Albedo sat in his cell quietly, using some sort of tool that let out a soft electric pulse towards a rounded object. He lifted it up, using his goggles to perceive it in the darkness… it was an Omnitrix core.
Slipping on the gauntlet he's been working on, he then placed the core into the opening. Twisting it around a few times, the core let out a strong red glow that illuminated the dark cell. "I've done it…", he grins as the core lowered itself into the gauntlet… completing the device finally.
"I've finally managed to replicate the power of the Omnitrix.", Albedo stood up and pressed the activation button that was right next to the core which popped up. The strong red glow returned along with a red holographic image of Sunburn. "Now I'm only one transformation escaping this accursed human form and returning to my own."
He twisted the dial multiple times, cycling through the aliens Alex currently has then stopping at one. He smirked as he saw it, he snarled as he only saw thirty eight transformations, none of them a Galvan.
"There's no Galvan in the active list, and the others are currently locked... unfortunate.", Albedo scrolled through the arsenal once more and stopped at Blazemash. He turned to his cell door and smirked as he erupted in a red flash of light.
Within the prison yard that was thankfully shielded by the harsh environment of space, the inmates did what they usually did. Either read, group therapy sessions, bet on who they'll eat after a certain date.
"Gonia Jos hypothesized that all living things in creation are born without meaning, prologue themselves out of weakness then dies by chance.", said a Pyronite with smoke coming from his neck.
"You sure you don't wanna be in on those group therapy sessions?"
It was then an alarm sounded, alerting the guards on the site of a prisoner breaking out of their cell and destroying their ankle monitor. Magister Prior Gilhil looked over at the entrance to the yard and towards another Plumber. "Transport the prisoners back to their cells, this- huh?"
Gilhil looked down at his shoe to see some sort of red orb laying there. "What is that?", it began to glow before he and everyone near were blown back by a powerful red explosion.
Heavy footsteps were heard in the dust loud, red fire splattered the area as prisoners tried to fight back or run away but were quickly restrained by monstrous plants before they ignited in red flames. Glowing red eyes were seen in the cloud.
"Y'know, Magister Gilhil.", a voice sounding extremely similar to Blazemash says as he grabbed the Plumber magister with a hand made of some sort of reddish bark. "I'd like you to pass a message to Azmuth. Tell him after I find Alexander Tennant, he'll be a stain under my heel."
What stood in front of him… didn't look like Blazemash, sure it smelt and sounded like him but the body didn't match. His entire body was overall much larger and bulkier than before, his body rather being made of greenish roots was made of a reddish bark, making him appear more like a tree. His head back, arms and legs have sticky bulbous red pods.
The device on his chest resembled the Omnitrix, however it was side ways with a rim made of a darker metal, the symbol itself being black and red. Four metallic legs protruded from the rim and dug themselves into the wood-like flesh of this strange version of Blazemash.
"Wha… what? How did…", Gilhil's eyes widened as the Blazemash-like alien just laughed.
"How did I get an Omnitrix?… well you can figure that out.", Albedo says as he heard something sounding like metal snapping under intense pressure.
"Gurha Ura Miniez!", a femal Sotoraggian exclaimed with a hiss as she held the control collar that kept the Pyronite at bay in his hand.
"Oh yeah! We're with you for life brother!", the Pyronite's head was covered in red flames as he let out a roar in excitement.
"Yeah! This sounds like a hole lotta fun!", said a large, female version of Shock Jock that had gold and white fur. "Let's get em!"
The strange looking Blazemash just sighed. "Your funeral."
Lord Transyl was sitting in a cave, his arm missing completely and emitting a black smoke. The cave itself was not really empty, it had a work bench, a chair and a change of clothing for someone. There was also a large metal box on the work bench.
"Took you long enough.", said the corrupted fairy queen, who just hovered around the items as footsteps echoed across the cave.
Albedo stepped forward doing a simple arm stretch, his face and clothes splattered with red, blue and green blood. "Apologies, I got a little lost on the way. Besides that, I stopped to get me something.", he held up two paper bags with Burger Shack's logo imprinted onto it.
The fairy-like alien deadpanned as the vampire just didn't seem to care. "I thought you hated Earth food."
"Oh I do.", Albedo walked past them and placed one of the bags down, pulling out a large plate of chili fries. "It's been quite a while, so why don't you reiterate how this is going to work.", he says with an expressionless look on his face as he ate a chili fry.
"There's a pattern I've noticed in all our defeats.", the Vladat said as he used his tongue to grab a bug that skittered across the dirty floor, absorbing its life force in the process which caused fleshy tendrils to start wiggling on the smoking stump. "Every time Tennant has-", he was soon interrupted by more obnoxiously loud chewing from Albedo. "Every time-", Transyl just sat there as Albedo just looked at him while eating more chili fries with the most obnoxiously loud chewing he's ever heard.
Albedo couldn't help but grin at the annoyed expression on Transyl's face, so he just stopped before he got his life drained. "Every time Tennant defeats us, it's been with the assistance of his friends."
"No discredit towards you but you're only partially right.", Albedo says as he had pulled out a water bottle by then. "In terms of dismantling our plans, of course it's because of them. But the main reason we've lost is because we underestimated not just his friends, but Tennant himself."
"Exactly.", Transyl snarled as Albedo was already beginning to annoy him, must be the human form he was currently in. He remembers the various defeats at Alex's hand which only served to fuel his anger. "In order to beat him, we must go about this in a different approach."
Albedo had finished his first order of chili fries quickly and was already in his second order. "And what's in it for me? You all know I want the Omnitrix to restore my DNA."
"We just want this world. No more, no less.", Somnum says crossing her arms as she floated over and stole a chili fry from him. "It's simple, but first change your clothes. They stink."
"Oh spare me, not like I could bathe in that dump.", Albedo sniffed his prison shirt before shrugging, placing the paper plate down and began changing into his new clothing.
"How did the project come out? Any issues so far.", Transyl asks as he noticed the massive gauntlet-like Omnitrix device on his wrist, in full view it appeared to have a brace made of a dark red-brownish metal that covered his wrist entirely. It was detailed with metallic protrusions made of copper along with small carvings in the center, black indented rectangles were located right below the protrusions. The central core looked identical to the original one, however this time red and black.
Albedo didn't answer yet as he slipped on his shoes, he smirked the moment he slid his arms into the sleeves of a hoodie. He now wore a black shirt underneath a red hoodie, black jeans complimented with grey and black sneakers. "The project itself came out a success.", he proudly claims as he gestured to his device.
"I can see that. Have you managed to obtain your true form?", Transyl asked intrigued by the device, it looked well made despite the conditions he was in.
"This new Omnitrix of mine is still linked to the originals database, Alex's DNA is still the default. Meaning I'm still trapped in this disgusting human body.", Albedo says with a grimace as he had finished eating his chili fries and went on to eat a big burrito.
"So you want the original to reset yours?", Somnum asked as Transyl's arm had began regrowing slowly. "Otherwise you're still trapped until then."
"Precisely, once I obtain it, I'm cured.", Albedo says as Transyl stood up, a sort of fiery mist escaping his body before reforming into a familiar shape. "What I'm confused about is you, Zs'Skayr."
"Make no mistake, Albedo. I could care less about the Omnitrix, you can have it once we've carried out our plans.", Zs'Skayr states with an extremely dead tone, almost as if this really didn't matter. Despite this however, smirk formed on Albedo's face.
Ben sat on his couch with Ship laying on his lap, his parents had just left for an afternoon date. Since he has Ship and an alien gun, they'd suspect he would be fine. The hyperactive eleven year old was watching the last episode of Sumo Slammers with a sad face, with seemingly nothing to provoke him, Ship sat up.
"What's wrong, Ship?", Ben sat up as he turned off the TV to listen closer, he sat there in silence as he could've sworn he heard something as well. Though it might've been the house settling, he jolted in surprise when a sudden knock came to the door.
"Hey! Ben! Come on out for a second!", Alex's muffled voice came from the other side of the door. Ben felt uneasy, it sounded just like Alex but... it felt off. He wasn't the smartest but he knew Alex's voice and his tone, this person sounded as if they rehearsed those lines over and over.
Ship started to let out a strange noise, almost signaling Ben to not answer the door. "I ain't got all day, y'know!", the imposters voice rang from the other side.
"I'll be there in a second!", Ben shouted back trying his best not to sound nervous. Ship nodded and slithered onto his back as he got up, he began shaking as he inched towards the door. He unlocked it then opened it... only to be met with a figure with a red hoodie.
"Hey there, Ben.", the white haired copy cat smirked as he pulled out a Glock from the pocket of his hoodie and aimed it at Ben. The eleven year old in question dodged underneath the bullet that would've been embedded into his skull.
Albedo had stopped smirking, his body felt... strange. He didn't understand but simply kept shooting at Ben who ran away and leapt over the couch, Albedo shot at the couch until he heard the clicking of the ammo-less gun. "Hmph.", the Galvan trapped in a human body turned around only to dodge a fist connected by a chain of green energy.
"Albedo right? I've heard of you.", Ben stood up as Safeguard, his arm retracted with a metallic clank. He was met with the gun just being thrown at him, Ben looked down with a disappointed look underneath his helmet, he looked back up and charged at Albedo who just sidestepped, causing Ben to burst out of his house.
A red flash erupted behind him and before Ben could react he was met with a fist to his back, sending him skidding forward and into the recently mowed lawn. "Interesting, I haven't seen a Galvanic Mechamorph do anything like that.", said the voice of Crazy Diamond that possessed a condescending tone.
Safeguard looked back to see him, he looked essentially identical to the Crazy Diamond he was used to. Except this one had desaturated crystals, bright red eyes accompanied with sharper edges around his crystals. "Oh you have your own knock off Omnitrix too? Talk about original."
The corrupted version of Crazy Diamond didn't respond and just got into a stance where he then fired out a barrage of crystals. Ship morphed his feet into rockets then flew into the air, Ben smiled as the hands transformed into giant cannons to which he began firing balls of green energy.
Albedo smirked as he began sprinting forward, boosting himself forward with the aid of small and flat crystals as he simply shrugged off the energy blasts. Safeguard heard the sounds of crystals snapping off and whipping through the air as they exited the dust cloud and rocketed towards him. "Oh heck!"
Ship moves Safeguard back, the crystals missing the target before he was met with a monstrous crystal growth in the shape of a hand emerged from the ground and punched the armored hero back. At this point, the neighbors had came out only to walk right back inside to avoid the battle.
The hand extended forward and grabbed Safeguard them throwing him hard, sending the duo zooming down the block and into a car. Ben stood up only to be met with red electricity surging around the armor, Ship let out a scream of pain as the electricity exited his body.
A white and red version of Battery Acid cackled as he pointed at him. He lifted his hand up to charge up a powerful blast of electricity, but... Albedo felt strange again. His heart ached as he saw Ship's body spazzed in place as he attempted to stay on his bestfriend.
Battery Acid cackled before being backhanded away by Safeguard, Ship managed to stabilize himself again then stand up. A red flash occurred as Albedo stood there with a smirk. "Why did you attack me?"
Albedo didn't answer this, just shrugged before transforming into a pale Drag Racer and sped off in a blur, leaving Safeguard standing there alone with onlookers and police sirens.
"Bye guys! I'll see you later.", Gwen waved at her friends that appeared to look more like troublemakers than role models, but you could never judge a book by their cover.
The moment she was out of earshot of the two, Gwen's supernatural senses alerted her of a somewhat sinister presence ahead. She dropped her backpack as Albedo stepped out from behind a car with a smile. "Who... are you?"
"Strange, your cousin knew of me, and yet, the so called smartest Tennyson doesn't know?", Albedo smirked as he activated his Omnitrix, erupting in a red flash, what stood in his place was Weedstalk, who was now a greenish-brown with a red eye with his flytrap teeth being black now. "Why don't you come here Gwen?", thorns grew on his body as his left hand morphed into a Venus flytrap before he extended it towards her quickly.
Gwen quickly manifested a shield of mana, where the flytrap hand simply thudded against. It tried to bite its way through but Gwen just smirked as she pulled out the Grimoire. "ERADICO!", Gwen exclaimed as her eyes glowed.
The corrupted Weedstalk's singular eye widened as his arm began to explode faster than he could regenerate. He erupted in a red flash in annoyance as Refracture stood there, his crystals now a pale pink color as he charged forward. Holding his hand out he absorbed the energy shield and threw that energy back out at Gwen, knocking her back and onto the floor of the side walk.
Gwen was picked up by the collar and thrown into the side of a car as Refracture sharpened his arm into a thin blade. The younger girl covered her eyes as the blade stabbed right next to her head, a red flash erupting as Albedo seemingly had disappeared.
"I just can't catch a break.", Gwen sighed as she quickly got up and ran away back to her house to tell her parents.
The sun had started to set as the Rust Bucket sat in its usual place in a lot where other RV's were also located. Sizzling was hard as Max was hunched over his stove, gently stirring a pan filled with what looked like grounded up octopus.
"Ahh, nothing like a deep fried batch of octopus eyes.", Max inhaled the rather pleasant smell of the octopus eyes. He opened the cabinet and looked inside. "Now, where's that zero-trans-fat cooking oil?"
Max paused what he was doing as he heard the sound of thumping from above, one heavy thump signaling something landed on top of the RV followed up with rapid foot steps. Suddenly, a Trench Monkey with black fur and pink skin bursted from the roof hissing as he shot a glob of webbing at Max.
The elderly Plumber side stepped this and bashed him violently on the side of the head with his pan. The force actually sent the corrupted Trench Monkey into one of the seats, the hot pan burned away at his fur as he tried to take it off, however his remaining webs made it difficult to the point he actually ripped his skin off in the process.
Trench Monkey was about to attack again... but Max had vanished into thin air. Before Albedo left he turned off the stove and erupted in a red flash of light, Mean Streak with red fur bursted out of the RV with an angered roar. Thankfully, Albedo's higher intelligence allowed him to overcome the rage fueled alien's personality effects easily... and realize Max had completely vanished, almost like he teleported.
Albedo used the Appoplexian's incredible senses to find him, but he was long gone. So in response to this, he leapt up and transformed into a dark red Mach Manta and flew off at high speeds.
And then we come to Alex, who was just doing his usual nightly routine involving just watching another movie. Pickle was sitting in front of him as Bradley walked past with a backpack in hand. "I'm heading out, don't wait up.", he says casually as Alex gave a lazy hand wave.
"I won't, not like it's any different.", Alex says as Bradley turned to him.
"Hey, have you heard about the attacks?", Bradley asked as Alex just looked at him. "Well, apparently over the last few days there's been some pretty violent attacks, nobody died but they're pretty scared. They say they saw a red flash or something like that. Just be on the look out.", he says as he walks out of the house, locking the door behind him.
"Red flash huh?", Alex thought about it. A red flash could mean anything, red flash of energy, an explosion of light... maybe. He sat up and changed the channel, he flipped through a couple of them before he finally arrived at the news channel.
{{"Will Harangue reporting live to the Harangue Nation! I've just received breaking news of a dangerous criminal is loose in America after a series of vicious and unprovoked attacks spanning from California to Tennessee. Victims recalled seeing a red flash and this red symbol."}}, right next to the annoying reporters head a black screen appeared with a red hourglass. {{"It appears to be somewhat related to those darn alien heroes running around, I can't say for certain, but it looks like we're dealing with an alien invasion! Do not hesitate to contact the local law enforcement or the Special Alien Containment Team if you do see either of these."}}
Alex turned off the TV and pulled out his phone, he scrolled through his contacts and called the three people someone like Psychobos could have immediately knowledge. Ben, Gwen nor Max even answered their phones, Alex knew Charmcaster and Oscar were fine, Tetrax was off world doing his job and could take care of himself.
But then... why? Why would Psychobos do something so drastic, by now Psychobos would've attacked a plumber base rather than waste his time here. "Last time I checked, the Magister Gilhil said Psychobos was in a coma after his overuse of the Nemetrix... but- of course!"
"It's Albedo.", Alex remembered his doppelgänger all of a sudden, the last time they encountered was months ago. "But where'd he even get an Omnitrix like that anyways-", before Alex could even leave he heard a knock at the door.
Alex remembered that door from before, the door bounded by hundreds if not thousands of locks played in his head. He took a deep breath as he looked at Pickle who got up and started growling, Alex inched closer to the door and opened it slowly, a sigh of relief was heard as nobody was there.
"Damn little shits again.", Alex sighed as he couldn't notice the three red eyes of Cryptic appear then disappear behind him. He closed the door and went to the kitchen, pulling out an energy drink before opening it just to chug half of the liquid inside. After he got a good portion of it down, he placed it on the counter. "Just a little paranoid Alex, you're fine.."
There were plenty of reasons why the three Tennysons wouldn't answer, maybe their phones had died, or gotten lost. Alex was about to take another sip of his drink before blood dropped from the ceiling.
Alex stood there silently as his face went pale, he took a deep breath as he saw that Pickle was on the floor, possibly unconscious but the puddle of blood leaking from his head wasn't reassuring. Alex quickly turned around and threw a left hook at Albedo who simply dodged this and stabbed Alex in the abdomen.
Blood leaked from the now open wound as the two stared at each other, Albedo's eyes just as wide as Alex as if he expected something else. Alex fell to the ground, holding his stab wound as blood emerged from his mouth.
Albedo knelt down and grabbed Alex's left wrist, he slid his Omnitrix core past his which let out a high pitched beep. The copy cat stood up as he activated his device, smiling in satisfaction as he erupted in a red light.
"Finally!", Albedo smirked as he had returned to his true form. He looked just like other Galvans, a grey skinned humanoid frog with rectangular pupils. However, he was tall for a Galvan and had red eyes, complimented with a black and red tunic that had silver bracers around his wrist and ankles. "Freedom!"
Alex looked at Albedo with a look of anger in his eyes, Albedo seemed... conflicted. He erupted in a red flash and sped out of his house as Drag Racer, leaving the door wide open with the teenage hero on the kitchen floor.
His thoughts raced through Albedo's developed brain as he sped past houses, cars and children. His heart thumped against the Kineceleran rib cage. "I've done it. I've obtained my true form!... but.", Albedo felt a sinking feeling, he obtained his true form but felt... sick. "No. Impossible, it's just the lingering human emotions in me."
For some reason, Albedo felt like that couldn't convince him but just continued to ignore that feeling.
Alex found himself in complete darkness, nothing and no one surrounded him as he just stood there motionless. The teen looked around only to see his younger, six year old self run past him and stood in front of that same door... this time multiple locks had fallen off.
"Alex.", the adolescent, high pitched voice of his kid self looked at him with a serious expression on his soft eyes. "Whatever you do... don't open this door, no matter what!
With that, Alex jolted up from his hospital bed before quickly laying back down in pain. "Ugh... how did I?", Alex looked around to see medical equipment and some strange IV bags hanging above him. "A hospital?"
"The Plumber Infirmary room more like it.", Oscar says as he was sitting in a chair out of view, he got up and finally got himself into view. He wore the usual Plumber suit with an old pilot jacket over him. "Max... he found you on the kitchen floor unconscious."
"What happened to Pickle? Shit what happened to mom, Bradley, Lilian? I-", Alex felt a searing pain return as he tried to get up but fell back down.
"They're fine. Lilian's staying at her dorm room, Bradley is staying at a friends house for a few days and your mother booked a motel room in the mean time.", Oscar says in a reassuring tone. "Ben, Max and Gwen are fine too, well, Ship is a little banged up but he'll be-"
A pink flash of energy erupted right next to Oscar as Charmcaster sped walked past him, reaching over the bed and gently hugging Alex to not put him in any more pain than he already is in. "Hey Hope.", Alex hugged his girlfriend back with a smile as she seemed to tear up. "Did Albedo try attacking you?"
"Yeah, he attacked me but ran away before it could get serious."
"How come? Albedo would've been thrilled to beat the shit out of you.", Alex says as Charmcaster just shrugged in response.
"Maybe it's because he was you at the time? I mean, if Mean Streak and Chop Shop affects you then why can't the other way around happen?", that was what Charmcaster thought of Albedo's current situation.
"Could be.", a stern yet gentle voice said as the door had open to show the owner of the voice was a reptilian humanoid with mint green skin and three purple eyes, with two tentacles on her head and one on her lower back. She has four long fingers, and ankles that bend inward. Her feet have three claw-like toes, two pointing forwards and one pointing backwards. She wore a blue jump suit.
The woman floated in the air with an aura of purple energy surrounding her, she closed the door behind her as she entered the room. "Alex, Hope, this is Xylene. The reason the Omnitrix got here."
"Hmm, neat...", Alex was feeling a mixture of shock and awe as he finally saw the one who brought the Omnitrix to Earth.
"Indeed. And you must be the human that found it, I must say I was against the idea of letting you keep it until your grandfather, Max and Azmuth convince me otherwise.", Xylene dropped to the ground and pulled out a sort of syringe.
She strode closer to him and pushed Charmcaster aside, she removed the IV connected to him and injected him with a strange liquid originating from the syringe. "What're you- oh.", Alex jolted up from his bed.
Alex flexed his muscles, his wound had closed and the pain had subsided finally. Every single muscle fiber down to the molecule were aching for vengeance. "Sick!"
Charmcaster looked around to his backside and nodded at what she saw, which was his bare butt. "Get dressed, we've got a lot to talk about.", Xylene says as she pulled the sorceress away as Oscar followed.
"Ah c'mon, can't I get another peak?", pleaded Charmcaster in a tone where you just... couldn't tell if she was actually joking or not. The door slammed shut as they gave Alex the time to get dressed.
Albedo sat in the rusted metal chair in front of the work bench, complimented with a tool box and a lantern. "I... I just stabbed him.", he couldn't help but feel sick, he felt so sick he actually threw up on the way. He had transformed back into the human form, simply because... he didn't know why, actually.
Albedo genuinely though killing Alex would be satisfying, he thought it would bring him the pleasure as Alex was the one who ruined his life. But he felt none of that, he felt so disgusted and ashamed of himself, so maybe that's why he wasn't in his true form. "What would happen if I just... asked?"
A good question that would be, if Albedo put aside his pride and admitted to his mistake before he did anything drastic he might still be working on Galvan Prime, or Sollertia as it's actually called. "Are you having doubts, Albedo?"
Zs'Skayr's cold and ancient voice said from behind him, resting one of his massive hands on Albedo's shoulder. "I... I don't understand. Why am I feeling remorse... he ruined my life.", Albedo began to look back on his decisions, the pain he feels only worsening ever so slightly. "It feels hollow, like what I'm doing is not worth so much effort. But its all his fault I'm in this situation to even begin with!"
"Indeed it is.", Zs'Skayr whispers into Albedo's ear, a sick grin forming on his upside down mouth. "Why should you have to go through this level of torment for a simple mistake, hmm? If anything, you're the victim of Alex Tennant's cruelty, just as much as you're a victim of Azmuth's neglect."
Albedo looked at Zs'Skayr, who's singular glowing purple eye filled with murderous intent stared back. "But-", Albedo was stopped as Zs'Skayr shushed him.
"Isn't this what you wanted Albedo? To be set free of your shackles?", Zs'Skayr's ghostly body started to quiver in... excitement? "What better way to get back at Azmuth by killing Alex Tennant. As you suspect, he is very much alive... so next time you deal with him. Destroy him."
Albedo felt it, a hardened resolve to see this through as he stood up with a grim expression on his face. "Yes... I'll tear him apart. This time, I'll destroy him completely."
Xylene lead Alex down a hall as the others prepared for a long night of fighting and investigating. They passed Plumbers that rushed by them to help with the preparations. Alex now wore a white hoodie over a black shirt, dark blue jeans and black sneakers. "Azmuth created the Omnitrix after his mistake of a creation, Ascalon. Something you might be familiar with.", Xylene says.
"Heh. You have no idea.", Alex let out a nervous chuckle.
"But allow me to tell you a story.", Xylene says as Alex listened closely. "Before Azmuth started construction of the Omnitrix, he found a young Galvan infant by himself. No family, no siblings, just a lonesome child. That child was Albedo, who Azmuth soon after brought him under his own wing, he taught Albedo everything he knew about technology, hell, Albedo even created the software by in himself. But Azmuth saw contempt and hatred in his heart, he wanted the Omnitrix for himself... and once he heard about a human keeping the Prototype you wear right now? Well here we are."
Xylene lead Alex to the Plumber's research and development room, where Azmuth, Myaxx and Tetrax waited for them, Blukic and Driba were also there but they were doing their own thing. "If I knew what would happen... I would've went about it differently.", Azmuth says with a sigh.
"So, working with Azmuth again huh?" Alex smirked, drawing attention back to the female Chimeran Sui Generis. "I know you left Xenon with him, but I'm surprised you stayed. Sounded like he didn't treat you fairly."
"Well, after several years in Incarcecon I'd take anything other than going back to that dump. While Azmuth's attitude hasn't improved over the years, his actions have. He actually calls me by name." Myaxx shrugged, and began fishing around in a pack fastened around her waist. Azmuth just looked at her in annoyance.
"We've something for you Alex.", Tetrax says as Xylene stayed quietly in the back, Myaxx finding what she needed. "Remember a few days ago you had that issue with your Ectonurite form?"
"Yeah, Dying Silence took control over my body for days for... some reason.", Alex grumbled as he hated thinking about those nights.
"Well, Azmuth received a distress signal from the Omnitrix after that.", Myaxx continues as she held something in her comparatively larger hand. "Up until very recently, and I mean VERY recently, the little shorty over here had a breakthrough with some DNA samples."
Myaxx brought out a small, simple container from the pouch on her waist. Its surface was black and covered in green circuitry lines criss crossing all over. With a flex of her fingers, Myaxx took off the top half of the box and brought out the precious cargo held within. Gently held in her fingers was a small donut-shaped device that had a similar color scheme to the Omnitrix. The device sparked, letting loose green and black crackles of energy. "Come here, I need your wrist for a second.", Myaxx beckoned him over.
"Uh, okay.", Alex walked up to Myaxx and extended his left arm.
"This will be just a moment." Myaxx began to work on the Omnitrix with deft fingers.
A few button presses and dial turns later and the Omnitrix popped out with a hiss. Unlike the normal transformation mode that Ben usually accessed, this time the center mass of the watch extended far longer. There was no silhouette of an alien either, with the faceplate remaining dull and lifeless.
"How does Xylene play into this anyways?", Alex asked as Xylene perked up at the mentioning of her name. Alex poked at the wrist band of the device with a surprised look. The ease at which Myaxx broke down the Omnitrix, the only level 20 technology in the universe, was concerning to him to say the least.
"The Plumbers hired her a while back due to her vast knowledge of alien cultures. Which granted her the responsibility of not only gathering DNA but transporting the Omnitrix to the main space station a thousand lightyears away from Earth.", Tetrax answered as he pointed at Myaxx. "She's more of a gopher, sort of."
"A highly valued gopher no less.", Azmuth let out a hoarse chuckle, Myaxx smiled at this since she knew he was only messing with her. "Before I created the Voliticus Biopsis, Myaxx collected the DNA samples before I hired Xylene to assist.
"Which I still didn't get a thank you by the way!", Myaxx snapped her head towards Azmuth who just smirked.
"Then why are you even working with him?", Alex asked.
"Because anywhere is better than that intergalactic trash bin, Incarcecon, even going back to working for Azmuth. Besides, Azmuth is one of the few people still willing to work with a Chimera Sui Generis after Vilgax gave us a bad name.", Myaxx shivered at just mentioning the terrifying Warlord. "I don't even know where the guy is but I don't wanna find out."
"As you may see Alex, I have decided to go back to my home world.", Azmuth says as he remembered the day Alex had found him on Xenon. "I put myself into a self-imposed exile by hiding it from sight. Back then I wouldn't listen to a single person, not even the partners I had assisting me... Myaxx, Tetrax and Xylene only know how to operate the Omnitrix simply because I allowed them. But I've changed myself for the better, I'm now the First Thinker of the Galvans."
"First thinker?"
"It's like a president.", Xylene answered for the three of them.
"As long as I'm given basic respect, I'm fine with dealing with the other Galvans.", Myaxx waved her hand casually. "I've dealt with worse, just ask the Spheroid Pirates. Albedo on the other hand was a pain in my ass when we worked together."
"Which I don't tolerate by the way.", Azmuth chimed in as he could remember Albedo and Myaxx bickering back and forth back in the day... oh how he wished he could go back.
"There was one time he asked Albedo to go gather Saiyan DNA, boy did that shut him up.", Myaxx let out a laugh.
"Saiyan? What the hell is a Saiyan? Oooo, can I transform into one?", Alex curiosity was piqued the moment he heard of a new alien.
"Tell you in a minute. I'm almost done."
Alex watched as Myaxx put her claws in the middle of the device and pushed her fingers outwards. The device's sparks grew more violent and a hissing sound filled the lab, causing Tetrax, Driba and Blukic to step back while Azmuth just stayed in his spot but had started to levitate. With the device strained as far as it could go, Myaxx pushed the circular device over the extended faceplate of the Omnitrix and onto the heart of the watch.
Green arcs of electricity snaked from the watch and the new device, and Myaxx's fingers shook as the two pieces of technology tried to merge together. After a few heart-pounding seconds, Myaxx quickly drew her hand back, letting the device snap onto the base of the faceplate. The metal was quickly assimilated and Alex watched in fascination as the device literally sunk into the watch, slowly disappearing from view until nothing was left.
"And we're done." Shaking her hand, Myaxx let herself have a smile of satisfaction.
Alex held the Omnitrix to his face. The watch was slowly reverting back to its default setting. The faceplate rotated as it sank back down into its protective guard. The black cylinder interlaced with bright green lines disappeared into the device.
"So, what did you do?", Alex eyed the Omnitrix from every angle, but didn't see any changes on the outside.
"Just like Myaxx said; I made a breakthrough. That ring I put on the Omnitrix is updating it as we speak. Think of it as an overhaul of the watch; an Omnitrix 1.5 if you will." Azmuth began to explain. "The functionality of the device will remain the same. The Omnitrix can't change itself without recalibrating completely, which can only happen if it is without an active wielder for at least a year. The basics remain the same: you still only have about 15 minutes per transformation and you still have to manually pop up the faceplate and press it down to transform."
"Uh huh, uh huh." Alex nodded along, barely registering what was being said. He activated the watch, popping up the faceplate and lighting it up. The first form that displayed on the faceplate surprised him, it was... "Dying Silence?! But-"
"Dying Silence was the ruse Zs'Skayr made to blend in and trick you, that is something new.", Azmuth explains as the silhouette of the semi-new alien was different, slightly more elongated and rounded. "After he escaped, the Ectonurite transformation went with him, meaning it was removed from the Omnitrix's database completely. This one is different, he is not a sentient creature... he is only an extension of you, as always intended."
"Hmm... guess I'll call him something else, maybe Phantom.", Alex kept turning the dial as he passed through his aliens. "Hey, I got two Lagoons and Gut Grinders, what's up with that?", Alex asked curiously.
"When Myaxx was collecting DNA she only collected a Pisciss Volann and a Murk Gourmand... however she missed the Vadum and Perk Gourmand. To which she collected along with obtaining a new Ectonurite sample.", Tetrax jabbed at Myaxx playfully, who elbowed him in response.
""Remember the prime objective of the Omnitrix Alex: to promote interspecies relations. Excluding a species, no matter how reasonable the decision may be, would be going against the very purpose the Omnitrix was created to fulfill. Besides, given that you have a propensity for getting into conflict, this species should serve you well in becoming a part of your planet's law enforcement branch officially in the near future.", Azmuth state as he leapt into Alex's wrist, he began doing something strange to the Omnitrix.
"What're you...", Alex cocked his head as the Omnitrix let out a beep.
"There, I've changed the timer for the Omnitrix. Now you have a total of 3 hours, but every time you switch between a new alien it will shave off twenty minutes of the overall time.", Azmuth says as Alex realized that would leave him with at least eight aliens with one charge, something like that.
"And one more thing.", Xylene had appeared in front of him, telekinetically lifting Azmuth up and turning the dial quickly a few times, a new silhouette was actually there the moment she stopped. "Just in case you're in need of extra fire power."
"But... why?", Alex asked as he pushed the button on the other side to return the Omnitrix to its idle state.
"Because Albedo came prepared.", Azmuth says with a grim expression. "He had stolen an old beta model, the inferior copy of the Cerebrocrustacean's Nemetrix, the original core of his own copy and more to create the Ultimatrix."
"Antitrix sounds better but, what's an Ultimatrix.", Alex asked and before Azmuth could answer, his phone buzzed. He brought it out and looked at the screen. "Coordinates..."
"Albedo knows you're alive... and now he wants to finish the job.", Azmuth says as he looked away from Alex for a brief moment. "We must strategize-", Tetrax turned him around just to see that Alex had vanished, both Xylene and Myaxx were confused by this. "..."
A strong gust of wind erupted and kicked up dust as Mach Manta had landed at the coordinates. It appeared to be an abandoned mind or maybe even a construction sight. A green flash erupted from Mach Manta as he detransformed.
"This time, I'm going to rip you in half.", Albedo states with a nearly emotionless expression, he stood there without moving as Alex just smirked.
"You should know me better than anyone Albedo.", Alex got into a stance as his smirk transformed into a grin. "There ain't nobody who likes bad guys more than me! Nobody gives me any flack for turning them into ground beef!"
"So I get to kill you a second time.", Albedo got into a stance of his own, the two had a stand off as they readied their respective Omnitricies. Wind rushed past them as a red and green flash erupted from their spot.
A black blur leapt into the air as Alex had transformed into Bloodsucker. A humanoid vampiric creature with a primarily black fur-like skin, white fur reached across his stomach to around his neck, his arms and legs covered in this same fir. His face had a very mask-like structure to it, with his ears sticking out as two prongs as he had two bright green eyes.
Bloodsucker formed his arms into sharp blades and rushed at the corrupted version of Muscle Bound, he now wore a black suit with red detailing around his arms and legs.
His powerful muscles tightened as a twisted grin was burned into Bloodsucker's face as he cackled like a deranged maniac the moment he started to descend.
"DIE!"
/End/