Hello my fellow Ben 10 fans and welcome to the new chapter of Ben 10: The Alternate Version! This chapter mostly tells about Vanessa's past, who is her cousin, how The Hourglass Symbol on her chest works, how she got the scar on her face and why she runaway from home, so sit back and enjoy the show...also I don't own anything except my OC's
NOW LETS GET ON WITH THE STORY!
The story starts with Hellbound and Ben running into a nearby barn as Ben stops running and looks behind him to make sure that no one followed him, while Hellbound gives him a confused look…Well it was hard to tell, since Hellbound doesn't really have a face.
Hellbound: "Why did you help me?" she asked, causing him to him to sigh as he turns around and gives her a shrug.
Ben: "I don't know, you reminded me of myself" He said, before looking at her up and down. "In more ways than one"
Hellbound: "Yeah. I guess you can shape-shift into an alien too"
Ben: "Technically, I'm a whole bunch of aliens. That's the cool part" He said with a smirk, while Vanessa only gives him a sad whine as she "Looks" at her paws.
Hellbound: "Nothing about this is cool"
Ben: "No? The super strength, the flying?"
Hellbound: "I hate flying."
Ben: "Hate it or more less suck at it" He said with a smirk, causing Vanessa to blush as she looks away.
Hellbound: "H-hey its not my fault! I just got my powers like 2 months ago!" She screamed at him, causing him to chuckle as he raises his hands in surrender.
Ben: "Okay, okay ,fair enough. So, what are you exactly? And how do you the whole shape-sifting thing"
He said with a curious look on his face, causing Vanessa to gush internally at how cute his face look, before raising her paw towards The Hourglass Symbol on her chest and pressed it down. Causing Ben to cover his eyes as a big flash of purple appeared and once it dismissed, we see Vanessa giving him a sad look as she walks over to a pile of hay and sat down on it, not noticing that Ben was starring at her with a blush on his face.
Vanessa: "Well, um… this is pretty long story, so let me start at the beginning. All my life I always thought I had a normal life, I had weird but loving parents, had an annoying but adorable little sister, an 16-yearb old ex-convict cousin who gave up his days of being a criminal, went to school and got more or less good grades, etc…but then one day, I accidently found out that my mom just to be a Plumber and not the kind that fixed plumbing, I meant the kind that stops aliens baddies from tearing the universe apart"
She said with a loud sigh as she laid down on the pile of hay and stared at the ceiling with a look of regret on her face as Ben walked over to her and sat down close to her.
Vanessa: "When I found out about her being a retired space cop, obviously I freaked out. My own Mother that I thought was a sweet and fragile women, turns out to be a badass gun carrying space cop that stopped alien dictators without breaking a sweat! And the worst part about it is that she never told me or my little sister Sabrina about this! After I confronted to her about this, we had a big fight with Dad backing her up and she stormed off, a few hours later I heard a phone ringing and when I went downstairs to pick it up. I saw my Dad leaning on his desk crying on the floor, when I asked him "What's wrong?" h-he told me t-that…Mom died in a car crash" She said with tears in her eyes as she sat up on the pile of hay and saw Ben giving her an apologetic frown.
Ben: "I'm sorry for bringing up bad memories"
Vanessa: "No, no, its okay, I-I'm actually to glad that I have someone to talk to about this" She said with a reassuring smile on her face, before turning into a frown as she sat up and walked a few feet away from Ben. "After that night, nothing was the same ever again. After we had Mom's funeral, my Dad just couldn't keep it together, he started having nightmares everyday, he couldn't go to work and got fired, the bills were piling on and we were all starving to death, but that's not worst part. The worst part was when my father, the man that was supposed to protect and love me…hit me"
She said with a choke sob, causing Ben to go wide eye at this as he saw her shakily taking off her Hat, glasses and The Hourglass Symbol and placed it on the ground, before continuing on with her life story.
Vanessa: "H-he hit me…he hit his own flesh and blood, he started screaming at me and telling me t-that it was all my fault that she was gone. That bastard told me that if me and mom never had that ugly fight, she wouldn't have stormed off and will still be alive! The constant abuse was going for a least 3 weeks, before I decided that I had enough and decided to call the only person I know that could have helped us and even though he did some bad things in his past, I knew that he will NEVER hurt me or my sister. I went to my cousin Michael's house and told him what has been happening, he was angry at what my so called father was doing to me and told me to pack up all of my stuff, grab Sabrina and get back to his place, while he sort things out with an old friend of his, I had no idea who he was referring to, but the serious look on his face told me that now wasn't the time for questions. So I quickly ran back into my old home and sneaked in through the window of my room and started packing up all the things that I could bring with me, once I was done I ran into my sister's room and saw her sleeping with fresh tears in her eyes, Luckily Sabrina never suffered from our "Dad's" beatings as I always told her to lock herself into her room and cover her ears, but even though she may have been spared of our Fathers abuse, it doesn't mean that she wont cry every time she sees her big confident sister covered with bruises, tears and blood. Anyway I woke up her up and told her that I was leaving and I wanted her to come with me, she looked at me for a few moments with the look of confusion/relief on her eyes, before eagerly saying "Yes" as she started to pack up all of her stuff. Once she was finished I picked her up and was about to ran out of my house, when suddenly my Dad appeared behind me and grabbed my arm and started pulling me inside, I protested and yelled at him to let me and my sister go, but all he did was look at me with a glare on his face, before pulling out a switch blade from one of his pockets and stabbed it right at my eye"
She said, while barely holding back the sobs out of her mouth as Ben quickly comes in and hugs her by the waist, causing her to look up to him in shock (I forgot to mention that she is shorter then ben) before hugging him back as she continued on with her story, while crying on his shoulder.
Vanessa "I screamed in pain as he roughly grabbed Sabrina and threw me out of the house saying "That he disowns me as a daughter and hoped that I will die on the outside world" while I just stood there with a shock look on my face, I wanted to barge in there and grab Sabrina out of that old man's cold hands, but I knew that it wasn't the right time. So I give my sister one last look, before running off to my cousins house and I almost made it pass his driveway, but then fell down due to blood loss as I slowly started going unconscious, but not without seeing a flash of green as I finally went unconscious. A few hours later I woke up and was greeted with the sight of an concern little grey frog wearing a green robe, naturally I screamed in fear and backed away from him in fright as I was starting to hyperventilate when suddenly Mikey rushed in and told me to calm down and take deep breaths. After I calm down from my little panic attack he told me that the thing's name was Azmuth and he was an alien from a far away planet, I gave him a skeptical look and told him to stop playing jokes and find my shoe so I squash the little devil, when suddenly I looked in the mirror and saw that my eye was completely healed…well except for the big scar of course, but I'm not complaining. Mikey told me that Azmuth found me passed out on his drive way with a pool of blood around me and told me that the little alien frog used his alien technology to partially heal my eye, when I heard this I immediately started apologizing to the little fro-I mean Azmuth, but all he did was giving me a small smile and told me that it was only natural that I will freak out over his appearance and said that he was not angry at me. I sigh in relief at this as Mikey walked up to me and told me what happened, causing me to get tears in my eyes as I told him everything that happened up to the point where I got unconscious, he was angry and sad that the bastard still has Sabrina but was glad that I escape in time, I asked him "What were we going to do now?" when suddenly Azmuth stepped in and told me that where he steps in. I gave him a confused look, while he only grins at my confused demeanor as Mikey stands up and pulls out a small circular disk-like device from his pockets and plants it my chest, causing me to blush madly as I was about to angrily scream at him, when suddenly a big flash occurred and I was suddenly transformed into a monster"
She said as she stops crying and reluctantly pulls away from Ben's embrace as she dries her tears and gives the young omnitrix wielder a thankful smile.
Vanessa: "After quickly transforming back to normal, my cousin told me that The Hourglass Symbol on my chest was called The Zennatrix and whenever it was attached to my body, I have the power to transform into ten different aliens! And that wasn't all, Azmuth told me that he created two other devices that has the same power, The Omnitrix and The Anamatrix. I Asked where were the other two and he told me that some arrogant, immature and reckless teenager had The Omnitrix" She said, before immediately regretting what she said as she noticed Ben's annoyed look. "Oh, sorry"
Ben: "Nah, its okay I'm used to it, go on"
Vanessa: "Anyway I asked where the other one was and he told me that Mikey has it, I was a bit-no VERY surprised about this since he was the last person I will ever expect to have this kind of power, but apparently I was wrong as I saw him rolling up his sleeve, revealing a small yellow glove-like device with a small hourglass symbol on top. Azmuth told me that he made The Anamatrix and The Zennatrix to be more unique than the Omnitrix, like for example The Anamatrix had unique samples from aliens from a parallel earth that cannot be scanned by The Omnitrix or The Zennatrix. The Zennatrix is sort of like a power boost that gives random aliens something that their species doesn't naturally has, like for instance Hellfire's generating red fire instead of orange, Narrow Skull's red energy powers and Hellbound's ability to speak"
Ben: "How come Azmuth never told me about this?"
Vanessa: (Shrugs) "He probably knew that you will try to convince him to give you The Anamatrix and The Zennatrix, instead of letting an ex-criminal and his abused cousin have it"
Ben: "Hmmm, fair point"
Vanessa: "Anyway Azmuth told me that Mikey called him and told him to give me The Zennatrix so I have something to defend myself against the cruel world. At first I was surprise about this, because honestly I thought that I was going to be living with him, but he told me that there was a slight chance that my Dad will come here and he didn't want to risk it. I agreed with him and thanked him and Azmuth for all what they done to me and for giving me The Zennatrix...even though I had no idea how to use it, also I told them that I will hideout in Grover's Mill and find a place to call my own and right before I left, Mikey hugged me and told me that whenever I needed him, send out a distress signal with The Zennatrix. I told him and Azmuth goodbye, before venturing off into the world and the rest is history"
She said, while letting out a loud sigh as she turns around notice that Ben was starring with the look of astonishment.
Vanessa:"But enough about me, I want to know how you got The Omnitrix" She said, causing Ben to smirk at her as he started telling her all of his adventures.
So there you go, also I will like to apologize if you guys think this chapter is too long and depressing, but I wanted Vanessa to have a dark backstory like most superheroes does
Anyway as always, I will catch you all later
