City Streets
Outside of Swift's destroyed apartment building we find Ben with his family along his partner Rook and Swift. In front of them is Khyber the huntsman, one of Ben's most smartest and dangerous villains he's ever faced. The huntsman has brought along two of Albedo's mutated hybrid creatures. These beasts have the base body of what appears to be a Vulpimancer along with the heads. However the heads almost look like the heads of Vulpimancers who are in the Null Void. The mouths however are stretched out looking almost like a muzzle of a Loboan with the split going down the middle.
Their front arms look like Vulpimancer arms but with the claws of a Loboan, sharp spines also appear to be on the arms of the creatures. Going down the spines of the creatures are copper looking plugs along with two sharp spikes on the shoulders of the creatures. The back legs of the creature look like normal Vulpimancer back legs but with long blade like spines that almost looked like Kickin Hawk's arm blades. Both of the creatures had long tails that appeared to look like an evolved Vulpimancer tail with large rounded spikes similar to a Polar Manzardill's back spines.
"As you can see the crab decided to create something more akin to me this time around" Khyber said looking at each of the creatures next to him
"I've already defeated plenty of those mutant monsters before so two more aren't going to stop me" Ben replied
"Oh we'll see about that Tennyson, we'll see about that" Khyber said before making that whistling sound he makes
The two creatures let out a loud howl/roar before slowly moving forwards towards Ben and the injured Necrofriggian. Both of them immediately turned invisible catching Ben off guard.
"I can't see them" Ben said looking around for the creatures
Rook transformed his prototool into a heat sensor and looked for the creatures. When he found one next to Ben, it was too late for him to do anything to stop it.
"Ben WATCH OUT!!!" Rook yelled trying to warn Ben
Before Ben could do anything one of the creatures reappeared and pounced on top of Ben, pinning him down on the ground
"Get off of me" Ben said as he struggled to get free
The creature made a hissing sound as it aimed its tail at Ben's face, suddenly a long and sharp black needle appeared out of the end of tail blade
"Great, you've got Merlinisapien in you" Ben said sarcastically
"You'd be surprised what else they've gotten in them" Khyber said with a grin on his face
The creature looked over at Khyber who gave it a signal to let it finish Ben off. Before it could the injured Necrofriggian rammed his body into the creature knocking it off of Ben. As the creature tried to recover from that, the Necrofriggian unleashed its freeze breath. Unlike the freeze breath of Eira and Lucia, this freeze breathe appeared to be red looking flames. The flames hit the creature both burning it and freezing it at the same time.
"Y…You won't hurt him" the Necrofriggian said weakly
Ben got up and stopped the Necrofriggian before it could fall over
"Take it easy there" Ben told the Necrofriggian
"C…Can't, must s…save father" the Necrofriggian said
Ben was still confused by the Necrofriggian and the way it was acting, why was it calling him father? Ben wasn't its father Albedo was, so why did it all of a sudden imprint on him. For now Ben was going to help this Necrofriggian and stop Khyber from taking him back to Albedo along with Eira and Lucia. Speaking of the girls, they were dealing with the other creature. The two hadn't transformed yet, they were in the car frozen in fear of the creature before them.It reminded the both of them of the monster that hunted them and chased the two of them all the way to Luna Lobo. Neither Eira and Lucia had overcome their fear of these mutated monsters.
"Papa help us" Eira pled in fear
"Save us" Lucia said with tears in her eyes
The creature with its claws ripped the door of the car off as it batted Isis and Diana off to the sides. Those two long spikes jutted out of its shoulders revealing two long spider like legs. They looked like the legs of Ben's form of an evolved Arachnichimp or ultimate Spidermonkey. Before the creature could attack the girls, two large red arms grabbed the creature and threw it backwards. It was Looma who had saved the girls from the creature.
"Do not worry little ones, I will keep you safe" Looma told the girls
The creature got up and shot out a long green tongue from its mouth that stuck to one of Looma's lower arms. The tongue almost looked like an Incursion tongue but it also looked like the tongue of a Gourmand.
"You dare try to attack the daughter of Gar Redwind, leader of the house of Redwind, future queen of Khoros" Looma said in disgust as she used her other hands to grab the tongue of the creature
The creature as it began to get pulled forwards twisted its front arms and fired its sharp spines at Looma like Argit's species. Before the spines could hit Looma, Diana stepped in front of her and unleashed a loud sonic howl. The sonic howl blew the spines backwards at the creature. As the spines hit the creature, its skin turned a grayish rock color like that of a Pyronite's natural predator.
"This beast is strong, I like that in an opponent" Looma said as she finally ripped the creature's tongue off of her arm and crushed it for good measure
As the creature had its tongue slowly go back into its mouth, it stood up on its back legs as its mouth split open and unleashed a powerful sonic attack. Before Diana could be hit with the attack, Looma stood in front of her and took the full force of the attack. Eira and Lucia watched as Looma was bombarded with the sonic attack taking her to the ground. The two girls looked at one another and at that moment they decided that enough was enough. The creature continued to hit Looma and now Diana with its sonic howl before suddenly a large pale green crystal shard hit it in its head.
Stunned by that the creature stopped its attack and looked around for what attacked it
"Over here monster" a voice said
The creature looked over and saw a large female Petrosapien which was actually Lucia. Her Petrosapien form looked almost like her fathers but she had smaller back spikes and a more slender figure.
"Pup you did it" Diana said weakly as she got up off the ground
Lucia ran over and helped both Looma and Diana get up off the ground
"Young one you overcame your fear" Looma said
"You helped us, you saved us when we couldn't save ourselves" Lucia said
The creature didn't like this so it split open its mouth once more and instead of a sonic attack, unleashed a frost breath attack. Lucia acted quickly and formed a large wall of crystals to protect herself along with Diana and Looma. As the frost breath hit the wall of crystals, a figure dropped down into the frost breath. Before the creature knew it, it was hit by three ultraviolet beams. Once the frost breath stopped, Lucia put down her crystal wall revealing a female Crystalsapien.
It was Eira in her own Crystalsapien form that fired the ultraviolet beams at the creature
"Took you long enough" Lucia said annoyed with her sister
"Sorry, its my first time using Amethyst and I wanted to make an entrance like papa does" Eira replied shrugging her shoulders
"I am glad you came when you did pup" Diana said with a sigh of relief
"You did well young one but the fight isn't over, the beast still lives" Looma spoke up pointing over to the creature who had finally recovered from Lucia's attack
The creature let out a loud bellow as it shook its head in anger from being attacked like that. Eira and Lucia readied themselves as Looma and Diana were behind them. The plugs on the creature's spine shot out revealing them to be connected to long tentacle like appendages.
"Time for Paragon to rock and roll" Lucia said as she formed her hands into curved blades
"Maybe if I present this creature's head to my love Benjamin he will accept me even more" Looma said as she cracked all of her knuckles
"Oh don't worry Looma, after today you are definitely one of our pack members" Diana replied as she unleashed her claws and showed her fangs
The girls then charged forwards at the creature ready to fight it off and defeat it. Over with Ben, things were going a bit differently, the creature had broken free from the ice and was not stopping in its pursuit of Ben and the Necrofriggian. Ben had transformed into NRG firing radiation beams at the creature while Rook fired electro blasts and plasma blasts from his prototool at the creature. Even the Necrofriggian was fighting the creature using its breath attacks along with its other ice attacks.
"Nothing we do seems to work" Ben said in his thick Russian accent
"Whatever they used in this ones creation must be extremely durable" Rook said as he rolled out of the way of a barrage of spines
"Must stop" the Necrofriggian said as be placed his hands on the ground sending a wave of freezing flames at the creature
Watching it all was Khyber, he hadn't joined his new creatures as he hadn't felt the need. Also he was waiting for the right moment to strike, catching Ben off guard and taking his prize. All of a sudden something zipped past Khyber and hit him in the face. When that same something tried to hit him again, Khyber stuck his arm out and ended up catching Helen.
"How did you do that? No one can catch a Kinceleran moving faster then sound" Helen said confused
"Maybe the old me wouldn't be able to but my body is slowly evolving to overcome all weaknesses and obstacles" Khyber said in a cold tone as he crushed Helen's wrist
"Let's see you catch these" a voice said
Suddenly two beams hit Khyber in the chest knocking him backwards and also releasing Helen from his grasp. Swift quickly landed down next to Helen and helped her up
"I was waiting for you to do that" Helen said as she checked her wrist
"Sorry I was waiting for him to be distracted" Swift replied apologizing to Helen
"I was wondering when Servantis's failed experiment was going to show up" Khyber said as he slowly pulled himself out of the rubble
"Sticks and stones you dumb Zaroffian hunter" Swift replied unaffected by Khyber's comment
"Lucky for you I only need my hands to break your neck" Khyber said as his burn marks vanished
"We can take you on" Helen said readying herself for Khyber's next move
"Oh we'll see about that" Khyber replied as he cracked his neck and his knuckles
The huntsman threw out a large amount of small marble like spheres on the ground at Helen and Swift's feet. Khyber pressed a button causing the spheres to activate creating electricity around them. As Swift took to the sky, Helen used her speed to create a strong gust of wind to blow the spheres backwards at Khyber. Once the electric spheres hit Khyber they exploded however Khyber had put up an energy shield to protect himself. Taking that opportunity Helen zoomed behind Khyber.
Before the huntsman could do anything, Helen leaned back onto her tail and unleashed a lightning fast flurry of kicks into Khyber's back. The kicks were so strong they sent Khyber up into the air where Swift fired her neuroshock beams from her eyes and tail at him. The beams sent Khyber crashing down into the ground where Swift fired even more beams at him. Once Swift stopped, she landed down next to Helen where they waited to see if Khyber would get back up.
"I think that's it" Helen said
"I don't see him" Swift said
"Did you think that would easily stop me?" A voice asked
Both Swift and Helen looked around to see where the voice came from but it was too late. Khyber appeared behind Swift and grabbed onto her putting her into a hold. As Swift struggled, Khyber pulled out his knife and held it up to Swift's throat.
"Poor poor Emily, I wonder what mommy would say to seeing you like this" Khyber said in a mocking tone as he held his knife closer to Swift's throat
"How…How do you know that?" Swift asked as she struggled to break free from Khyber's hold
"Little Emily, I am the world's greatest hunter, I always do my research before hunting down my prey" Khyber answered
"Emily hold on" Helen said in a panic as she tried to do something to save Swift
"Move and I kill her" Khyber told Helen threatening her with Swift's life
"That knife won't pierce my Aerophibian skin you foolish hunter" Swift said as she charged up her neuroshock beams in her eyes
Khyber just chuckled before he tightened his grip around Swift's neck choking her a bit which caused her to stop charging her neuroshock beam. Khyber then took his knife and moved it along Swift's left cheek, cutting her and drawing blood.
"That…That can't be" Swift said shocked as she saw her blood on Khyber's knife
"The crab mixed taydonite with a few metals to make me a knife that can cut through anything" Khyber answered as he licked Swift's blood off of his knife
"BEN!!!" Swift yelled calling out to Ben
Over with Ben who was still fighting the creature with Rook and the Necrofriggian, they still hadn't gotten anywhere with dealing with the thing. Hearing Swift call out to him, Ben looked over and saw that Khyber had gotten ahold of her and saw that he was holding a knife to her throat. Something inside of Ben began to boil over as he saw Swift struggle to get free and Helen unable to do anything to save her.
"EMILY!!!" Ben yelled loudly
The creature went to pounce on Ben as he was distracted but Ben caught the creature by the face and stopped it. All of a sudden, Ben's hand began to glow bright red, burning the creature's head. The creature tried to use its Crabdozer skin to protect it but Ben's intense heat burned through it. Ben's anger was so great he burned the creature to the point its head had turned to ash. Dropping the dead body of the creature as it burned completely into ash, the ground began to bubble under Ben's feet.
"Rook, take our Necrofriggian friend and stay back" Ben said in a serious tone
"On it" Rook said grabbing the Necrofriggian and taking him to safety
Suddenly Ben's armor opened up and out came the true form of NRG
"Khyber, get your hands off of HER!!!" Ben yelled as he rocketed himself towards Khyber
Khyber surprised to see Ben coming at him let go of Swift as Ben grabbed him and took him straight through the destroyed building. Over with Eira and Lucia who were still fighting the other creature with Diana and Looma, now with Isis who had joined in the fight with them.
"Look papa finished off the other creature" Eira said looking over at the pile of ash that was once the other mutant creature
"That means we can defeat it" Lucia said with confidence
"We must find a way to hold it down for that to happen" Looma said as she threw a piece of sidewalk at the creature
"My bandages can only do so much before they break" Isis said as she stretched out her fingers and wrapped up the creature's back legs before her bandages were cut by the blades on the back legs
"Physical attacks don't seem to work all that well, my sonic howls don't even do anything to it" Diana said as she dodged a tendril
"Maybe you should try draining all of its electrical energy like papa did with that one monster" Lucia suggested to Eira
"That could work, Amethyst has the ability to do that but I don't think it is stronger then a Conductoid or papa's Chromastone" Eira said unsure
"Do not doubt yourself young one, you are your father's child and he is the universe's greatest warrior, besides me which makes you also the greatest warrior" Looma said trying to encourage Eira as she dodged an electrical attack from the tendrils of the creature
"She is right pup you've just got to believe in yourself" Diana said also trying to encourage Eira
"You can do it sis, just wait back here and I'll give you the signal" Lucia said patting Eira on the back
"I'll do it, just hold that thing still" Eira said looking up at the creature
"We can do that, just wait a second" Lucia said before running off to enact her plan
Now with a plan Eira began to trap the legs of the creature in crystal, preventing it from moving. The creature tried to break free and fire its spines at everyone so Eira also trapped the arms in crystal as well. With no available limbs the creature began to use its spider like legs to attack along with its tendrils. Looma went to use a stop sign to cut the legs but was struck in the chest by the tendrils and was shocked by the electricity.
"If only I had my sword with me then I would be able to slay that beast" Looma said as she got up from the ground
"Use this, it should do the trick" Lucia said handing Looma a large sword made from her crystals
Looma took the sword and swung it around a bit before getting comfortable with the blade
"This will do nicely young one" Looma said with a grin on her face
Looma now with a sword charged forwards and cut down any of the creature's tendrils that got in her way. Diana and Lucia dealt with the spider legs of the creature by cutting them off, Lucia with her crystal blades and Diana with her fangs and claws. Isis helped Looma deal with the tendrils by holding them still with her bandages.
"I may be a princess but that does not mean I cannot be a warrior like my pharaoh" Isis said as she ripped a tendril off with all her strength
"I can see why you were our Ben's first lover, you are definitely a princess worthy of title of warrior" Looma said to Isis as she cut of three of the creature's tendrils
With no more tendrils to attack with along with no longer having its spider legs to attack with, the creature was almost completely defenseless. The creature let out a sonic howl at the girls but Lucia put up a crystal wall to block it. Isis used her bandages to wrap up the creature's mouth. Before it could break free, Lucia formed a muzzle made out of crystal around the creature's mouth.
"Do it Eira before it breaks free" Lucia said to Eira, seeing that the creature was trying to destroy the crystal muzzle
Eira ran to the creature and placed her hands on the sides of its head, she immediately felt the electrical energy flowing in the creature's body and began to absorb it. The creature however wasn't going to let that happen so it used all of it its strength to break the muzzle. It then went to bite down on Eira's shoulder and almost cracked her carbon body.
"Finish it off before it completely regenerates!!!" Eira yelled as she saw the creature use what electrical energy it had to reform its lost limbs
With her crystal sword, Looma with a single swing, cut the creature's head off killing it instantly. With the creature dead, its body fell to the ground with a loud thud.
"We did it, its over" Eira said as she transformed back to normal
"The beast has been slain" Looma said as she flicked the blood off her sword
"I am just glad it is finally over" Isis said sitting down on a piece of destroyed sidewalk
"I am definitely going to need to fix my claws when we get home" Diana said looking at her damaged claws
"Do you know where papa is?" Lucia asked looking around for Ben concerned before she transformed back to normal
"Father took the hunter" the Necrofriggian answered pointing off into the direction Ben had taken Khyber
There was a buzzing sound and everyone looked around for where it was coming from
"Ouch" Lucia said grabbing the back of her neck
"That hurt" Eira said also grabbing the back of her neck
"Pain" the Necrofriggian said as he too grabbed the back of his neck
Rook caught the Necrofriggian before he fell over and hit the ground
"You need to be careful, your body is even weaker after all that fighting" Rook told the Necrofriggian as he laid him on the ground slowly
"I hope Ben is doing ok" Swift said concerned
"He's doing fine, Khyber is no Vilgax" Helen said trying to reassure Swift
"He's also no Dagon" Rook said speaking up
"He will win, our mate will always win" Diana said confidently
Elsewhere
Ben had taken Khyber through five buildings and ended up near the center of town before stopping. Ben was still in his NRG form without his protective suit, angry with Khyber hurting Swift.
"You know I've never actually hunted a Prypiaptosian-B before" Khyber said as he spat up some blood
"And it looks like you will never get the chance to" Ben said as he glared at Khyber
"You won't be able to stop me hero, I've gotten stronger since our last encounter" Khyber said as the burns on his face healed
"I've noticed but it won't be enough for you to win, you are going to pay for what you've done and you are also going to tell me where Albedo is" Ben said as he formed a ball of radioactive energy in his hand
"You'll have to defeat me first for that information" Khyber said with a grin on his face
"Don't worry, I will" Ben said coldly as he threw the radiation energy ball at Khyber
Khyber jumped out of the way of the ball of energy however when it hit the ground it exploded and Khyber got caught in the blast radius. Ben floated over to the downed Khyber and saw him heal his broken and burnt body parts.
"Tell me what I want to know NOW!!!" Ben said forming a smaller ball of radiation in his hand
"You know I won't tell you and you also know that there is only one way to stop me but you won't do it, you don't have the nerve or the guts to do so" Khyber said spitting as he slowly getting up
"Your right, I'm no killer, I don't kill my enemies because it makes me no better then them" Ben said before he punched Khyber in the face
"And that is why I am a hunter and you are merely prey" Khyber said before he fired a strange looking rocket at Ben
Ben was going to let the rocket enter his body so he could destroy it but before he could the rocket exploded in front of him that was when a strange metal began to cover Ben's entire body. The metal held Ben down and stopped him from doing anything, Ben couldn't move, he couldn't phase through it, he couldn't use any of his power.
"Did you know that it was Azmuth who designed the containment suits Prypiaptosian-B's have to wear when they leave their own planet, Albedo says otherwise but he is an egotistical scientist who thinks he created the universe" Khyber told Ben as he slowly walked over to him
"So let me guess, he designed this metal to be like the metal my suit is made out of?" Ben asked unamused
"While it is a component of it, the Galvan didn't exactly tell me what other metals he used, he did tell me it is designed to absorb and drain radioactive energy" Khyber answered taking out his knife and aiming it at Ben
"This won't hold me for long and even then my family will stop you" Ben said to Khyber
"You'd think that but you'd be wrong, Albedo and the crap will not stop until they have that Necrofriggian back along with your two daughters" Khyber replied
"Why do they want my girls?" Ben asked demanding to know
"Just like with that Necrofriggian, DNA, those two creatures you call daughter have an entire codon stream of alien DNA flowing in their bodies, the cores of each one's omnitrix is what stabilizes that DNA, they've also got Anodite DNA in them and the crab has been waiting to do some experiments on some energy beings" Khyber answered angering Ben
"What about the Necrofriggian then?" Ben asked trying to hold back his anger
"That failed experiment also holds a codon stream in its body but it also holds evolved DNA which makes it a bit more valuable to Albedo that was until he got himself the ultimatrix core" Khyber answered
"They won't get away with what they've done" Ben said struggling to get free
"But they have and once they get what they want they will destroy you, your family and everyone you know, of course you will watch as they slowly kill your loved ones in front of you and I will get to hunt down whatever I want, maybe I'll hunt down that Loboan princess or even that Vladat queen, heck its been awhile since I've hunted a Kinceleran and a Aerophibian" Khyber replied mocking Ben
Hearing all of that began to anger Ben, it angered Ben so much that flames began to radiate off of his body
"Huh, that is strange" Khyber said as he saw the metal on Ben's body start to bubble
Eventually something happened with Ben's body as it went from being red and orange to being a light and dark blue color. The metal holding him melted into nothing as a massive wave of flames pushed Khyber backwards.
"NO ONE HURTS MY FAMILY, NO ONE" Ben said in a deep voice as he formed a massive ball of flames above his head
Before Ben could unleash the attack a light came down in front of Khyber, it was Albedo. Albedo threw a device at Ben which hit his omnitrix badge causing Ben to transform back into his normal human form.
"What are you doing here?" Khyber asked Albedo surprised
"Saving you, you foolish huntsman" Albedo answered grabbing ahold of Khyber
"But I haven't gotten the test subject or the girls" Khyber argued
"Do not worry Psychobos has already gotten what he needed from each of them" Albedo answered
"Even then test subject?" Khyber asked
"All we needed was its DNA, now its failing body is Tennyson's problem" Albedo answered
"Albedo you aren't going anywhere" Ben said as he slowly got up
"Unfortunately there is nothing you can do, the thing you fought so hard to protect will die and I will have won" Albedo replied
Ben was confused until he put two and two together, realizing he was talking about the Necrofriggian. It had the same problem as Eira and Lucia and was going to die soon if its DNA was not stabilized soon.
"I will see you again Tennyson and next time you'll be bowing to me on your knees" Albedo said to Ben before he vanished alongside Khyber
As they vanished Ben immediately activated his omnitrix a radioed to Rook that he'd be over to their location as quick as he could. Ben would have to worry about Albedo later, for now that Necrofriggian needed Ben's help. Ben then quickly transformed into XLR8 and zoomed off to go and save the Necrofriggian before it died.
"I'm not going to let you die" Ben said to himself
A/N: And there you have it readers, Khyber and the two creatures have been stopped but it appears as though Albedo may have actually won. Will Ben be able to save the Necrofriggian in time and what will happen now that Albedo has what he wanted from Eira and Lucia? Those questions and more will be answered in the next and future chapters. This chapter was pretty long and I hope you enjoyed seeing Eira and Lucia overcome their fear along with Looma being accepted into the family. When it comes to the names I chose for Eira and Lucia's transformations I couldn't exactly find many that worked or sounded feminine enough.
I chose Amethyst for Eira's Crystalsapien transformation because while it sounded feminine it also was a crystal and from what I read it is sort of an energy crystal and all that so it worked as a name. For Lucia's Petrosapien transformation, I chose Paragon because it is term for a perfect diamond. Since Ben's Petrosapien form is named Diamondhead, I went with a name that had something to do with diamonds. I will say this, I am still looking for suggestions for names for the other transformations the girls have. Also it should be known that eventually the girls will have all the transformations Ben has.
You can PM me your name suggestions or you can simply leave a comment with your name suggestion. If it works I'll use it and when that transformation shows up in the story I'll do a shout out in the A/N. Oh and I know this story is far from being over but I haven't decided if I want to do stories following the adventures of Eira and Lucia. I know GreyKing did two for his two OC Necrofriggian children but I don't know if I want to do the same. Let me know if you'd like to see something like that in the future once I finish this story.
Since there aren't really any questions to answer or comments to respond to from the last chapter, I am going to keep this as short as I can. Thank you for reading and for your support, I will see you all later