Author's Notes: I got a few reviews saying that they didn't like it that Harry was acting like Ben did and not the Harry we know, now I might have gotten the wrong head of the stick, but why should Harry be the same as in the books? He had a different life style then in the books, and so would act more like Ben then how he is in the books - a normal ten year old who likes to have fun and play pranks. Don't worry, Harry'll slowly become different then Ben, just need to work out how.
Chapter Four!
Then There Were Ten - Part 3 (From Season 1 Episode 1)
31st of May 2001 - Shortly before the fire:
Because of the panicked state he was in Harry found himself lost within the woods. He ultimately decided to just stop running around and making it worse, sitting straight down on the ground. He took several long breaths of air before he returned to trying to get the strange watch off his arm, he even tried to use a twig, but he couldn't even get it beneath the watch and his skin because it was attached so tightly. Giving that up as a lost cause he once more tried to slide it off his arm. He hit one of the buttons on accident and with a quiet snap the dial popped up, displaying some kind of silhouette. "Cool..." Harry breathed, wondering what would happened if he pushed it back in, so he did just that.
To his shock his body began to change, growing taller, now at least six feet, maybe more, before he was quickly covered in dark brown rocks, which split with a hissing sound, glowing red line appearing at random on his new skin. His feet also morphed, the number of toes on his feet dropping down to three, two in front one on the back. In the middle of his chest was the symbol the watch, only it was black and white now.
Harry took one look at his body and freaked out, "AHH, I'm on fire, I'm on fire!" After almost a full minute of jumping up and down and slapping at himself to put the flames out the shock began to wear off and he realized something, "Hey, I'm on fire and I'm okay. Smoking…" Harry laughed at himself.
Caught up in the moment like any child would when they found out that they just gained super powers, Harry forgot that he was in the woods and wondered what he could do. The first similar hero that first came to mind was Johnny Storm from the Famous Four, which lead to wondering if he could shoot a fireball. "Let's see if I can do this..." Harry said slowly as he pointed his finger to a stuck out branch on a tree and willed a ball of fire from his finger.
To his surprised a come shaped ball of fire shot from his finger and blasted the branch clean off the tree in a small explosion. "Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about!" Harry crowed happily. Trying something else he brought his hands together, focusing the same power he'd felt before to fuel the fireball he was met with more success as he charge up and fire another, larger ball of almost solid flames, this one blasting an entire tree down.
Unlike the branch though, the fireball was more than big enough to splash everywhere after the explosion, setting every tree with a ten foot radius ablaze, "Wait, stop! Oh no… on I'm so getting busted for this." He moaned. He tried to stamp out the fire, but it just made it worse. A creature made of molten rock should probably not be stomping on dried leaves, but Harry was starting to panic again and logic wasn't something he was capable of using.
"Oh man this would be so cool if it wasn't my fault, or I wasn't right in the middle of it!" It's not like it was hurting him, but who knows how long he would have this exoskeleton of solid lava, or whatever had happened.
Gwen suddenly burst into the clearing with the fire extinguisher, blindly but quickly putting out fire after fire as she looked for Harry. She wasn't really paying attention to what she sprayed, so without realizing it was a person shaped thing she sprayed Harry full in the face with the white water mixture.
"Hey, watch out!" Harry exclaimed, his fiery hair disappearing for just a few seconds before blazing back up with a 'fwoosh'ing sound. Harry noted to stay away from water, the spray from the extinguisher had stung pretty bad.
Gwen froze, turning to look at Harry. "AHHH!"
"Hey, I know I look weird at the moment but there's no reason to be scared! It's just me, Har -" Harry began, only to be forcibly cut off as Gwen hit him with the fire extinguisher again. Not the spray this time, the solid unforgiving metal part.
With a clang and a cry of pain he fell to the ground holding his face. Gwen wasn't done though and blasted him again with her weapon, dousing his entire body, at least for a few seconds before it lit back up again, "I don't know who or what you are, but if you know any better you'll stay where you are!"
"Gwen it's me Harry-" She sprayed him again. "AHH, will you stop that?!"
She scoffed, "Yeah, right, the Harry I know is a dweeb and human, not some kind of fire monster."
"Listen geek it's me." Harry growled, his 'hair' flaring a bit in his spiking anger.
"Harry? Is that really you?" Gwen asked in shock, starting to believe him, "What happened?"
Harry sat on an already charred section of ground as Gwen put out all the fires nearby to give them some room. Once they had an area cleared Harry began telling her what happened. By the time he finished Grandpa Max had found them, running into the clearing with a yell on his lips before he saw the two, "Gwen are you alright? What the blazes?" He sputtered, as if suddenly seeing Harry.
'What's an adolescent Pyronite doing in the middle of a forest on earth?' Max wondered to himself.
"Hey Grandpa, guess who?" Gwen snickered.
"Hey Grandpa, it's me." Harry said with a wave.
"Harry is that you?" Max asked. He trailed off as he saw the symbol on Harry's chest. 'It can't be, the Omnitrix? Did Azmuth finally make it? But why is it here on Earth?' As he tried to work out how the Omnitrix had landed on earthhe asked, "Harry what happened?"
Harry began to explain when Gwen cut in, "Excuse me, but there's a massive forest fire getting out of control remember?"
"What should we do?" Harry asked.
"Backfire!" Max exclaimed, "Start a new fire and allow it to burn into the old one. They'll cancel each other out. Do you think you can do it Harry?"
"More fire?" Harry asked with a smirk, "I think I can do that." The group split up, Harry running deeper into the forest while Gwen and Max headed towards the Camp Site to get the Rust Bucket.
Half an hour later when the Park Ranger came along to check out the smoke he was met with the remains of a massive blaze, instead of the still burning woods he expected to see. He would never know how the fire started, nor how it was put out.
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"Now you say that this space watch jumped up and attached itself on your waist?" Max asked about ten minutes after the second fire was started and they were back near the Rust Bucket.
"Yeah Grandpa," Harry said with a sigh, "it wasn't my fault either, I swear." He quickly added before he could get the blame for it.
"I believe you Harry." Max assured grandson, a bit upset they didn't have any further information.
"Do you think he'll stay a monster forever?" Gwen asked as she threw a marshmallow towards, who caught it with his mouth and ate it. "He is much cooler like this anyway, I don't want him back as doofus." She joked.
"Hey, I resent that." Harry replied flatly, having lost the desire to argue with her about it.
"He isn't a monster, but an alien." Their Grandpa answered distractedly. He turned to see them giving his curious looks and he realized his slip. "W-well look at him, what else could he be?"
"The watch did come from space, so it makes sense." Harry admitted, "I just hope I'm not stuck as a fire guy forever. How can I play for my little league teams this fall if I incinerate the ball or bat every time I touch them? Karate class would be fun though." He finished with a smirk.
"Don't worry Harry, we'll figure this out together." Grandpa Max reassured him. They all perked up as they heard a beeping sound. They looked at the source of the noise, only to see the white and black symbol on Harry's chest blinking red. The beeping went on for another ten seconds before, in a flash of red light, Harry was back to his regular self again.
"Cool, I'm me again!" Harry said happily.
"Shame, I liked you as the fire guy." Gwen deadpanned.
"I still can't get it off." He commented, ignoring Gwen as he tried to pull the watch off again.
"Harry you shouldn't fool around with it anymore, not until we know for sure what we're dealing with." Max cautioned. He didn't know what the affects would be by being in contact and using the Omnitrix, but he wouldn't risk his Grandson's safety just to find out. "Anyway, I think I'll go back to the crash site. There might be a clue or two as to what it is." He explained as he stood up to go to the site, hoping to find out why the Omnitrix was here on Earth and why.
He had no way of knowing there was no crash site left, just an even deeper crater as a drone blew the Omnitrix container to pieces, thanks to an alien robot sent to search and retrieve the Omnitrix, and destroy anything that gets in the way.
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Ten minutes later found Harry found out how the watch and now was playing with it, trying to find out what it did, "I wonder what these aliens are?" Harry asked himself as spun the dial counter clockwise, the little round screen displaying ten different aliens. He heard a sound and turned to see Gwen's grinning face a few inches away from his.
"Caught'cha!" Gwen laughed as she made Harry jump.
"Jesus Gwen, be careful where you point all that ugly!" Harry snapped.
"I thought Grandpa said not to fool around with that thing?" She scolded.
"I know he did, but aren't you just a bit curios as to what this thing can do?"
"Can't say I am." Gwen lied easily. She wasn't about to let Harry be right, even if she did want to know what it could do. "Even if I was, I think we should wait for Grandpa to return before you do anything."
"And what can he do?" Harry asked, "He told us he was a plumber, what's a pipe repairman going to do about an alien transformy thing. Unless he magically knows loads about alien tech and he's never told us about it, we're just as qualified as he us for this."
Gwen scowled. She hated it when her cousin was right, and it was happening a lot lately.
Harry continued, "Anyway, I'm just looking at it. Check it out, I already got it all primed to transform me again. It gives me a preview of what I can be before I choose them. Look, one has four arms, one looks like it is some kind of fish alien, this one looks like some kind of dog or something..." He showed the dial to Gwen, spinning it to show her what he meant.
"I still don't like you playing with it." Gwen said, less worried now about breaking the rules but still stubborn.
"How else will we learn how to use it if we don't experiment with it?" Harry pointed out. In a more petulant tone he grinned and said, "And who says this isn't for me anyway?"
"And why would some alien life form send you anything?" Gwen asked in disbelieve.
"Dunno," Harry shrugged as the two walked over to sit I front of the camp fire. "But why else would it change course so suddenly the second I saw it and come after me?"
Once again Gwen couldn't deny that he had a point, momentum didn't work like that, so it had to be a specific feature from the pod that allowed it to change course. "But what if it was an accident and you weren't meant to have it? What if it was sent to earth to keep it away from some bad guys?"
"If that's the case it's even more important I find out how to work this." Harry argued, "It doesn't look like it's coming off any time soon, and if as you say it was sent to Earth to keep it away from the bad guys, they might come searching for it and find us. If that happens this could be the only thing keep me safe. And if I don't learn to control it, I could end up dead or something. I might not want to be a superhero, risking his life all the time, but I'm not going to just sit back and let people get hurt if I can help it."
Gwen growled without any real heat. She wasn't used to being outraged this much so rapidly. She thought back to what her Grandpa had said about her cousin being smart and mature when he wanted to be and found herself believing it. "So what did it feel going all alien like that?" She asked, changing the subject rather than admit defeat.
"To be honest at first it freaked me out." Harry recalled as he thought back at the transformation, "I didn't know what was going on, it was like it was me but at the same time it wasn't. It was a bit confusing for a bit." He thought about it for a few moments how much, although confusing, it was great feeling, been able what he could. "I think I'll give it one more try for the night." Harry said as he picked the dog like alien.
"I wouldn't." Gwen warned, worried what might happen.
"No duh, you wouldn't," Harry blew her off as he hit the dial button, in doing so he started to transform.
In a flash of green where Harry once stood a big, orange dog-like creature with no eyes or tail knelt. His teeth jaw had a slight underbite, leaving his bottom teeth to poke up beyond his lips. On his left shoulder was an armoured pauldron covering his shoulder and upper foreleg, upon which rested the white and black watch symbol.
"Eww, this thing looks uglier then you do normally." Gwen commented as she looked Harry over, "Wow put a flea collar on this thing." She jumped as the dog growled lightly, but she went back to examining it. She took a closer look at it's face, only to realize it truly didn't have eyes. She had thought that maybe the were hidden under his fur, but they really weren't there at all. "No eyes? What good is this thing?" Seeing that he had no eyes, Gwen smirked as she thought of a way to back at her cousin. She continued her examination, giving nothing away as she walked around behind him, silently picking up one of the sticks with a half charred marshmallow on it.
Harry felt weird, he couldn't see, but his other senses were stronger in this form, in fact every sound that he heard allowed him to 'see' thing around it. It reminded him of a bat's sonar, they were blind but yet they use they own sound to see. So when Gwen moved behind him he smiled and prepared to move. When Gwen swung the stick as his hind quarters he was easily able to leap away.
Gwen squawked as she lost her balance and fell on her but, "Okay then, not a total loser." She grumbled.
Harry landed in front of her and ended up breathing on her, which made her eyes water from the strength of the smell. He definitely had dog breath, but it was even worse because he was so big. "I'm buying you an entire crate of breath mints."
Harry whined, turning around and digging his claws into the dirt. With a few powerful swipes he ran into the woods, but not before throwing chunks of earth at Gwen.
With his enhanced hearing he could easily hear her calling after him, "Harry, get back here! Harry, I'm going to tell Grandpa that you turned into some kind freaky alien and went swinging into the woods when you were told not to!"
Back at the camp Gwen shook her head, brushing the dirt off herself. "This has been a majorly weird day." She sighed.
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Harry was having all kinds of fun acting like Tarzan, jumping and swinging from tree to tree, but his fun was interrupted by the sizzling sound of what could only be a laser shooting past him. Harry immediately began dodging the shots that followed, using his sonar to avoid the blasts, twisting around them when he absolutely had to, but mostly sticking to the trees like some kind of monkey.
When he had a bit of breathing room her 'looked' at the source only to see some kind of small flying saucer with claws. Thinking as quickly as his brain currently could in his current form would allow, he came to the conclusion that he couldn't dodge the attacks forever, he would need to fight back. He hid himself, and just as the saucer passed beneath his hiding spot he jumped on top of it, claws digging into metal with only a little effort and insanely powerful jaws clamping over what was probably important components on the 'head' of the robot.
Unfortunately the robot was built tough, and despite wobbling heavily in the air, it continued flying, trying to shake him off. Harry hung on as it slammed into several trees and sped up and slowed down far faster than any human craft could. Harry's claws and teeth remained lodged in the metal though, keeping him firmly in place.
The badge on his shoulder began beeping, making Harry's jolt at the sudden sound. This turned out to be a good thing, because he ended up ripping the top off the saucer and falling off it just before it slammed into a hill and exploded.
Harry, human again, popped up from the pile of leaves he'd landed in with a shout of "YES!" in triumph, arms raised high. His victory was short lived though as another saucer appeared, ready to attack him.
He glanced down at the watch, only to find it was now a dull red, instead of a lit up green. "Ooh boy, that's not good..." Harry moaned as the death ray on the saucer in front of him began humming, a light forming in the barrel as the weapon charged up.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Author's Notes: Here ends the next chapter of Harry Tennyson, I hope you like it. Now that you spent the time to read this story, could you spend a few minutes to review and let me know what you think of the story? Like it or not, I would like to hear what you think and what you would like to happen next. I would like to ask what episodes you would like to see and not see within this story, and ideas for new aliens, what they look like, powers, where they come and things like that to make it easier to write them in. So you know, I won't be following the same episode timeline as the show, they'll be all over the place to fit into this story, so if you think of an episode that could be shown sooner, or even later, than it did in Ben 10 canon let me know and I'll add it to the new timeline if it fits with my story.
Omake's are also welcome, or even just suggestions for scenes you'd like written out if they're funny but you don't feel confident you can write them out yourself.