Chapter 2 Friends
The next day
Ben makes his way to the front of the school. He enters and he heads to his first period class. He takes his seat and he goes through it like normal but during the middle of the class he overhears the kids in front of him talking. The kid on the left says
"Dude did you see that guy? He was like all plugs." The boy on the right replies
"Yeah and he like showed up the superhero girls, Livewire stood no chance" After hearing that Ben became a bit happy and also concerned that his identity might get out. The bell rings and he exits into the hallway. He walks on the right side of the hallway also next to the lockers. Then he begins to hear a loud tapping sound from one of the lockers, Ben stops and goes closer to the sound. He turns to the locker the sound originated from, he opens it and none other than Garth falls out of the locker. Ben looks at him in shock and says
"Garth!? What happened to you?" Garth replies
"I guess my routine meeting with Doris" Ben questions him with
"Do you mean that red head with the track suit?" Garth nods yes and Ben goes back to talking, "One of these days you have to stop letting pick on you like that" Garth comments
"I know but have you seen the size of her" Ben answers
"I have, and if TV has taught me anything, it's that the bigger you are the harder you fall" The two begin chuckling for a couple seconds until they hear the bell ring and they head to their chemistry class.
In Chemistry Class
The two walk in to the classroom and take their seats, the teacher announces to the class
"Okay students listen up, today I'm giving out group projects on elements in the periodic table" Most of the student sighed in despair from his statement. He continues to talk "You are going to split up into groups of three. Each group will pick an element to create a presentation for. I will allow you to pick your partners, but I need a topic by tomorrow" After he said that a lot of the students began grouping up. Ben and Garth already knew they were partners, the only obstacle to face would be finding a third person. They start to scope out the classroom for likely candidates with no success. This is until they overhear an argument, they look over and see a young man with blonde hair, a bit of goatee, he is wearing a light green dress shirt with green arrows pointing up, a white collar and sleeves, a slightly darker green suit vest, and dress pants. He says in a theatrical tone,
"Fine! If you don't want a performance for your project, I'll choose another group" He then dramatically turns and sees Ben and Garth, and he walks over. He says
"So it appears you both are the only group missing a partner" Ben replies
"Great way of asking" Ben and Garth then give a quick golf clap, Oliver then frowns and attempts to walk away, this is until Garth says
"Wait, Oliver was it?" He nods yes while looking at them in a bit of confusion and Ben says Well Oliver, you do know we're joking right? Of course we'll have you in our group." Oliver then grows a smile then says
"Splendid performance, you saw me, I really felt it" The three then laugh for a quick few seconds. Then Oliver asks
"So I haven't got a chance to acquire your names, what are they prey tel?" Garth replies with
"My name is Garth, you can remember me from the football team" Oliver interrupts to say
"Wait, you play football? That sounds like suicide" Garth comments
"Actually I'm the water boy, you can laugh all want but I play an important role for the team" Oliver returns
"I believe you, don't worry. He turns to Ben "Now who are you?" Ben replies
"You can call me Ben, I transferred here from Bellwood yesterday" Oliver then says
"Well it's a pleasure making your acquire" Suddenly the bell rings and everyone grabs their stuff, Garth jokingly states
"So much formalities and very little done" The three chuckles at that as they make their way to the cafeteria.
In the Cafeteria
Garth and Ben go to their table and place their backpacks down on their seats. The attempt to go get their lunch, but before they leave the table someone else places their stuff down at Garth and Ben's table. They turn to see that it is Oliver, Ben asks him
"Wait you're gonna sit with us? "Don't you eat with the theater geeks?" Oliver answers with
"Well I do rather like having other friends, and besides the other performers in this school cannot possibly match my theatrical prowess on stage" From behind him Zee walks over to say
"Keep dreaming Ollie" Oliver then rolls his eyes which makes Ben and Garth giggle. The three boys head off to the lunch line and minutes later arrive back at their table with pizza. They sit down and before they take their first bite, Oliver grabs his pizza slice and says
"Cheers to the forge of new and exciting friendship" Garth and Ben shrug their shoulders at each other and then grab their slices and taps them on Oliver's slice. The boys eat lunch for a few minutes, then Garth proposes
"So about the chemistry project, which element do we want to present?" Oliver states
"How about Uranium? I believe it's atomic" Ben replies
"Nah, too many people know of its atomic qualities. I was thinking Argon because easier choice because not many people know about it" Oliver comments
"But we crave attention, lesser known could be that no one has interest, which means we lose our audience" Garth then says
"Well think about it like an underdog becoming the star of the show" Oliver's eyes widens for a second and states
"I suppose you have a point, I'll do it" The boys agree and finish their lunch. The bell rings and students begin to flood out the door. The boys go their separate ways home, Ben is on his way when suddenly he gets an alert on his phone. He checks and it reads "Warning Poison Ivy attacks Metropolis Park". Ben then runs into an empty alleyway and says
"Okay Omnitrix, I need something with some heat" He then presses down on his watch and green light surrounds him. His body begins to melt down to the ground, then suddenly a floating device goes to him and starts to extract him from the ground. What is pulled by device is a corrosive green slime with Ben's Omnitrix emblem floating, then green light fades and Ben exclaims
"Goop! Really Omnitrix, I saw bring the heat not bring the bring the ooze" He then sighs then says "Well I'll work with what I got" Goop then goes off towards the park.
At the Park
Plants are beginning to grow out of the ground with great size and speed, this causes people to storm out in drove full of fear. From the panic a woman with long red hair and wearing leafy green clothing walks to the entrance, it is Poison Ivy. She says
"Metropolis, it's about time you respect plants as much as I do" From behind her a feminine voice yells
"Respect this!" Poison Ivy turns and she turns and gets hit by a green glowing ram. Poison Ivy is knocked over on the ground, she shakes her head and looks at the sender, it is Green Lantern. Poison Ivy the states angrily
"Oh, if it isn't the hero who makes a mockery of the color of life" She then has her plants constrict Green Lantern's movements, Green Lantern says
"As much as I'm against this, it is effective" She then uses her ring to create a green glowing buzz saw that cuts the plants down to size. Poison Ivy becomes infuriated and snaps her fingers. Green Lantern sees this and becomes confused, then she asks jokingly
"Why are you snapping? Do have henchmen or something" Green Lantern then begins laughing for a moment, she is now unaware to the fact that something is beginning to wrap around her right leg. Poison Ivy then states
"No, I don't own henchmen. I just want to introduce you to the newest member of my family, I call him Dave" The thing wrapping around Green Lantern's leg tightens and she turns around to see Dave who is a large Venus flytrap like carnivorous creature with sharp thorns for teeth and beady red eyes staring directly at Green Lantern. She screams for an instance then Dave pulls her towards his awaiting open jaw. As Dave is doing this a gelatinous glob lands on the part of Dave that was pulling Green Lantern. Suddenly the surface where the glob landed starts to bubble and burn, then it snaps in half and Green Lantern is cut free. Dave shrieks in pain and Poison Ivy yells
"Dave! Who did that?" She then looks around for the culprit, the glob then goes over to Green Lantern and returns to its more base form of Goop. Goop asks Green Lantern
"Are you alright?" Green Lantern states in disbelief
"I'm fine but also what are you?" Goop replies
"Just call me Goop, I'm a hero" Poison Ivy overhears this and exclaims
"Well you both are utter zeros! Dave let's show them what nature can do" Dave then takes a bite out of Goop, that shocks Green Lantern. Poison Ivy begins laughing, but on the inside the mouth Goop melted a hole right through the middle. This makes Poison Ivy's jaw drop in awe. Goop goes over to Poison Ivy and fully covers her with his slime which completely grosses her out and stops her from helping out Dave. Green Lantern then goes to Dave's stem and creates a chainsaw and begins sawing the stem. Poison Ivy sees this and yells
"Noooooooooooooooooooo!" But alas it was too late, Dave's stem was complete cut and his head falls down to the ground. Poison Ivy lets out a tear before saying
"Neither of you of worthy of wearing the color of life" She then seeps into the ground. Goop asks Green Lantern
"Should we chase after her?" Green Lantern answers
"No, she probably long gone by now. Also thanks for helping me out" Goop states
"No problem, before I forget, Feedback says hi" Suddenly his emblem begins flashing red and he says
"Well better get going" He then heads downtown to an alleyway. The green light returns and turns him back into Ben, he then heads back to his new home.
The Next Day, In the Cafeteria
Barbara is looking at two different daily issues of the daily planet newspaper at her table, Karen sees her and asks
"Hey Babs, what are you doing?" Barbara replies
"Hey Karen, I'm using my ace detective skills to see if there a connection with those two new heroes" Karen questions
"Why investigate their on our side?" Barbara comments
"There is just something about them I want to find out, and soon'
End of Chapter 2