Chapter 5
A new life pt. 2
"So sis, exactly what are we waiting for?" Nana once again asked as she waited for Ben inside of his car with her sisters. The alien hero had left a moment ago to buy something, and it had been ten minutes since then "Aren't we supposed to meet with Kevin and Gwen to go to Orlando?"
Wherever that place was, she had no idea but like her twin sister, she couldn't wait to see the Rust Bucket III after hearing so much about it from Lala, who had travelled all the way from Bellwood back to Japan on it in less than an hour. Apparently, the ship was something that had come up only recently so even Momo wasn't aware of it. Although, she knew Rust Bucket was the name of the vehicle owned by Ben's grandfather, Max Tennyson, the legendary plumber who even their father respected.
"Come now, Nana, don't be so impatient." Lala turned around and said to her sister with a smile. "Ben said he would… Ah, see? There he is." The eldest princess said cheerily as she pointed her hand at Ben, who was running toward them with a white bag with a picture of a silly looking bottle on it in his hand. While Lala and Momo instantly recognized the brand, Nana could only look at him curiously, wanting to know the contents inside the bag.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, the line is a bit longer than normal." Ben said as he got in the driver seat and closed the door, putting the bag down between him and Lala, opening it to reveal at least seven bottles and three box of something smell really good. "Mr. Smoothy anyone?" Ben asked as he took out one of the bottle and started to happily drink from it with a straw, starting off the engine before driving it away from the area.
"I will take one." Lala said, as she grabbed a strawberry flavored bottle from the bag. She could tell this was Ben's favorite drink, remembering how Ben had drunk an entire bottle of smoothie in one go the night they first met. She could tell the boxes contained chilly fries, something that she couldn't try out because of her father and his army's arrival, forcing them to leave immediately.
"Which one is grape?" Momo asked excitedly, her eyes sparkling in excitement as she looked for the grape flavored smoothie. Even with the rearview mirror, Ben could not stop himself from turning his head and looking at the youngest princess over his shoulder. So she knew what his favorite Mr. smoothy's flavor was too? What next? His type of underwear?
"Uhm, that's so tasty." Nana exclaimed after she had taken a slurp from her own bottle of mango smoothie, which was so delicious it could even give her favorite Deviluke sport drink a run for being her most favorite drink. "So is this your favorite drink or something?" She hadn't had the chance to try out a lot of Earth's cuisine, but next to Mikan's cooking, this had to be the best yet.
"Yup. Bellwood's finest." Ben answered simply with a smug smile as he took another sip from his bottle before putting it down the cup holder. "Those three boxes are chilli fries. You can have one, but the other two are mine."
"Two?" The youngest princess asked in shock "How much do you eat? Plus, it doesn't sound very healthy." She then opened the box and saw the foods inside, making her hesitate because the fries covered in red chilli sauce looked like a mess to her, while she admitted that it smell really good "Ugh, what is this even? Is it safe to…" But before she could finish, Momo had already reached out and picked up a chip before putting it in her mouth, moaning softly at the taste.
"It's so tasty, master ben." The youngest princess said, as her eldest sister joined her in eating, feeling a bit hungry because it's almost time for lunch. After a single bite, Lala fell in love with the food instantly, as she loved spicy foods the most. Though she couldn't help but feel that it could taste even better with a bit dark matter, but she had forgotten to bring one with her this time.
"Yeah, I know right." Ben grinned, feeling pleased at himself that he was able to introduce the greatness of Mr. Smoothy and chilli fries to the three alien princesses.
"Try it Nana, say ah~" Lala said cheerily and picked up two pieces of fries with extra sauce for her sister, reaching around to extend it out toward Nana. The second princess of Deviluke looked at the chip unsurely for a moment before she opened her mouth and let her sister feed it to her. She had never liked spicy foods, but she couldn't help but admit that it was very delicious. "It's good, isn't it?"
"Yes, and I will have some more if you don't mind." Nana said, and started to dig in with her sisters.
"Do you want a piece too, Ben?" Lala then turned to the driver and asked him with an even brighter smile than the one she had given her sister, not realizing what she had just said until she had fully turned to look at him and picked up a chip in an attempt to feed him like she had done to Nana, making her cheeks redden. However, Ben didn't see it, having been keeping his eyes on the road the whole time since it was rather crowded. He merely nodded his head in response to her question, and then reached out with his right hand to pick up the fries and put it in his mouth, eating the foods casually before following with a sip from his smoothie.
Lala, meanwhile, quickly returned to her seat and breathed out a sigh in relief with a hand on her chest to calm herself down, deciding to not think too much about it before eating the fries she had picked up herself. Behind her and on her head, however, both Momo and Peke had caught the way their sister/master reacted to her own words to the young hero, with the former smiling mysteriously while looking at her eldest sister.
After that, they arrived at the abandoned airport where Kevin kept the Rust Bucket III, finding the ship in a vacant area, standing out completely from the normal planes and jets around it.
"Woah…" Nana couldn't stop herself from uttering in amazement. That had to be one of the most impressive looking non-Deviluke spaceships she had ever seen in her life. The airstair then opened for them, allowing Ben to drive into it and board the ship.
"What took you so long Tennyson?" They heard Kevin asked in displeasure, through the built in phone in the DX mark 10.
"The girls are a bit hungry, so I treat them to Mr. Smoothie and some chilli fries." Ben answered smugly, before he grabbed the bag and walked out of the car with Lala and her sisters following closely behind him, each princess having a bottle of smoothie in her hand, with Momo carrying the box of half eaten chilli fries. The four then entered the ship's cockpit, where Kevin and Gwen had already taken their positions on their respective seats.
"This is not a picnic you know." Kevin reminded him, sounding a bit less annoyed than before when Ben tossed him a hamburger. "Nice." He smiled, and unwrapped the cover to start eating.
"You tell that to them." Ben said, gesturing his head to Lala and her sisters, who were walking around to take in everything like children in a toy store. "So, any information on the Jimmy's video tape?" He asked, looking at his cousin who was typing on a keyboard in front of a (boring looking) screen, a computer that gave them full access to the Plumber's database, as she had found out herself during their first flight.
"It's a security footage from a top secret base of NASA. I will send Kevin's the coordinate as soon as we are on the sky." Gwen answered, before she turned back to scroll through a few things "From what I can tell, they are building a new type of spaceships there."
"About time, like really…" Kevin nodded his head in understanding "Earth's technologies are so behind I have never wanted to tell my alien associates where I am from." He then pressed a few buttons on the panel above his head and called "Alright, enough fooling around. Ben, ladies, grab a seat. We're taking off in a minute!"
And with that, the three Deviluke Princesses and Ben took their seats behind Kevin. Because they all had their own spaceships to travel the Galaxy, they sisters were all very familiar with the common procedure, and were able to quickly secure themselves with the safety belts.
"So how long will we get there?" Ben asked as Kevin set the coordinate Gwen had sent him and turned on auto-pilot, allowing the Rust Bucket III to take off and fly to Orlando at supersonic speed on its own.
"2 minutes, top." Kevin answered as he spent his time finishing the burger. Lala was about to ask to know more about the ship, when suddenly the alarm went off, alerting everyone with an erratic flicker of red light "Uh oh, I guess we are in no-flight zone." He said, and looked at the radar to see three red dots approaching them at rapid speed.
"Shouldn't this thing have a cloaking device or something?" Nana asked as three fighter jets appeared before them.
"Good idea." Kevin nodded obliviously before he turned off auto-pilot and switched back to manual control, turning and flipping the Rust Bucket III around to avoid a volley of bullets being fired at them from two of the three jets.
[Lady Lala, now is your time to shine. Show master Tennyson what you can do.] Peke suddenly spoke up in a low tone so that only her master could hear, reminding Lala of her talent and breaking her out of the atmosphere of the tense situation.
"I can make a device that can turn us invisible." Lala suggested as she stood up with her almighty tool in hand. Unlike her every day inventions, spaceships related devices were something that she knew she couldn't mess up, having learnt how to make them very thoroughly from studying Deviluke ships by taking them off and putting them back together perfectly at a very young age because she was bored of her childhood life.
"Don't sweet it princess, this ship isn't just about flying around." Kevin replied, and then pressed a button on the manual control wheel. Instantly, everyone saw a green laser beam firing from below the ship, cutting the jet in front of them in half and giving just enough time for the pilot to eject safely before exploding. "See?" He said smugly, proud of his own creation.
"Kevin, those guys are on our side!"
Gwen shouted at him as the pilot whose jet was destroyed activated his parachute, which immediately caught fire by one of the flaming pieces of his exploded aircraft, making Kevin chuckle nervously. Ben wasted no time to undo his seat belt and ran over to the trap door of the ship, before he said firmly:
"Open the door."
"Wait, you're not going to…" before Nana could finish, Kevin had done what Ben had told him, opening the trap door and allowing Ben to freely fall out of the ship. Everyone then saw a flash of green light before seeing Jetray diving down at neck breaking speed toward the falling pilot.
As the transformed hero sped down to save the pilot, other jets started firing at him, seemingly believed that he was attacking their colleague. Jetray flew left and right to dodge, but when he saw that the line of bullets were about to hit the falling pilot, he had no choice but to throw himself between them to shield him from getting torn to piece.
The pain never came, and Jetray found his eyes widen in surprise when he turned his head around and saw Lala flying behind him with her anti-gravity wings out, shielding him with an energy shield being generated from the back of a mechanical looking gauntlet that she wore on her left hand. The princess then lowered her shield once the jet in front of her had stopped firing, and threw a small device at it when it flew over her head, forcefully ejecting the pilot from the aircraft, which fell without its controller.
"Damn." Jetray uttered in amazement, before he shot down to save the free falling pilot, catching him before he hit the ground just as Lala took down another fighter jet with her new invention.
But almost as soon as his feet had touched the ground, soldiers with alien looking weapons rushed forward and surrounded Ben from all directions. Looking around and seeing that there's no way for him to escape without getting shot first, with no knowledge of how powerful those weapons might be, the alien hero decided to raise his hands in surrender, chuckling a little as he said in a fake, menacing tone:
"Hehe, take me to your leader?" Lala then flew down next to him with her almighty toon, making him add "or us?"
"Speak another word and we will pull the trigger." One of the soldiers said stoically, having none of Ben's joke.
"Um Ben, I think they are serious." Lala told him.
"Relax Lala, I got this covered." Jetray said and put his hand on the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest, transforming back to his human form. None of the soldiers looked surprised, which Ben had expected them to "Relax guys." The alien hero then walked forward, making the soldiers glare at him
[Um, master Tennyson, I don't think that's how…]
But Ben ignored Peke's words, and continued to advance forward before saying with a confident smile, crossing his arms on his chest "It's me, Ben Tennyson, a real life superhero. Surely you all have heard of me?" He finished…
… and then found himself get thrown into a cell with Lala, who laughed nervously as she took her seat on bunk bed behind him. All of her inventions except for Peke had been taken away, since the costume robot had wisely kept her mouth shut and acted like a normal hairpin, else she would have been left naked right now.
"Can I get a lawyer please!?" Ben shouted as he gripped onto the cell's bars. He did not have to wait long though, for his 'lawyer' to come. The door on the other side of the room opened, and a colonel dressed finely in military uniform walked in, with Kevin, Gwen and Lala's sisters following behind him.
"Big sis/Onee-sama!" Momo and Nana rushed in, crying dramatically as if their sister had been thrown into jail for real and neither of them had seen her for a very long time. "How dare you throw the eldest princess of Deviluke into prison like this?" Nana gritted her teeth in annoyance, asking the general who then turned to the guard and gave him a nod.
"Let them go." With that command, the guard put the key and opened the door, allowing Ben and Lala to walk out freely.
"So, I take that it's not because they know Lala is the princess of the Galaxy." Ben stated as the twin went over to hug their eldest sister, who returned their embrace with a soft smile.
"Actually, we show them this." Kevin explained and Gwen took out her Plumber badge. "Although the Plumber is a top secret organization here on Earth, every government in the world allows us to operate freely when it comes down to illegal alien activities you know."
"So I take that you guys have an… illegal alien activity problem in your hand." Ben asked, looking over to the Colonel. Behind him, Momo returned all of her sister's personal inventions back to her, including the D-dial, almighty tool, and the new shield gauntlet and ejecting chips that she had not had the time to name.
"Yes, and it's something only you people can solve."
Break
"Oh wow, this is my first time seeing Earth's spaceship." Lala said excitedly as she stood at the window of the control room and looked at the ship standing in the hangar outside. "What is it called?"
"Its name is Orion." The Colonel answered as he walked over to the presentation screen on the wall "The ship can go up to…"
"15% the speed of light. Multiple nuclear cored engines." Lala interrupted while looking around, making Kevin wolf whistle at the ship. "I read about them in some old books on Deviluke, because nobody use them nowadays, to be honest." She pointed out, tapping her chin in a thoughtful manner.
"Anyway," The colonel coughed into his hand behind he continued. "we have been building this ship for the past fifty years…"
"I can do it in fifty minutes." Lala said, leaning over to ben to whisper into his ear.
"You can?" Ben looked at her in amazement. So this was Azmuth's best non-Galvan student.
The Colonel heard her, but he pretended that he didn't and continued as if no one had said a word "… and will finish in the following months, but a series of thieveries has forced us to put this project on hold."
"Thieveries?" Gwen repeated.
"Every day, there's a creature that comes here and steal parts of the ship. Even with our resources, there wasn't much that we could do to stop it in the past. Hopefully, you six will have more chance against it than us." After that, the colonel left the room, leaving Ben alone with his friends, who then turned to look at each other.
"So, I guess we found our mysterious alien." Ben said as he took the picture of the red armored alien and put it on the table "When do you think he will come?"
"When the light flash red." Kevin said while twirling the pencil in his hand around. Almost as soon as he had finished that, the light in the room flashed red, making his eyes widen in surprise before chuckling at the irony "Like that."
"Let's go." Gwen said, and rushed out of the room with Kevin and an excited Nana. Momo, meanwhile, after taking a second to think carefully of the situation as well as her knowledge of Ben, reached out and grabbed Ben and Lala's wrists, stopping them from following the other three.
"Wait, sister, master Ben."
"What's wrong Momo?" Lala asked, looking at her little sister curiously.
"It's not that I think we cannot stop the alien thief," She turned to look at Ben "but master Ben, don't you think that you won't be able to transform because your watch will be put on hold when a new alien you have never seen before in the Ultimatrix is near?"
"Wait, now that you mention it, the capture mode…" Ben immediately rolled up his sleeve and looked at his watch, which were flickering a yellow color instead of the normal green much to their surprise "… aw man, I almost forget that this mode exists." The teen scoffed in annoyance, twisting and turning the dial in hope of turning it back to normal.
"What does it do?"
"It's a mode that is used to add new aliens into the active list by scanning their DNAs." Ben explained to Lala "If the DNA is not stored inside the Codon Stream, then it will automatically go into capture mode and lock me out of its transformation function until it has finished scanning."
"So you won't be able to transform during this duration?" Lala asked worriedly. Ben was no doubt their strongest member. Without him the team would lose its strength significantly "Do you know for how long?"
"To be honest, I don't." Ben shook his head and said. Without his watch, he wouldn't be of much help to the team.
"Ben, can I have a look at your watch?" to Ben's surprise, Lala suddenly requested with a hand on her chest, tightening her grip around the almighty tool handle "Let me see if I can do something about it."
She finished firmly, her green eyes burning with determination, but Ben could not stop himself from looking at her doubtfully, remembering Azmuth's words about the risks of Lala getting her hand on his watch. Plus. few months ago he had learnt before the battle against Vilgax that messing with the Omnitrix could very well lead to disaster, making him never wish to tamper it ever again.
"Uhm, I am not sure…"
"Please trust me just this time, Ben." Lala interrupted, this time the strength of her tone was even stronger. She could tell what Ben was thinking in her head, but it would not stop her from giving her all to help him, if he allowed her to "I will not mess up. I promise."
"Alright, Lala. Do it." Ben extended his left arm toward her, showing Lala the Ultimatrix "I trust you."
"Alright, Momo you go help the others."
"Good luck sister. Believe in yourself." The youngest princess nodded and wasted no time to run to the hangar, leaving Lala behind to work on Ben's Ultimatrix.
Once she had arrived, she saw her twin sister, Kevin and Gwen battling the red armored alien as he fired jets of high pressure water at them. Nana was summoning a number of her animal friends from her D-dial to aid Kevin and Gwen, who were both struggling and having a hard time getting closer to the alien.
"Go! Gii-chan!" Nana shouted and pointed her hand at the alien, causing the wild boar from the planet Shishinabe to rush at the alien and ram right into it, sending it back flying back before slamming into the Orion Spaceship. "Ha, take that!"
"Yo! Watch where you are hitting him kid!"
"What did you just call me?" the second princess of Deviluke shouted at Kevin angrily.
"That thing you just slammed him into is one of those nuclear core engines." Kevin pointed his hand, as the alien used that opportunity to pull out a large, round object from the ship "We gotta to be careful not to set that thing off."
"What happened if we set it off?"
"It'll be set to explode, and once it does that, Florida will go boom. Millions of people will die." Nana paled immediately at that. She would have dropped her D-Dial on her own if the alien hadn't sent her away with a powerful blast of water first. Momo, who was running as fast as she could before jumping down, immediately got behind her sister and summoned a large flower to catch her before Nana could crash into a set of wooden box behind her.
"Momo!" Nana shouted in relief.
"Where's Ben?" Kevin looked at them from the side, having transformed his hands into two spiked hammers.
"He can't transform but my sister is working on it. We have to hold him back until they are done." Momo shouted to them as she released her sister from the flower and let her drop down safely on the ground.
"Easier said than done." Kevin then ran toward the alien with his stone coating, punching it in the face repeatedly with the help of Gwen, who used her power to yank the nuclear core from its arms. However, with its armored exoskeleton, the alien recovered quickly and answered Kevin's attacks with an unknown language and a hard punch in the gut, where he then blasted the Osmosian away with water firing from the palm of his hand. "Yo! Anyone understand what the heck is he saying?" Kevin asked as he picked himself up from the ground several feet away.
But his question came unanswered, as everyone focused on holding the red alien back from approaching Gwen to take back the nuclear core. Both Nana and Momo were dodging left and right while commanding their animals and plants to attack the alien, while Gwen threw mana projectiles at him, forcing him to dodge and slowing his advance. However, it wasn't until Kevin rejoined the fight with steel coating, that they were able to push him back, though none was able to leave a dent on his sturdy armored exoskeleton.
"Sorry for keeping you guys waiting."
Hearing that, everyone turned their heads and smiled brightly when they saw Ben and Lala running toward them with a strange bracelet like device wrapping around the Ultimatrix, which Ben then activated normally and then slammed his hand down the dial to transform. In a flash of green, he became a phantom like alien wearing a hooded robe, with a blue cheeks and underjaw, a mouth that always showed bluish white teeth, and large green eyes with dark green spots.
"Big chill!" The alien said in a low tone, before becoming intangible to avoid a jet of water fired at him by the red alien, freezing it into ice when it passed through his body. Lala then ran past Big Chill and punched him in the chest with her super strength, sending him back several feet with a fist shaped dent on his armor.
The alien then fired two large tornado of water at Lala with both hands, but Gwen and Momo rushed in before Lala with a mana shield and water absorbing plants. Once they had gathered enough water, Kevin charged in and slammed himself into the red armored alien's back, knocking him off balance before punching him with a hammer fist to send him toward the girls as they blasted the alien with his own water. Gwen then created a large mana dome to lock him in, with Big Chill flaring out his wings and taking off into the air to unleash his icy breath at the dome, freezing the water and encasing the alien in solid ice.
"Now Nana!" Lala shouted, as her sister summoned a fearsome looking, fire breathing dragon from her phone, who then fired a massive fireball at the block of ice, shattering it and launching the alien back toward her eldest sister, who was ready with one of her strongest punches yet, smashing him face down with so much force the entire military base shook violently under her Deviluke strength.
Keeping him down with one knee at the back of his head, Lala then took out a long metal rope with a heart on each end and let it wrap itself around the alien's wrists, bounding him and keeping him from using his water power to break free.
"Nice work team!" Ben said as he flew down and transformed back, removing the device Lala had invented just a moment ago to temporarily disable the Ultimatrix's capture mode and allowed it to continue scanning the new alien. "Thanks Lala." He smiled at her and gave her back the bracelet.
"No problem." Lala smiled as Peke and her sisters congratulated her.
In the end, the Ultimatrix had proven to be too complex for her to see how she could deactivate Capture Mode manually from within the watch itself with very little time to work with, so she was left with no choice but to create a secondary device that would jam the Ultimatrix's scanning signal, which it sent out constantly to detect unknown alien's DNA. Being made to believe that there's no unknown intelligent species around, the Ultimatrix automatically switched back to its normal state, allowing Ben to transform again.
"So what are we going to do about him?" Nana asked while pointing at the bounded alien.
"First thing first, we gotta make him return the ship parts that he has stolen." Kevin said and took out his badge to use the built-in Universal Translator, which shone a light on the alien for a second. Behind them, soldiers led by the Colonel rushed into the hangar and took away the nuclear core, putting it away somewhere safe.
"There done."
"What have you done to me?" The alien asked furiously.
"We can understand you know." Ben said to the alien "It's time for you to tell us everything, starting with your name, and the reason why you come here to steal parts of the Orion."
"I'm Bivalvan from a small planet in what you called the Andromeda Galaxy." Lala and her sisters gasped in surprise, having never met anyone who came from the outer galaxies before in their life. They had read and learnt about Andromeda from their teachers, and knew that it was the closest galaxy to the Milky Way that they family ruled over.
"Woah, long way from home pal." Kevin crossed his arms before asking "Why are you here?"
"I was kidnapped, along with four others by a monster named Aggregor." Bivalvan answered "We managed to escape him, but our ship crashed here on your planet."
"So where are the others?" Gwen couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know, we were separated."
"I see, no wonder why you are not in the Ultimatrix." Ben grinned, looking at his watch as it finished scanning Bivalvan, adding a new alien into the database. "And what more, there are four others like you. That's pretty cool."
"So in the end, you stole those parts so you could built a ship to return home, didn't you?" The eldest princess of Deviluke concluded, to which Bivalvan nodded his head in confirmation. Now she and her sisters felt bad for him.
Gwen then said: "Look, don't worry about your friends. We will find them and take them back to their home planets."
"And what about me?" Bivalvan questioned, sounding hopeful even though his tone was nonchalant and like that of a robot.
"Same to you. I'll call the Plumbers, they will take you." Ben answered firmly "But first, you gotta tell us where you are keeping that ship of yours, so we can return all that you stole to NASA."
"Very well."
After that, Kevin and Gwen, with the help of Lala, went to Bivalvan's ship's location, which was a hidden underwater cave, and dissembled it into smaller parts to return them to NASA, which didn't take more than ten minutes with how fast the eldest Deviluke princess worked. Meanwhile, the NASA Colonel and his soldiers had tried to take the Andromeda alien into their custody, but Ben didn't let them and after Nana had scared them all off with one of her animal friends, a gigantic cobra that was the size of the Orion itself, he stood guard with the twin to make sure that they wouldn't try anything funny.
"Thank you, Ben Tennyson." While being led away by two Plumber's Officers, Bivalvan suddenly said, looking over his shoulder to the alien hero, whose name he had learnt during a small conversation with Ben and the twin as they waited for the other three to return "You two as well, miss Nana, miss Momo."
"Heh, don't mention it." Nana smiled brightly with her hands folded behind her head. Beside her, her twin sister waved her hand at him with a soft and gentle smile on her face. "Your armor is hard but inside you are a big softie after all… just like crabs, or shrimps."
"Uhm, Nana, I don't think that's the right thing to say." Momo told her sister with a forced smile, while Bivalvan just looked at them in confusion. He didn't quite understand the metaphor, but he would take that as a compliment.
"Good luck, Bivalvan." Ben told the alien with a nod and a smile of his own, making the Andromeda alien nod his head in response before he allowed the two officers to continue leading him into the Plumber spaceship. Once the airstair had closed, it did not take it long for the ship to take off and disappear into the darkening sky at sunset.
Break
By the time the team had returned to Bellwood, it's over six in the evening. With four unknown aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy on the loose, most of which Bivalvan had warned them to be highly aggressive, everyone would start keeping an eye out for any suspicious alien activities around the country. As much as Kevin didn't want to do it, he agreed to contact Jimmy later to check if the kid knew anything else about strange aliens that weren't Ben, seeing that his website had all sort of classified, top secret information that even the Plumber's Intelligence Division didn't.
"The sooner we find them, the better." Ben finished, having been talking on the phone with Kevin for the past few minutes while driving Lala and her sisters home. It appeared that the Plumber, with the financial support from the King himself, had bought the house right across the street from Ben's for the three Princesses before reconstructing the whole thing to fit their status. How it had taken them only a day to finish building the new house, Ben had no idea, but since Lala herself said that she could build an Earth spaceship in fifty minutes, the teen decided to not think too much about it.
"Alright, see you tomorrow Ben." And with that, Kevin ended the call.
Ben then pressed a button to turn off the built in phone in his car, before turning his attention over to Lala, who was reading something her sisters were showing her "So, Lala, any chance you can build an Andromeda aliens radar or something like that?"
"Oh yes, I think I can." Lala replied cheerily "I have been thinking about it since you mentioned we needed to find those aliens as soon as possible. You said your Ultimatrix would automatically detect and scan for unknown intelligent aliens' DNAs that were not registered in its main Database when they are near, correct?" Ben nodded his head in confirmation "I also saw Bivalvan's exact location on the watch earlier, so I think I can use it as a medium to find them, by creating a device that amplify the Ultimatrix's range and signal."
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea at all." Ben smiled, feeling impressed at the girl. "But what about other aliens? How can we tell which ones are the four we are looking for?"
"Well, that's why I will need to do some more research before I can start building the device. I need to make sure that it will only locate those that are from Andromeda, who your watch doesn't have data of." She then looked down, hand reaching up to stroke her hair in a comfortable manner, making Ben glance over to her, before continuing "Plus, I also don't want to accidentally mess up your Ultimatrix, so I will take some extra time with this one."
"I think you will do great, Lala, just like this afternoon with the Gone Gone Signal." Ben chuckled, finding it funny Lala would name her invention like that But then again, he had been told he had a funny way of naming his own aliens, so he would not judge her.
From the passenger seat, Lala looked at him for a moment before nodding her head, smiling a little at the brown haired teen before she turned back to her twin sisters.
"Woah, what is… wait, don't tell me that is yOUR HOUSE?" Ben asked in shock, his voice becoming louder and louder with each word as he lowered his head down while his jaw was hanging in shock to look at the house right across the street from Tennyson Residence.
"Is it?" Lala asked in confusion, a finger under her chin before she noticed the three men standing at the gate "Ah, that's Zastin."
A moment later, after Ben had parked his car into the garage of his house, he followed Lala and her sisters to the other side of the street, where all four of them were greeted with a bow from Zastin and his subordinates, two menacing looking men wearing formal suits.
"Lala-sama, Nana-sama, Momo-sama. Welcome home." Zastin said respectfully as he raised his head "Master Tennyson, it's an honor see you again."
"What's up, Vader." Ben replied with a nickname he had been using to address Zastin, as Lala cheerfully greeted Zastin while her twin sisters do so in a friendly manner. "Next time you show up around here, you should drop the armors. Everyone here know you are an alien, and because of me some of them don't have a very positive view of you guys."
"Who dares?" Zastin growled, bringing out his sword. "Tell me their name, and I shall cut them down in your name, master Tennyson."
"Let's try to avoid that, shall we?" The teen chuckled while waving his hand. Though, sending Zastin to a meeting with Will Harangue didn't sound like a bad idea at all.
"Zastin, is this our home now?" Nana asked, looking at the house before them.
Saying it was a house would be an understatement, because the place was basically a four story mansion, with a huge front yard with a large fountain in the middle and a huge garden with two greenhouses on the left (probably for Momo). Taking a look at one of the windows, Ben could see a number of female servants wearing French maids outfit walking and working in the fancy looking hallways inside. Like the three princess, they all looked like normal human girls, but the tails peaking from under their skirts were the undeniable proofs that they were Devilukean aliens.
"Yes, this is the house his majesty personally ordered for you three based on Earth's design." Zastin answered with a nod "He actually wanted to build a palace similar to Lilith castle on planet Deviluke, but Lord Tennyson said it would be too exaggerated."
"Lord Tennyson? You mean my grandpa?"
"Yes, master Tennyson." Zastin nodded his head before gesturing his hand toward Ben's house "We also wanted to improve your house a little, but I feel like I should ask for your permission first. After all, I would never dare to touch your stuffs with my filthy hands." Ben sweat-dropped.
"Let's just… leave my house as it is for now." The bigger the house, the more housework he would need to do after all. His room was a mess most of the time after all, but not that he cared.
"Very well, master Tennyson." Zastin lowered his head, before he took out from his pockets three envelopes "These are your allowances for this month, princesses. Please use them considerably." He then handed the envelopes to the sisters, one for each. While Lala and Momo put them away, Ben then took a peak when he Nana opened her enveloped, and dropped his jaw in shock when he saw the amount of money inside. It had to be at least fifty to sixty times the amount he had each month.
Talk about being the princesses of the Universe.
"I will return to my home for now. If you need anything princesses, please don't hesitate to call me." With that said, Zastin and his two subordinates left, getting into a newly bought Porches before driving away. As the gate was opened for them, Nana and Momo immediately headed inside, leaving Lala behind with Ben.
"So, I will see you tomorrow then."
Lala smiled at Ben, and was about to follow him when suddenly he stopped her by speaking up.
"Wait." He said, making the eldest Deviluke princess to turn around to look at him "Uhm, I want to apologize for earlier." Lala looked at him, eyes widening in confusion "You might or might not notice, but I actually didn't quite trust you with deactivating the Ultimatrix's capture mode. I thought you would blow all of us up or something like that."
"It's… it's okay Ben. You don't have to worry about it." Lala shook her head while smiling nervously "Uncle Azmuth told you to be careful around me, didn't he?"
"Yeah, kinda."
"Well, I once made one of his most trusted robot assistants go berserk and chase him around Galvan Prime, so I guess he had all the reason to be worry." Ben almost burst out in laughter at the thought, while Lala just scratched her cheek while smiling nervously "to be honest, one of the reasons my inventions didn't work the ways they were created to was because I didn't do enough research and look carefully into their mechanisms, or I just forgot to make a failsafe or something similar because I was too excited to show them to others." Not to mention all the times her friends, particularly Rito, accidentally hit her new inventions and caused them to malfunction.
"Just… make sure you test them out first before using them." Ben told her with a grin "You can ask Kevin too, he has his way with alien techs. I'm sure he can lend you a hand."
"I will make sure to remember that." Lala nodded and smiled at him, tilting her head to the side before saying "Good night Ben, I will see you tomorrow."
"Good night Lala." And with that, the two returned to their own houses, with Lala walking over to the window beside the front door to look at Ben as he appeared in his own room, with a box of chili fries, bottle of grape flavored Mr. Smoothy and a weird headgear that made him look like a sumo on his head. Giggling a little as she remembered his loved for the Sumo Slammer Samurai franchise, she then left to look for her sisters.
It had been a long day, and she needed some rest before she could start on her research.
She couldn't wait till tomorrow, and looked forward to what her new life had in store for her and her sisters.
End of Chapter 5
Note: Aw come on folks! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! I was a bit sad with the amount of reviews that I got in the previous chapter that I couldn't stop myself from writing this chapter to tell everyone that XD
Joke aside, I hope you all have had a great time reading! This chapter took me sometimes to finish because I needed to look for a site to re-watch Ben 10 Ultimate Alien again. I hope that I didn't mess anything up.
That's all, not much for me to discuss with everyone about this chapter. I hope that Lala's device, the Gone Gone Signal, was believable for her to create to temporarily deactivate The Ultimatrix's Capture Mode, so he could transform earlier than canon. Of course, with the help of the three Deviluke sisters, Ben and his friends wouldn't fail their first attempt to capture Bivalvan. Although his role in the fight was small, I will make sure to return him as the main hero in the next chapters.
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Next chapter: Lala asked Ben to accompany her and her sisters to a trip to visit her friends in Japan, while Kevin and Gwen asked him if he could tag along with them on mission to stop the Forever Knight from stealing a dangerous artifact, but at the same time, he wanted to watch the new sumo slammer movie… all of which are going to happen at the same time.
Wait and see how he can be at three places at the same time, and see the chaos that he brings by splitting himself in three individuals, each with different personality.
