Warning: I do not own these shows such as Ben 10, Danny Phantom, American Dragon, Venom, Generator Rex, Kim Possible, & Lilo and Stich. Fictional events that I make are mine.
Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibilities, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. Our names are Paradox and Clockwork. We are your guide through this reality.
Earth, June, 2016
In the Omniverse world, Azmuth was born thousands of years ago on a planet that was known as Galvan Prime. After he made a colossal mistake of creating a sword that could control the laws of physics, Azmuth swore to dedicate himself to peaceful sciences. He created an entirely new species called the Galvanic Mechamorphs which his race the Galvans, now co-exist peacefully together.
Azmuth's greatest invention however was the Omnitrix, a device that could transform the user into any intelligent species from the Milky Way Galaxy. He intended it to be used by the galaxy's greatest plumber Max Tennyson but fate lead to it being taken by Max's grandson Ben Tennyson.
When Ben had it, he used it for good of all mankind, but every now again he used it for his own gain. During that summer though, he would encounter rouge villains every now again. After five years after the summer, Ben is now a teenager at the age of 15, living a normal life without the Omnitrix. However, when Max goes missing, Ben reequips the Omnitrix. The Omnitrix soon recalibrates itself after being off for several years, locking away all of Ben's old transformations, while giving him 10 new ones in their place. Ben and his cousin Gwen, now more skilled with magic, meet up with Kevin Levin during a weapons deal with the Forever Knights, DNAliens, and himself. After the conflict, and the death of Magister Labrid, the three decide to work together and fend off against the Highbreed invasion.
They would go on more adventures and as the years go by, Ben 10 would soon be known as Ben 10,000 as he and his team save the world and universes multiple times.
But in another universe, a single choice created a different path for Ben.
The scene enters into a seemingly endless void, full of bizarrely shaped floating asteroids, and a multitude of bizarre creatures to accompany the eeriness of this space.
However, while this very location was creepy, to say the least, it wasn't the most important thing that was happening. The action in fact, was happening with a group of unique individuals. A battle between a four-eyed winged insectoid creature and Gwen, who was wearing a space suit that was decked out with equipment. The two appeared to have been going up against what appeared to be a humanoid creature. It possessed a combination of various extraterrestrial limbs and an odd form in general: sporting four arms, a face with four eyes, insect-like wings, a tail, and other horrendous features that they didn't dare explain to anyone sane enough to comprehend the situation.
Alongside him was a hulking armored humanoid creature with a face resembling that of an octopus. He had tentacles dangling from the front of his face like a beard; six in the front, two in the back, and green sacs on the sides of his head. His skin was pale-green with yellowish spots on his face. He didn't have a nose and a visible ear, and his eyes were red with no pupils. He had a mask covering his mouth, which was attached to his armored suit. It was consisted of metallic shoulder and leg pads, and metallic gloves with small fingers. He had reddish-brown cylinders-like protrusions piercing his arms, and long leg and chest armor.
The green insectoid who is called Stinkfly embraced the young orange-haired girl with joy. "Gwen? Boy am I glad to see you."
"The portal is closing, we have to get out of here." Gwen informs her cousin.
This, however, made them unaware of a worm-like creature, who attempted to swoop the two of them up into its massive jaw and swallow them up whole as an evening snack… Or whatever time frame it was in this void.
Stinkfly quickly reacts and dodges the bite of the creature by flying up, and tries to go off in another direction a moment afterwards. The worm creature gives chase through the large asteroid it was settled on, attempting another swallow on the duo in a desperate attempt. After a moment though, they escape the range of the creature, as it seemed it was only able to stay in the domain of the asteroid it was inside of.
The two of them sighed in relief as they look back. Turning forward again, they attempt to fly off in the direction that Gwen foretold, only to be intercepted by their four-armed foe, who swept and dived towards them at an angle with blinding speed, grabbing Gwen out from the hold of the insectoid creature. After reacting in shock, the insectoid turns around to see its adversary riding on a bat-like creature with tentacles and a wide jaw. He smirks at the flying insect while holding the girl in one of his four arms, an emerald-colored crystal arm at that.
"Going somewhere without your old pal Kevin?" He gave an evil grin as he said that. Stinkfly in front of him growled in response.
Gwen attempts to free herself by using a laser pistol located in her right holster, with hopes of using it to blast Kevin's face and stun him for a second or two. Not bothering to even look however, he uses one of his left arms, one that looked like flowing magma encased in red rock, and encases it around the blaster in its entirety, crushing it while squeezing Gwen's arm, causing her to shriek in pain. Stinkfly looks at him in rage as he grits its teeth.
"Gwen, what's going on?!" Max shouted over the radio. "Gwen!"
"Let her go, or I'll—" Stinkfly attempted to threaten, however, right as he was about to do something, another voice came from behind and interrupted it.
"—Or you'll what?" Turning around, the insectoid faces the squid like creature, who was also riding on the same type of creature as its acquaintance, though it had a darker skin tone, and was larger in size.
Ben turns back towards his previous foe, hovering in contemplation for a moment before flying downwards onto another asteroid. Once he landed and stopped flapping his wings, an emerald flash erupted from its body, consuming his body and revealing his true form; a brunet boy wearing a black and white shirt, military green cargo pants, and black and white sneakers with black stripes. His emerald green eyes glared up towards the two of them with a piercing gaze.
"Let her go, and you can have the stupid Omnitrix!" He scowled in response.
He raised his left arm up, revealing a device on his wrist. It was as big as a large wristwatch in size, sporting a black and gray color scheme. Two white lines extended from around the length of it, and in the middle of the device was a black dial with four green circles, and two green buttons. Sporting a bright emerald green was an hourglass shape circle in the middle.
Gwen gasps at hearing her cousin's proposal, looking down at him despite the pain in her arm as he revealed the alien device to Kevin and Vilgax, the latter smiling underneath his mask as he and Kevin began to draw closer.
"Ben, no!" Gwen shrieks out.
The young Omnitrix wielder strikes his arm out in an angle, however, displaying the Omnitrix in its full glory. "We have a deal or don't we, Vilgax?! My cousin for this stupid watch!"
As he said that, Vilgax and Kevin then jumped off their mounts, landing a distance away from him. It took them a few seconds to strife towards him.
There. That's the moment that created a new universe. When bargaining his Omnitrix with his cousin, Ben zeroed out the Omnitrix. Making it unable to access Master Control. But in this universe, Ben never did that as he has a plan in motion.
Ben extending his left arm out toward the squid monster, and his right arm toward Kevin. As both of his arms were taken hold of, everything was expected to go all well as he and Gwen gave each other a reassuring smile. As the two take a hold of each other hands, Kevin sneers and throws Gwen back behind him. Ben flinches, only to get sent careening into the air by a kick to his chest a second later. He croaks as he was pushed away quite a distance while landing on his back, grunting in pain from the impact.
Lifting himself up as he rubbed his head, Ben looks up to see his foe pulling out a four-pronged device that he had on a strap. Knowing that he was going to try and pin him and nail the boy down with it with the Omnitrix in mind, Ben rolled to his left side and to his knees, quickly pressing the two buttons of the Omnitrix as he got back onto his feet.
The dial popped out, revealing green circuitry on the core. He quickly begins to turn the dial quickly a few times and immediately the hourglass figure of the dial turned into a rhombus-like shape, with a black silhouette of a humanoid creature appearing in the green outline. The dial glowed a brilliant emerald green color before Ben gritted his teeth and slammed on the Omnitrix's core, blinding everyone with a flash of lime light.
In the midst of the blinding light of emerald, an arm emerged, with it having the same appearance the arm that crushed Gwen's blaster. A hard sound of impact was heard as the glowing fist landed in the gut of its recipient, with Kevin flinching and stepping back. He gasped from another sudden gutter punch as another arm came out a split second afterwards, coughing out some saliva in response. Right after that, an eruption of spearing flames blasted forth, pushing Kevin off his feet and launching him backwards with a large explosion.
The four-armed humanoid flew back a few feet, landing on his back and near Vilgax as the explosion's dust field began to clear out. He groaned in pain as he sat itself up, with one of his lower arms rubbing the impacted area of both the flames and punch. By then, the flash from the Omnitrix had dispersed and dissipated, with Vilgax and Kevin glaring at their attacker as he made himself known.
"I knew one of you would probably do something like that! It's always the same with you villains." Said the now standing figure, its voice like that of a crackling flame.
Coming out of a dust cloud revealed Ben's new form. His body was humanoid, though he had only 3 fingers, and his feet possessed only two front toes and one back toe. The entirety of his body was composed of a bright yellow inner body of flowing magma that was covered by red rocks. Ben's head was spewing out a constant flame that engulfed his rock-like face. The Omnitrix dial was proudly displayed on his chest, though now sporting a black and white color tone instead as he presented himself.
"The only thing you two will be getting is a major disappointment and beating of a lifetime, courtesy of Heatblast!" The flame being narrowed his eyes towards the two of them as he brought his arms behind him. "But as for right now, there's something more important to do!"
Said flame creature grunted as he ignited another blast of fire as he aimed his arms behind his body, causing him to propel toward Vilgax and Kevin with an explosion.
Vilgax and Kevin were unable to react in time, and as he grew closer, Heatblast fired out his flames with more intensity than the previous blast that knocked Kevin back. After reaching a close distance, he stopped the flames and reared his elbow out. He smashed his arm right into the gut of Kevin, smacking him off his feet and launching him back into the air. It was much to Vilgax's chagrin that the sudden backing of a hulking large body like Kevin's collided into him, the former slamming onto the ground as Kevin collided headfirst into him.
The two were left in a temporary daze from the impact as Heatblast landed on his feet a moment later. Realizing this was a pristine opportunity, Heatblast used this chance to turn his attention back onto Gwen, who was now regaining consciousness after being thrown back by Kevin.
"Gwen!" He shouted. Another emerald flash enveloped Heatblast as the Omnitrix dial on his chest lit up, replacing him with Stinkfly.
He had an insect body and four insect-like flat legs with two arms, whose hands were human-style ones with a black coloration, similar to fingerless gloves, with three clawed fingers in comparison. He had four pedunculated eyes that were yellowish-orange in color, and were linked directly to the sides of his huge black head. His wings were light green colored with lines on them, and his limbs were a brown-greenish color. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on the top of his forehead, and a black and white uniform.
"Come on!" Stinkfly quickly flew towards Gwen and swooped her up into his arms. "We're getting out of here, Stinkfly style!"
He began flying away from the asteroid with Gwen now in tow. Unfortunately for him however, as he looked back, both Kevin and Vilgax were seen recovering from Heatblast's attacks, and were beginning to get up. Vilgax in particular was quite pissed, his glaring red eyes showing signs of lividness. Now starting to run after Stinkfly, he called for his mount, with Kevin pursuing in tow as Gwen shivered in response to seeing their furious expressions.
"TENNYSON! You will not escape from me again!" Vilgax jumped, his mount catching him. Kevin followed in shortly with his own ride.
Stinkfly retorted with a snarky grin as two of his four eyes looked back at their enemies. "Tough luck, Vilgax! You won't be able to catch me in time!"
"Ben, keep going in this direction, we're almost near the portal!" Gwen yelled. Stinkfly merely nodded as he kept his full attention to flying.
Vilgax and Kevin were now in heavy pursuit. Stinkfly occasionally dodged some projectiles from Kevin, using two of his four eyes to look behind him as Kevin blasted fire from his left hand, diamond shards from his other arm, and even goo from his mouth. Contrary to his seemingly immature attitude, the foe proved to be quite the aiming specialist. The only reason that Stinkfly had any chance of dodging was due to his 360-degree sense of vision.
As the chase continued for a little while longer, it was then that Gwen started to see a shining glow of yellow in the distance. The portal was in sight, and shrinking ever so slightly by the second.
"Over there, Ben!" Gwen said while smiling.
Though as if a jinxing phenomenon was overshadowing them, several sparks of blue and orange started to erupt from the portal.
"Hey, what's going on?!" Stinkfly gasped, widening his eyes at the sight.
"Gwen!"Gwen could hear her grandfather's voice calling out to her from a headset on her ears.
"Grandpa?! What's happening?!" She asked with a worried tone.
"Good! It seems like the two of you are together!" He said with a sigh of relief, before switching back to an alarmed tone. "The Null Void Projector is reaching critical levels from my side! The portal is starting to close because of some screwed error. You and Ben have come back NOW, otherwise you'll be stuck in there forever!"
Gwen gasped, but quickly turned over to Stinkfly to relay the dire news to him. "Ben, Grandpa said that the Null Void Projector is becoming unstable! We have to get out of here, now!"
Stinkfly turned his head over to her and nodded. "Got it! Let's tip up a notch then! I'll leave Vilgax and Kevin in my stink!"
The bug-like creature snorted a bit from the pun he made, with Gwen groaning as she rolled her eyes in response. Meanwhile, Vilgax and Kevin overheard what Gwen just said. Both of their eyes widened in shock as they heard her yell. Vilgax narrowed his eyes and clenched the gills of his mount, causing it to roar in pain and speed up. Stinkfly and Gwen heard the noise and looked back, with Stinkfly clicking his teeth as he stared into the desperate eyes of the armored being.
"I won't let you, Tennyson! It's one thing to lose the Omnitrix, but being stranded in the Null Void is something I will not tolerate!" Vilgax screeched as he tried to get closer to Stinkfly.
The transformed Ben attempted to get rid of him by spewing slime from his eyes, but it did nothing to affect Vilgax as he merely swatted his attack way like it was water.
"Oh, come on! What's it going to take to take you down?!" Stinkfly groaned because of the disappointing result. "A giant shooting a laser at your or something?"
Everyone's attention returned back to the front due to a new noise though. The sparks continued to scatter from the portal, but the new noise originated from the portal itself. It was beginning to close even faster than before! Stinkfly and Gwen's eyes widened, causing the Lepidopterran to begin flying as fast as he could. Vilgax and Kevin did the same as they leashed their mounts, causing another speed boost.
The portal was beginning to close at an increasingly fast rate and by the second, causing Gwen to gain a new look of worry. Stinkfly glanced at her, gritting his teeth and he continued to fly with all his. The two were beginning to come near the portal, but the yellow vortex was almost gone at this point. The current size could only allow the capacity of a small human at best. By the time one of them reached through, it would be too small for anything to go through to the other side of the portal.
Looking back, Stinkfly eyed the location of Kevin and Vilgax, looking forward again shortly after. He then turned to Gwen, who in turn held a look of confusion as a result of Stinkfly's neutral expression.
"Better to at least have her return safe and sound…" He sighed inwardly, making his decision with a quick, but sure thought.
Stinkfly stared at Gwen for a bit, before opening his mouth to speak. "Gwen, do you trust me?"
The girl tilted her head worriedly with confusion. "Of course, but… But why though? What're going to do? Because I don't like that look you have on your face."
"I'm going to throw you into the portal." Stinkfly revealed blankly. "…Plain and simple."
Gwen held her look of confusion for a second, before realizing at what Ben was going to do. She tried to confront him, but he cut her off. "Wait, Ben… What are—"
"—There's only enough space for you! And at this rate, we're going to get caught by Vilgax and Kevin! It's the only thing I can do!" Stinkfly stated with an honest tone of confidence.
Gwen's eyes displayed a minor look of horror as she realized what her cousin was going to do. "B-But Ben, what about—"
She tried to plead to Ben's reasoning. However, in spite of all of that, Stinkfly merely gave her a warm smile as he looked at her. "It's alright, Gwen. If I can live on knowing that you're in a safe place and living a safe life, then it'll be all worth it."
Gwen began forming tears in her eyes. She didn't like his decision, but…she couldn't find anything to argue back and counter him with, not with the lack of time they had, and certainly not with Kevin and Vilgax right on their toes. The two of them were meters from the portal. Stinkfly wiped the tears from Gwen's eyes, and gave her a hug despite her already holding on to him. But even though her tears were just wiped, another stream of tears soon replaced it, with Gwen beginning to sniffle as she gritted her teeth in sadness. Ben looked forward, the portal now in range as he hovered in front of it.
"Well, this is it, Gwen… It's been a real blast hanging out with you and Grandpa… The best summer vacation a kid my age could ask for…" Stinkfly quoted with a smile.
Gwen's tears kept on flowing, but she gave her cousin a weak smile, showing that she accepted his decision. "When I return… I'll do everything in my power to help get you home the minute I have a chance!"
Stinkfly gave her a smirk while facing the portal, chuckling a little. "I have a feeling you'd say that. Now then… It's time."
Floating in front of the portal, Stinkfly and Gwen exchanged another hug. Afterward, Stinkfly then formed a throwing stance. Gathering all of his strength, he yelled loudly as he threw Gwen. It took her all but a moment to go through the portal, with it closing mere microseconds after her foot disappeared into the vortex.
"See you later… Dweep." Stinkfly muttered to himself, only to hear roars of increasing anger behind him.
Turning his attention back to his company, Stinkfly witnessed the look of fury on Vilgax's face. Kevin's face was almost as bad his as they stopped in front of him.
"TENNYSON! YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR THIS, MARK MY WORDS!" Vilgax promised as he clenched his razor-sharp fingers into his steed, making it welp as it bled from where he clenched it.
"You just made the WORST mistake of your life! I'm going to make your life a living hell-hole, STARTING NOW!" Kevin also proclaimed with several twitches of anger on his face.
Stinkfly snorted in response, shrugging as he did so. "Well… I wouldn't have any other way… Come on, show me what you got, you intergalactic warlord wannabe and mutated freak!"
Both Vilgax and Kevin snarled in response to Stinkfly's taunting as they rushed forward at him. The three of them started flying toward each other at a constantly accelerating rate, their speed rapidly increasing by the second. At the moment of impact, Stinkfly's Omnitrix dial flashed green, and he was engulfed in another flash of light.
Kevin and Vilgax collided head first, but not into Stinkfly. Ben was now a hulking pillbug-like, yellowed-eyed broad-shouldered alien covered in natural, yellow armor plating on his back, shoulders, and the backs of his arms. He was mostly white, with black on his upper half. He had four claws on both of his hands, with the Omnitrix on his forehead.
Right before their collision, Ben began to curl up into a spherical form, with his backplates and the plates on his hands covering him. His side plates were now the plates on his shoulders, and his sphere form had semi-circular stripes across his body, with black lines around the circular plates. The shock of the impact generated a soundwave that went across all of them.
So what do you all think of the first chapter of this AU? The Ben 10 series in this take place S2 episode 13, but Ben didn't go home in this world. And because this is an AU, it will be the combined worlds of the other heroes. I'll explain their ages as the chapter progress, but for now, we are just going to stick with Ben, I will say that he will be older next chapter. Leave a comment as well as follow/favorite this. UltraPhantom Out!
