Ben and the others worked very hard to complete there project it was hard but fun and after one week it was done.
Ben and the others were standing in an sealed room and and in front of then was an transparent bullet proof glass behind which was the nanites in an sealed tight 7 feet cylinder which was connected to many cables an computer was in front of them.
"you girls ready?" ben asked.
"I was ready a month ago, if you didn't insisted to check everything then i would've started the testing a month ago" Brenna said.
"Sorry about that I couldn't help myself besides you can never be too too cautious" ben said.
"Lets start" Melissa said "after so long we managed to make it work".
After so long she had finally done it, with this she could too be an hero, she looked at the un-activated nanites on the screen with both fear and hope, fear if it wont work and that its not possible for to to make her dream come true fear to disappoint her friends while she had given up hope to be an hero when she had met uncle might but still a little part of her hoped to be one that's why when she found that old comic and read it she tried to make them but it was impossible and when she was on the verge of giving up she had met Brenna and how confident and skilled she was and when she talked to her she found out how amazing she was but then ben too came and she found out how he was easy-going careless and goofy but behind all that was an dead serious person who fights back no matter the condition, situation, odds or the problem he faced.
Looking at the two of them who were breaking the rules that this world set one by one they gave her hope and thought maybe she too could break them if she didn't had a quirk to help her so she decided not to give up she will make her own superpower on her own. But of course it was impossible she was at least a few years away maybe even a few doze years or maybe even an century, but nonetheless she showed them her secrete project fearing that even they will laugh but no they didn't laughed instead decided to help her, help her fight for the Right for an almost dead dream that was slowly fading when she was tired from fighting and was on the verge of giving up they helped her up.
ben nodded and pressed ENTER on the keyboard and soon there was an lording bar on the screen.
"We just need to wait for an hour" ben said.
They all nodded and started to either play or talk about random things.
They decided to play chess and other games to pass time ben lost Melissa and Brenna then played Brenna won.
Then they started to play table tennis on an random table ben won and then Melissa and ben played there match ben won.
"Its done" ben said interrupting Melissa and Brenna who were playing chess.
They both looked at the screen Mellissa ben and Brenna walked to there computers.
"Everything is fine, the coding is working as intended" ben said "how is the bio mechanics?".
"Working fine the bio-mechanical integration is perfect" Brenna said "what about the AI?".
"The AI is working properly" Melissa said and looked at the two of then "now we just need to wait".
The three of then smiled "well what are we waiting for lets party" ben said.
"Not so fast champ" begena pushed him away "we need to wait and see if everything is holding up properly".
Ben looked at her "come on!".
"We won today, its an small victory but a victory nonetheless" ben walked to the freezer and took three bottle of carbonated drinks non alcoholic "Live a little" ben Offred them both an bottle.
They both looked at the bottle and at last Brenna nodded "you know what you're right" and took the bottle.
Ben looked at her in surprise "wait, I am right?" ben questioned.
Melissa nodded "yep we should celebrate today" and took the last bottle leaving an surprised Ben.
'Usually they both would never agree with me in an situation like this, i guess they are just that relived that this worked out' ben took an sip 'orange not bad'.
Then it all got red and just like that and it all came breaking down on them, the computer started to flash warning.
They all looked at the computer and rushed towards it "what the hell's happening?".
"I don't know it's becoming unstable".
"What?, let me see" Ben rushed to the computer and checked the reading and what ben saw made his eyes wide.
"oh crap its gonna explode!" ben screamed "get out of here".
"its locked i cant open it" Melissa said as she checked the door but it wont open.
The three of them looked at the giant cylinder letting out sparks with fear, the glass started to crack under pressure of the energy it was giving off Then it shattered like an castle of glass, bathing them in its energy.
Ben rushed towards Melissa and Brenna and tackled them to the ground and slid under an table then covered them with his body, right now ben was running on his instincts.
"don't move" ben yelled.
lightning of multiple colors was flying around ben hugged them both tightly, but unfortunately for them three lightning bolts struck then each the biggest one struct ben straight at the center of his chest and two red ones the size of pencil struct Melissa and Brenna.
ben saw that and pushed the two of then away, ben couldn't afford to let then be struct by the lightning that was hitting him, it was dangerous then the red ones lightning strikes have width of pencil and just that is enough to kill human and the one that struct ben was a the size of an tire definitely not good place to be near.
Ben then chanted an spell that could prevent them from dying he had learned this one from hex when he was on an mission with him and charm caster in legerdomain. then just as ben finished the spell he was atruck with even an larger surge of electricity.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" ben yelled at the top of his lings and looked at the two of then and saw that they were unconscious but there chest was rising up and down. at least the spell worked.
then green light started to flash around ben and soon he was coated in an emerald light that was brighter than the sun, soon ben felt all the lightning travel to his heart.
"oh shit!" were ben's last thoughts as he passed out.
ben opened his eyes it was all blurry he blinked but all he was seeing were black spots then he passed out again.
indefinite amount of time later ben opened his eyes again he looked around and saw an blond silhouette moving towards him.
"he is awake" he heard an echoing voice.
"another voice said"iii-tha-...k...se...-fi...e" ben couldn't make out what they were saying.
ben closed his eyes and tightly and opened them soon he kept blinking till he could see properly ben looked around as he felt an arm grab him he looked towards the person who grabbed him and saw that it was Melissa.
"you ok?".
ben nodded "throats a bit sore, could use a couple of smoothies right about now". ben joked.
Melissa laughed a little at his poor attempt to make the situation less tense.
"where is Brenna?".
"she is checking if everything is all right".
"what?".
"she is checking the nanites and what went wrong" ben nodded weakly.
"is she all right?, what about you?. are you all right?" ben asked as ben held her shoulders and checked her up and down.
she smiled at ben "i am feeling fine".
ben nodded "but still we should do some tests" ben looked up and down at her "you know to check if there are any underlying effects hidden from us, you can never be too careful about this stuff".
Melissa nodded with an small yet tired smile and took him to Brenna she was looking at the computer getting over the readings that were recoded before the explosion.
ben looked at the container for the nanites luckily it was still intact, ben had designed it to lock itself if anything went wrong, ben just hoped that it worked he didn't certainly didn't wanted the the same incident as rex's world to happened here, who know what sort of EVO's it would create there powers on top of nanites, it certainly won't be an walk on a park even for someone like ben not to mention the residents of this world.
"how is everything?" ben questioned.
"well luckily for us the failsafe's that you implemented worked the way they did so no apocalypse" she joked.
ben let out an small laugh Melissa went over the readings "what about that electrical discharge?. could it have anything harmful that might've escaped?".
"no it was just an normal discharge, apparently it was overloaded" Brenna said.
Melissa looked confused "but how is that possible?, I designed it to hold at least one million volts of electricity, not to mention that the generator couldn't produce that much energy".
"that's what got me me stumped" Brenna looked at the readings again "everything was going as planned but then there was an interference and the readings dropped to zero then spiked in an instant".
Melissa frowned now she had gone into her scincey mode. ben looked at the readings and an thought crossed his mind there was no way that he could make an mistake, ben had checked everything at least 10 timed did someone sabotaged them, Brenna made eye contact with ben and he could tell that she was thinking the same thing.
'there is no one who could gain anything from sabotaging us' ben thought he looked at Brenna and asked her that well he didn't said anything but she understood from his expression.
'but how else it could've happened' she shot back.
"we should check ourselves first" ben said "you know just to check if anyone's dying or not".
Brenna nodded "i agree".
Melissa sweat dropped at how casual they both were talking about someone dying, they were joking right...right?.
"well happy news" ben said "nobody's dying tonight".
"but we should get checked at the hospital just to be sure" Brenna said "especially ben".
"ill need to tell my dad about the accident" Melissa after being quite for a long time said "this time we were lucky but if it happens next time we wont be so luckey someone could die".
She looked at the two of them "you two are my closest friends and if anything happens to the two of you then i wont be able to live with myself" she looked like she was on the verge of crying.
They looked at her with shocked expression that's when ben realized that she was just an 12 year old girl unlike ben who grew up fighting bounty hunters, warlords and the like and had the responsibility of the safety of the entire universe on his shoulders she wasn't like that 'who am i kidding why would she be like that' ben thought she was raised in an closed environment where crimes were almost at 0% ben looked at Brenna is she fine i know that she is all proud and mighty but ben couldn't help but be worried.
'ok ben, time to be the adult' ben thought.
"hey listen" ben said gently and took her hand "i am here right?".
"and we both are alive" Brenna said and she too took her hand "ok".
"but you both got hurt because of me-"
"you we did but that's nit your fault its because we cared for you and i'll do it again ig it means that you wont be troubled by what others say about you" ben siad.
Brenna nodded.
"its not your fault ok we survived right?" ben grinned "that's what matters besides we will get hurt all the time we got an long life ahead of us and not to mention that you are going to be an hero right? and hero's don't cry ok?".
ben looked at Brenna and shot her an silent message which she understood and nodded at ben.
"lets go" Brenna said and helped her up "lets get you some rest" and with that they both went to there bedroom and stayed there for an hour ben didn't know what they talked about but when they cane out Melissa was a lot better expect for Red Puffy Eyes.
A few seconds later she said "remember what i said about telling papa the project?"
they nodded.
"well i think that we should tell out parents you know so we can be in an more secure place"
They looked at each other and nodded "well you are the head of this project so whatever decision you take we'll listen to it" Brenna said.
Melissa nodded and smiled gratefully at them.
they spent the next hour checking themselves, aside from an lightning mark about 2 inches on there left chest nothing major was there.
the next day they decided to fess up about there little experiment and the accident while there parents weren't mad about them doing an personal projects but when they find out about the explosion they were furious and asked about all the details about what it was about and when they did found out what they were working on them being furious would be an understatement. They decided to meet up with each other Claudine ben's mom and dad, Melissa parents, well things got pretty awkward Melissa dad was both sad and mad that his daughter almost got herself killed because she didn't had an quirk.
"what were you thinking!" Ben's mom yelled "you could've died or worse if the generator had overloaded you could've destroyed everything within 3 blocks".
"not to mention that if didn't crossed your mind even once to be supervised by someone".
"mom almost everyone in the academy have side projects that they work on on there own" ben countered.
"but nothing of that level" she attacked.
"we checked everything it was going smoothly something interfered and messed it up" Melissa said
"well i don't care if you aren't responsible and respect the work you do and be reckless then maybe you shouldn't be there"
"wait" Claudine said "what do you mean that something interfered with it?".
"well" Melissa began "everything was stable for a while but suddenly the generator lost all its power but then an second later it shot up not to mention that the generator was not made to make that much power"
she showed them the readings "but that's impossible" David said looking at the readings.
"Not if someone else interfered with it" Claudine said Brenna looked at her suspiciously 'did she did it?' she thought but an second later she crushed that thought 'no that's impossible she has nothing to gain from it'.
"but why would someone want to do that?" David said out loud "there is nothing for anyone to gain from it".
"not exactly" Melissa's mom said "remember who where present when the explosion occurred?" she asked, then like an bulb had lightened up they all looked at the three kids.
"Brenna's sister owns almost half the shares of the island and 25% of the land" she said and then looked at her family " and you have 10% shares of the island not to mention almost everything here has your hand on it".
Then an thought occurred to all the adults that made there blood run cold.
"Wait don't tell me that you are suggesting that someone wanted to kill us three for that" ben said now completely serious "but its i island it's the most secure place on earth".
"Not anymore someone managed to hack into the security systems of the island a while back" she said surprising all those were present expect David and Claudine.
"What!" Melissa exclaimed.
ben started to sweat heavily 'it was me who hacked the systems'
"And it had not been hacked once but two times, at the same day and time there were two attacks on our system so it could be that whoever it was they might have an hand in the explosion after all not even once since the creation of the island had anyone hacked into out systems and walked away freely".
"but it could be someone else, i mean there is no grantee that it was the same person" ben said.
"no ben breaking the security of the island is next to impossible, the chances are" she looked at them "that this person is the same one".
"but we should not jump to conclusions" Claudine said "there is an huge chance that it could be someone else entirely". She looked at the three kids and let out an frustrated breath "you three go sleep-"
"its morning" ben interrupted.
"Orrrr go outside and play while we discuss adult stuff".
ben looked at the others and saw that they were nodding.
"well what about out project?" ben asked.
She looked at the three of them and shook her head "we will discuss that too now move along" she started to push ben and the others outside.
outside the three of them looked at each other.
"Well... that went well" ben said.
The next day Claudine told them that they could continue there project but only in David's lab no where else as for the explosion they are investigating it also David was kind enough to not tell the board of directors about what they were working on. why didn't he told his superiors ben didn't knew but whatever.
Ben did notice one thing different about him, these days he was looking tired and had the look of an man who had given up, Ben also heard him arguing with Sam about something but Ben didn't heard anything that would tell him the cause of this behavior, but ben deduced that it had to do with Melissa almost dying to make her own quirk, thankfully Melissa's mom comforted him out of it and a few weeks later he went back to normal.
In David's lab.
The three of them were working on the nanites from scratch, they were worried about them being hacked like it had happened at Ben's lab..Again!.
"At this rate it'll take us an year if we start from scratch" Melissa said looking at the work that they had to do.
"well i could get some designs from my sister she had made them before so maybe we could take an inspiration from them?" Brenna suggested.
"I thought that you didn't like asking her for help?" Melissa said a bit confused as to why would she do that
"well ill make an exception".
Melissa looked at her for a second and shook her head "No i don't want you to do something that you don't like, we can do this on our own i know we can!".
Ben thought to add a bit of level 9 tech from his old world but shook that thought away it would seem too suspicious, besides ben was sure that Melissa wouldn't appreciate that, after all every researcher and scientist had there own pride.
the next day they decided to take an break and relax ben was at the back of his house in the pool floating and thinking about future after ben was done with the nanites what will he do Brenna will no doubt go back to her home country Melissa will be busy with her hero work where does that out ben.
"Bennnn!" Ben's mom called him "we have guests".
"coming mom i am near the swimming pool, till take a awhile to change, wait a few secnds" ben said and walked towards the house.
ben then changed his cloths and went to the living room and saw that there were 4 new people present one lady who was chatting with bens mom she had auburn hair and teal eyes.
the other one was an man with blond hairs and blue eyes he was talking with bens dad.
the last ones were two girls who ben assumed to be twins, they were almost the same age as ben they both had red hairs expect one had straight hairs and had blue eyes along with square glasses and the other one had curly red hairs and green eyes along with crescent shaped glasses.
"Ah here is he" ben's dad said "ben meet our neighbors they moved next door a few months ago, you were in your school when they came to introduce themself".
ben looked at them and nodded "sup ben Tennyson" ben extended his hands to shake.
the both nodded and said "i am "Susan" "Marry", nice to meet you".
"now ben you see they need to go out for some work and they will be back in evening, so till then Susan and Marry will be staying with us, you dint mind do you?".
Ben looked at then and shook his head "Nah its cool".
"well then why don't you kids play while we adults talk" Ben's mom said.
ben nodded and looked at the girls "well I've got a few skateboards wanna ride them?".
""ok"" they both said.
they all then wen to ben's room.
"it's nothing like i expected" ben heard from behind when he entered his room.
"what's nothing like you imagined?" ben asked.
"well its the first time we had entered an boy's room so we were curious what it'll look like" Susan said.
"our little brother's room is almost always a mess and from what we heard boys room is always dirty".
"Well i guess there is an first time for everything" ben shrugged and took out the skateboards from the cupboard.
"hey what's that?" Susan asked pointing to an green board without wheels.
"oh that's just an hover board that i was making but couldn't cause of some school work" ben said as they both looked at ben with narrowed eyes as he mentioned school work.
"wait!, did you just said hover boars like real ones not the stupide ones which can only hold 40 KG weight and work for only 5 minutes" Susan said suddenly excited.
"yep I am working on anti gravity you know on how to make objects that aren't effected by the planet's gravity" ben said.
"I cant believe that we never thought to make hoverboards that opens new possibilities" Marry said to Susan.
"yes we can have fun and work on inventing new stuff" Susan said.
""We are such Geniuses!" they both said all the while ben looked at them a little amused "if you want I'll get them out besides i needed to do an field test anyway" ben suggested "and looking at you're conversion i assume that you two are inventers?".
"Yes" they both said at the same time.
"well maybe you could help me out here i an having some trouble with the cooling systems don't want it to catch Fire mid-flight" ben chuckled.
"that's child's play, we can add cooling system we had just yesterday made one for our Nuclea-" Marry said but before she could finish Susan covered her mouth with her hand.
"we'll love to help you" she said, ben looked at the two of them and nodded.
ben then took out the hoverboard and turned around to show them.
"here" ben then noticed that they were both whispering something to each other.
"Umm...hello" ben said.
""AHHH"!: they both exclaimed and jumped, ben seeing them like that chuckled.
"chill out here is no need to be so stiff around me, treat this place like you would your own house".
"ah ha" they said.
"what a weird pair" ben thought and handed the hoverboard to Susan.
Susan took it.
"just lay it down and step on it" ben said.
Susan lay it on the ground then an second later it started to float and then she climbed it.
"Ahh..shouldn't we take it outside" marry said and just then Susan crashed on the Was opposite to her.
"that an good idea" Susan said as she laid upside-down. they went outside and played together talked about there common interests, etc. ben also found out that he had met them before but for some reason he forgot ben apologized that ben wont ignore them again soon they were working in the cooling system and much to bens surprise it worked.
'i guess that they weren't lying about being geniuses' ben thought as he watched them work on the boards.
time passed very quickly and soon they had to return home but over all it was an good day.
"We are almost ready" jerry said looking at the 50 people gathered in the hall where they were present.
"yes almost" tom said "then we will purge this world".
"listen my allies" he said "today!, we stand together for our god!".
"these people out there talk about helping people,...but its all a lie!" he said on to[p of his voice.
"but our god!" he said and raised his arms "had shown us the way!"
he then looked around yelled on top of his lungs.
"we will purge this world and all its atrocities!".
"purge" .
"purge" .
"purge" .
"purge".
"and soon our god will descend to our mortal plane and bring us our..Salvation!" he looked around "he will cure diseases, end this pitiful hero and villain games that te government profits from and bring us immortality!".
with that they all started to cheer and then tom and jerry both walked to the backstage there
back stage was the women and the blond man and an unknown women wearing an black suit with black shirt and tie.
"did you really had to rile them up like that "the women in suit asked.
"of course i did, they needed some motivation" he said "we had managed to hack in the i island for information but aside from that these fools haven't even gotten one artifact".
"besides everything that i said was true" he said
the women in suit raised her eyebrows at him "granting everyone immortality that's a bit of stretch don't you think?".
"not really for the one who we follow is an GOD" he said.