Ben woke up the next day and remembered the life that he had lived till now he looked around his father and mother were sleeping of course they were sleeping i it was 5AM but to ben it had become an habit to wake up early everyday when he had to go and do plu missions.
Ben thought to the movement he was born.
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Ben saw an giant lady with blond hairs saying something and many people surrounding him he turned his head but for some reason it was a little hard to do so.
He felt himself getting picked up anyone else would be panicking but ben had trained with the plumbers so he remained clam thinking about one of the famous sayings 'let it happened around you, not to you' ben really liked this one it literally described what ben was.
Ben heard faint noises and then looked at his hands and saw that they were small...very small...like an 'child?' Ben thought, but nonetheless he remained clam it wasn't the first time that he had been de-aged first being when he was 10 another time which he doesn't want to remember.
Ben them thought about his last memories but it was a bit hard to recall them but he do remember dying so how is he here did someone de-aged him or maybe an cronosapeans or an Celestialsapien playing an joke on him.
None the less he'll work things out he squinted but it didn't helped then he felt him being moved and saw the blond lady pulling ben to her bringing him close to her chest 'oh oh'.
A few minutes ben was fed and embarrassed not humiliated but embarrassed.
'Wait is it an hospital, the lady breastfeeding me, me feeling a little slimy... have I not been de-aged but has time been reversed?, to an point before my birth?, but who would do that, the cronosapean law can't be broken that easily they guard time so that no one misuse the power for there own gain, only eon could do this but he was imprisoned in his own timeline'.
Ben was thinking as fast as his infant brain allowed him to but Ben couldn't figure it out.
Ben them looked at his wrist again and frowned he had noticed that the omnitrix was not there but he still felt its mental connection, it was there but it was faint.
It wasn't the first time he had been without the omnitrix but he had been never in an situation like this.
'I need to bid my time, observe and adapt, them make an quantum tunnel to send an message to the future' ben had used clockwork enough times to at least do that much, or maybe wait for rescue, some one must have noticed something wrong or to grow up so he can at least move his limbs.
Ben spent his early years observing as best as he could with the limited senses of an child and what little he had discovered was enough to surprise him.
First was that ben had not come travelled the date was the same as the day he had died just a little off by a few years.
It was the biggest shock but a while later ben stabilized himself, no one forgets there parents who raised them no matter whoever it is, well at least the ones who were mentally Alright, they were carbon copy of his parents even there habits were same, even there jobs were similar Ben's father was an engineer and his mom was an teacher, they even treated Ben the same way the only difference was that there was no Gwen which made him a little sad.
(for his mom I am making it up as for carl, we saw him saying that all his work got ruined when fighting vilgax which shows that he might have been an construction or engineer watch what if episode Goodbye and Good Riddance.)
The second was not that surprising but ben was caught off guard by it was that everyone on this earth had powers so ben theorized that he might have traveled to an alternate earth because it looked nothing like his earth looked.
Quirks was the name given to those powers while most of the people had normal powers only good for party tricks but some had devastating effects.
Some people became heroes some became villains ben was happy that people were willing to use them for good.
Third one was that Ben's parents worked at an artificial island called I island which was kind of like an safe heaven for scientists, and they lived at I island.
At age of 4 Ben's parents took him to the doctor who told him that he didn't had an quirk which honestly didn't bothered ben a bit he had faced beings like vilgax and even gods ever since he was an 10 year old and he couldn't always rely on omnitrix so it didn't matter.
But his parents were worried for him but he reassured them that he was fine, and that they shouldn't bother with things like that.
The fourth and last thing that hit ben hard was that he figured out that he was dead in his old world now his memory was coming back bit by bit and ben remembered his death his family his successor, which made him clam but also made him a little lost he couldn't just go back to his world and say "hey I didn't die but was reborn in an alternate universe and build an machine which I used to come back haha".
Ben looked at his current parents who were working and thought 'my life at there has ended everyone is happy there but if I suddenly disappear what will happened to them'.
'Its not like they will be in trouble, my kids that is, it was always meant to be that I die of old age but here I am there son and I cant just make them lose there only child. Ben decided to make these parents here in the present happy.
(Ben is an experienced adult so he knows when to let go and when not to, his original family is fine, I'll give an better reason in later chapters).
Ben then went to an school for his elementary studies.
"Now ben I want you be be on your best behavior and make sure to study properly ok" Ben's mom said to him.
"Ok mom" little ben said no matter which ben it is ben always hated studying.
Ben went to his school it was an fine school clean good food good teachers ben was actually starting to like school for once.
Ben did normal in school though he didn't pay enough attention he still got A+ or B+ in his tests, there were some kids who wanted to bully him for not having any powers but he put them in there place he always hated bullies.
In an class there teachers asked what do you want to become when you grow up.
Ben looked at the sheet and started to think while ben couldn't use the omnitrix because it was rebooting it didn't mean it'll be like that forever.
'Do I still wanna be an hero? At first I fought bad guys because of the thrill but then after all the self destruct fiasco I became serious but this world has it's own heros so I don't think that this world will need ben 10" ben thought.
'while I could easily use my power like I did when I was ben 10,000 to end all crimes but I don't know i wanna do something else being the bearer of omnitrix was tough job so maybe I can try something else and later be an hero whenever I want, its not like they will know it's me I've got over a million forms'.
'Besides if I Seriously do hero work I can only see it going two or three ways. First I might make all the heroes out of business. Second the world government will be scared of me' ben had been president of earth for 3 years so he knew politics personally.
'Third I hold back and just chill beating bad guys whenever I see and relax' ben thought.
'But I wanna do something new' ben groaned 'I can do something new and be an hero" ben nodded.
"Confused over what to write" an voice asked ben "I am too".
Ben looked back and saw an girl with pale green eyes and some what pale white skin
"Uh huh" ben said "I just don't know there are many choices".
"Really" she looked surprised "I thought that that you might write hero or maybe scientist".
"Well while I don't mind studying but I don't think that I could deal with for my entire life so no scientist as for heroes sure they are cool but I wanna try something new and fun" ben said.
The girls eye flickered a little but nobody noticed that "is that so" she said "anything coming to your mind?".
"I don't know but I am thinking of starting an fast food joint which serves smoothies, burgers or fries" ben told her.
Ben heard an laugh and looked at the girl "hey don't laugh at it, I am telling you by the time I am thirty I'll make it into an world famous brand" ben said.
'There is no Mr. Smoothies' ben gritted his teeth.
"Don't worry I am not laughing at you ok?, it's just a bit Surprising that someone would like to make smoothies for there future job" she said while covering her mouth doing an horrible job of hiding her laughs.
"Hey" ben said a bit offended.
The girl went back to sitting normally "don't worry I think that it's an good dream" she said "I am Brenna".
Ben looked at her once more "ben Tennyson" he said "what are you gonna write".
"Secret" she said.
Ben looked at her "well played well played" he said confusing her.
Just like that things were going smoothly ben had 2 friends one was was Brenna and other was an guy called jack.
Things were good during elementary school expect that sometimes Brenna acted a little weird but nothing too bad, jack was an cool friend for ben to have they played a lot and everything.
Then came the middle school, unfortunately ben had to part ways with an friend of his and that was Brenna. But they still remained in contact through there computer she wanted to go to I island's main academy where they teach future scientists, so she went there, jack and ben both were a little sad but nonetheless wished her good luck in chasing her dreams.
That's when ben made an mistake during the middle of his 1th year at middle school. which he regretted for majority of his life, it wasn't anything of significant but the things that followed through it were a bit problematic for ben.
It all started on an normal morning when ben ben was getting ready to go to school, he was late so he ran like hell around his house.
"Mom did you see my papers you know for the project which the school gave us to finish you know about the earths gravity and stuff" ben screamed.
"Oh that son I think that I saw them below your bed" carl Ben's father said.
"Thanks dad" ben said "you're the best" and ran to his room and pulled an box from under his bed.
And looked through them. "There it is" ben saw some papers with some papers with his name on them and he picked them up and placed them on his. But what ben didn't knew was that he had unknowingly picked up some extra papers which were just below them and placed them together.
"I am going" ben said and ran to his school.
Ben thankfully reached his school on time and managed to give his papers on time.
Later that day teachers lounge. The teachers were grading papers and talking among each others.
"So" an male teacher asked his friend "how are the students this year".
"Everyone is fine expect Tennyson" he said.
"Tennyson why he doesn't seem like an bad kid".
"Its not that, it's just that cause he is Quirk less the other kids bully him" he said "and then he ended up beating them up not too badly but then they call us to complain that he is beating them up and to expel him".
"Ohh".
"But the worst part is that Tennyson is right and they are wrong so I am struck in an rock and an hard place" he groaned and let out an frosted breath.
The other guy tried to change the subject seeing how troubled he was "so I heard that the 1th year kids got an project that will be seen by an professor of I-academy" he said.
"Yeah man these kids don't know how lucky they are" he said "really in our time we would've killed anyone for an chance like this".
The other one agreed with him "yeah" they looked at the projects "it's about the gravitational waves, isn't it" he said.
The other one nodded, they spent some time talking and parted ways the first one then copied the files of the project and E-mailed it to the professor from the academy.
"Man finally I am free" he said and walked away.
At the academy night time.
At an office we see an man sitting on an chair, looking over papers.
"Man what an pain, these stupide publicity stunts get in the was of my work" he grumbled.
"Well Sam its not that bad you know" an voice said "these kids look up to out work".
"I know Dave but still it doesn't change the fact that it's a pain" he said said he looked over the files.
"Don't sweet the small stuff" Dave laughed "how about this after you are done I'll take you drinking.
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"Sam" he saw Sam looking at the computer intensely "what's wrong?".
"Look at this" he said.
Saved looked at the screen and what he read shocked him "this is!" He said "where did you get it" he asked.
"That middle school project that I was talking about" he said a bit hesitantly, he couldn't believe what he was seeing an kid wrote that?
"What" he screamed "but how".
"I don't know".
"We should probably contact them about it" Dave said.
"Agreed" Sam replied, if an middle school kid could write this then his potential would be immense, that is if it was an kid who wrote those papers and they were not mistakenly mixed to the report by someone who wrote them.
At Ben's house ben was sleeping thinking what to do next day it was Sunday so he was thinking of exploring the island.
"Bennn!, the food's ready".
"Coming mom" ben screamed.
Ben walked downstairs his house was an normal 2 story house with all the stuff which one might need.
Ben ate his food and ran out of the house he would've checked weather aliens existed or not on this reality but the omnitrix was rebooting so ben couldn't or else he wouldn't used jetray or chromastone to travel light years away to check.
"Man" ben stretched "sometimes a little normal is not that bad".
Ben smiled and jogged around the main park on the island for a few hours and sat took out his phone and saw that it had some messages he looked over it and smiled a little, it was Brenna, she had sent an pic of the lab which she was given and another selfie with the lab in the background, the lab was in different shades of blue and an large white table which had equipment for her.
"Nice" ben typed.
"Right I mean look the have an personal lab for every student, I mean that's crazy isn't it" she typed.
Ben's eyes went wide "that's crazy".
'They give personal lab to every student, man that's crazy' ben thought 'they must be rolling in money'.
"But cause of that we all get personal space, so we can work with full concentration" she typed.
"And that's not even the most crazy thing" she typed "do you know who is attending with me?" She asked.
"No?" Ben replied but he could tell that she was excited.
"Its the daughter of the one and only David shield" she typed with bold letters.
"Who?" Ben asked.
"WHO?" Ben could imagine the fury on her face which made ben shiver.
"Its David shield" she typed "The David Shield, the scientist, his research is second to none. He is the All Might of scientific world".
"How could not know him, he literally like my god I mean have you seen his research papers there weight is in gold".
Ben's eyes twitched.
"Ding
Ding, ding.
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"Bloody hell!" Ben looked at his chat which was filled with links of papers, awards and biographies.
"Oa that's too much" ben typed.
Then they stopped.
And after an second an message appeared
"Ahahhahah sorry about that I just lost control" she said "sorry about that".
"It's fine actually it's kind of cool that you are so passionate about something but thay was too much even I'll admit but I understand you" ben wrote.
"Right so I was talking about Melissa right? her name is Melissa Shield I mean she is an genius more so than me".
Ben raised an eyebrow at that, Brenna was smartest human he knew more than Gwen and she was saying that this Melissa character was better than her ben knew that she was an very prideful person especially when it came to her intelligence.
"Is that so?" Ben asked.
"Yeah" she sent an nodding emoji "I mean she had won so many awards, I had an friendly talk with her, she is really amazing".
"Is that so" ben was happy that she was enjoying herself.
"I gotta go, I need to go to school for an project" she typed.
"Good luck" ben typed.
Ben learned back and looked at the sky 'what an I doing? Everyone is living there dreams but here i am without any'.
Ben thought to his life.
'Man it was crazy wasn't it first animo then the bounty hunters, vilgax's droned then him, then hex and charm caster then the forever knights then the negative 10, kevin though he changed sides with us, the high breed, then albedo, aggragor then daigon, then the annalauerge still cant pronounce it, eon then maltraut and many small or big ones in between but each one could at least destroy the earth'.
Ben smiled with noglesta remembering his time as an hero 'man it was fun' bel looked at the earth the dirt below his feet and traced his finger on it.
'Filled with crazy adventures not a week went by without someone wanting to kill me'.
'But now what is it that I want' ben thought and looked at the dirt on his hand 'all this power but nothing do with it'.
'What is my next dream I achieved the dream of being an hero before but what now being an full time hero again just doesn't sit right with me, I spent 100 years as an hero now I wanna do something different'.
"Ahh man" ben said a little loudly.
"Maybe I should be an hero again".
"Again?" an voice said making ben look at its source.
Ben looked and saw an man with blond hairs with two locks in front he looked in horrible health he was very skinny that ben could see bones on his face and his eyes were sunken.
"Pardon" ben asked.
"Nothing" he said.
Ben looked at him suspiciously and walked away.
The sun was right above him making ben a bit thirsty 'what to do, man I miss the time when I was really an kid at that time I didn't need to think about anything but now that I have lived my life and have been granted another one I cant help but think what should I do'.
Ben stopped by an vending machine and got an cola and walked to an railing and looked down.
"So many people doing things like robots again and again never stopping only getting small feeling of appreciation and happiness but still walking non-stop, just for the little things that life gives them, for the little things they shoulder an immense weight" ben drank from the can.
"A bit bitter for an kids tastebuds" he said, ben crushed the can within his plan ben wouldn't deny it he was a bit frustrated his mind was of an experienced old man but his body was that of an kid with all the hormones and instincts of am kid.
"Why was I given this chance there were no regrets that I had I was happy I saw my future but this had not happened me being reborn so why am I here" ben gritted his teeth "why I need answers".
"Where are you paradox, I need answers" ben said.
"Why me when I had come terms to my death, if I had wanted to live then I could've become immortal by myself but I didn't so why am I here, it it you starboard or galactic gladiator".
'What do I want' ben thought 'I guess that I'll let life take me where ever it takes if I a, not happy than I'll just be back to hero'.
Ben walked back to his home.
The next day.
Ben went to his school, ben didn't knew what had happened but ever since Breanna went away jack was a bit distant from ben sure they were in diffrent class but even then he never responded to ben and didn't replied to his messages.
Ben knew that he was mad at something but what ben didn't knew.
Ben walked past the school gates and went to his classroom but before he could reach it.
"Benjamin kerby tennyson, report to the principal's office" the speaker's announced.
Ben got a bit confused he didn't did anything he was not like his younger self so why would they call him he didn't made any trouble.
Ben shrugged and went to the principal's office it was a bit far so it took ben a few minutes to reach there.
He told the desk that he was called and opened the door.
"Sir you called me?" Ben asked.
"Ahh Benjamin there you are" he said.
The principal was an man on his mid 40s with some white hairs on the sides and an trimmed beard he was an fit man standing at 6 foot.
Next to him was an unfamiliar man who had a belly.
"Ahh ben your paper impressed the professors at the I-Academy so much that they came here right away" he said with an smile.
'What but I wrote the normal stuff nothing that they didn't knew' ben was surprised.
"Hello I am samuel abraham I must say that I was I pressed with your paper" he said extending his hand for an hand shake.
Ben nodded and shook his hand.
"Can I ask what impressed you" ben asked cautiously.
"Why of course the start was normal but the last 4 papers were the most impressive you explained the concept of anti gravity vehicles not only that you also gave the equation though it was not complete but the fact that you can write just that much is phenomenal" he said smiling wildly.
'Wait anti gravity, equation? The papers?' Ben thought but then realized something that shook him 'I didn't did what I think I did, did i?'.
He showed him the paper and ben went to straight to the last 4 pages and 'kill me' were his thoughts.
These are the ones that I wrote to make the, the time machine' he thought.
'I need to make sure that nothing bad happens' ben screamed 'if anyone solves it any further it'll spill disaster'.
They talked about ben going to the main academy of the island while ben was thinking 'I can fix this, I just need to know if they have any other copy or not and tweak it a little then it'll just turn into the formula of flying cars which they already have,,, well they are more like hover cars but they are very expensive and not efficient too expensive to maintain'.
"Well son what do you say?" Samuel asked.
At that ben said the obvious "of course it'll be an honor".
'Bloody hell it'll be an major pain where is paradox when you need him' ben cursed himself.
'Good by easy life and welcome hellish work'.