Author's Notes: So you know, Upgrade is going to be more like the Blue Upgrade in Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens, as I never liked the Upgrade in the show and felt more could be done with it. Seeing the Blue Upgrade, I saw the Upgrade I would have liked to seen in the show.
A reminder to all of you, Harry was born in 1990 and NOT 1980, also Lily's and Petunia's father was Max, but Lily and Petunia were only half sisters. In the Harry Potter world, everything as be held back ten years.
Before I go any farther, I would like to point out that although Harry will be mature, he does have his moments of being what he actually is, that is to say a ten year old boy. As I said, he'll mature when he needs to be or when he wants to be, but the rest of the time he'll be immature like any other ten year old simply because life is more fun that way.
Chapter Eight!
Clay Attack - Part 3!
Shocked to hear this, Harry and Gwen turned around, only to find a hulking humanoid mass of living clay wearing a collar, his left arm shaped to look like a medieval mace, which was raised threateningly. "Now lad, hand over the Omnitrix, and I'll allow you to live." The clay creature said, "Refuse and things will get messy."
"The Omni-what?" Harry asked. Despite the situation Gwen's curiosity wasn't about to back down and she nodded along beside him.
"The Omnitrix," The sneered alien, not believing that these kids didn't know what the boy was wearing, "It's the thing that you're wearing that allows you to take the form of so many aliens."
"So that's what this is..." Harry said as he looked at the watch - Omnitrix symbol on his chest. He turned back to the alien, "As for giving it to you, I can't. It's stuck on me, and won't let go. And even if I could I wouldn't, you don't seem like a very nice guy." Harry snapped angrily. It seemed this alien came with its own side affects too; he was aggressive, angering easier. He certainly wasn't about to give the watch away, but he doubted he would have been this angry about it if he wasn't taking the form her was.
"So things will have to get messy then." The blob said before his mace arm crashed down onto Harry. "Good, at least this won't be completely boring."
However, all it did was it split Harry into half before reforming as the alien pulled his arm up, "Damn Mecha's, like fighting a puddle!" The alien said angrily.
Using the first offensive mechanical weapon that came to mind, his arm followed his thoughts and morphed into a Mega Buster straight out of Mega-Man, which whirred and hummed as a bar on the side of the cannon charged to full. "Now it's my turn." Harry said, who would have been grinning viciously if he had a mouth, before he fired a fully charged bolt of energy from the Buster. The alien's mouth and eyed widened in shock just before the blast hit, and with a series of wet splats he was blown into a hundred pieces, his collar clinking to the ground.
Harry had a distinct feeling the fight wasn't over, and according changed his body again. "Gwen get on, we're leaving."
"But H-"
"Gwen it isn't safe here, look over there." One of Harry's hands sprouted from the form he'd taken and pointed to his left. She followed his finger and saw the splattered clay reforming around the collar. "Now get on before whatever it is reforms and come after us."
"Why a Light Cycle?" She asked incredulously as she climbed on, blushing lightly as she realized she was laying flush against what was surely her cousins body. At least it was probably his back, so it was like a piggy back ride.
With a click a sliding window snapped into place over Gwen, and Harry's eye appeared in a screen in front of her. "Hey, it works doesn't it?" It flashed, mildly annoyed, a second before Gwen was pressed even further into the seat below her as they took off, a trail of glowing green light trailing a few feet behind them.
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It took about three minutes of whizzing past trees at blurring speeds before Gwen just settled for staring at the screen in front of her and blocking out the outside world lest she start screaming and panicking. "What can we do now?" She asked, voice slightly shaky.
"Honestly?" Harry asked, "I don't know, by the looks of things he looks near impossible to defeat. I can blast him again, but he'll just reform."
Gwen hummed a bit as she thought, "It looked like the collar is its connection, you remember it reforming around it? Do you think it has something to do with that specific alien type?"
"Makes sense to me." Harry replied, making two perfect 90 degree turns to get around a large oak tree, making Gwen slightly green in the face. "I can feel some kind of technology in the collar, so it's a start. That could be what's keeping him together, so if can destroy that, we might be able to defeat him. The problem is, how?"
Gwen eyes widened, and not because they came inches from slamming into a fallen tree, "Can you use this alien to do something about it? That alien said that that this... Galvanic Mechamorph can merge with technology. Can you merge with the collar and short circuit it?"
"I don't think that's how it works. I mean, it's worth a try if we can't think of anything else, but... that clay alien said I would make tech more powerful. Upgrading it-hmm, Upgrade would be a good name for this form." Harry mused, getting off topic before his eyes shook back and forth on the screen, "Back to the matter at hand. If I used this form to merge with the collar, I don't know what would happen, I could just make him more powerful and harder to defeat."
Gwen nodded slowly; he was right, they had no idea what the collar actually did, so tampering with it, to either break it or ramp up its efficiency, was a bad idea.
She was broken out of her thoughts as Harry cursed and slammed on the breaks. She only heard the last two beeps of the Omnitrix timing out before she was rolling along the forest floor. Luckily neither of them was hurt, but when they finally stopped tumbling Gwen found herself sitting upright on her sprawled out cousin's waist, just a few inches above from-
Gwen lunged sideways as Harry sat up, groaning and rubbing his head. "I think I hit a rock." He moaned, before turning to his cousin. "Your face is red... oh God we didn't roll through Poison Ivy did we?!" He cried, itching furiously at himself.
He never saw Gwen get up until she grabbed his shoulder, hauling him to his feet. "No loser, we didn't hit any Poison Ivy - I think..." She finished quietly as she began walking them towards the motel she could see in the distance.
"...So, got any ideas?" Harry eventually asked.
"Honestly I don't-" Gwen interrupted herself suddenly as she remembered something, "Fire! You can use fire to defeat him."
"How?" Harry asked, a bit confused.
"He seems to be made of clay," Gwen started to explain, "and when clay is heated up it goes hard and unmovable. Like pottery, you mould the clay and put it in a kiln to bake and harden."
"So if I use Heatblast to heat him up..." Harry worked it out as he realized what Gwen was getting at, "I could make him solid, giving us a chance to destroy the collar and defeat him! Well, I guess having a know it all geek as a cousin comes in handy." He joked.
"And being stuck with a brainless idiot makes me feel like a super genius by comparison." She fired back without hesitation smugly.
Harry snorted, "Nice. Anyway, we'd better hurry. We have at least ten minutes before this thing recharged and it'll be easier to hide when we're not out on the open."
And so the two of them ran to the Motel, where they arrived at the reception area and found that the receptionist wasn't about. Picking up a key from the back wall, one of the ones that was labelled not in use, Harry and Gwen left for the empty room. Arriving quickly but quietly they found almost nothing in the room. The bed had no blankets, since no one had ordered the room, and everything was slightly dusty.
As they sat on the floor waiting for the Omnitrix to reset itself, Harry noticed Gwen was shivering. Unsure whether it was cold or fear, he nonetheless got up and sat beside her, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and giving her a one armed hug. "Are you alright Gwen?" He asked lowly.
"Yeah, just cold..." She said back, just as quietly. She must not have sounded very convincing, because Harry gave her a look. "Fine, I'm afraid. When the giant robot attacked us yesterday I knew we would be fine and you would defeat it. It wasn't very creative and Diamondhead was too tough to be hurt by his attacks, but this clay alien, I'm not too sure about, he's able to reform himself. If fire doesn't work, or if the collar isn't actually the focus of his abilities we may... die."
"Gwen," Harry said softly, "we may not like each other and we may never get along, but you have my word I would never let us die without a good fight." Harry assured her Gwen.
As she slowly rested her head on his shoulder, Harry dearly wished he was as confident as he sounded. He didn't know how to use most of the aliens at his disposal and there were just too many unknowns to feel truly assured in their plan. Regardless, he ignored the momentary truce between himself and his cousin for a few more moments as he slowly build up his courage.
He jumped light when his watch beeped, the calming green glow filling the room. Harry got up, holding a hand down for Gwen to take. She looked at his hand before looking back up at him, "You tell anyone about this and I'm throwing you out of the Rust Bucket while we're on the interstate." before she took his hand.
He hoisted her up, looking at her seriously. "Gwen this isn't some Saturday morning cartoon. We're ten, we shouldn't be in a life or death struggle like this. It's okay to be afraid, to have doubts and falter. We'll get through this and we'll get better." He said firmly.
She took a deep breath before releasing it slowly. "Alright, yeah, let's do this."
Harry lead the way, opening the door slowly and looking back and forth down the hall. "And if you meant about us snuggling like that, why would I tell anyone I willingly subjected myself to cooties like that? I probably need to shower. In acid." He said with a cheeky smirk.
Gwen, despite herself, felt a burst of normalcy return to the grim situation and felt a small smile forming. "Shut it dork."
What neither of them would admit to each other, themselves or to others, was that they enjoyed snuggling to each other; it felt right to them, as if they were meant to be together. It was confusing for them, so they didn't say anything about it.
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"So, any ideas as to where we can find this clay alien?" Gwen asked in a whisper as she looked around the Motel area, seeing the guests returning to their rooms for the night, or taking a walk before they followed suit. "We don't know what this alien is capable of, he could become anything or anyone. How do we know he isn't one of these guests?"
"I know..." Harry shared her concerns as he scanned the area, "We'll just have to be careful. We may also want to go somewhere else. If a fight breaks out here people are going to get caught up in it."
They were about to leave towards the car park when the receptionist came up to them and said, "Where do you two think you're going? Your grandfather asked me to look out for you two."
"We were just checking on our RV and taking a walk before bed." Harry replied quickly.
"Fine, but don't be too long, it can get cold out here at night." The receptionist said.
"We won't." Gwen assured her before they headed towards the Rust Bucket. They made their way to the parking lot quickly and quietly, keeping their eyes peeled for anything strange or out of place.
It didn't take long to find the alien, or rather, it didn't take long for him to find them. They were still in the parking lot when Gwen jumped at Harry, pushing him out of the way as a spear of clay shot through the air where Harry used to be standing.
"Enough running!" The clay alien roared.
As the two preteens got up and turned to face where the attack came from to see their attacker; an elderly man with his right arm in the process of reforming. His angry scowl melted off his old face, with everything else along with it as he lost colour and definition, becoming the blob they'd seen in the forest.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Author's Notes: Here ends the next chapter of Harry Tennyson, this one isn't canon so I hope you like the first new work for this story. 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. And if you can come up with a better title for this chapter, please let me know…
I'm after some ideas for the fight that is about to happen, which will have two clay shape-shifters fighting each other before clay Vs fire. So ideas for the fight please, anything can go…
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'm planning to use a few aliens from Star Wars.
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 soon that it did in Ben 10 let me know and I'll add it if I is 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.