A giant golden book with a green hourglass symbol appeared from the empty space as it opened up its pages...again.
The Forgotten Ben's: Chapter Twenty two, Happy New Benternet!
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-USA, Bellwood, Benternet CO Building-
It was a dark cold winter night as the camera zoomed towards a large white building with a glaring green hourglass symbol on it's rooftop, all the while everyone was out partying or with family.
For tonight was the new years and everyone was celebrating.
But in one lone office room, a light was on and seemingly beckoning the camera to zoom towards it.
As the camera moved towards the light, like the moth it was, it revealed a large room full of trophies, three bookshelves of computer tech, picture frames of several famous people, both human and for some reason non human, a green hourglass symbol wallpaper, and a large desk made of black oak fitted with a deep green and white triangular viewing box.
This box you may be asking is what exactly? Well it's simple.
It's a Benternet monitor system.
...what? You never heard of one? Wow, that's odd of you but let me explain, it's just a glorified internet system and computer system. Now that you got that into your heads, let us continue.
Click click click.
The sound of clicking could be heard near the table as on a chair sat a young man with long shaggy brown hair, green eyes, wearing a white shirt, black pants, blue sandals, a thick black tux hanging over his shoulders like a cape, and a small green wristband with a triangular faceplate sporting a white stripe going down the sides in a zigzag formation, a turquoise hourglass symbol and a long black stylius attached to the base by a white extendable tube, on his left wrist, was currently typing on a circular keyboard.
This is Benjamin Steward Tennyson, founder of the Benternet and the Benternet CO organization, and for a man in his twenties, he was very successful for bringing the world a little closer together.
Click click click.
And right now, on New Years Eve, he was trying to finish something very important to the world...a new app for the Benternet itself.
But...
"GAH!" he groaned while clutching both sides of his head in frustration.
He wasn't getting any ideas, or if he did, it was hard translating it into data. Especially when the deadline was about to occur in an hour.
Which was midnight...fuck.
"Nothing! Absolutely nothing! I can't think of anything!" he yelled to no one while groaning out loud. "If I don't finish this, my consumers will be hurt! And I'm the most popular man on earth, I can't let them down or my popularity will drop!"
Yeah, the popularity will drop...anyway!
He grumbled while trying to rack his brains and form a new idea. 'Ok I tried the fossil app, the Forever Knight app, which was stupid in my opinion, the reboot of that 10 Zen game app, that intergalactic translator app, the Plumber Cook Book app, the Gwen 10 comic book app, that weird manga app involving a doctor treating monster girls, AND a cat tracking app! Ugh! I can't think of anything!'
As he looked at the screen, he thought back to when he was younger, a very smart kid in a world of dumb people, especially when said people thought he was just a dork, but after a while, he became rich, successful and overall, proud of his own intelligence, although he wish that Gwen didn't point out that he wasn't as smart as her...in some things as he tells himself everyday in the mirror.
That was when he looked at the wristband and got an idea.
"Maybe my alien apps can help?" he smirked while grabbing the sylius and pulled it out a little before tapping the lense as a holographic turquoise screen popped out along with tiny silhouettes that moved like tiny cartoons. "Which one, which one. Mmmm...the O-Phone always has the best apps available."
Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap.
"Let's see. App Four, Heat App, Gray App, Ghost App, Eye App, Dragon App, oh! Up App! That's a good one." he smirked while tapping a circle icon with the stylius.
FLASH!
Which in a turquoise flash of light, turned into a very tall black humanoid with thick greenish turquoise triangular stripes going all over their body, four long fingers, a single circle on its face resembling an eye, and a turquoise hourglass symbol in the middle of the circular eye.
"Ok, time to make a new year's app...but how should I do it?" he muttered out loud while his fingers stretched out and entered the triangular screen.
Ping ping ping.
The screen changed to show a digitized landscape of numbers and letters, all centered in a sea of boundless potential and pictures of Ben himself...for some reason.
A small chibi version of Up App appeared while it looked around the area, seemingly contemplating something.
"Mmmm, so many ideas so little time." he muttered while the data began to form all around him like tiny moons. "Mmmm oh. I have an idea...but it might take a while. Damn deadlines."
(An hour later)
Up App chuckled while looking at a small square frame, floating in the digital space with a golden glitter around it, as he decided to exit his own world, the Benternet, and return to the real world.
The screen changed back to the office in a flash of red as Ben sat on his chair, smirking while typing on the keyboard.
Click click click click click click.
"Aaaaaaannnnnddddddd...done!" he said in triumph while hitting the enter button, allowing the app to be accessed by billions of people world wide, as he looked at the clock and saw it was four minutes to the new year. "And with minutes to spare."
The camera moved a little to the screen while showing a small square frame with a single golden ball on it and the words 'Ball Drop!' in the center in red letters.
"Now, let's start the countdown." Ben said to himself as he opened the app to reveal a golden disco ball on a very tall tower as a timer rested in the middle of the ball.
Three...two...
"One." he smirked while the ball began to fall quickly downwards as seconds passed at an alarming rate.
Sixty.
Fifty.
Forty.
Thirty.
Twelve.
Ten...nine...eight...seven..six...five...four...three...two...ONE!
BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING!
"HAPPY NEW YEARS WORLD!" cried out a female AI's voice as the ball in the app exploded into confetti and candy. "HAVE A GREAT YEAR! BENTERET CO LOVES YOU ALL!"
Ben smiled while looking up at the ceiling as the screen began to fade to black. "I love my work...and my followers!"
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Name/Designation Title: Benjamin Stewart 'S' Tennyson (Information Web Ben- IWBen)
Age: 20
Affiliation: Neutral
Dimension: 987654321- 00 IWB10
Trix/Abilities: near Azmuth intelligence, complete access to the Benternet/Internet, O-Phone (omnitrix).
Aliens used: Up App (Upgrade).
Bio: Within this part of the omniverse, Benjamin Steward Tennyson was originally born in a world that never obtained the internet due to some Galvan's accidentally erasing the inventor from history with a memory wipe bomb. As such, this version, born with high intelligence similar to a Galvan grew up and became an inventor, soon developing the Internet, a super fast version of the normal internet that allows for instant information gathering and social media opportunities. This allowed him to gain enough money to become a billionaire, the head of Benternet CO and the representative of earth when Galvan Prime formed an alliance with the fledgling planet. As the new owner of the omnitrix, renamed O-Phone by Ben, he now uses his abilities to make and adapt his own network while also protecting his company from alien threats, even if he is a showoff and narcissist.