundhouse kicked him in the back of the head, sending him flying into the core. When he hit it, the planet started to rumble.
Ultimate Godspeed: "I bet you would've stayed dead if you knew this effortless ass kicking was in store for you."
Ultimate Fasttrack Ryan: "You haven't won, yet, Sergauson. You aren't the only one that's learned new tricks." He glowed orange and when the glow faded, he was Kuruma.
Kuruma Ryan: "The power of the cursed beast from another dimension! And unlike you, boy, I WON'T HOLD BACK!" He unleashed a HUGE fire wave that blasted me back and cracked the core container. I hit the wall and reverted to normal.
Trey: "I gotta stop getting blown up." I looked up and Ryan was charging straight at me, barely giving me enough time to dodge.
Trey: "Easy there, dude, you almost hit me." He charged right back at me and this time, nailed me in the stomach.
Kuruma Ryan: "I am SICK of your childish quips! You have made a mockery of me for the LAST TIME!" He powered up and sent a HUGE flamethrower from his mouth, but I closed my eyes and glowed yellow, erupting from the glow as Prometheus.
Prometheus: "Come on, how can I not mock you when you use such cliché bad guy lines?" I flew at him and easily nailed him in the stomach, pushing him to the planet's core. He cracked the container completely and the core started to glow.
Kuruma Ryan: "You fool! You've doomed us all!" I smirked.
Prometheus: "Hey, if I'm going down, I'm going down joking on your ugly ass." He roared and we charged at each other.
...
Ben dodged a hit from Mongul as Inertia, then zoomed around him and tried to attack from behind. Mongul easily caught Ben's fist though, then kicked him into a wall.
Mongul: "Poor little Ben Tennyson, wants to be a hero. Too bad he isn't even powerful enough to beat me! Face it, Changeling, without Arsenal, you're nothing." Ben gritted his teeth and slapped his symbol, charging out of the glow as UltraBen. He punched Mongul with all his strength, actually managing to send him flying.
UltraBen: "I'm done with being second best. I'm gonna beat you, and I'm gonna beat you all by myself!" He charged at Mongul again, his laser vision at full blast. Mongul deflected the beams with the palm of his hand, then backhanded Ben back, only for Ben to use the wall as leverage and fly straight at him, punching him in the jaw. Mongul stumbled back, rubbing his jaw.
Mongul: "This form of yours...it's Kryptonian." Ben ripped off a piece of the wall and rammed straight into Mongul with it, smashing him up against a pillar.
UltraBen: "Not exactly sure what you mean, dude, but you should shut up and take this butt whooping like a man." Mongul gritted his teeth and charged at Ben, who blew his super breath to slow him down and uppercutted him in the chin, making him fly up, slam into the ceiling, and come back down, where Ben nailed him in the stomach, He flew through the wall and out to where Ryan and I were fighting. I noticed him as I dodged Ryan's fist.
Prometheus: "You good, Benji?" He nodded.
UltraBen: "Yeah, you?" I smirked.
Prometheus: "Peachy." Ben nodded and flew straight into Mongul, pushing him through another wall.
Kuruma Ryan: "You take this as some sort of game, Arsenal." He nailed me in the face, but I quickly recovered and kicked him over the head.
Prometheus: "Well when you've kicked as much ass as I have, you start to get pretty confident." I blasted him with a radioactive ki blast and he stumbled back.
Kuruma Ryan: "Your cockiness shall be your downfall!" He charged at me and suddenly vanished, reappearing behind me and stabbing me through the spine with his claws. I spit out blood and started to fall to the ground. Before I landed, Ryan zoomed over to me and slashed at me with his tail, sending me flying into the core. When I hit it, the planet started to rumble immensely. I stood up weakly and even though it was obvious that I was hurt, I smirked.
Prometheus: "That all you got?" That pissed him off and he glowed red, sprouting two more tails. From what Kyle told me, that spells trouble. Ryan grew in size and his aura got even more powerful.
Three-Tailed Kuruma Ryan: "ARSENAL, THE TIME OF DESTRUCTION HAS COME!" He slammed straight into me, making my whole body burn and causing a crater in the floor, then proceeded to clobber my body with flame punches.
Prometheus: "SOLAR FLARE!" I blinded him, then managed to kick him off of me, but he recovered in mid-air.
Three-Tailed Kuruma Ryan: "IT WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER TO ACCEPT DEATH INSTEAD OF FIGHTING IT, BOY!"
Prometheus: "I could say the same for accepting your baldness, but you insist on wearing those phony toupees." He roared and charged at me, but my eyes turned dark black and I caught his fist as my arm grew. I glowed red and became Genocide.
Genocide: "Didn't wanna have to break this out, dude, but you're getting a little too hype." I turned my other hand into an Ultimate Alien X one and punched him back easily.
Three-Tailed Kuruma Ryan: "YOUR TRUE FORM, I ASSUME! I AM BOTH UNIMPRESSED AND ANGRY THAT YOU THINK THIS WILL BE ENOUGH TO DEFEAT ME!" I smirked.
Genocide: "It's never failed me before." I grew Ultimate Astrodactyl wings and flew at him with Ultimate Atomix hands, dodging his attack and nailing him with a backhand across the face, sending him spiraling in the air. He recovered and duplicated himself into 4 of him, all of them charging at me. I ducked under one of them, then grabbed another one and used him to slam into a third one. I turned my right arm into an Atomic-X one and my left one into a Feedback antennae, then connected the antennae to Ryan's body.
Three-Tailed Kuruma Ryan: "NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I drained all the cursed beast energy from his body, leaving him in his normal form.
Genocide: "Hey, wanna know something funny, bro? This is exactly what you did to kill me, which in turn made me a Doppelganger. You know what that means? This whole thing is your fault! Isn't that hilarious?" I landed on the ground and threw Ryan down.
Ryan: "This isn't over, Sergauson. I still have a million other forms to kill you with!" He held up his Ultimatrix, but I chuckled and held up my Atomic-X arm, then levitated his watch off of his arm.
Genocide: "Yeah, sorry, you cause too much trouble to keep this soooo I'm gonna take this from you, if you don't mind." I levitated his Ultimatrix into the air, then used my reality warping powers to place it in a pod, then made the pod vanish.
Ryan: "NOOOOOOO!" My eyes glowed and I reverted to normal, then socked Ryan in the face, knocking him out cold.
Trey: "That's for killing me, you dick." I jogged over to the others and woke them up.
Logan: "Ugh, Treez? What happened? Is that my dad?" I looked over at Ryan's knocked out body, then back at Logan.
Trey: "Long story. Right now, we have to get the hell out of here before the planet explodes."
Victor: "Right." He and Logan zoomed off.
Charity: "Wait, where's Ben?" My eyes got wide.
Trey: "Shit, he's probably still dealing with Mongul."
Charity: "You let him take him on, alone?! Shouldn't you help him?" I shook my head.
Trey: "This one's gotta be him, babes. If he doesn't do this by himself, he'll never have the confidence to be a hero. Besides, going Genocide took a lot out of me, I'm spent."
Charity: "You went Genocide? Treezy, that's so dangerous!" I rolled my eyes.
Trey: "Can you lecture me AFTER we escape the planet that's about to fucking explode?!"
Charity: "Right." She opened up a necro-portal and helped me get through it.
Trey: "Good luck, Ben."
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BEN'S POV
I hope Trey and the others got off the planet safely, this place is about to blow. I can't leave until I take care of Mongul. I have to prove to myself and to everyone that I'm not just Trey's sidekick, I'm a hero too!
I punched Mongul in the mouth and he stumbled back, smirking.
Mongul: "Arsenal has succeeded in stopping my War World, but leaving you to stop me was the biggest mistake that he could've made. Your time is running out." I charged at him and shot my eye beams at him, only for him to deflect them and grab me by the neck, then slam me to the floor, head-first, "That watch has done nothing but give you a false sense of heroism, Ben Tennyson. All you are and all you are ever going to be is a little boy with powers that he is far from deserving. You are no hero, Changeling, you are a disgrace to your friends."
Maybe he's right. I've had the Metatrix for three weeks and the only time I've ever saved the day is with Trey. Maybe I'm not cut out to be a hero.
UltraBen: "You...you're right." At that moment, the watch timed out and reverted me to normal.
Ben: "I'm no hero." Mongul smirked.
Mongul: "Glad you see things my way." He picked me up by my arm and placed me in a container with the Metatrix trapped (like Vilgax did). At this point, the planet was blowing up at different parts.
Ben: "What are you gonna do with me?" He walked over to a computer.
Mongul: "Although you are a failure, the device on your wrist is still of incredible power. I can redirect it's energy and use it as a new planetary core. You, however, will burn up in the process." I sighed and hung my head.
Ben (thinking): "I failed. All the work that Trey and the others did will be for nothing, all because of me. Some hero Changeling turned out to be. I was a better hero as Impact. Wait, that's it! If I can access some of my Anodite power, I can get out of here." I closed my eyes.
Mongul: "That's right, Ben Tennyson, pray. You will need to in you last moment-" He was cut off by my eyes glowing blue and a blue mana beam escaping from my right hand. It blasted the computer, releasing me. The computer started beeping.
Computer: "Power rerouting failed. Due to tampering with the planetary core, War World will combust in T-minus 10 seconds." Mongul's eyes got wide.
Mongul: "NOOOOOO! Curse that infernal Trey Sergauson! His tampering with the core has ruined me! He is a thorn in my side in any timeline." He was suddenly blasted from behind by my mana beam, right before my Anodite powers wore off.
Ben: "Guess it runs in the family." I took off running toward a huge hole in the planet, slamming my watch as I did. In a burst of light, I became Merlin and flew out of there, right before the planet blew up completely.
Mongul: "TENNYSONNNNNN!" I flew down and landed in a crater before reverting to normal.
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TREY'S POV
I had gotten worried for Ben until I saw a flash of green light from the sky. I smiled as I saw Ben, as Merlin, fly down and land in the crater.
Charity: "HE DID IT!" Logan shook his head, smiling.
Logan: "I can't believe it." Ben stumbled out of the crater, his watch in recharge mode.
Ben: "Oh yeah, who's your hero!" I smiled widely.
Trey: "BENJI!" I ran to him and we jumped into each other, giving each other a body bump like the athletes do.
Trey: "I knew you could do it, dude. Never had a doubt in my mind for a second." He smiled.
Ben: "Thanks, Trey. For always believing in me." He smirked over at Logan, "Who's second best now, Loges?"
Logan grumbled and folded his arms.
Logan: "I'm still faster." We laughed at that.
...
Later, we were all in the living room of the Armory, ready to see Victor off.
Victor: "Well, guys, it's been a blast. Thanks for saving my future, even though I was the one that messed it up in the first place." I chuckled.
Trey: "Don't sweat it, Vic, I fuck up all the time. Tell your dad I said what's up." He laughed a bit and hugged me.
Victor: "Will do." He moved on to Charity.
Charity: "Remember what I said, Victor. Mistakes are essential to growing up."
Victor: "You always did give the best advice." They hugged and he moved on to Ben.
Ben: "I guess I should thank you, Vic."
Victor: "Really? For what?"
Ben: "If you had never brought War World here by accident, I would have never got the confidence to become the hero I knew I could be. So thank you."
Victor: "You were always a hero, Ben. Even before the Metatrix." They hugged. Finally, he moved on to Logan.
Logan: "I..um..yeah." Victor suddenly hugged him.
Victor: "See ya soon." With that, he waved at us one more time and sped off. After that, we all went and sat on our huge couch.
Logan: "That kid was pretty weird." Charity and I looked at each other and burst out laughing, "What?"
Trey: "I guess he gets its from his dad." We continued laughing.
The End.
Holy shit, did this take me a long ass time to finish. I bet you all thought I was dead or had quit writing this. Fear not though, I've just been busy. I recently moved into an apartment with my girlfriend so that's been taking up a lot of my time. I've also been accepted into Clark Atlanta University to play basketball for them next school year so yippee for me! Next step is the NBA so look out for ya boy in about two years. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this and I'll see you next time, which will hopefully be soon. Oh and congrats to my boy, King Delorbe on graduating high school. I've known him for years now and wish him the best in his future. Peace!
