Chapter 2

The Alien Hero

"T-this is all my fault." Yuuki Rito, the16-year-old student of Sainan High, muttered nervously while on his ways to sneak out of the school with a number of other students, having to crawl in the corridors to make sure that the Devilukean soldiers scouting the schoolyard outside wouldn't see them. Like the others, he was well aware of the reason why they were here. It was because he had broken a promise, and broken the heart of the girl who had loved him.

"Please don't say that Yuuki-kun. You wouldn't have known." Sarenji Haruna, his former crush and now girlfriend, told with him an assuring tone, trying her best to lighten up his mood. It hurt her to see him like this. She was worried for him, and for Lala too. It had been two days since the last time anyone heard about her, including her sisters, who had gone to try to convince their father out of his idea of killing everyone on Earth to find his eldest daughter as soon as war had been declared by the soldiers of Deviluke Empire.

"Everyone, down!" Mikado Ryoko, the school nurse and the one who had chosen to remain behind to protect the 'main group' of students, who had the closest ties to Lala, suddenly shouted in a panic tone, causing everyone to lower themselves down while holding their heads, just as another explosion occurred, shaking the entire school building. Some of the girls cried in terror as a section of the ceiling collapsed and fell down near them, breaking into pieces and kicking up a cloud of dust.

"W-Why is this happening?"

Saki Tenjoin cried while her friends were trying their best to comfort her, her arrogant and high-class façade disappeared entirely as she sat on the floor, looking quite shaken by the event that had unfolded. Rito could only look at her sadly for a moment before he looked down in shame. Saki was one of the girls who hadn't known about Lala's true origin and the King's promise to him, so she didn't know the reason why the town was attacked by alien spaceships.

"Come on everyone, we're clear for now. Let's hurry up before anyone see us." Shizu Murasame, Mikado's assistant, said after she had used her spirit to scan the school's perimeter, finding a safe route for everyone. Mikado nodded her head, before she started leading the students toward the exit before entering the schoolyard.

But before they could make it anywhere near the gate, a group of soldiers appeared with weapons in hands, causing several first year to scream in shock and terror. "We have located Yuuki Rito!" One of them shouted as the rest charged at them. Mikado and Shizu stood protectively in front of the group, preparing themselves to defend everyone else. Rito, meanwhile, knew that the Devilukeans were all here for him, so maybe, just maybe if he gave himself him everyone else would be spared from the king's wrath.

"Everyone watch out!" They then heard a familiar shout, before the ground underneath them cracked, allowing several vines like tentacles to shoot out and wrap around the soldiers, throwing them away or hitting them against each other. Three more plants with heads shaped like canons, then grew from the ground before Mikado and Shizu and started firing cannonballs like seeds at the soldiers, either directly knocking them away or blasting them off by hitting the ground beneath them.

"They're Princess Momo's plants. Use fire!" One of the soldiers shouted as a number of his comrades carrying weapons that closely resembled human flamethrowers entered the school ground, but before they could advance onward and start burning down the living plants, a giant boar charged at them and hurled them into the air, sending a few running before they were cut down by a black and yellow blur.

"Momo-chan!"

"Nana-chan!"

"Yami!"

Those who knew of the three girls could not stop themselves from smiling in relief as they flew into the school and touched down next to them. Without saying a word to each other, Momo and Lala, both princesses of Deviluke, continued to summon more of their pets from their D-dials, assisting Golden Darkness as she dashed and danced around the field with her blades, defeating Devilukean soldier after soldier with relative ease.

With their combined effort, it did not take it long for the three girls to handle the rest of the soldiers, leaving them either unconscious on the school ground or hanging on the trees outside, their weapons and armors broken.

"Is everyone alright?" Momo asked as she ran toward the group with her sister and Yami, the legendary assassin Golden Darkness following shortly behind them after she had transformed her hair and hands back to normal.

"Y-yeah, we are now. Thanks to you three."

"We would have been goners if you three didn't come, Momo-chan." Mikado nodded her head to the youngest princess, as the twin started recalling their pets back into their storing devices.

"It's not easy. We had to sneak out of father's ship. He did not want us to leave." Momo told the school nurse, who nodded her head in understanding with a heavy sigh "Probably because as soon as he finds Lala-nee sama, he will immediately head out to destroy this planet." The students paled when they heard that.

Yami, meanwhile, turned her attention to Rito with her usual blank expression, causing him to flinch and become a whole lot more nervous than before.

"Mikan is safe." Yami then told him nonchalantly "She's left city on my spaceship. The King won't be able to harm her now."

"I-I see. Thank you Yami-chan." Rito said gratefully, letting out a heavy sigh of relief he did not know he was holding.

"We better get going." Nana suddenly told them with her arms crossing on her chest "The whole army know where you are now. It's best that we leave this place before they can send reinforcements here." She then turned to the others and continued "Anyone who wish to leave this group can do it now, but I assure you that you are safer with us. As long as you don't provoke the soldiers, they won't attack you, so your family is safe for the time being."

There was a moment of silence as the students looked at each other. The ones who were close to them didn't need to think to make their decision, while the others, after seeing that showcase of offensive power, leaving these three's sides would be the last thing that anyone wanted to do at the moment.

"Let's go. My home is close. We can use my ship there to leave the city and go find Lala... wherever she is now." Mikado spoke up, breaking the silence after she saw that no one wished to leave.

Without a pause, everyone followed Mikado, the princesses and the assassin as they headed out of school and onto the streets of Sainan Town. Yami, who created a pair of wings on her back, flew ahead of them to make sure that they didn't run into any battles, doing their best to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Both Nana and Momo could tell that the soldiers were looking for them and Rito, as they sneaked their way through various barricades that the Devilukean soldiers had set up around the city to get to Mikado's house, using their pets animals and plants to assist them with their escapes.

"My house is near. This way everyone!" Mikado said after peaking from behind a corner to make sure that no one was around. Nana, Momo and the students nodded their heads and was about to follow her, when suddenly Yami flew down before them and clashed swords with a warrior cladded in light armor, pushing him back before attacking him with her hair, which transformed into fists, keeping him on the defensive side while being pushed back. The warrior dodged all the punches with ease, before regrouping with a group of similar dressed warriors, all of whom carried a light blade in their hands.

"They are…" Nana gasped in shock "the royal elite guards."

"Zastin!" Her twin sister then exclaimed in surprise as Zastin jumped down from a nearby building and walked toward them with a firm expression on his face, reminding Rito of his first meeting the commander of Planet Deviluke's royal family bodyguards.

"Momo-sama, Nana-sama…" Zastin bowed his head for a second before he looked up with the same face "my utmost apology, but we are here to take you back and to capture Yuuki Rito. Your father has allowed me to use force if necessary, so please surrender and come with me in peace. I do not wish you two to get hurt." He told them, causing both sisters to flinch in surprise, because of all the years that they had known Zastin, he had never spoke to them in that tone and with that face.

"No we can't Zastin. Our missing sister and the two of us are the only reasons father hasn't destroyed this planet yet." Momo tried to reason with him, but like her sister she had her D-dial in hand, ready to summon her plant to defend them "We can't just come with you and let him hurt everyone that we care about." She said, gesturing her hand to the people standing behind her.

"I promise that we will not lay a finger on any of your friends, Momo-sama, as long as you let us take Yuuki Rito." Zastin said firmly, causing the mentioned boy flinch.

"But onee-chan wouldn't want that, as much as I want him to suffer because he hurt her feeling." Nana shouted. "Leave now Zastin, we do not want to fight you."

"Neither do I, Nana-sama." Zastin lowered his head apologetically before he pulled out his sword and charged at the group with the assist of his soldiers. With the exception of Yami, the rest looked extremely nervous, having seen and heard of the capabilities of the Deviluke's royal guards.

Momo and Nana were about to summon their pets, when suddenly a beam of highly concentrated green energy shot down to the area between the two group, separating them and causing Zastin and his warriors to halt their advancements. Before they could locate the unknown attacker, a tornado appeared and knocked them into the air, hurling them all around the street and into the buildings around them, though they were able to recover fairly quickly after that.

"This is… Lala-sama!" Zastin said in shock, and then looked up to see the eldest princess of the Deviluke Empire flying toward them with a red alien creature with a very familiar symbol on its chest. As Lala flew toward her sisters, the alien creature landed before them and transformed into a teenager boy who stood before them with his arms crossing on his chest, wearing a green jacket over a black shirt and blue jeans.

"It's best that you stay where you are pal."

Zastin, and several soldiers, almost dropped their weapons when they realized who it were.

"Nana, Momo!"

""Onee-sama/Ane-ue!"" Both Nana and Momo cried out and threw themselves into their sister's arms, embracing her tightly as she returned their bear hug with one of her own, tears rolling down their cheeks. "You're here!"

"Nana, Momo… I made you two worried, didn't I?" Lala asked her sisters softly while rubbing their heads, a soft smile on her face as she looked down at them and then at Ben, who was watching the scene with a smile on his face. She had told them about her sisters before the two arrived in the town.

"Please don't do that ever again, Onee-sama!" Nana said as she looked up at her sister with tearful eyes.

"I will never, Nana. I'm sorry for everything that happened." Lala said, before she looked over to Mikado and the others. It did not take it long for her eyes immediately to find Rito and it caused her to feel a sharp pain in her chest when she saw he was holding Haruna's hand. As much as she tried to hide it, her lingering feeling for him was still around, but she would not let it get the better of her again. "Is everyone alright?" She asked to them with a soft tone, smiling a bit when she saw a few nods from a number of her friends, like Yui and Saruyama.

"Uhm, Lala…" Ben spoke up with his hands raising "Hate to ruin the reunion but… we should do something about them." He pointed his thumb at Zastin and his warriors, who had successfully regrouped with an entire battalion of foot soldiers that had come to assist.

"I understand." Lala nodded her head firmly before letting go of her sister and walking toward to stand beside Ben, who turned around and faced the Devilukean soldiers with her. His sleeve rolled up, revealing the Ultimatrix and caused both Nana and Momo to widen their eyes in surprise, with the younger one even more so than her sister.

"Wait… isn't that Ben Ten?" One of the students asked in shock, causing Lala to turn around to look at him in surprise. She also saw the shocked expression on both of her sisters' faces when their suspicions had been confirmed.

"You are Ben Ten, aren't you!?" Another one asked, causing Ben to turn around as well.

"Uh… yeah. That's me. Hi." The alien hero answered nervously while waving his hand at them and rubbing the back of his head. He could not speak Japanese fluently, but he knew what they were saying. It's not that difficult when he heard his nickname being mentioned constantly.

"Ben Ten, eh?" Everyone flinched when they heard that low tone, and turned around to see Zastin standing in front of his soldier with a dark and sinister aura covering his armored cladded body. The front bangs of his silver hair were shadowing his face, so it's hard for anyone to tell what he was feeling.

"Yup, that's me." Ben turned around and stated confidently "You have a problem with me pal?" He asked, rolling up his sleeve to activate the Ultimatrix, choosing Swampfire almost instantly. He's ready.

"PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR SIGNATURE, MILORD!"

Ben had an urge to fall on his face, when suddenly Zastin, the previously menacing looking warrior, dropped his calm and collected façade and shot forward to stand before him with his head bow low, and a poster of Ben in his hands extending toward him. Before he could react, however, several other soldiers rushed toward him and surrounded Ben from all directions, taking out posters that were similar to the one Zastin had and showing it to him, asking Ben to sign them for them.

"E-Eh?" Lala could only gasp in surprise as Zastin and the royal guards swooned around Ben like a group of fans around their idol, who was a bit uncomfortable at first before he started asking for a ben so that he could sign the posters for them. She had never seen her personal bodyguard or any of the royal guards to behave like that around anyone before in her life, let alone an Earthling like Ben.
"Why is everyone acting like that around Ben?"

"S-seriously Ane-ue? Of course everyone will be like that around him. He's Ben 10." Nana rushed to her and explained "Don't tell me you don't know who he is? He's basically the guy who wakes up in the morning and saves the universe in the afternoon."

"Ah I see, I didn't kn…" Lala laughed nervously and said while nodding her head before her eyes abruptly snapped wide open in shock as she asked her sister loudly in surprise "Ehhh, what did you just say?!"

"T-That's true, Onee-sama. Ben-sama is one of the greatest heroes the universe has ever known. Wielder of the Omnitrix and now the Ultimatrix, he has saved the universe countless times since he was 10." Momo nodded her head and said as she walked to her sisters' sides "Grandson of the legendary Plumber Max Tennyson, the most respected man in the entire universe, even father and mother want to meet him to personally reward him for all that he has done to the universe…"

"Yeah, meet Ben 10's biggest fan." Nana interrupted with a sly smirk, pointing her hand to her little twin sister with an amused smile "Momo's obsessed with him. You should have seen her room after you ran away from home. She has so many posters of him it's unreal, and I think she even has a shrine dedicated to Ben-sama in her closet or something…"

"T-That's not true!" Momo screamed at her sister in embarrassment, her face beat red. The two sisters than started arguing with each other, with Momo being one that wasn't hesitate to use violence against her twin sister, hooking her arm around her neck with a dark expression on her face.

Lala, meanwhile, was looking at Ben in a new light, not expecting her new friend to turn out to be someone so great, a hero that was loved and admired by everyone around the Universe. Sure Ben had told her that more or less he was a Galaxy law enforcer like his best friend and cousin, but to think that not only was he a savior of the Universe, but he had also saved it several times since he was 10 year old… it was incredible and almost impossible to believe at the same time, if she didn't see the reactions of Zastin and the soldiers around him, and the ones who told her that weren't her beloved sisters.

"Is there anyone else?" Ben asked while looking around. He did not expect his saving the earth mission would turn out like this.

Zastin suddenly put his hands on Ben's shoulder, which shocked him and everyone else, and then asked him with a very serious tone "Master Tennyson, can you grant me the honor of taking you off this planet with my ship?"

"Uh, what?"

"Soon, this planet will be destroyed by the King, but you and your relatives are among those he wishes to spare from its ultimate doom, for all the good deeds that you have done to this universe." Zastin explained, causing everyone to gasp in shock "The King himself has personally demanded for your relocation, but now that you are here, would you like to…"

But before he could finish, Ben reached up with both hands and removed Zastin's from his shoulders. With a smile on his face, he asked calmly "Zastin, is it?" When the captain nodded his head, Ben then continued "Thank you for the offer, but unfortunately I cannot do that. Ruler of the Galaxy or not, I won't let your King destroy this planet, and kill billions of innocent lives on it."

"Master Tennyson…"

"I'm here with his daughter to talk him out of it… but he still won't change his mind, then I will stop him. I do not care how powerful he is, even if it is the last thing that I can do, I will protect this planet, and its people." He said firmly, making both the aliens and earthlings to look at him with admiration and amazement, no one more so than Lala herself.

"Spoken like a true hero, I shouldn't have expected anything less from someone as amazing as you are, master Tennyson." Zastin muttered before he and his soldiers standing around Ben stood straight up, one hand put on their chest in a salute manner before he declared, loud and clear "Then please, excuse us."

"BEN!" Lala shouted when the group of soldier reached out and tried to grab the teen, who had just enough time to crouch down and slam his hand into the Ultimatrix. In a flash of green light, he transformed and hurled away Zastin and several other soldiers around him as he stood up and swung his arms around him.

"SWAMPFIRE!" Ben cried out the name of his alien, but then realized he wasn't the only one who did that. He turned his head and looked at the girl with short pink hair, who had just screamed out the name of his form along with him. "Is there a problem?" He asked, and she flinched nervously

"N-No… it's just I think Methanosian is your coolest form, that's all Ben-sama." She replied to him while waving her hand with a blushing face, making Swampfire widen his eyes in surprise. It was only recently that he had come to learn the species of each of his aliens, and yet this girl was well aware of that.

"Who care about that smelly plant anyway. Plus, he isn't as cool as spider-monkey." Nana suddenly added with a shrug.

"What?! Care to repeat that!?"

"Girls! Excuse me but," Swampfire interrupted them as he threw a punch into the face of the soldier who tried to sneak attack him on the left "if we are on the same side then can I have a little help here?" Momo and Nana looked at each other, and just as Yami flew in to join Swampfire in pushing back the wave of Devilukean soldier, the twin summoned a number of their pets. Lala smiled and then joined her sister, summoning her almighty tool from her D-Dial and transforming it into her almighty tool to engage the royal guards in combat, effectively defeat them with her superior strength and the help of her sisters.

"I'm sorry Zastin, but I won't let father destroy this planet!" Lala said determinedly as she locked her sword with Zastin. In term of swordsmanship and experience, she paled in comparison to her personal bodyguard, but she was not fighting him alone. Lala and Momo were both assisting her with their pets. "Everyone here is important to me, so I will protect them even if it is father."

"Even Yuuki Rito, the man who hurt your feeling?" Zastin asked as he dodged a seed cannon fired from Momo's plant, and then kicked away Nana Giga wild Boar, knocking it down with little to no trouble.

"Yes, even him." Not even hesitating, Lala said firmly as she blocked Zastin's sword strike, which wasn't meant to hurt her but to knock her sword away so he could restrain her, but her hands remained firmly around the handle even after that. "Everything that happened was my fault. I will take responsibility for it, but I will not let anyone be harm because of my own naivety."

"Lala-sama…" Zastin muttered in surprise and amazement, not expecting to see such fierceness and determination in his princess' eyes.

"Listen to the lady, Zastin." Swampfire said from the side, and ignite the methane in his palms to fire a blast of fire at him, knocking him away from Lala. He then removed the seeds on his shoulders, and threw them toward the three tanks that were approaching, causing vines to grow from them that lifted the tanks into the air, effectively removing them from battle without harming the soldiers inside.

Then, to the soldiers that were approaching, the alien hero then slammed his hand onto the symbol on his chest, transforming into a different alien in a flash of green light. He now resembled a semi-armored velociraptor, with black wheels on his feet and wore a matching color helmet.

"XLR8!" The alien yelled, before the visor of his helmet closed down.

He then launched himself forward, leaving behind a trail of his own color as he dashed across the street and knocked down every soldier that could not react in time to his super speed.

"Impressive." Yami said as XLR8 kicked away the soldiers she had been fighting. He then waved a hand at her before rushing away. The speed was from the alien form, but she could see the fighting techniques were all his. Like all aliens, she had heard of the name Ben Tennyson, but she never thought of him more than what everyone else knew him to be.

"I think we're clear." XLR8 said as he appeared beside Lala and transformed back to Ben, smiling at her until he saw Zastin emerging from a building, with smoke coming from the burnt parts of his armor but overall he looked fine. Ben and Lala then looked up when an enormous shadow cast over them, and saw a number of spaceships hovering above them "I think." Ben corrected himself as he looked at the ship on the sky. On the ground, reinforcements had arrived to aid Zastin and the remaining royal guards, locking the three princess and the group of students tight in the corner.

"BEN!" Ben heard his cousin's shout, and turned his head to see her and Kevin running toward them on mana platforms that appeared and disappeared in the air, creating a safe path of them to reach Ben and Lana. Kevin was the first to leap off the platform and landed beside his best friend, a smirk on his face as he absorbed a piece of metal on the ground and covered himself in an armor of the same material.

"The team is here!" Momo gasped behind her hand, eyes sparkling with excitement.

"So I take that she is a fan." Kevin said smugly as Gwen took Ben's other side, hand glowing with mana "So what's the situation?"

"Darth Vader and his storm trooper." Ben pointed his hand at Zastin, who picked up his sword and took a stance "Clear a path, we gotta take them to safety."

"With pleasure." With that, Kevin transformed his hands into two blades, similar to Yami's ability, and charged at Zastin, taking down every soldier on his path before engaging Zastin in combat. The two slashed their blades violently, sparks flew between them as neither warrior refused to back down from each other before locking their swords and looking at each other in the eyes.

"To be able to fight a friend of Master Tennyson, it is truly an honor."

"Dafug? That's not something to say to your enemy bro." Kevin said and pushed the Devilukean captain back.

"Gwen, protect the students, I will…" Before Ben could even finish and Gwen could nod her head, an energy portal appeared before them, and from it a man with black, spiky hair wearing black outfit and long black coat with a trident like tail walked out, much to the shock and terror of the ones who knew him.

"Father." Lala whispered nervously as she looked at her father, back in his adult form, back in his full power as he took a few steps toward them before coming to a stop, a small smirk on his face as he scanned the battlefield.

"So this is the King." Ben said, to which Gwen nodded her head in confirmation. He didn't look that much different from a human male in his mid-twenties, and yet for some reason he couldn't help but feel that he was even more powerful and terrifying that Vilgax himself. This was the King of the Galaxy…

The King who could shatter an entire planet with his strength alone.

"My daughters, you three have no idea how much trouble you have caused me." Gid Deviluke said with his arms crossing. He then looked at Ben, and said to him with a smile "Ben Tennyson, a pleasure to see the hero of the universe in the flesh. I am sorry that we have to meet in a situation like this."

"The honor is all mine sir." Ben said, deciding to be respectful toward the King. The man did not look like it, but his instinct was telling him that Gid was angry. It's best that he did not provoke him and make him any more pissed off than he already was.

"Now if you excuse me, I need to talk to my daughters." Gid said before turning his attention back to the pink haired princesses Come with me. It's time for us to leave this planet."

"I'm sorry father, but I cannot do that." Lala said "We both know that the moment we leave this planet, you will destroy it."

"That's exactly what I want to do." Gid nodded his head while rubbing his ear, and as if to empathize his point, the winds around him started to pick up "A brat from this planet breaks my daughter's heart, so I will do exactly what I promised him. I will destroy his planet."

"I'm sorry sir, but I cannot let you do that. It's wrong." Ben interrupted, stepping forward "I know that you love your daughter, but killing billions of live is not the solution to her current problem. You can see how much she cares for these people here." He gestured his hand to the group of students, who were sobbing quietly "It will only hurt her more if you kill them along with everyone else on Earth."

"So you intend to fight me here to stop me from destroying this planet, eh?" Gid asked in amusement "Unfortunately, I have no intention to fight you here son. It won't do any good to the Deviluke's public image if the king of the empire himself battle the savior of the Universe, not to mention that my wife will be on my ass if I accidentally kill you." The King continued casually, much to Ben's shock and nervousness "So can you please back down and allow me to take my daughters? I promise you, your friends and your family will be spared from the ultimate destruction of this planet."

"No sir I cannot do that." Ben answered firmly.

"Then how about this, I will give you one of my daughters. You deserve at least one of them." All three of them flinched, and Ben dropped his jaw in shock "You can even take Lala for all I care, because if I am being honest with myself, you are a better choice for her than that spineless brat over there."

"F-Father!" Lala shouted at him, her face red in embarrassment.

"Holy crap." Kevin wolf-whistled slowly "That's one irresponsible father." When Lala told them the reason she ran away from her home planet, he had had a suspicion, and he had heard that Deviluke's political matters were handled by the Queen, but it wasn't until now that he could finally understand why.

"I have to agree with you, master Levin… wait!" Zastin flinched and then swung his sword down, forcing Kevil to jump back to dodge "How dare you insult King Gid in such manner!" and then two went back to battle each other.

"I'm sorry sir, but I cannot do that as well. I won't abandon the people of my world." Ben said strongly "Plus, your daughters should all have the right to make that decisions by themselves. You should not force to them to love or to marry someone against their will. It's wrong."

"Ben…" Lala whispered in a low tone and smiled softly with one hand clutching her chest as she looked at her new friend, who stood fearlessly before her father.

"I see, that's too bad then." Gid said, the aura around him starting to thicken "It seems I will have to extract you from this planet by force then. Come, Ben Tennyson, force me to submit if you can." Then he unleashed his power, causing the ground around him to crack, and rocks to be blown away. Ben, acting purely on instinct, immediately activated the Ultimatrix and slammed his hand on it, transforming into a 12 feet tall dinosaur like alien before growing to become even larger, standing at 60 feet and making his dinosaur features become more pronounced, with Stegosaur-like plates on his back, a crest on his forehead, and spikes on his tail.

"HUMONGOUSAUR!" The alien cried out before running at Gid with thundering footstep, his tail swiping and knocking into the building around him as he brought his fist back. Gid smirked, and then waited for Humongousaur to throw his punch at him to counter with one of his own, generating a massive shockwave that shook the building shattered every glass within a two miles radius, forcing Gwen to raise a mana shield to protect herself, Lala, her sisters and the group of Sainan students standing behind her.

"BEN!" Lala cried out, because the next instant, Humongousaur's gigantic body was launched back, flying across the street before crashing into a tall building behind it while Gid continued to stand firmly on his feet. As the building finished collapsing around him, in a flash of green light Ben transformed back to normal, lying on the ground his head bleeding and his arm broken. "N-no…" The eldest princess of Deviluke sobbed as she looked at her friend.

Then, to everyone's horror, the lean body of Ben Tennyson started to stir, slowly at first before he started to pick himself up, blood trailing down the side of his forehead as his left arm hung limply at his side. He then crawled out of the crater his dinosaur like form had created, almost falling over but once again stood up, using his normal arm to push himself. His action caused Gid to nod his head quietly and look at the young man with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

"You… call that a punch? Hah... even my cousin can punch harder than that." Ben mocked weakly with a smile on his face as he activated the Ultimatrix, choosing Swampfire once again while almost falling over. His head was spinning and his vision blurry, but he knew he had to fix his arm soon else he would not be able to fight. "Try harder next time."

"Stand down son, you are in no condition to fight." Gid said as he started walking toward Ben, who he knew had no intention of doing what he had told him, else there would be no need for him to start approaching him.

"Make me."

And with that, he transformed, turning into Swampfire once again just in time to counter Gid's punch with his vine like body, allowing his fist to pass through his chest harmlessly. He then fixed his arm, and then used it to blast a gout of fire at Gid's face, forcing him to snap his head to the side to dodge it. The King smirked, and used his grip on Swampfire's body to tear him down the middle and threw him away. Swampfire's body immediately regenerated back to normal and swung around in midair to land on the ground with his feet.

"Ben, you cannot beat him in hand to hand combat!" Gwen shouted to her cousin while maintaining the mana shield around her and everyone else "He's too strong for any of your aliens to fight him head on."

"So…"

"You can't use Way Big either Ben-sama, father has fought and defeated a To'kustar before." Momo told him "Transforming into him will only damage the town every time he knocks you down."

"Then I need to keep my distance, you say. Then I know exactly what is best for the job… it's time to go ultimate!"

Swampfire said, and then turned the symbol on his chest, causing four spikes to grow out from the symbol before he slammed his hand into it. From there, Swampfire evolved, taking on the appearance of a humanoid tree. His body was dark brown in color, and he now had three blue gooey shells containing an organic, blue colored gel-like solution of napalm on his arms and a large one on his back. He also had a smaller pod on his front, through which his face could be seen.

"W-wha… what is that?" Momo asked in shock, having never seen or heard of such function from the Omnitrix before, as well as the form of Methanosian Ben was taking "I didn't know about that."

"Ultimate Swampfire!" The newly evolved Swampfire announced, and then fired a twin blasts of blue flame at Gid, making him move his body to the side to dodge. The King then attacked him head on, only for Ultimate Swampfire to fire a massive blast of napalm in his face, destroying a whole block before him and sending him back much to everyone's surprise, but Gid merely flipped around and landed gracefully on one knee, a smirk on his face as he looked at Ben.

"Interesting, so this is the evolutionary function Azmuth was talking about." Gid said as Ben removed the blue orbs on his arms and threw them at him, generating powerful explosions that shook the entire area and forcing him to repeatedly dodge. Before Ben could throw more, Gid suddenly disappeared from his sight and reappeared behind him with his leg ready to kick him away.

Ben, however, was expecting this, having prepared a small vine on the Ultimatrix symbol to manipulate it whenever he wished. He transformed again before Gid's foot could come in contact with his head, becoming a small alien wearing a white suit with a square assessor like a MP3 player behind his back with a port on it, decorated with a 10 and what looked like cassette tapes on his lower legs. He had circle-shaped indents on the back of his hands which were green. The inside of his mouth was green as well with lines that gave it the appearance of an amplifier.

"Echo… Echo." The little alien announced as he ran away from Gid. Before the King could grab him, it suddenly duplicated, and became a small army of the same alien that soon surrounded Gid, who kicked one away and made it disappear but the rest remained unhurt "ECHO… CHAMBER!" The army of clones announced at the same time before screaming together, unleashing waves of ultrasonic sound at Gid from every direction, causing the King to fall down on one knee as he gritted his teeth in annoyance.

"He… He's winning." Nana stated in shock while covering her ears with the others.

Just when Gid was about to fall down from the pressure of the soundwaves, his tail shot up and fired a blast of energy, generating a dome of energy around him that then enlarged suddenly, knocking off the Echo Echo clones and stopping them from screaming. Gwen's shield was shattered immediately as the Echo Echo disappeared, leaving behind the real one who then transformed back to Ben, who were on his knees and elbows as he tried to pick himself up, gasping and breathing hard.

"You're crafty, I will give you that." Gid said as he stood up and dusted his shirt, looking as if getting screamed at at supersonic frequencies was nothing to him. "So, any more tricks you want to show me?" He asked, his arms crossing on his chest.

"Ben, stop, that's enough. You don't have to…" Lala tried to walk to Ben, but he had already transformed into XLR8, who then rushed at Gid at blinding speed. The King merely smirked and dodged all of his attacks without even uncrossing his arm, before swinging his tail at Ben when he tried to attack him from the left, knocking him into a destroyed building.

From the smoke of debris and a flash of green light, a barrage of diamond spikes were fired at Gid, who dodged easily and avoided them all even as each spike exploded like a bomb, before launching himself into the building and emerging from the side with his foot planting firmly on the chest of Ben in his Diamondhead form. Before he could crash into the ground, Ben transformed again and became a slime like alien, which then tried to wrap itself around the King but Gid, who knew of the alien's weakness, easily defeated him by knocking the Anti-Gravity Projector away, forcing him to revert back to Ben.

"Let me ask you one simple question, son." Gid said as he stood over the tired form of Ben, his Ultimatrix seemed to have run out power as well as he propped himself up on his elbows and knees once again "Why?"

"What do you mean why?" Ben asked as he wiped the sweat and blood on his forehead.

"Why do you fight? Why are you willing to be beaten around like this for them, for those brats whose names you don't even know?" He asked, lowering himself down before the teen "Is it because of my daughter? Did she ask you? Or you wish to face me because you want to impress her?"

"What… the hell is wrong with you?" Ben asked as he looked at the Ultimatrix, desperately wishing for it to finish recharging "It's because that's the right thing to do. I got this watch…" He showed Gid the Ultimatrix "it is the most powerful weapon in the universe, and you expect me to do nothing when something bad happened? In your dream."

"I don't fight this just for your daughter, or for anyone in that group. I fight for all the living beings on this planet, the friends I see every day, the neighbors that greet me in the morning, the strangers that I walk by in the afternoon, and even the enemies that try to kill me because I stop them robbing a bank… I fight to protect all those that you threaten to kill today, and if it is necessary I will protect everyone in this entire universe from you, even if it costs me my life, I will continue to do the right thing… for that is what it means to be a hero."

Gid merely looked at him, but the corner of his lips curved up in a smirk. So this was the young man every planet in the Universe had been talking about. He truly exceeded all of his expectations for him.

However…

"I'm sorry Ben. I really do." Gid said, his tone devoid of emotion "But you don't need to protect this wretched planet and its people anymore." He then raised his hand, and intended to knock the boy out…

… just before he could do that, he heard the shout of his eldest daughter, who must have mistaken that he was trying to kill her new friend, as she rushed in between them,

"NO FATHER!"

and saw the Ultimatrix symbol flashing yellow.

"Master Devilukean DNA scanned and recognized. TRAFORMATION UNLOCKED AND AVALIABLE!"


End of Chapter 2

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P/S: The reason why the Ultimatrix didn't just scan Devilukean like Lala or her sisters will be revealed in the next chapter, if you guys haven't figured that out yet.

Harem for Ben is still being opened. I have decided that Lala and Momo should definitely be in it, don't know about Nana though but I think I should add her too. What about others? Who should they be?