Hunted
It had been a good two weeks after visiting Aunt Vera alongside stopping the abductions on the elderly village with the help of a New (To the others) alien that Ben in the original timeline had called Water hazard, Ken had decided to call him Aquaphobia, instead.
With the aliens gone Hopefully dead, Ken stood within the centre of a makeshift training gym Him and Max had set up, Ben and Gwen sitting under the Rust Buckets extendable side roof, Gwen was in the middle of applying sun screen on herself while Ken stood wearing a skin tight singlet with a pair of jeans and Converse shoes, looking at Max as he moved to a control station of the sticks and rope.
Ken dialed the Omnitrix for a specific alien.
"You ready, Ken?" smiling at Max, Ken flashed with a Green light, showing Diamandhead who began to make a diamand sword and shield.
"Born ready Gramps" seeing Max smirk at him, he spoke while pulling levels and ropes.
"Who're you calling Gramps!" saying that with Ken smirking, he watched the many obstacles flying at him, ducking under a tire while bashing his shield against a barrage of cans, he swung his sword at a Paint can, cutting it in two he barely looked back as the paints contents collided with another swarm of flying cans behind him, seeing two more old tires flying at him, Ken swung his shield before it grew sharp, tossing it at the tires, he grinned as it bounced off of them both before he caught it mid air as it passed him, mentally thanking Captain America for that inspiration, Ken turned around in time to backhand a fridge… leaving him staring at it before turning to Max.
"Where the hell did you find a fridge out here!?"
"It was on the side of the road" seeing him shrug, Ken gave a chuckle before feeling a soft force on the back of his head, making him sigh while Max took that opportunity to pull one more lever, turning around Ken stared at a plushie on the ground with Gwen gasping.
"Grandpa!" snorting at her while picking up the plushie, Ken stared at the… obviously Diamondhead toy while looking to Gwen.
"Where'd you get this Gwen!?" seeing her turn to him, she spoke.
"I got it at a tourist spot, apparently someone paid to have toys made" looking back at the toy in hand, Ken ducked under another barrage of cans, swiping his diamond sword without looking, Ken raised the sword before stabbing it in the ground, followed by a dome of sharp diamonds to erupted around him, stopping the entire course with Max blinking.
"Huh, that's smart and dangerous" watching as the shards sunk into the ground, Ken stepped out as a human, carefully climbing over the dome, he tossed the toy to Gwen who caught it.
"I believe that's all for today?" nodding in agreement, the four loaded into the Rust Bucket.
Sitting down in the front seat as Max sat in the drivers seat, Ken let out a contempt sigh.
"So, where to now?"
"There's a town over past the Slaterville" turning to Max, Ken gave a sigh while bringing out his phone, turning on the home screen he stared at the… revealing selfie of Aranea she had sent him, looking to play a phone game, the Rust Bucket passing the old town with no issue, with Ken looking into the skies with a bored tone while Ben and Gwen set themselves on doing their own thing.
Hearing his phone go off, Ken opened it to show a message from Aranea.
Reading it, the message was
(When can you visit?) frowning at the sudden question, Ken responded with
(I can be there in a few minutes as Hermes, why?) waiting for a response, Ken looked put the window before looking at his phone…
(It's my species mating cycle soon) staring at the screen, Ken looked up in thought and confusion, wondering over the fact that Kinecelerans never had a breeding cycle… well, Necrofriggian's did but that… does that count?
Shaking his head, Ken typed his response.
(How soon do you need me over, today or next week?)
Looking at the typing icon, Aranea's message made him relax.
(In two weeks time, I'll be having a break from my job and V will be at a friends house) nodding to the message, Ken was about to reply until he heard the watch turn on, turning he found Ben looking at it with a look of concentration until he noticed he was spotted.
"Ben… what are you doing?" smiling at being caught, Ben spoke.
"Just wanted to see what other aliens you can go" nodding at his brother, Ken spoke with a raised eyebrow.
"But in the Rust Bucket, of all places?" seeing Ben blink, his eyes widened.
"I, did not think this through" nodding while petting Ben's shoulder, Ken went to turn off the watch before a shadow caught his attention, frowning he leaned out the window, before ducking back in at his head barely dodging a red bolt, followed by the RV swerving to avoid the newly made pot holes ahead of them.
"Max, keep them safe!" rushing to the door, he dialed for an alien before leaping out the moving vehicle, ignoring the call from Max.
"Ken, wait!?" leaping out, a green flash blinded the familiar form of SixSix who ignored the fleeing RV to stare at his target, watching as the flash died down, SixSix stared at the rising form of Big Chill.
"So, what's you're beef?" staring at one another, SixSix aimed a gun and fired. Making Big chill dive to avoid the barrage of energy bolts, he spun with a gust of ice cold wind shooting towards SixSix who maneuvered out of range, leaving him with a perfect shooting range.
Staring at the mercenary as he pulled out every alien fire arm he had, Ken spoke with annoyance.
"Oh fuck me!" vanishing from sight as a storm of red lights lit up the road.
Stopping to admire the sight after a full minute of firing, SixSix looked around himself, switching his helmet's visor to look for his invisible target, he spotted nothing… until he spun at Hoverboard looking at him with his arms crossed.
"Well done, you're light show let the target get away" cursing in his native language, Kraab dug out of the ground below with his optics admiring the carnage.
"Damn, you sure showed him!" cursing at him as well, SixSix looked around for any sign of Ken.
Seeing no sign he raised his right arm to show a holographic map of their current location, taking one glance SixSix took a double take at the Omnitrix symbol… above him.
Turning around in alarm, SixSix was greeted by a Spinning kick, followed by a green flash before Fourarms descended after him, elbow dropping onto a falling SixSix, Hoverboard watched in anticipation as Kraab moved to assist SixSix.
Turning to the Robot Kraab, Ken scowled with a glare as he waited for Kraab to get closer before his lower arms grabbed Six Six to toss him forward, making Kraab backhand Six away, he was blinded by a green flash, looking back he was blindsided by a Fast and very Hard kick, leaving a decent sized dent on the side of his head, flying back, Kraab looked back to see Hermes staring down at him, moving to knock Ken down, the Kineceleran jumped over the large claw before delivering a succession of kicks, rendering the weapon dented and sparking, staring at his weapon, Kraab watched Ken spin like a mini tornado before sending him flying with a low kick.
Allowing Ken to turn fully to a recovering SixSix, seeing the mercenary go to attack, Ken vanished with a blast of wind, sooner finding himself sent flying by Ken who watched him slide to Kraab's side with a guttural groan.
Staring at the two, Ken looked up to see Hoverboard… well, hover down to the ground, arms crossed, staring at one another, Ken spoke with a nod to his Board.
"Hoverboard, nice" stepping aside with intent to fight if need be, Ken spoke.
"So, you any better than dumb and dumber over there?" staring at one another, the being spoke.
"Yo certainly know how to fight?" shrugging at the response, Ken's being was replaced by Chromastone.
"What can I say" clenching his hands together, rainbow colours danced in his palms.
"I've had a lot of practice" staring at the form of Chromastone, the beings helmet retracted with Ken's eyes narrowing with a hidden smile at the sight of Tetrax.
The Petrosapian readying a blaster.
"Let's put that to the test, shall we?"