Author's Notes: Now some people are saying that all I'm doing is that I'm only replacing the name Ben with Harry, for what reasons I'm not sure, all I can think of is because they're of similar personality - for now, that is going to change - and I'm using canon dialogue for some scenes. If that is the case I can see your point, but to defend myself, I would like to point out that there's not really a whole lot me and my beta reader can do right away. We do have plans for the future, but they really don't kick in any major way for a while.
Harry isn't abused in this like in canon, he's more normal and less... hesitant, to reach out to people. This Harry isn't anti-social like Canon-Harry was (though that sort of behaviour is fairly justified considering his situation) so he will be more open to making kid mistakes.
As for the accidental magic issues, from what I understand it to be, it happens when either when a child's live is at risk like Neville Longbottom's uncle dropped him off a balcony from at least the second floor and Neville bounced, or when Harry was running away from his cousin and friends and appeared up on the school roof. Another example I can think of is when child is upset, angry or really wants something to happen or wants something, accidental magic happens. This Harry has competent parents to back him up, so when he gets upset he knows he can just talk to them about it. Within reason, he's gotten everything he's wanted and had been treated very well. That was something that didn't happen with Canon-Harry, he had only himself to count on and his magic to look after him.
As for the Harry Potter part of this crossover, it doesn't even kick in until June. Magic will start to affect things in fairly major and hopefully interesting ways, but again, that's going to take time to happen.
I think that's mostly it. Well I suppose there was also the maturity issue. Ben was constantly holding the plot required idiot ball and almost got off on fiddling with the Omnitrix in ways that were clearly dangerous - prying off the stabilization ring with a screwdriver? Harry won't be doing stupid stuff like that, and episodes that are caused or started by Ben being an idiot are going to be modified or outright skipped altogether unless they need to happen for something. He will experiment with it to find out what the Omnitrix can do, but not in self destructive ways and will learn from his past mistakes - which Ben didn't even think of doing, or wasn't allowed to due to lazy writing and plot related reasons. Harry and Gwen will keep fighting and sniping at each other, but they're ten years old.
Chapter Thirteen!
Washington B.C. - Part 1 (From Season 1 Episode 2)
4th of June 2001:
Seeing it was late at night, Gwen, Harry and Max decided to spend the night at Camp Opinicon. Harry and Gwen were a bit surprised the people that were turned didn't remember the last few days, not even Gilbert remembered them, even though they just meet. Grandpa Max explained it could be that whilst being the Living Mushrooms, they could have been in some kind of coma. Max explained that in some cases comatose patients can have some fuzziness for a few days where they wouldn't be able to remember anything, but in time they would remember what happened. Max likened them to coma victims because he worked out, or just outright assumed, that the humans were kept in a coma-like state within the red mushrooms.
As for the ones who could remember what happened, they thanked them for risking their lives to save them and Camp Opinicon; having been told a modified story that left out Harry's ability to transform. By next morning they left Camp Opinicon to head to Washington, making good time, arriving in time for lunch. For the rest of the day the Tennyson's went sightseeing. This would have been pretty fun if Max hadn't been choosing where they went. All they visited were places that Harry thought were utterly boring, and even Gwen's faked enthusiasm was growing visibly forced after the fourth stop at the museum of toothpicks, which was depressingly the most fun location they saw because of all the free toothpicks they were given.
Now it was their second day in Washington when something exciting happened, though neither Gwen nor Harry was particularly happy about it since it came at the cost of an entire apartment building being on fire. The fire department wasn't there yet so Harry felt compelled to help. He would have stayed out of it, since it was a mundane threat and the firemen could have handled it, but until they arrived he could do what he could.
Slipping into an alley Heatblast appeared in a flash of light before he flew up into the building.
Heatblast had entered the flat just in time, the burning ceiling were about to collapse onto a mother and son. Harry caught the ceiling before it fell on them.
"Who are you?" The son asked as he stared wide eyed at the alien.
"I'm Heatblast, I'm here to save you." Harry introduced with a confident smile despite the strain of the ceiling. He inhaled, sucking in the fire in the room into his mouth. The orange parts of his body glowed brighter as his body temperature flared, but quickly calmed down. "Get out of here, when you're out of the room I can drop this and escort you out."
The mother was understandably apprehensive and wary about following a guy made of fire, but her son thought he was cool and scurried out of the room without a moment's thought. They heard a crash and a light wave of ash momentarily blocked their vision. When it cleared Heatblast was standing in front of them.
"This way." He instructed, only for his first step to cause the stairs to collapse, revealing they'd burned almost completely through. "Rrrright..." He drawled as he looked around for an alternate route. "Guess we're making our own way out." He proceeded to blast a whole in the nearest wall, grab the shrieking mother and cheering son, and jump to the street below, jets of flame slowing his fall.
Heatblast was about to leave before people could ask him questions he caught sight of a glinting gold card in the son's hand, something he'd been looking for a while. Rushing over he knelt down and asked excitedly, "Where did you find that Golden Sumo Slammer Card? I've been looking for one of those for ages!"
"They were prizes from boxes of Sumo Smack Cereal." The kid replied, happy to help his and his mother's hero.
That was when Gwen and Max drove up in the Rust Bucket and Max called out, "Heatblast, this was only a diversion for a real crime across town, a jewellery store robbery. Come on, the criminals are getting away."
"Unless they're aliens, or they're Meta Humans with superpowers, or someone's live is at risk, I say let the police handle them." Heatblast said. He helped because he could and a life was at risk, not because he had to. And for all he knew he could get in the way of a police investigation by interfering. Seeing the dark look that his Grandpa was giving him Heatblast grimaced and grumbled, "Fine, fine, I'm coming..." and he then turned to the kid and said, "See ya around kid, stay in school and don't do drugs, or whatever."
It didn't took long before caught up with the thieves, during which time Max was still giving his Grandson a dark look about his comment not long ago. His look broke as he sniffed the air, only to glance over and see Harry's seat smouldering. "I knew I should have installed asbestos seats when we had the chance." He remarked dully.
"I'm sorry Grandpa, but I can't help it," Harry apologized, only to grin stupidly, "I'm hot."
Gwen responds by spraying him with an extinguisher, "That was terrible and you know it. Out of all the aliens that you have on the Omnitrix, you had to pick one with the flaming butt."
Heatblast defended himself, "Hey, I picked Heatblast to save people from a burning building. I can't see the future!"
Instead of admitting he had a point she blasted him with the fire extinguisher again.
Harry sputtered, but before he could say anything Max saw the thief's car coming up. "Harry we're getting close…"
"Okay Grandpa." He said before he leaned out of the window and took aim. With a flex of hisn hand he launched a fireball straight at the car, managing to hit the back ties on the first shot.
"Bullseye!" He cried as he watched as the thieves' car careened into a brick wall. Getting out of the Rust Bucket, Heatblast approached the car and tore the door open and crushed it, "Now unless you want a permanent sunburn, you'll get out of the car and put your hands against the wall."
Considering he was a seven feet tall magma creature, the two regular and unarmed thieves nodded quickly and did as they were told.
Harry didn't notice him Omnitrix beeping, too busy making sure they did as they were told as sirens approached. "You guys picked the wrong day to become bad…" The Omnitrix flashed.
"...guys." He trailed off, noticing he was significantly shorter, and sounded like a kid again.
"Hey, it's just a kid!" The first thief cried. Annoyed, he turned to his partner. "Get the jewels and let's make a run for it."
Harry wasn't going to let them off when he did all the work to get them there, so he grabbed the one who was going to grab the bag of stolen jewels by the wrist and judo threw him back towards his partner. "You're not getting away."
The thieves weren't sure what to make of the kid, but before they could do anything the police arrived. "They're all yours officers." Was all Harry said as the police officers took the thieves away.
As they did, one of them said to Harry, "Step aside son, this isn't play time now."
"Play time, play time, I'm the one who caught them for you!" Harry said, annoyed and angry, but the cops took no notice of him and they placed the thieves into their cars and drove away. Once they were gone, Max told them they were going to the new M-Mart that just opened nearby. Harry just followed him wordlessly, annoyed and angry at what happened, throwing a muttered 'thanks' to Gwen when she told him he'd handled the situation very well.
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere Across Town:
As the Tennyson's were dealing with the fire and the thieves, a Landlord by the name of Roger Smith was knocking on the door to one of his apartments. This apartment belonged to Doctor Aloysius James Animo, a promising researcher in veterinary science, or something like that. Roger didn't know, or care, but from what he'd learned, Doctor Animo was doing well in his research, until about five years ago when he lost some kind award to another doctor by the name of Kelly.
That's when Animo rented this apartment, where from what he heard from his other tenants stayed and rarely left. From what his other tenants told him, Animo only came out of his apartment to do a few odd jobs, or to get items he needed, other than that he never left his apartment. Up to now this didn't bother him too much, as he was getting paid, but six months ago the payments stopped and today he was about to throw Animo out.
Back to the issue at hand, Roger knocked on Animo's once again and didn't get an answer, so he used his spare key to open the door. As he entered the apartment, he saw the place was full different animals in different cages and tanks. Also he could all sorts of science equipment, most he'd never seen before. 'What the hell is going on here?' Roger thought to himself. "Damn, this place smells like a zoo." He coughed, covering his mouth with his sleeve.
As Roger was looking around the house, a man with pale skin, no doubt due to lack of exposure to the sun, walked out of between the cages he was kneeling between.
Roger was startled by the sudden appearance, but the Doctor was unperturbed, instead demanding, "How did you get in here?"
"Key." Roger answered simply, "I am still your Landlord remember? Or maybe not, seeing that your rent is six months past due."
"All my funds is going towards my research," Dr. Animo explained himself, before pointing at the door and shouted, "Now get out of here so I can get back to my work. You're disturbing me…" was the last thing he said as he went to one of his tanks.
"It looks like you've been disturb long time before I got here pal." Roger commented, before he went on to say, "Listen here Doc, you and your furry friends will be out of the streets by sunset if you don't pony up the green."
"Pony up you say..." Dr. Animo drawled, "Interesting chose of words. You must be an animal lover, so you're going to love this." Animo added as he picked up a frog in the tank and placed it onto the floor, and then put a strange looking helmet onto his head.
Upon seeing this, Roger laughed uproariously, "You a member the moose lodge or something?"
"This is my Transmodulator," explained Dr. Animo as he pointed the gear on him, "Phase number one: it it accelerates at the genetic level. Observe..." He finished smugly.
As he said that, he turned the dial on his gear before the some rays come out of his helmet and hit the frog and the frog began to grow several time lager then normal and mutated, it now a few feet taller than Animo and gain two horns and an extra pair of eyes. The frog then grabbed Roger with its tongue and kept him in its mouth where Animo heard Roger try to say something. He laughed at the muffled sound. "I'm sorry, I can't hear you, but it sounds like you have you got a frog in the throat, or should I say it's the other way round?" He began to cackle louder as the mutated frog spat Roger out of his mouth and into the wall, knocking him unconscious.
Picking up a bit of an old news paper clipping, Dr. Animo said, "I'm so close to getting what is rightfully mine, all I need is a few lousy components and I'll be able finish my work."
"So whether your need from hair spray to electronics…!" Dr. Animo suddenly heard a peppy commercial on the TV, where it explained about the new Mega Mart that opened up. Seeing this, Dr. Animo said, "Ah, just what they doctor ordered…"
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Back with Harry:
It was about five minutes after arriving at the store from the crime scene, and the Tennyson's were at the new Mega Mart doing some shopping. During which Harry spotted large advertisements above the cereal aisle and the boxes of Sumo Smack cereal. He went to have a look while Grandpa Max was down the canned food aisle frowning at the canned octopus, and complained to himself, "I thought this store prided itself on a wide variety of things like this."
"Hmm Grandpa," Gwen hesitated to say, "No offence, but can we have some normal food too? Not just stir fried tentacles..."
"Nonsense Gwen, you don't know what you're missing." Max dismissed, "Now where do you reckon they keep the sheep bladder?"
Seeing that her Grandpa Max wasn't going to listen, she went off to find Harry to let him know. She found him down the cereal aisle, still looking at the Sumo Smack cereal, "Are you alright Harry?"
"Oh, Gwen, just the person I wanted to see." Harry said, breaking his hard stare at the cereal, "Would you mind if I brought a few boxes Sumo Smack cereal?"
"At the moment with the food that Grandpa is buying, I'll go for anything that isn't organic." Gwen said and Harry shuddered at the thought of what their Grandpa could be buying. "But why would you want to get so much?"
"Do you remember the kid I saved from the fire earlier?" Harry asked, to which Gwen nodded, "Well he told me about where I could find a Golden Sumo Slammer Card that I've been trying to find to add to my collection, and he said he found them in Sumo Smack cereal boxes."
Gwen could understand Harry wanting to add to his collection of Sumo Slammer Cards, she herself collected H. G. Wells books. She might not make a big deal about it, but she was a fan of his Science Fiction works, and she had The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau, just naming a few of them and was still looking for his other works. "No problem, just as long you can get some other food too." said Gwen, "I'll buy what I can too, but I haven't got much money. I wasn't expecting to be here after all."
"No problem Gwen." Harry said, and the two went off to get some edible food for the two of them before catching up with their Grandpa. He wasn't happy about them buying their own food, but seeing as they were using their own money, he couldn't say anything.
As they were going down another aisle Harry spotted a display of the whole collection of Sumo Slammer cards. Wanting to see them he turned and asked, "Do you mind if I have a look Grandpa?"
"No problem Harry," Max said with a smile, "we'll be down the pet aisle."
"See you in a minute then." said Harry as he walked off to see one of the collection sets. He chuckled as he heard Gwen groan, "Please don't tell me that you aren't looking for our breakfast?" Only to shudder as it was a very real possibility. Harry knew that with their luck, the normal food that they brought would run out and they wouldn't be in a place where they could get more and be forced to eat it.
As he was looking over the collection, his eyes sparkling as he eyed the three different golden cards, he couldn't help but breathe, "One day, I'll get one of you."
Just then the display, the shelves behind it and the floor began to shake as if there was an earthquake. Then the wall exploded and a hole was made. When the dust settled Harry saw a huge mutated frog hop into the store with a man with pale hair and skin on its back. For anyone else, this would be a strange thing they ever seen, but after seeing what he had over the last few days Harry thought it was a shocking breath of normalcy.
"Cool man." Harry said with a smile, finding the mutated frog neat, "Where can I get one of them?"
"I've created it." The man said with a smug smirk as he started to put things into his bag.
"Not that I care, but what do you think you're doing?" Harry asked.
As he asked this, the mutated frog used its tongue to knock the boxes behind Harry over, knocking them onto him. "Don't be a hero kid, just run along and play." The man said as Harry climbed out of the pile.
"Oh I wasn't going to." Harry replied as the man got on his frog, "being a hero isn't my thing. But -"
Before Harry could say more, two M-Mart security guards appeared and one of them shouted "Freeze, get off the err, frog, and put your hands up."
The frog rider just smiled as he had his frog jump away, as the same M-Mart guard reported what was going on, and what he looked like and how to find him. Harry went to find his Grandpa and Gwen, as he was worried about them.
Meanwhile, Max and Gwen were in the Pet Department, where Gwen was playing with a hamster that she was thinking of buying. It all happened so fast she barely knew what had happened, but a man riding a giant mutant toad had landed with a massive crash and turned the hamster that Gwen was playing with and a nearby parakeet into mutated things. They began to make chaos in the store.
As Harry followed the sounds of the chaos, he saw his Grandpa and Gwen running towards him, and the mutated forms of the hamster and parakeet hot on their heels. "Wow, I knew Grandpa ate some crazy stuff, but the irony here is just too sweet."
Backing up next to his Grandpa and Gwen, they watched as the frog man announced, "Behold, the genius of Doctor Aloysius James Animo! Nothing can stop me from getting what I deserve. Mark my words today I'll make history, or should it be pre-history." The man ignored the groans of Harry and Gwen and laughed at his own terrible joke.
"It would be a good time for a change Harry..." Gwen remarked.
"I know!" Harry hissed at her, "The Omnitrix decided it would be a good idea to take its sweet time recharging." Just as he said this, the mutated hamster roared at them, making them to run. The mutated hamster then jumped over Harry, knocking him over, cornering Max and Gwen. "I don't need to go alien for this furball." He said to himself, remembering that he wasn't totally defenceless. He'd defended himself before he got alien powers. Granted it wasn't against mutated hamsters, but still.
Seeing a basket of footballs and a motor scooter, an idea came to mind. Ho he picked up a football and threw it at the giant mutated hamster. He revved up the engine on the scooter and taunted above the engine, "Hey furball, come and get me if you can!"
Roaring in anger the giant hamster chased after Harry, who was zipping and driving between the shelves to avoid the furball from hell. Harry was doing well until the creature knocked down one of the shelves down, where he was forced to either stop or crash into it. Instead he chose to speed up as he saw an already tipped shelf. He hopped up onto the fallen shelf and launched himself over the hamster and hit the shelves behind it, in doing so knocking them down onto the mutant.
"Oh yes!" Harry cheered himself at a job well done, "Nothing can stop the might of Harry Tennyson." As he cheered Max smiled and Gwen shook her head, not believing that Harry could act so mature one minute, and so childlike like this the next.
"Fool, you can't stop me!" Dr. Animo cried, as he appeared on his mutant frog, "I'll turn Washington D.C in Washington B.C." Just then the mutant parakeet flew by and shattered a window. Dr. Animo followed on his frog and was out of sight within moments.
Just as they left, the manger of the store came out of hiding and said, "Thank you kid, you saved the store, if there's anything I can do to repay you, anything you want, it's yours."
"Well..." began Harry as he thought about the Golden Sumo Slammer Card, "How about a Golden Sumo Slammer ca-agh!?" Before he could finish Max picked him up and carried him off. "Hey!" Harry protested.
"Sorry Harry, but we don't have time for that." Max said, "we've got a giant parakeet to follow."
"It would have taken twenty second, tops!" Harry argued, "And I handled the Hamster as a human. I don't see why the police with their guns and training can't handle the bird..." Yet again his Grandpa gave him a dark look.
"Fine." Harry growled as he was set down, wordlessly following his cousin and Grandfather, highly annoyed.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Author's Notes: Here ends the first part of two of Washington B.C. 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.
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