Chapter 4 Suiting up
At School
Ben is sitting with Garth eating their lunch when Oliver walks over to the table,"This is a travesty!" Oliver dramatically proclaims while he slams a Daily Planet newspaper on the table. Ben and Garth look at him with utter confusion as they then look at the newspaper that reads, "Superhero Girls Save The Day Again" with a picture of the team on the cover.
"So what's the big deal? That's kinda what they do" Ben asks while at the same time eating his food.
"The deal is that our heroism isn't even acknowledged" Oliver replies, right after he says that both Garth and Ben shush him.
"Dude, keep your voice down, the thing about a secret identity is you know that it is kept secret" Ben states.
"Besides, we are not doing this for the publicity, we're doing this to help people and stopping criminals" Garth comments.
"I understand that but if people don't know who we are, how are we going to help even more people?" Oliver asks
"Okay you have a point, but remember that I still can't be seen when I'm in my human form" Ben states, Oliver and Garth then turn to him with looks of confusion. Ben sees this and becomes dumbfounded," Sorry, if I have a taboo against people knowing who I am when I'm trying to be a hero" Ben exclaims.
"Well my troubled friend, there is an easy solution" Oliver theatrically says.
"And that is?" Ben questions
"You just need a costume" Garth comments. Suddenly the bell rings.
"I'll think about it," Ben says as the three of them grab their belongings and begins to leave.
Outside the School
Ben is walking as he ponders on a way to get a hero costume. Then the idea pops into his head, he then pulls out his phone and selects a contact that reads "Grandpa Max", he then makes a phone call.
The Next Day
Ben enters the school and looks over by the lockers and sees Garth pushed to the ground by Doris,
"Aww, what's wrong? Tiny shrimp afraid of the big bad shark?" Doris mockingly asks before laughing at his shortcomings.
"Haha, you really got me Doris" Garth hesitatingly states. Ben then rushes over. Doris then attempts to throw a punch at Garth but her attack is caught by Ben.
"Sorry I think this was sent to the wrong place" Ben proclaims with a stern look on his face. He then pushes her fist back to her causing her to back up a few steps, he then goes over and helps Garth up.
"Hey, stay out of this, me and Garth are just having some fun" Doris orders Ben with a bit of anger in his voice.
"Nah, I think I'll stay," Ben says cockily. Doris becomes enraged and charges at Ben, Ben then takes a step back dodging her attack and she accidentally runs into an open locker. Before she could do anything Garth closes the door to the locker.
"Hey, Let me out of here! Or else!" Doris lividly yelled. After she says this everyone around her begins laughing hysterically. Ben smiles and high fives Garth.
"See this is what happens when you stand up for yourself" Ben proclaims to Garth. The two begin laughing and then Doris begins to bang loudly on the locker.
"Yeah, let's go before she gets out" Garth states with a bit of concern in his voice. The boys move away from Doris.
"Hey Garth, could you do me a favor?" Ben asks and in response Garth nods his head yes, "Could you grab Oliver and the two of you meet behind the school at the end of the day?" Ben asks.
"Sure thing Ben" Garth replies
The two go to their normal classes until the last period ends.
Behind the school
The three guys meet up and check to see if anyone is around and they see nothing so they begin to discuss.
"So what may you need of us dear ally?" Oliver poetically inquire.
"Well, I have to go Bellwood for bit" Ben states
"Bellwood, as in your hometown, why would you need to go back?" Garth asks in alarm.
"I have a friend there who can make me a suit for when I go hero" Ben continues on his thought.
"Oh cool, road trip" Garth comments on Ben's statement.
"Actually this one I'm going solo, besides you guys can go patrol here" Ben retorts, this makes Garth and Oliver confused.
"Ben, we are a team, do you not trust enough to come with you?" Oliver questions him.
"No it's not like that, you just have to trust me" Ben pleads to his friends. Garth and Oliver take a moment to think it over and then nod their heads yes. "Thanks, it means a lot" Ben gladly states. Ben then taps on his watch, spins a dial, and then presses down on it. A green light once again surrounds him, his body becomes dark blue, his chest begins to expand and forms three gill-like marks, his back sprouting a large pair of wings and a smaller pair beneath them, his arms and legs become more insect-like, a green belt appears around his waist with his Omnitrix emblem in the center of it, eyes become large and green, the light fades and Ben has changed his form into Big Chill. Big Chill then take flight and heads out of sight.
"It still doesn't feel normal seeing that" Garth states in awe. Oliver nods in agreement.
In the skies
An hour later, Ben arrives in Bellwood and heads downtown.
"Okay, now to make my way to-..." Ben proclaims, but before he could finish his sentence, from the corner of his eye he saw a white building shaped like a cup with a large sign that reads "Mr. Smoothie". He smiles, "Okay maybe a quick detour" Ben states as he lands behind the building and transforms back into himself and goes inside to get a smoothie.
Back in Metropolis
Down by the bank an explosion occurs. A tall and muscular figure emerges from the ashes, it has long red hair and jungle-themed clothes to match, it is the villainous Giganta. She is holding a large bag of money and beginning to make her escape when in front of her an arrow is pierced into the ground. She stared at it with confusion, unknown to her is a rope on the end of the arrow leading to the top of a building nearby. From the top of the building, Green Arrow zip lines down the rope and kicks Giganta in the face.
"Take that villain!" Green Arrow exclaims cockily. Giganta then gets angry and goes on the offensive. She attempts multiple times to squash him but he keeps dodging. She becomes more annoyed by this and grabs him then throws him into a construction site. From the distance, a girl with pencils and pink glasses in her hair named Lois Lane along with a scrawny orange-haired boy named Jimmy Olsen notice the fight,
"Jimmy I think we got a new story, quick get your camera" Lois orders. Jimmy frantically looks for his camera and begins to try to get a clear shot. Then in the construction site, Oliver gets up and tries to get back into the fight. With Green Arrow out of her way she smiles and begins to make her exit. Just then she is interrupted by a gusher of water hitting her in the chest. This makes Giganta fall over on the ground and her bag of money flies off into the wind.
"My money! Whoever did that will pay for that!" Giganta yelled with explosive anger, she turns around looking for the person who did that to her and sees Aqualad.
"Sorry, stopping villains comes with the job description" Aqualad states with confidence.
"Of course another short stack," Giganta says mockingly. She then grabs everything close to her and began violently hurtling towards Aqualad. He then uses his powers to swat away the attacks. Aqualad then uses his powers to form water into a fist and pushes it to attack her. It knocks her into a power line and an idea pops into her head. She rips out the power line from the grounds then strikes Aqualad with it. He gets electrocuted and falls down to the ground. Giganta laughs at his
"Let's hope Ben gets here soon," Aqualad says in pain.
Simultaneously in Bellwood
Ben exits Mr. Smoothie with a smoothie in hand then heads over to a store called "Max's Plumbing" He then proceeded to the restroom where there was a toilet with both a chain and switch. Ben goes over and pulls the chain and suddenly the room moves down like an elevator. After a few moments, the room stops moving and walls in front of Ben slide open to reveal a fully functioning base with aliens and humans working. Ben walks over to grandpa and two Galvans named Blukic and Driba who are standing by a large monitor.
"Grandpa Max" Ben blurts out to them, they turn around and smile.
"Hey Ben, how's your new life in Metropolis?" Grandpa Max asks
"Just fine, I made some friends who are heroes" Ben responds
"That's great" Grandpa Max happily states
"So how's my suit coming along?" Ben asks the group.
"Actually we're almost done" Driba states
"No, we're not" Blukic replies
"Yes we are" Driba retorts
"No, we're not" Blukic comments
"Yes we are" Driba replies, their bickering is ended when a message appeared on the monitor, it read "Program 100 percent complete"
"Okay maybe you're right" Blukic proclaims to Driba, in response to that Driba rolls his eyes. Blukic then grabs Ben's arm and the two Galvans begin to install their program into the Omnitrix. After five minutes they finish.
"Okay all done, now to access the suit either press this button or say 'Hero Time'" Driba states.
"Thanks guys," Ben says to all three of them and he begins to leave, but before he exits he stops and turns around to his grandpa. "Hey Grandpa, I don't know if this is asking too much but I would like for my team to have a base in Metropolis, could you provide that?" Ben asks hesitantly. His grandpa thinks for a few moments
"Okay, but it will take a few days" Grandpa Max answers. Ben gleefully runs over and hugs Grandpa Max
"Thanks, it means a lot" Ben comments, then he exits the building. He rushes to an empty alleyway, "It's Hero Time!" Then the green light like the light that occurs when Ben is about to transform appears but the only thing that changes is his outfit. He appears to be wearing a black suit with his old Omnitrix emblem on it, his left arm has his new Omnitrix with black sleeves, white shoulder guards are placed on his shoulders, green knee pads appear on both his legs, and a green visor blocks his face from being revealed to the public. He then takes a look at his suit and becomes amazed at the look. Suddenly he feels a buzzing in his pocket, he takes out his phone and sees a text message from Garth, it reads "Ben please hurry can't hold Giganta forever". Ben then turns to his Omnitrix
"Okay Omnitrix, I need someone to help my friends, quickly" He presses down on the device and he begins to transform
Meanwhile at the fight
We see Aqualad on the ground with Giganta about to land a crushing blow, but she is hit by an arrow takes pumps out smoke blinding her. With Giganta blinded Green Arrow helps Aqualad up and back in the fight. Green Arrow then over to Giganta and struck her in the leg with his bow. She hops a one leg for a few seconds in pain, then she becomes more enraged and grabs Green Arrow then throws him at Aqualad, this knocks both of them back to the ground.
"Wonder what's taking Ben?" Aqualad asks, Green Arrows shrugs his shoulders. Giganta then looms over the two cracking her knuckles. Then from a distance, a blue blur rushes to Giganta and circles around her making a controlled cyclone. The cyclone then lifts her up then sends crashing down onto the stairs. The blue blur stops moving to reveal himself as XLR8, the Omnitrix emblem starts rapidly blinking red and XLR8 changes back into Ben in his costume. Green Arrow and Aqualad look at Ben stunned.
"Ben is that you? Dude, you look awesome" Aqualad comments.
"Worth the wait" Green Arrow follows with,
"Thanks," Ben replies "Also I'm sorry for keeping you guys so long, it means a lot that you both trust me" All three fist bumps as a team. Then they notice Giganta getting up, Giganta looks at them and becomes more annoyed.
"Now there's three of you, no big deal. You heroes are like bugs to me and I'm ready to start squashing!" Giganta exclaims, then Green Arrow and Aqualad proceed forward keeping Giganta busy while Ben spins the dial on the Omnitrix. From the distance, Lois Lane signals Jimmy to take some pictures of the heroes, he then takes a few pictures of the fight.
"Okay Omnitrix, I need Humungosaur, not Nanomech not Goop, Humungosaur" Ben states to his Omnitrix. He then presses down on it and the green light once again surrounds Ben, a big glowing red orb form on his chest, around that his body becomes like the Earth's crust, his muscle mass increases around his arms and legs, he grows to the same size of Humongousaur, finally the green light fades. Ben looks at himself and becomes puzzled, "Okay this a new one" Giganta then attacks Ben directly, Ben tries to deflect her attack by holding his arm out to use this alien's power. She is then stopped in her tracks and lifted up into the arm. Everyone is set in complete amazement over Ben's power. Aqualad goes over to Ben.
"So do you have a name for this alien yet? Aqualad asks Ben nods no. "How about Gravattack?" Ben thinks for a moment,
"Gravattack, I like it," Ben states, then Ben as Gravattack uses his power to spin Giganta around like a carousel, then after a few rotations, she is sent flying out of town. "Oops, a little too much power" Gravattack comments, then the Omnitrix rapidly flashes a red light and Gravattack reverts back to Ben in his hero costume. Then Green Arrow and Aqualad dash over to Ben and all three once again fist-bumps. Behind them, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen go over to the trio,
"Excuse me, my name is Lois Lane with the Daily Planetoid, we just witnessed your acts of heroism stopping Giganta, so we must ask who are you?" Lois questioned like a reporter.
"My name is Green Arrow, archer extraordinary," Green Arrow theatrically stated. Lois turns to Aqualad.
"I'm Aqualad" Aqualad comments, Lois then turns to Ben
"Call me Omnium" Ben answers,
"So just out of curiosity, do you have a team name?" Lois inquires. This makes the three of them dumbfounded.
"You can call us the Invinci-bros" Aqualad overjoyed exclaims, Green Arrow and Ben shrug their shoulders then accepted it.
"Great stuff, thank you" Then Jimmy points his camera at the three of them, they pose together and Jimmy takes the picture.
The Next Day
The trio is in the hallway near someone giving out Daily Planetoid newspapers, each of them grabs one and head to the cafeteria. They sit at their table and look at the front cover which reads, "Superhero Girls stop Harley Quinn". Their jaws drop in shock,
"What the heck, I thought Lois said that we were going to be in Daily Planetoid?" Ben frustratedly states. Then Garth flips the page and sees an article of interest
"Hey guys, I found us," Garth says, Ben and Oliver then look at the article that reads, "The Invinci-Bros stop Giganta and maybe new rival"
"What is this system, they get front page because they stop a clown while we get the silver medal for stopping a Goliath" Oliver rants. Suddenly a tanned teenage boy with brown hair and a red cap covering his eyes comes to the table.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" The boy asks,
"Sure why not" Ben replies, Ben pulls up a seat and he sits down.
"So have we met?" Oliver asks, the boy nods his head no.
"I don't have too many friends, the name is Carter Hall" Carter states
End of Chapter 4