A woman ran through the forest, she was young about late teens to her very early twenties. She grabbed her arm, it stung, like someone burned her or stabbed her. She eventually tripped on a log since she was in a scattered state of thinking.

She quickly got up only to see a bright ball of golden light looming above her, what should've been a shining beacon of hope for her to escape was nothing like that. Dread filled her entire body as she gazed upon the figure.

"S-S-Stay away!", she fell to the floor, barely dodging a blast of golden energy. She looked at her hands, her dark skin began to turn white as she progressively became skinnier.

"This should've been a simple drain, but you know too much to be left to your own devices.", the figure said in a smooth voice, it radiates confidence and almost egotism. She couldn't even scream, her body became so frail, so weak, the energy that once inhabited the lively young woman was gone.

"Off to another town for another scene... where was I going next again?", the humanoid within the golden ball of light scratched his chin as he thought. "Ah! Right! My hometown, Bellwood."

Alex was chilling out on the top of a roof as Charmcaster laid down behind him, slightly annoyed at the slurping sounds he made as he was eating blood sausage. "Oh my god can you shut up?", she sat up annoyed.

"No.", Alex said bluntly as he kept munching into it. "... okay fine.", he suddenly got a series of beeps from the Omnitrix. He placed his blood sausages down and pressed the two buttons, a holographic screen came up with several icons displaying different things.

He pressed the one with a phone and immediately was met with the icon of his grandfathers. "Hey gramps, wassup?"

{"Ah nothing, me and Max are going on a fishing trip and he was wondering if you'd take Gwen to meet up with an actor."}

"Why can't Sunny? She's Gwen's sister after all."

{"Because I don't trust Sunny."}, Max's voice suddenly came up. {"Should I tell him?"}

{"No, I'll tell him. His main concerns is her going missing, due to something brought to our attention. Did you hear of the girl that went missing?"}

"Which one?", Charmcaster asked confused.

{"Exactly. A strange pattern is that they all disappear after the rehearsal, and they never come back until months later and that's the tame part of it. We need you to keep an eye on Gwen."}

"Sure thing.", Charmcaster said before Alex could even utter a word and hung up for him. "Let's go, if it's involving my adorable little student I'm obligated."

Alex sighs before shoving the rest of the blood sausage in his mouth and gave her a thumbs up. "Alright, I'm in."

"I would've dragged you with me anyways.", she says as she was covered in a blue aura. "Race ya there?"

Alex smirked as he transformed into Drag Racer. "I'll give you a head start."

"Asshole.", Charmcaster smirks as she flies off at high speeds with Drag Racer counting in his head.

"Me and Ship could be doing literally anything else, like trying to upgrade my consoles again, going around being the great superhero duo. But nooo, now I gotta deal with you.", Ben said as Ship was in his backpack mode. The former was less than pleased at something.

"Ben! It's Micheal Morningstar! He's the golden boy of Hollywood, of course I want to see him.", Gwen said with a surprising level of glee in her mood. They were suddenly met with a strong gust of wind as they looked and saw Drag Racer, with Charmcaster landing right next to him a moment later.

"I gave her a thirty minute head start by the way.", Drag Racer said as he detransformed... then was slapped on the back of the head. "Soooo... where are we going anyways?"

"They're filming a scene at Mitch and Micheals, I wanna go over and meet him while I still can!", Gwen said as Charmcaster was... well she was confused.

"What's so special about this guy anyways?", Charmcaster tilted her head curiously.

"Micheal Morningstar isn't just some GUY! He plays Sebastian Belmontez, the romantic hero of the best novel series turned movie. The Un-Alivers!", Gwen exclaims with a smile.

Gwen immediately noticed the look of just... confusion on not only Charmcaster's, but Ben, Alex and even Ship's faces. "Y'know, it's about two star crossed lovers. There's Alissa who's a werewolf and Sebastian being, well, unalive."

"That sounds... boring.", Alex says crossing his arms.

Gwen crosses her arms. "You don't know what's good.", she says as she flips up her hood. "Let's just go."

Thankfully, the walk wasn't really too far and was about a twenty minute walk. The only bad part was Ben complaining about how long the walk felt like, which Gwen and Charmcaster quickly stopped by covering his mouth with a bind.

The four made it onto the immediate area of the set, which was obviously boarded off to prevent random people from walking in mid shot. Gwen pulled on the strings of her hood as she saw Micheal Morningstar.

Micheal is a tall, handsome young man in his late teens with blond hair, light blue eyes, dark eyebrows, and pale skin. He wore a grey sweater and khaki pants underneath a brown overcoat, along with a purple piece of cloth wrapped around his waist and a matching scarf. He seemed to be acting out the scene with his co-star.

Charmcaster felt a noticeable difference between him and a majority of the people around him. That's when he stared at her... no, not her. He was staring at Alex with a challenging glare, with the latter returning the glare with his own.

The two stared at each other, almost sizing each other up before Micheal quickly turned his attention to Gwen then back to his agent, resuming the conversation as if nothing had happened.

"I feel like he dislikes me.", Alex says crossing his arms.

"You guys need to get outta here.", said a security guard. "You're disrupting the filming process."

And they were promptly kicked out, much to the delight of the cast and crew. And much to the displeasure of Gwen, who rolled up into a little ball and rocked herself back and forth.

"Wanna go get Chili fries now?", Ben asks his friend, who was basically his brother at this point.

"Fuck yeah."

Charmcaster sat down next to her and patted her protégé's back. "Are you okay, Gwenji?"

"No.", Gwen's voice was muffled, along with sounding sadden. "I really wanted to meet Micheal Morningstar."

Charmcaster immediately got up and shook Alex by his shoulder. "Alex, you're helping her."

"Man why do I have to stay? You're more of a body guard for her than I do.", Alex said as Charmcaster crossed her arms.

"If there's something bad that happens to her, it's going to be both of our faults.", her eyes glowed pink as she telepathically spoke to him

With this in mind, Alex relented. "Okay okay.", this resulted in a groan from Ben and a yelp of excitement from Gwen. "But we're doing it how I want to."

Seconds later, Weedstalk lowered Gwen down from a tree as Charmcaster and Ben lowered themselves down with the use of their abilities/equipment. "Did you just not read the sign 'Authorized Personnel Only'?", Gwen asked as Weedstalk shruged.

"I'm a vine, vines don't read."

"Alissa. I need you to look at me, and only me.", Micheal said putting on a slightly different tone of voice as he held the hand of Alissa's actor.

"Oh my-"

"Geez.", Ben, Weedstalk and Charmcaster sighed as the giant plant detransformed in a green flash.

"Your light,... it makes mine shine brighter.", Micheal said as Charmcaster, Alex and Ben immediately noticed something. A faint golden glow from Micheal, which thus traveled to Alissa, she became slightly skinner along with bags appearing under he eyes.

"CUT! Good job everybody, onto the next scene!", said the director. Micheal immediately got up and walked off.

"I'm gonna go to m-my trailer now.", Alissa said weakly as she struggled to stand up.

"I'm not going crazy right?", Alex asked as he looked at Ben, who shook his head.

"He's coming this way! Hide me!", Gwen immediately hid behind the three of them as Micheal approached them.

"Hey dude, can you sign my cousins forehead so we can get out of here?", Ben asks rudely as Micheal didn't even register him, staring at Alex for the briefest moments and then pushing past them.

"Jerk.", the three said collectively, with a small growling noise coming from Ship.

"You again, you just be a pretty big fan if you climbed back in after getting kicked out. Nice.", Micheal said, his voice much smoother.

"Y-Yeah, sorry about my friend, he has a bit of a staring problem.", Gwen says nervously as her face turned red.

"Nah that's fine, shows me how devoted you are. I love the attention.", Micheal said as Gwen began feeling weak for the briefest of seconds.

"Mike, that stunt you wanted is a bit too much.", the director abruptly interjected.

"My fans expect big stunts. And if you won't do it then I'll find a director WHO SHARES MY VISION!", a glow radiated from Micheal, the director quickly went weak and almost fell, quickly running off as soon as she gathered his strength.

Ben narrowed his eyes as soon as he noticed his cousin was having trouble balancing. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah... just a bit dizzy.", Gwen said as Hope eyed Micheal who sat in his chair.

"QUIET ON THE SET! ACTION!", the director said in a megaphone.

A blue sedan drove through the track they very recently constructed... however it hit a strong turn that sent it tumbling. The car crashed upside down as it caught a flame, sparking a quickly rising fire. "Who has this?", Ben asked as both he, Gwen and Charmcaster put their fingers on their nose.

"Motherfuckers.", Alex said as he activated the Omnitrix and erupted in a green flash.

The man was quickly ripped out of the car by Mean Streak, tossing him off and threw the car into the air as it exploded. "You... you saved my life.", said the stunt driver.

"Uh... no problem?", Mean Streak cocked and eyebrow

"CUT! I smell an Oscar!", the director sprung up as the news crew present there quickly ran over.

Micheal jolted out of his seat and caused a strong golden aura to radiate from his body, his skin turning yellow. "STOP IT! IM THE STAR OF THE SHOW!", his shout caused the lights to blast back.

"Wow, what a temper tantrum.", Charmcaster said with a tinge of amusement.

"Can it you little broad!", Micheal shouted at her which, he walked away with two of his fan girls waving him over.

"What's your favorite color?"

"Blue."

"Favorite food?"

"Too many good choices.", Mean Streak answered each of these questions while flexing his muscles, much to the amusement of Ben.

"And then I said, 'do you even know who I am'?", Micheal jokingly said which earned a fake laugh from his fan girls.

"Mr. Morningstar, I am super sorry about my friend and her boyfriend!", Gwen bowed respectfully as this immediately caught his attention.

"Boyfriend... you mean that tiger guy?"

"Ok, off topic question. Did Alissa ever think Sebastian was unalive? Y'know since her werewolf state has a heightened sense of smell?", Gwen asked as this earned a laugh from Micheal.

"You actually like this shit? Don't you think it's a little bit silly? I mean it's about a boy and a wolf, who kiss.", Micheal says with a large grin on his face.

"I, uh, gotta go.", Disappointed with his answer, she turned to leave.

"Hey hey, why are you leaving? I wanna hear more about your two friends. Like what's their deal? What's their ultimate weakness? At least stay for lunch.", Micheal said as Gwen did a quick 180.

"But you didn't touch your food.", Gwen tilted her head in confusion.

"Oh, I don't eat food.", Micheal said as his blond hair stood up, his skin turning yellow as his pupils turned into blue slits. Yellow energy was being sucked out of his two fan girls, turning them skinnier and possessing white skin. "I eat humans."

Gwen quickly got into a stance, summoning two blue halos with a cat engraved onto them. "What are you?"

"I'm the protagonist of this story. You and all of the others are just background characters, here to make my star shine!", Micheal said with a deranged grin as Gwen felt weaker suddenly, she saw blue energy coming from her body and into Micheal. "Ooooo, tangy. Much better quality then these street rats.",

"Hey! Glow worm!", Micheal was suddenly tackled by a Ship-armor wearing Ben Tennyson. "The heck are you even doing to her?"

"I was sucking up some of her admiration!", Micheal said as he kicked Ben off him, levitating in the air as he crossed his arms. "You really wanna try messing with me? Do you even know what you're dealing with?"

"Lemme guess, energy draining vampire that enjoys the worship of his fans?", Ben listed off as he grew canons from the arms.

Micheal took a moment to pause. "Wow... that's actually pretty spot on. Ah whatever, who gives a shit, I'll turn you and this little friend of yours into dust!", he said as his turned sharp as he blasted him.

"In your dreams loser!", Ben met his energy blast with a blast from his cannon. This held it off for a little bit before Micheal appeared behind him and roundhouse kicked him sending the armor wearing hero skidding back then firing a series of missiles at him.

"Oooo, flashy!", Micheal grinned as he effortlessly redirected the missiles back where they came from. Suddenly, Ben disappeared and grabbed him by the neck. "What in the-! How dare you!", he blasted him away. His eyes widened as he put his arms up, guarding the barrage of missiles.

"Little shit dares to hurt the talent?!", Micheal growled as yellow energy came from the trees near them and into his body. "I'm going to consume every single person here!", he said as Ben blasted at him relentlessly. An energy bubble surrounded him as he let out a high pitched yell as he drained the energy from the nearby people.

Back on the set, Charmcaster effortlessly dodged the advance of one of the fan girls, who have recently gotten up and tried to attack them. First thing they noticed is their incredible level of strength

Mean Streak looked at his body, he saw his body becoming skinnier and skinnier. "LEMME TELL YA SOMETHING ENERGY COMING FROM ME! GET BACK IN HERE!", a red aura began leaking from his body, though he did notice the news reporters falling to the ground. "HEY! MEAN STREAK DIDNT SAY YOU COULD PASS OUT!"

"Hey! Kitty cat! No time to get mad now, turn into something else!", Charmcaster called out to him from above.

"NOBODY CALLS MEAN STREAK A KITTY CAT! BUT IMMA DO IT ANYWAYS!", Mean Streak roared out as he erupted in a green flash, transforming into Dying Silence. He immediately felt... better? More lively in a sense. "What just happened?"

"Micheal's absorbing the life energy of these people to feed his power.", she said as she dodged a blue energy bolt from someone. They turned their attention to a group of the crew and even the female costar, they all appeared deathly pale and sparked with blue energy.

Dying Silence extended his sharp, black claws. "I'll hold 'em off, you go deal with that one.", he said as Charmcaster smiled at him.

"I'll save the humiliation for you.", Charmcaster says with a wink as she flew off.

Dying Silence felt something... a whisper in the back of his head. Almost instinctively, he created a blue energy from his hand and caught the 'Zombies' in their tracks with a telekinetic grip. He peeled back the hood of his cloak.

"Sleep."

Back with the others however, Ben unleashed a barrage of missiles at Micheal, who effortlessly dodged them and simply threw one right back "You're out of your league brat! I dunno why, but I'm feeling stronger and stronger by the second!", Micheal exploded with yellow energy, Ben turned his head to see Gwen on her knees, her energy being drained from her.

Micheal felt a swift kick to his neck, causing him to stumble back before a rocky fist sent him hurdling into his trailer. "Ben, get Gwen away from here. Micheals-"

"Absorbing her energy, I know.", Ben said as he picked up Gwen. "WATCH OUT!"

"There's no need to yell-", she was cut off as Micheal slammed down from above, Ben readied an arm canon... before he got a clearer image of what happened. Charmcaster was quite literally sitting on Micheal, much to his bewilderment. "See? There's no problem here."

Micheal grinned as he pushed her off him, quickly turning around to grab her face but she effortlessly ducked underneath. He got on all hands and performed a cart wheel kick. "Y'know, since my precious student was hurt I think I'll show off for a bit.", Charmcaster said as her body glowed pink.

Micheal began attacking her erratically before this arm was caught by her inhumanly strong grip which was followed up by a backhand. As Micheal was sent stumbling back, he thought to himself. "Is she just this incredibly fast... no, it's gotta be something else."

With one powerful blast of air, Micheal was sent soaring into the sky. "Damn extras! You never learn!", Micheal roared out as he propelled himself back and unleashed a powerful beam of energy at them. He ceased once it made contact. "I was gonna absorb your energy, but you made a mockery of me! Whenever dares to harm the protagonist is gonna pay dearly for that!"

His eyes widened as Charmcaster had stood there with a barrier erected. She looked at her fingers and counted. "That should be time, alright Alex! Tag in!"

"The hell are you going on about you ugly bitch-?!", Micheal yelled out in anger as he was suddenly hit in the face with a strong strike from Muscle Bound, sending him hurdling away.

"Alright I got this, go help those zombies over there.", Charmcaster returned this with a thumbs up before she, Ben holding a barely conscious Gwen went over to the pile of 'Zombies'.

"She's definitely gotten better at hand to hand fighting, you on the other hand? You suck, don't you know you're supposed to turn with the punch-", Muscle Bound caught an incoming jab from Micheal, now sporting a bloody nose, and countered with his own. He smirked once he noticed he rolled with it. "Better.",

"Oh yeah?! Well there's more!", Micheal kicked him into the air, sending him flying away and quickly caught up with him. He flipped in mid air and slammed him right back down into Mitch and Micheals. Quickly leaping back up and unleashing a barrage of energy beams from his palms as he continually absorbs the energy form his surrounding him.

He smirked seconds after he didn't hear anything move. "Damn brat. I'm going to find the other three, I'm leaving that white haired bitch for last and-!", Micheal was cut short as he heard a yawn.

"What a pathetic performance.", says the voice of Dying Silence as he ascended, his sharp fingers glinting in the light of the exposed moon.

"The fuck did you say to me?!", Micheal whipped around and blasted him with a steam of energy. "Once I absorb your-... no.", it didn't feel right. What he was absorbing was... nothing? He thought maybe it had some form of life but not at all, it was like staring at a typical ghost

"Of I had a ounce of pity I'd feel sorry for a parasite such as yourself.", Dying Silence says coldly as the energy vanished, Micheal was stunned before he was slammed into the ground by an invisible force. Before he could even respond he was suddenly teleported into a forest with the ghostly entity.

Micheal jumped up and erupted in a golden light, his flesh peeled off to display gold underneath. His hair spiked up completely while his eyes turned white. "Stay back!", he unleashed a bolt of golden energy that Dying Silence effortlessly swatted away, raising his finger and placing it to where a mouth should be he followed it with a quiet utter.

"Shhhh."

Micheal ceased moving all of a sudden, he was still in his full powered state but couldn't move for the life of him as his world went black. "I've discovered quite a lot about humanity, it's such a repulsive yet fascinating species.", he slowly floated forward as green fire trailed behind him.

"Within only a century they managed to exit the Medieval era and arrive to a point where they created a bomb that could end the world.", as his voice echoed, Micheal could feel this crushing weight on him that was suffocating. "If things were slightly altered, I'd be rather sad to see it all go... but I'm not."

"W-Wait! P-Please, I get it now, I won't hurt other people anymore! I'll feed off of rats and stuff, yeah!", Micheal cried out as his full power form began to flicker and crack in some places. "P-Please."

Dying Silence just let out a chuckle as the entire area became engulfed with flames. Hundreds of not thousands of figures of various sizes appeared and surrounded Micheal as Dying Silence grabbed his face.

"Such a pity."

It was almost as if was a dream, Micheal laid on his back in the dirt forest unconscious. His once clear skin and perfectly chiseled face was now a dull grey, his lips had peeled back to show his teeth as his luscious hair had became patchy and completely fell out. His eyes were long sunken as steam poured out of his mouth.

Dying Silence was nowhere to be seen.

Charmcaster had rejuvenated Gwen just a bit with her own energy, just about. Ben on the other hand was completely fine and was simply waiting until they could leave, and that's when Alex popped up out of nowhere. "Sup ya'll. Let's go, I'm starving.", he says as he rushed them along, which they obliged with since the aftermath of this incident wasn't something they'd like to deal with."

"You didn't eat any of the food they handed out?", Gwen asked as Alex shook his head.

"Nope, none of the food interested me that much. Plus I was itching for burritos.", Alex says as Hope yanked his sleeve a bit.

"Where did Micheal go?", asks the white haired sorceress.

To this, Alex just shrugged in response. "Beats me, I blacked out after turning into Muscle Bound, actually before that too.", there were gaps in his memory of transforming but it very obviously happened if the Omnitrix was recharging.

Ben groaned. "So the creep ran off? Eh, whatever, I'll make sure to beat his butt back to whatever sewer he came out of!", Ship poked his head out and nodded in agreement.

Charmcaster looked at Gwen and rubbed the top of her head. "So, you still gonna see the Unalivers?", Gwen just shivered at the response of this. "Eh didn't expect you to."

"I feel so tired.", the zombified body of Micheal rasped as he crawled along the ground gasping for something. "What happened? One moment that thing was talking to me and the next I'm here, ugly as fuck, and about to die.", he heard heavy footsteps, the former actor didn't even move and accepted he was going to die.

That was until he felt something touch his hand, a small rat, Micheal grabbed it and absorbed its energy. Black and white energy surged from the rat and into Micheal, giving him the strength to at least stand again.

"He did quite a number on you didn't he? Not to mention the utter embarrassment of being tossed around like trash by a couple of no names.", Micheal turned to the stern yet gentle voice as someone clad in armor wielding a sword came out. "I can tell from your face, you want revenge don't you?"

Micheal nodded. "Of course! They turned me into this... freak!"

"I can help you enact your revenge. All for the price of your loyalty.", the man says as he facepalmed. "Oh dear, where are my manners?", he held his hand out, Micheal looked at him and grabbed his hand to shake it.

"My name is George"

/End/