Chapter 3
Deviluke vs Deviluke
"Master Devilukean DNA scanned and recognized. TRAFORMATION UNLOCKED AND AVALIABLE!"
The Ultimatrix announced, causing everyone to gasp in shock and amazement. The dial then popped up on its own, showing the hologram of a humanoid alien greatly resembling Ben with a tail in the shape of a spear wearing an outfit and cloak similar to Gid and having his arms crossed on his chest. Lala, who had tried to step in between Ben and her father, had her eyes widened in shock as she looked at the new alien, before realizing that her father's hand was on the Ultimatrix. Ben must have tried to push her out of the way when she stepped in between him and Gid, making Gid's hand accidentally touch his transforming watch.
"Now this… is unexpected." Gid muttered with a small, amused smirk. "Azmuth you sly rat."
"I was right. Lala, slam the dial down!" Before the King could regain his composure, Ben shouted out to Lala, who immediately did what she was told with her hand moving faster than it had ever done in her life, knowing full well what this could mean. Gid tried to stop his daughter, but his daughter had already succeeded, slamming the dial of the Ultimatrix down, engulfing all three of them in a blinding flash of green light before Gid found himself being knocked back violently by the shockwave of a release of a Devilukean's raw power. The King flipped around in midair, and landed on his feet, looking at the couple before him with a smirk on his face.
When the light died down, standing with a surprised Lala standing behind him, was none other than Ben Tennyson. However, his facial appearances had changed drastically. The alien hero was taller, with a lean but muscular build, with his hair becoming unkempt. While he retained his black shirt and jeans, his green jacket had become a green cloak, similar to the one Gid was wearing, and he now spotted a long tail shaped like a spear coming from behind his back. In addition, the Ultimatrix had disappeared and Ben wore its symbol on the front of his belt buckle.
"Holy crap." Kevin Levin whistled for the second time that day.
"B-Ben… you are…" Lala started slowly while looking at the young man standing before her, but he merely raised his hand and pushed her back, nodding his head to the princess before looking back at her father, green eyes burning with determination and confidence.
"Sir. I have a request to make and I will not say it again." The alien hero teen spoke up while looking at Gid, his tone deeper and more commanding than before "Leave this planet and its people alone."
"Hoh, such confidence." Gid said with an amused smirk "And what if I refu…" But even before he could finish, Ben had appeared before him and punched him in the face, with so much force that a shockwave was generated before he was sent back, crashing into a building faster than anyone's eyes could follow in that moment.
"Then that punch won't be the last that I will send in your face, sir." Ben finished as he drew his fist back and started crackling his knuckle while keeping his eyes on the collapsing building. However, not even a second later, Gid emerged, looking unharmed even though there was a mark on his face where Ben had punched him.
The Deviluke King then smirked, before answering Ben's punch with one of his own, attacking the teen with speed as fast if not even faster than what Ben had shown. Another shockwave was created, this one knocking Lala back, but she quickly summoned the anti-gravity wings of her outfit and regained her balance in the air, looking at the scene before her with her eyes wide in shock, the same as everyone around her.
"I will not let you destroy this planet." Ben said while gripping Gid's fist in his palm, holding the king back with all of his strength "No matter what your reason is, I cannot let you do it." The teen then threw him back, launching him across the street but Gid was able to recover fairly easy.
"So you are saying that a father wanting to punish those who hurt my daughter is not the right thing to do?" Gid asked, his eyebrow twitching. The wind around him picked up as he started gathering his power again. Ben also did the same thing, but his aura of power was green, causing the whole town to shake violently under their powers "Careful there son, if one of us here release enough power, Earth will be destroyed in an instant." Gid told him with a smirk as the ground beneath them cracked and then broken to pieces.
"But I won't do that." Ben said before asking "And I know that you won't as well. Your daughters are still here, and I don't think you wish to hurt any of them, do you?"
"You are correct." Gid said and then lowered his power down. Ben let out a breath and then decreased his power as well, not wanting to cause any more damage than he had "So let's keep it at fist fight between two gentlemen. Your power is vast, but you have no control over it." Ben nodded his head, before he was forced to move his head out of the way to dodge a punch from the king, faster than anything he had ever seen in his life but still somehow managed to keep up with his new transformation. "How about we make a deal? If I win, you will leave this planet at once and join the Deviluke empire. But if you win, I will spare your planet, along with everyone on it."
"Very well sir." Ben nodded his head and answered with a left hook, one that Gid blocked easily before using his tail to slash at Ben. He then jumped back several feet and fired a beam of green energy at the King, who smirked and then fired one of his own, causing the two beams to collide in the middle, blasting off everything that were around it "Also, there is something else I wish to ask of you. I want you to allow your daughters, Lala especially, to choose whoever they want to be with from now on!" The mentioned girls gasped in shock, no one more so than Lala.
"HA! You think I haven't tried to do that? Look what it did to her? Did she tell you how that boy she had been chasing for over a year broke her heart in favor of a female Earthling?"
Gid stopped firing his beam and came at Ben at full force, punching him in the face with so much power Ben thought Gid had broken his jaw, but that was not the end of his attacks as he kept pushing forward. The alien hero quickly recovered and countered the King's attack with his own, their fists and feet meeting each other violently as they moved faster than the human eyes could follow. Even if the fight was strictly a hand-to-hand battle, it was unlike anything they had seen before.
"She is Heartbroken and in pain." Gid continued to throw words at Ben, his punches and kicks growing faster and stronger with each attacks. "You think a father wants to see his daughter like that? You think I should just sit back and allow her to continue to suffer? I'm the one trying to help her here son." He then delivered a hard punch into the alien hero's gut, launching him back and sending him crashing into a broken tank, knocking both into the air before crashing down.
"But can you see that she's suffering now because of you! She made the wrong choice, so what? Everyone made mistake, even if it is in life or in love." Ben asked as he picked himself up, grunting in pain "What important now is that how she will move on from this! How much stronger will she become. I'm just a kid! I still don't know what it means to be a father yet, or how it feels to see your daughter in pain like you, but I know that any father will want to see his daughter growing up to be a strong, fine woman. Lala is a free spirit, so a heartbreak won't be pleasant for her, but it is a challenge necessary for her growth!"
Ben and Gid then charged at each other and met in the middle, catching each other punch before sending themselves back. The teen was the first to recover, and shot toward Gid with a barrage of punches and kicks, forcing him to defend himself with both arms.
"You want her to be happy? Then you shouldn't have forced Lala to meet those suitors that she didn't even like in the first place, just so you can dump your kingly duty on someone else." Ben gritted his teeth, and slammed his foot on the ground so hard that it cracked, and braced himself to deliver a powerful punch into Gid's face, blowing up the entire street behind him before sending him flying away. "If you didn't do any of that, then this wouldn't have happened. Your daughter wouldn't have had to run away from her own house, she wouldn't have met that boy she felt in love with but did not love her back the same way and got her heart broken as a result."
"But it's also all thank to you that Lala was able to meet her friends, those who she loved and cherished with her life, even the one who broke her heart. She could have left this planet anytime she wanted to, yet she didn't because she didn't want anything to happen to them. That alone showed how precious those people are to her. Can you see that she's willing to stand against your soldiers for them?"
"And you sir, tried to take them away from Lala. You are not helping her, sir, you are making her feel worst. But if you fail to realize that then I'm sorry to say this, you are…" Ben then moved his left foot back and waited for Gid to appear right in front of him to perform a spinning wheel kick, one of the many martial art techniques Gwen had taught him when they were younger, straight into Gid's rib, sending him away and knocking him down for good, leaving a gigantic crater on the ground, just as the Ultimatrix ran out of power and transformed him back to normal in a flash of red "…the worst father that I have ever met. All the tears that she had shred ever since she left your side, sir, has been because of you."
"Fuck." Gid cursed, holding the side where Ben had kicked him and laughing forcefully before spitting out a mouthful of blood while pushing himself up on one elbow "Been a while since someone had hit me that hard." He then looked up and saw Ben standing over him, with a firm expression on his face.
"Anyone should have the liberty to pursuit happiness sir, even the princess of the Galaxy." Ben continued fearlessly, retaining the same tone that he had in his Devilukean form. Above them, a spaceship was approaching them, "Yes, Lala might stumble. She might trip over on the way, but that will only make her stronger. I know that you care for her sir, but sometime, you gotta let her walk on her own."
The alien hero then offered the King his hand, his expression softening as he smiled. Gid sighed, the corner of his lips curving up into a smirk before he reached up and took Ben's hand, allowing the teen to pull him to his feet.
Gid then looked over to his eldest daughter, and saw her looking at Ben while covering her mouth with both hands, sobbing quietly as tears streamed down her cheeks, and both hands covering her mouth. As her father, he knew those were not the tears of sadness, but something else, something different entirely.
Last time he was on Earth, his daughter had the look of an innocent child who was still trying to figure out what it meant to love someone, but now…
… just like what this young man had told him.
"I see." Gid let out a small smile as he turned his attention to the young man standing beside him, moving their hands into a firm handshake "It seems I have lost to you, young man, in more ways than..." before he could finish, Ben started swaying and suddenly lost his footing, causing him to fall down. Before Gid could react, Lala had already ran toward them and caught the young man in her arms, letting him sit down slowly as she lowered herself down with him.
"T-Thanks Lala." He said, looking at the pink haired girl kneeling behind him while trying his best to not pass out.
"It's okay, don't worry about it." The eldest princess of Deviluke shook her head and smiled softly at him.
"You okay there kid?" Gid asked with an amused smile as he lowered himself down before them.
"Y-Yes sir, just need a moment to breath." Ben said tiredly, before looking up to see a non-Devilukean ship appearing on the sky and flying toward them, lowering down and landing behind Gid a few seconds later. The door then slid open, revealing the ones standing on the other side was none other than his grandfather, Max Tennyson.
"Grandpa Max." Ben called out in surprise before he noticed the small alien standing on his Max's shoulder "Azmuth."
"It seems, it's already over." Azmuth spoke up. Even though he's small, anyone could hear what he was saying.
"Ben, are you okay?" Max asked in concern as he ran out of the spaceship to get down on one knee next to his grandson.
"Don't worry about me, Grandpa. You should… see the other guy, grandpa." Smiling tiredly, Ben pointed his thumb at Gid, whose clothes were in a rather bad condition now that he finally paid attention to them.
"Hmm, it seems Ben has done a number on you Gid." Azmuth said while rubbing his chin, a rare smirk could be seen on his tiny wrinkled face. "About time someone other than Sephine stepping up and reminding you with force that while you are the ruler of this galaxy, you can't just go around and do whatever you want."
"Shut up, I don't need to take that from you, you sly rat."
But Azmuth completely ignored him, causing Gid to fume furiously. The Gavan then turned to Ben and Lala, and asked the pink haired princess with a smile:
"Ah~ Lala, it's been a while. I heard about what happened, are you feeling better now?"
"Yes I am Uncle Azmuth. I am feeling much better now.' She answered, smiling brightly.
Ben couldn't help but ask, looking between the two "You two know each other?"
"Yes, uncle Azmuth taught me advanced mechanical engineering when I was five. I could only start inventing after he had shown me how to make new things from parts."
"Wait, when you were five?"
"I-Is there anything wrong with that?" Lala asked, becoming a bit nervous.
"Ah no, it's just…"
"Oi! Don't ignore me rat!" Gid had had enough, and exploded at Azmuth in a rather childish manner.
"Yes, you majesty?" 'The first thinker' asked sarcastically, folding his hands behind his back in his trademark posture as he turned around to look at Gid.
"I told you to remove my master's DNA from the Codon Stream, but you didn't and even went out to create a program to unlock it in that kid's watch, using MY DNA as the key." He pointed at himself, head enlarging dramatically as he glared at Azmuth "You went against my order. Why!?"
"Ah, so young Ben has defeated you with your own power, impressive." Azmuth stated, smiling as he turned back to look at Ben "If you wish to know the reason, Gid, let's hear Ben out first. I would like to know how did you figure out the way to unlock Devilukean DNA."
"I was a gamble." Ben answered as he sat straight up "When my cousin told me that the Deviluke King could destroy this planet by building up his power alone, I knew that none of the aliens I had access to then could defeat you beside Alien X, but I had that form locked away." Gid and Azmuth raised an eyebrow at that. The two of them knew the risks of transforming into Celestialsapien, but Ben had to have had another reason to lock such powerful transformation away "Even with my ultimate forms, I doubted I could stop him, so…"
"You decided to use fire to fight fire." Max stated, placing a hand on his grandson's shoulder. He couldn't be more proud of his grandson.
"Yes, and I have tried to scan Lala for her DNA from the moment I understood that I might have to fight her father to stop him from destroying Earth." Ben continued to explain, his words making Lala widen her eyes in surprise before she remembered Ben tampering with his watch while looking at her back when they were still on their way to Japan in the Rust Bucket III "It didn't work, but I learnt that she was only half Devilukean, the same could be said about her sisters."
"Correct, her mother is a Charmian, making her children with Gid half Devilukean, half Charmians." Azmuth nodded his head in confirmation while rubbing his chin.
"The Ultimatrix did tell me that, so I had to try something different. I tried to scan the soldiers, Zastin for example, but it didn't work either… so I came to two conclusions." Ben held up two fingers before continuing "Either Devilukean DNA data is not stored in the Codon Stream, or someone has locked it away using a lockout program, similar to the one I used to lock Alien X away. But after I heard his majesty mentioned your name, I knew it was the second and realized it had to be you who locked this form away."
"Good thinking," Azmuth nodded his head with a smile "but it still didn't explain why you knew Gid had to touch your watch to unlock it."
"As I said, it was a gamble." Ben said, making everyone gasp "I had tried to scan his majesty from the first moment we fought, but the Ultimatrix didn't answer to my command, so I wondered what if I made him touch it instead, like how it was with the old Omnitrix."
"SO after ALL that thinking and analyzing, you did it merely because it's something that had happened in the past?" Azmuth let out a sigh as he rubbed his round hand with his large hand, similar to how old people rubbing their forehead while thinking hard.
"Uh, yeah, how would I know that the key to unlock Devilukean alien form was his majesty's DNA, or his fingerprints or an actual, physical key?" Ben asked, raising an eyebrow as Max and Lala had to hold back their laughter. "Anyway, lucky for me, Lala decided to interfere and in that very moment you were distracted, I raised my hand as if I tried to stop her and then made you touch the watch on 'accident'. I did not know that it would work but fortunately… it did. Your DNA was the key to remove the program."
"Really kid?" Gid asked, jaw dropping "What if it didn't work."
"Then I would have tried something else, it's not like I had a choice." Ben shrugged, before his expression turned serious "and if I lost and Earth was destroyed, I would unlock Alien X. I don't care how long it will take, I will work to gain full control of the form, use it to restore Earth, and then I will make you pay for your crime."
"I am the king of the Galaxy son, I make the rule."
"But it doesn't make you right." was Ben's firm answer, making Gid smile in satisfaction before nodding his head.
"Once again, Ben, you have proven yourself worthy of my creation." Azmuth said with a smile "And yes, the reason I still keep the Deviluke DNA within the Codon Stream, even though 'his majesty' himself ordered me to permanently remove it," Gid huffed "is because I want to prepare for situation like this. You have seen, heard and experienced yourself what Gid is capable of at his full power, so you will understand the need for countermeasure against him, should he start crossing the line like what he almost did today and Celestialsapien isn't an option."
"I'm glad that you did." Ben said with smile. He could understand why Gid wished for the data of his species to be removed permanently from the Codon Stream, remembering what Vilgax could do with the Omnitrix at his disposal.
Alien X was almost impossible to control because its multiple personalities, but Devilukean, on the other hand, had no such weakness. If one like Gid could alone easily defeat most of his powerful alien forms while playing around, then he couldn't imagine what an army of him could do seriously and emotionlessly.
"Oi Oi, I am still here you know."
"Then you should understand." Azmuth pointed a finger at him "I did it right after I heard Lala arrived on Earth and fell in love with a human, whose planet you promised to break if he broke your daughter's heart. You destroyed an entire planet because one of its inhabitant behaved impolitely in front of you, and this is your daughter that we are talking about. If anything, I'm actually glad that Ben stopped you and taught you a lesson."
Gid said while picking his ear with his pinky finger in a bored manner "you guys are making me look like the villain here, you know."
"From what I can see sir, today you are no different than Vilgax." Ben replied to his statement, making a tick mark appear on Gid's forehead.
"Whatever, Lala, grab your sisters. It's time for us to go home! We have wasted enough time here." With that said, the King turned around and walked away, but stopped midway when he realized that his eldest daughter wasn't following him. "Lala, are you listening?" He asked, looking at her from over his shoulder.
"I'm sorry father, but I will not leave this planet." The pink haired princess answered firmly "I will continue to remain here to make sure that you won't try to destroy Earth ever again."
"Oh come on, I gave him my words, isn't that enough for you?" He asked, pointing his hand at Ben.
"It is, but I want to make sure. Plus, I want to stay because…" She then glanced at Ben, and then quickly continued, a bit louder than usual much to everyone's surprise "because I want to study the Ultimatrix and make one myself! It's cool so I will try to create one."
"Ben, a word." Azmuth suddenly said, as the father and daughter continued to argue with each other as Max tried to calm them down. The alien hero pushed himself up on his feet, feeling a lot better than before, and allowed Azmuth to hop onto his shoulder before crawling out of the crater, far away from the arguing Devilukean's hearing ranges.
"What's up." He then turned to Azmuth, and almost flinched when he saw the Gavan giving him a very serious look.
"Whatever you do Ben, do-not-let-her-touch-the-Ultimatrix."
"Eh, why? If she is her student and a genius then she should…"
"Do you want to grow a second head? Do you want your aliens to eat you alive while you sleep?" Azmuth suddenly asked, each word dramatically making his head larger and larger as he narrowed his eyes at Ben "or do you want to turn to an alien and never turn back again? How about a Polymorph? What do you think, having your body literally melted and became goo forever?"
"Uhm, you are scarring me, Azmuth. Is she that bad or…" Ben admitted truthfully.
"The princess is a genius yes, one of my best non-Gavan students, but for as long as I can remember her inventions, beside the costume robot named Peke and the anti-gravity wings, nothing has ever behaved the ways she wanted them to, and usually cause more harm than good." He then looked back at Lala and then continued, while Ben could only smile forcefully "If her father lets her stay, then keeping her hands off my creation is an absolute must. Your new Omnitrix is still in the work, so if she messes up your Ultimatrix, you won't…"
"Wait, you are making a new Omnitrix for me?" Ben asked, sounding excited "Aw Azmuth, you shouldn't have."
"It's not just the Omnitrix Ben, it is THE Omnitrix, something that I have been working on ever since you got your hand on the prototype six years ago." Azmuth told him with his arms crossed on his chest "And before you start to get full of yourself again, I did not do it for you, I merely do not want this… inferior version of my creation to continue to exist, considering that it's Albedo who made it." He pointed to the Ultimatrix as Ben held up his left hand
"Thanks Azmuth, it means a lot to me."
"Just keep on doing the right thing, Ben Tennyson, just like what you did today for the people of this planet." Azmuth finished, a smile on his face as he nodded his head at the teen.
"Ben, come over here." Max suddenly called from back inside the crater, turning Ben and Azmuth's attention to him and the Devilukean father and daughter, who seemed to have stopped arguing. Waving his hand, Ben then slid back down with Azmuth holding onto his collar, and ran to his grandfather's side.
"What's up Grandpa?" He asked, looking at Lala who immediately looked away with a small blush on her face.
"It seems, his majesty has a task for you."
End of Chapter 3
Note: And that's it folks! CUT CUT! That's the end of this chapter!
What do you think of this chapter?! What do you think of Ben Devilukean Form? I still have no idea what to call it, so I will leave that for the future chapters! I hope that everyone like the fight screen. I have read a lot of comments and noticed that everyone seems to think that Gid is a battle maniac or something like that, but when I read the more recent chapters of To Love Ru Darkness, he doesn't strike me as someone like that at all. Sure he can be wild but I don't think he likes to battle so much that he's like the Saiyan from Dragon Ball (I think the Devilukean is based on them, but still…)
Also, I notice that many readers ask me why didn't Ben pull out Alien X on Gid, well, I would like to mention that Ben at this point still DOESN'T have full control of the form, and it has been stated in the episode the Forge of Creation of Ultimate Alien that Ben and Kevin has built into the Ultimatrix a program that locked away Alien X to prevent his powers from falling into the wrong hands like Albedo and Vilgax, with the keys being held by Kevin and Gwen, so those two are the reasons Ben did not use Alien X in the previous chapter and had to rely on other aliens that he CURRENTLY has at his disposal.
I hope that explain everything. Ben's harem for the time being will be the Three Deviluke Princesses and Yami. I have not decided on others, but I won't make them just randomly jump from one harem to another, so I don't have to worry about that.
What should the name of Ben's Deviluke form will be from now on? I will have him use it randomly from the next chapter onwards so I need a name.
That's all. As usual, remember to leave a REVIEW once you have finished reading.
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Ja ne!
