Author's Notes: Before we start with the story, I would like to point out a few things from the reviews and PM's that I got. The first is Mass Effect, it was pointed out that it didn't come out until 2007. I didn't know that, my beta reader put it in, so like a few times that I used something that wasn't in the same timeline, think that it was set in that timeline.
The second is about Harry's magic, I've already shown that he can do something in a form of a dream, and he'll have another show of magic in Kevin 11 where things will begin to change for Harry. The reason he hadn't shown much so far is because he had a good childhood and got what he wanted, so his magic wouldn't show that much. Both Harry and Gwen will be going to Hogwarts for at least two years.
As for the harem, I've got a few ideas who'll be in it, but it'll be some time before it happen and last for the lemons. The first will happen shortly after Kevin 11.
Chapter Twelve!
Camp Fear - Part 3 (From Season 2 Episode 7)
Arriving at the dig site XLR8 immediately noticed the increase in strange foliage. "This doesn't look good..." Harry muttered, he knew that he would need to act quickly before the world would become like this all over. So, acting with the haste needed for the situation, he hopped down the hole and shot ahead deeper into the earth in search of his Grandfather and the white veins Gwen had told him too look out for.
The blue vines and mushrooms appeared, but the vines were easily minced by his speedy claws and the mushrooms had no hope of catching him as he sped past and around them.
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Meanwhile, back at camp, Gwen and the others had reached the Archery Range. There they hid behind one of targets, but they weren't there for any longer than thirty seconds before Gilbert broke the silence with his fearful, overly loud voice. "I think that if we can get to Dinning Hall we can barricade ourselves in the kitchen and hopefully keep those things out."
"And what can we defend ourselves with if they get in, a spatula?" A panicked Andy whispered.
"Oh we're so dead meat..." Mandy moaned quietly, "I hate it, hate it here…" Just as she was saying this a huge mushroom tree appeared out of the ground and lifted the twins up. Before Gilbert could move to help them a mouth appeared at the top of the mushroom and swallowed them whole.
Thankfully Gwen spotted a bow and some arrows nearby. With a speedy grab she snatched the recurve bow and pulled back the arrow. Taking careful aim she loosed the arrow, which buried itself to the notch into the tree size growth. Luck was on her side and she must have hit something vital, because the mushroom deflated and collapsed. The twins, shaking but okay, scrambled out of its open mouth with Gilberts help. Before anything could be said more mushroom like trees started to appear and Gilbert yelled out, "Move it!" prompting the four to run.
They ran until they blocked by a rock climbing wall. They turned around to see the red mushrooms marching towards them in a mob. "We need to get to higher ground." Gwen said urgently, thinking that they could use the climbing wall.
"But the rock climbing wall is only for the older campers." Mandy protested.
"Call me crazy, but right now I think some camp rules are meant to be broken!" Gwen exclaimed as she saw the mob getting closer. The other quickly agreed and began to climb, taking Gwen's lead as she expertly grabbed each handhold and used the footholds to raise herself. As they got the top Gwen said, "We need to keep moving." Not sure if the mushroom could climb or not.
A quick check revealed a zip-line, which Gwen quickly made sure was prepared for use. She turned to see the twins arguing over who would use the first pulley. Gwen, not in the mood for their sudden fighting snapped at them. "Zip it you two! It doesn't matter who uses it first, there's enough for all of us."
Under her instructions Mandy took the first pulley, Andy taking the second, Gilbert the third and she finally took the last.
Halfway down the line Gwen felt the wire start to shake and bounce. She turned back to see the red mushrooms has climbed the wall somehow and were chewing on the line. She barely had time to yelp as the line was suddenly cut clean through. The four kids screamed as they fell, only to land on one of the mushroom trees. They rolled off of it, landing on another, and another, before they finally hit the ground.
Picking themselves up the ground shook as more red mushrooms surrounded them, sprouting from the ground. The twins took action, each grabbing one of the older two and dragging them quickly through the only opening in the mushroom's circle into a shed of some kind.
They slammed the shed door closed behind them, as if to close it even more securely, and found themselves in the camp's sports equipment storage shed. Andy turned on his twin and accused, "We wouldn't be here now if you didn't make us hide in the kitchen!"
"Me!? It was your idea in the first place!" Mandy argued.
"Well…" Andy sputtered, remembering just a few seconds too late it was his idea. "W-Well you didn't have to listen to me." He fired back lamely.
"Will you to stop it!" Gwen yelled, "Listen you two this isn't the time to argue, we need to stick together. Not to mention, if you didn't hide in the kitchen you could have been turned into fertilizer."
This made the twins look at each other and pale as they realized that Gwen was right. "Sorry." They both said to each other at the same time.
"Now that that's settled, pick something. We'll need something to fight our way out of here." She ordered as she picked up a baseball bat. The twins picked up the hockey stick as well as a sling full of other potentially useful tools. Gilbert on the other hand picked up the top half a pitching machine as well as a bag full of extra baseballs.
Once armed, Gwen kicked the door open and they ran out. They quickly learnt how easy it was to knock them down, or back. It was actually Gilbert who proved the most capable as he fearfully blasted the crowd of mushrooms, knocking them all over. Their stubby bodies took quite a while to finally flip back over so they had time to keep moving.
Their luck turned instantly as Gilbert's rash finally overtook his body and he rapidly became a red mushroom as well. Seeing this and how they were rapidly becoming surrounded without Gilbert laying down covering fire Gwen and the twins quickly dropped their weapons and made a run for it.
A few hundred feet later they found themselves at the lake with a boat nearby. Normally they would have taken the boat across the lake, but the surface of the lake was covered in fungus and they had no way of knowing if it could come to life and force them under the water, drowning them.
Ultimately Gwen decided to use the boat a battering ram to make a path for themselves with relatively little risk. They arrived at the mess hall, their arms aching but completely untouched, and barricaded themselves in the kitchen.
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As this was all happening Harry was looking down tunnels, some he found people in, but they seemed securely unconscious for now and he knew what to do he couldn't much, until he found Grandpa Max and dealt with the brain shroom. It wasn't long before he found Max, tied up in blue roots, and was cutting him free. "Hang in there Grandpa, you'll be free in a few." However, it was at that same moment that the Omnitrix decided to time out. "Not now..." He moaned as he returned to being human.
"Harry behind you!" Max warned, but it was too late. Harry barely turned before he was wrapped like a mummy in the blue vines. In the end, despite his struggling, he found himself stuck to the wall just like Max.
"Harry, can you reach the Omnitrix?" Max whispered.
"I'm trying Grandpa..." Harry said, finally managing to get a hand free. Reality made itself known and when he finally did manage to get his left arm free to check the Omnitrix it was red. "It needs more time to recharge."
What Harry and Max didn't know was that the Omnitrix wasn't just recharging, but it had also absorbed a chunk of the vine as it recognized the DNA of the planets and the Living Mushrooms from the planet known as Flors Verdance and Xenon, and was analysing what alien would help its user against the threat he was under. It was a few seconds later and when Harry hit the Omnitrix again in frustration that he began to transform.
Where Harry stood, now stood an alien with five vine-like legs, four long fingers on his hands and flytrap-shaped lips on either side of his head. He had blue coloured bulbs on his shoulders, and on his back were pods. His two eyes had fused into one large blue eye with no visibly pupil. The Omnitrix symbol was on the lower half of his long torso.
"What the heck is that?" Max asked in confusion. Whatever Harry had become he wasn't familiar with it. He couldn't remember a single incident when he was a Plummer where he encountered one of whatever Harry was.
"Beats me Grandpa..." Harry admitted. With a mental nudge his abilities seemed to act at random and his arms became thornier than any rose bush could ever hope to be, shredding the blue vines trapping him. "But I think I like what it does." Harry finished with a wide grin as he looked closer at himself to find his hands were naturally quite sharp. Seeing this, Harry began to but his Grandpa's bindings. Once he finished and Max was free, he immediately suggested they move on. "Let's get out of here Grandpa."
'You're not going anywhere.' A voice said from out of nowhere.
"Did you hear that Grandpa?" Harry asked, looking around.
"Hear what Harry?" The older man asked. Before Harry could say anything more blue vines appeared out of the ground and dragged them down into the ground.
They were pulled into a large hollow area of earth and came face to face with a... brain. Harry hadn't thought when the Mycelium was described as a brain it would mean literally. It looked like a human brain with a mouth suspended by a few hundred veins burrowed into the walls of the chamber, no doubt leading to thing used to control and order around all the Red Mushrooms on the surface.
'I can communicate to all vegetation telepathic level, you are no different.' Harry heard within his head. He gasped as he realized who he was talking to.
"You're the brain shroom!" He exclaimed.
'I would prefer Mycelium." The Mycelium replied primly.
"Harry, who are you talking to?" Max asked in confusion.
"Mr. Mushroom head down there. I think we're connected somehow or something." He said, not sure how to explain it as they were pulled closer to the Mycelium's mouth.
'Struggle me as you may, but you cannot stop me. Soon I'll transform your planet into my new home.'
"Not while I'm around." Harry claimed as his arms once more erupted with spikes, shearing through the vines holding him. His eye widened as he fell straight towards the Myceliums mouth, but his arm extended as caught himself on one of the veins above. As he was swinging one of the pods on his back was knocked free and fell. Just as Harry swung around the vein so he was standing on top of it he was just in time to see the seed explode, making a small crater on the Mycelium's body.
He filed the information away as he dropped and stated swinging once more to get to Grandpa Max. The Mycleium didn't seem to saw him as a threat though, and he got Max free and onto a ledge away from the battle without any resistance.
'As a plant, you can see the wisdom of sharing a single intelligence.'
"Oh hell no." Harry growled, "I've played WAY too many Shin Megami games to get into this argument. Time for some mindless boom, boom." He reached behind his back and pulled some of the pods off - which regrew instantly - before spinning around, launching the pods at random. He kept up the barrage, even if it was just making fairly small pock marks in the Mycelium, but also began slicing off the veins, taking Commander Shepard's approach and hoping to make it fall. The problem was the sheer number of veins though.
'Resistance is futile, even if you were able to defeat me, my spores will soon be released and spread around your world, and soon after I would be reborn. I offer you a deal, join me and I shall transform you into your current form permanently. You'll be able to rule the new world, answering to no one but me, and you can have anything you want, any mates you desire. What do you say?'
As much as Harry would like to deny it, the offer was tempting. The clincher was that he would need to become a plant forever though, an idea that Harry wasn't interested in. He liked being a mammal too much to be a plant, or any species aside from a human really, for any longer than he needed to be. "Sorry, but I'll have to turn you down. As for your spores, I'll deal with them right after I deal with you."
With a series of rapid beeps Harry was suddenly human again. Harry began to wonder if Fate, the Omnitrix or both just outright hated him as it became a horrible running gag that the Omnitrix would go off at the worst possible time. "Oh man, again?" Harry groaned.
Ten seconds later both he and his grandfather were tied up in vines again. Seeing as they were in the same situation they were ten minutes ago Harry sighed. "Sorry Grandpa."
"You did your best Harry, and if I'm going down I'm going to kick some fun out of this fungus." Max announced.
"That's it!" Harry suddenly shouted out as he remembered something from earlier.
"What's it?" His Grandpa asked with a confused look.
"Earlier you said the powder you gave me kills all kinds of fungus." Harry recited as he pulled his shoe off his foot, and kicked it into Mycelium's mouth, the excess powder he'd dumped into his shoes trailing behind like exhaust on a missile. And just like a missile impacting the Mycelium reared back as if struck, small boils beginning to appear on its body. Seeing Mycelium in pain Harry knew more powder would only help his cause. Using the brain's distraction and weakened grip to his advantage he managed to get the bottle of powder from his back pocket. Twisting off the top he hurled it into the things mouth like a grenade.
The boils exploded, showering Max and Harry in goop. As they were busy gagging at the smell and taste, the Mycelium shrivelled and died, dropping them. Fortunately they landed on its dying body instead of the hard unforgiving earth. Unfortunately, this meant they were covered completely in more slime.
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Meanwhile back at the Dinning Hall, just before Mycelium was defeated, Gwen and the twins were able to barricade the front door before heading to the kitchen, making it hard for the Red Mushrooms to get in. The mushrooms proved smarter than anticipated though, and instead of continuing the assault on the front entrance a group of them split off to break into the back door, which the trio hadn't had time to barricade yet.
As the mob approached them, their backs against their own barricade, Gwen pushed the twins behind her and prepared to hold out as long as she could. By some unseen signal the mushrooms charged, only to fall over as their bodies rapidly shrivelled up. Half of the mushrooms disintegrated completely, leaving nothing behind but some soil, but the other half left behind unconscious but seemingly fine humans.
"What… just happened?" The twins said in unison.
Gwen quickly got over her shock and a fond smile found its way onto her face. "Harry just happened…"
The trio carefully took down their barricade and entered the Mess Hall to find a similar situation. Some piles of dirt and some unconscious people. What was different was that Max and Harry standing in the doorway, their clothes filthy with dirt and slime, but other than that they were both uninjured. They were flanked by two dozen dazed children and adults, not all of which looking like campers, but just random people caught up in the mushrooms failed invasion.
Forgetting what he was covered in, still high on adrenaline from her potentially fatal last stand, Gwen ran up to her cousin and threw her arms around him, planting a kiss on his cheek. She quickly pulled back and blushed as she realized what she did. "Harry you did it." She cheered.
"Almost," Harry said, his cheeks tinged red as well, "we've still got the spores to deal with." He gestured to the stalks still covering the area. He perked up as a thought occurred to him just as the twins ran over. "Mandy, you and your brother said that everyone here gets Athlete's Foot, right?"
Mandy nodded her head, prompting Harry to ask, "Can you take me to the Nurse's Office please, I might have an idea."
And as Harry hoped, he found a cupboard full anti-fungus powder, but the problem was how to get where it was needed, "So, any smart ideas how we can spread this stuff around?"
"As a matter of fact, I might have an idea." Gwen said with a bright smile, as she learned in and whispered her idea to Harry. As he heard it, he too smiled and he turned to tell his Grandpa and the others to put the anti-fungus powder into a bag for easy carrying. Once that was done they told everyone they would be back later and they would handle the stalks.
Not soon after the still dazed campers could swear they saw a giant fly like creature with an orange haired girl flying around, but passed it off as a hallucination.
They were right though, as Gwen sat on Stinkfly's back, dumping the bottles of powder into the air where Harry's wings and the wind they generated kicked it around as they flew in a grid around the area. Killing off the spores before they could spread.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Author's Notes: Here ends the third and final part of Camp Fear arc of Harry Tennyson, as I said before this one is canon but is brought forward. In this chapter I just altered a few bits from the show, and reworked parts that didn't fit in the chapter. I hope you like what I came up with.
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? Positive or negative, I would like to hear what you think and what you would like to see 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. I'm planning to use a few aliens from Star Wars.
If it's not obvious already, 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 than it did in Ben 10 let me know and I'll add it if I is it fits with my timeline.
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.