Iceman of Earth
Chapter One: A New Adventure
"Thanks Grandpa," yells the two joyful kids as they run into the neo-light light Arcade.
One, Ben Tennyson, a young and a troublemaker yet with a love for arcades and games.
Two, Gwen Tennyson, also young, however, not a troublemaker. A smart and well-mannered when sided with Ben.
The two kids went their separate ways finding and playing any games that danced on their taste buds or just flashed it's bright lights the most, but while on their separate journeys something quickly grasped their attention.
The two kids found a mass of kids and teenagers gathered around a Dance Dance Revolution machine watching the two players going head to head nothing out of the ordinary, however, the odd thing is the player playing seemingly moving at reaction times comparable to a UFC fighter leaving the other player to choke in defeat leaving the difference in their scores to grow ever bigger...until finally ...
"Player One wins!" exclamations the machine in its pre-recorded excitement.
"Darn it," says the second player slumping over.
The first player's score quickly crushes the leaderboard, the player one makes his way off from the platform, he wore a black undershirt with a crimson red hoodie and sky blue jeans with white and red striped shoes, also he wore a wristwatch its faceplate is now square instead of round and has a white and green colour scheme. The faceplate is black with two green stripes forming an outline for the hourglass.
Gwen and Ben both attracted to the kid's attention, however, the two could never see beyond the crimson hood pulled over sealing his identity away.
Suddenly, the sound of distant glass breaking and the sound of cries echo outside the lonely arcade.
"Stop him! stop him!" shouts a store owner.
The crowd quickly gossiped about the man running by the window and plastic bag of money in his hand.
"Hey Ben, look at that," says Gwen pointing out that the hooded boy that started to run after the robber.
Ben stared in the direction of the hooded boy who escapes from the arcade, Ben followed the robber and the Hooded boy and Gwen quickly pounced to follow.
The chase rushed through the clear, sunny streets which quickly turned into the cluttered, dark alleyways until leading to a brick dead end.
"Damn, next time I should get a car," says the thief looking all over.
The thief turns around to see the crimson red hooded kid, but couldn't see the two others hiding behind a dumpster looking upon the current situation.
"What you want kid?!" shouts the robber staring him down.
"You to return what you have stolen, simple," says the hooded boy, letting only his right eye be the only visible feature upon his face.
"Ha, sorry kid but that will not happen, you see I never stole this money. Just earned it. Illegally," says the Robber.
The hooded kid moved a step closer to the robber which seems unaffected by the statement, but the hooded kid's stubborn shun through the dark.
"I repeat only once, return which you had stolen," says the hooded boy stepped closer once more.
"Or what…." says the Robber noticing the boy's hands which rested in the jeans pockets "you use that thing in your pocket."
The boy removed his hands revealing nothing but his watch; "it's not just my hands which you should watch."
The Robber quickly glanced around; "oh yeah, what's that?"
With wildly glancing and erratic eyes the Robber tried to find the source of the kid's confidence, the hooded kid pulled down the crimson hood down letting a beam of sunlight washes over a stripe of his face, he had slick back hair, narrow green calculating eyes but unlike most other child's his face didn't support a smile.
The kid slowly raised his hand pointing out his finger at the Robber, but it quickly pointed to the ground and like a child draw to bright colours the Robber's eyes slowly followed the finger's direction and slowly his eyes found the ground which wasn't the dark gloomy ground from before but something different...something ...shiny.
"What the?!" shouts the Robber glaring at his frozen feet.
"Trust me, it won't last for too long that is until they find you," says the boy returning his finger to his hand in a tight fist still pointing towards the Robber.
"The h-heck! you damn freak," spits out the Robber in a boiling rage.
"Say what you will. As long as you Freeze it will be alright," says the boy letting a sharp solid beam fire from his fist and landing onto the body of the Thief.
The Robber's body quickly plastered over in ice, freezing the body in the cold ice.
"Like I said, Freeze," says the kid turn around grabbing the bag of money.
Ben and Gwen quickly fell about crashing and sending cans flying around quickly attracting the eyes of the unhooded boy; "Who's there?"
Gwen was the first to step out from the hiding spot; "H-Hi, we saw you following the Robber and we just got interested."
"Gwen! What are you doing?" says Ben pouncing out from the shadows.
"Huh, just the two of you? Fine," says the boy wiping up his hood as he walks "Please take this to the shop owner."
The hooded boy passes the bag over to Gwen; "but what's your name?"
"You have no use for it, why do you desire it?" asks the boy.
"Why shouldn't we know the name of a friend?" replies Gwen.
"Friend. That is something that I haven't heard of for a while. But, I'll entertain you with that much as a reward for passing the money back to the belonger," says the boy "Akio, Akio Yuki."
"See you around, Akio," says Gwen letting Akio walk out into the shine of the streets.
"Goodbye...Friend," says Akio leaving the darkness.
Ben stood confused to the array in front of him; "Okay, someone explain what just happened to me."
"You idiot! Did you not listen at all," shoots Gwen with a sharp deadly look.
"What? He was talking old English to me," excuses Ben with a sweat beading down on his face.
"You idiot! Do you even know the difference?" shoots Gwen with a daggered glare.
Meanwhile, the hooded boy walks down the street thinking about the previous conversation, 'Friend?' the boy looks at his hand.
"Hey, you!" shouts a voice close by.
"Huh, what do you desire?" asks Akio looking towards the source, the kid from before in the arcade.
"A rematch, you beat me out of luck!" yells out the kid.
Akio couldn't help but smile.
However, another voice cut through the air; "not so fast, I call next game."
Akio is quick to find Ben waiting behind him with a grin; "I accept the challenge, now let's go around."
One song and dance later….
"Darn you...so...good," attempts Ben watching as Akio beats his high score once more.
"Sorry but your skills aren't worthy of my attention," says Akio turning his back to Ben.
"No, I have more skill. I'll teach you to underestimate me!" shouts Ben in one last cry of desperation.
Ben slowly leaves the stage as Akio tries to find his next opponent until…
"I'm next!" yells out Gwen taking Ben's place upon the stage.
"Alright, lady's choice," states Akio letting Gwen scroll through the list.
"Okay but don't hold back, I want to see what you have?" shoots Gwen with a smirk.
Akio takes his hood off with a smile; "You have my attention."
With a chosen song the two stare down before they start dancing as if they trained for years both in perfect sync and match to each other and the arrows on the screen.
With their spins and their steps, the game runs to a crashing end…."Draw!" shouts the game.
Both Gwen and Akio smile at the screen at the giant word; "Darn, so close," says Gwen.
"You did good," says Akio smile towards Gwen.
Ben jumps between the two; "Gwen Grandpa said it's time to go."
"Fine, see you later Akio," says Gwen jumping off the stage.
"Yeah, see you later," says Akio waving her off.
The two run out the arcade and towards their, Grandpa leaving Akio alone, so Akio decides it's time to clock in, he ventures out the arcade finding his trusty transport friend a Vespa.
It was a scooter type vehicle generally shorter in length and wider than other motorcycles. Its design allows for the rider to sit upright with their feet supported while still being protected from the wind by the front wing. The Vespa, in particular, has a unique steel unibody that gives it a sleek look. Akio's is a 1965 Vespa Super Sport 180 with a thicker unibody than most, a yellow and black seat, and a "P!" sticker on the front wing.
Akio grabs his black gloves and stretches it over his hands, he places his green goggles over his eyes and place a hard yellow helmet over his head, then placed himself on top of the scooter, in an instant he sets off on his journey on the black roads.
As the echos of his scooter rang through his ears, the scooter's wheels spin an unseeable amount of times. Until…
Akio spots a burning meteor falling to the ground but something was off, it wasn't normal. Akio couldn't put his finger onto but it was different, eyes were drawn to his watch and then it hit him, the same thing that happened to him is happening once again.
Suddenly, he takes off his scooter ignoring the motel in front of him, he zips through the park following the meteor before he loses it in the trees; 'damn it, I lost the thing. I hope no-one comes in contact with it.'
Akio stops his scooter trying to find the disappearing meteor until he hears a loud thunderous crash, Akio is quick to run away the source finding a sudden scream of a certain someone he remembers.
Suddenly, a burst of green light erupted in the screams generally the direction of Ben.
"Ben!" screams out Gwen trying to find her cousin.
Akio jumped from the tree-line behind Gwen; "Gwen! Makes sure the fire doesn't spread. I'll get the idiot!"
Akio disappears into the entrance of reaching flames on the black bark.
Quickly, he sprints with heavy breath and rushing blood, his left-hand drops onto his right-clicking a button letting his watch pop up, he flicks through the different figures until stopping on a lizard looking one.
He slams down his hand exploding a green light around him, small spikes appeared around his face. He had three dorsal fins reaching down his back and white gills on the sides of his head. He wore white pants and a black open-front shirt with white cuffs. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on his left hand.
"Arctiguana!" he shouts letting the green light fade.
Akio runs on all fours towards Ben, Ben is quick to notice the fire and Akio; "What have I done? What the heck are you?!"
"Ben. It's Akio, I have a watch like you but I need you to work with me," says Akio pouncing in front of Ben.
"Okay okay, what do I need to do?" asks Ben frantically.
"Simple. Freeze," says Akio firing a solid beam of ice at ben stopping the pyroite in his tracks.
Akio quickly spun around freezing the area and stopping the fire from spreading, then out of the trees Gwen and her Grandpa step out; "What the h-heck are we looking at?"
Akio transformed back to his human form in a burst of green light; "nothing much, just an alien watch allowing anyone wearing it to transform into one of ten aliens."
"Okay, normal," says Gwen with wide eyes, "What about Ben?"
"No need to worry give him a few seconds," says Akio as a red light transforming Ben to normal.
"Well, he was right. At least," says the Grandpa.
Akio picked up the knocked out Ben; "By any chance, do you guys have any residences close by?"
A moment later…
Ben lays on a log sleeping as everyone else remains seated by a fire.
"So you say, that an alien watch allows you to become an alien for a bit?" asks Gwen leaning towards Akio.
"Yeah, but it seems to me and Ben have different sets of aliens," explains Akio.
Suddenly, the radio in the rust bucket sparked to life while someone shouts; "Help, HELP. can anyone hear me we're being attacked by a g-giant robot!"
"Time to go," says Akio jumping up.
"What are we gonna do?" asks Gwen.
"Stop it, I guess," says Grampa jumping.
Ben quickly woke up ready to go.
The four sprints through the forest as two small robots fly hot on their trail, Akio with a quick twist of the hand seals one in ice which falls and crushes the other while breaking itself.
"You can generate ice?" asks Grandpa.
"Yeah, making that one alien I have pointless but what can you do?" says Akio running with a heavy breath.
Suddenly, they enter a clearing with screaming people, Akio scans over the area finding the giant robot and people running around.
"I take that's this is Papa robot," says Ben slamming his hand onto the watch.
Ben transforms into a spikey crystalised alien, "Let's do this!"
Ben runs towards the robot ready to strike with his crystal fist.
Akio slams his watch becomes an alien which resembles a semi-armoured Velociraptor. He has black wheels on his feet and wears a black conoid helmet with a visor, leaving the other features of his head unknown.
Akio in a flash zips around the caravan parks grabbing people and placing at a safe distance all the while watching Ben.
However, a tree begins to fall catching Akio's attention seeing that Gwen frozen in fear was in its line of fire.
Instantly, Akio quickly grabbed Gwen and speed out of the way, while Gwen slowly began to relax in Akio's arms as he transformed to normal.
"Next time, try to move. Please," says Akio with a heavy seriousness in his voice.
"Yeah, I promise," says Gwen blushing with a bright red.
"Thanks, now for daddy robot!" says Akio creating an ice slope.
Speedy, Akio accelerates down the slope while flicking through his alien rooster before slamming on one.
Akio slowly becomes about an inch tall at full size. He has grey skin with a green circuit-like design on it. possessing green wings as well as one large, green cyclopean-eye.
"Ben distract him!" he shouts flying towards the giant robot.
"Roger dodger!" says Ben firing diamond spikes into the robot.
Akio manages to find a way into the robot and fast enough finds the CPU well what seems to be a CPU as this is alien technology.
"Goodnight robo-jerk," says Akio blasting a powerful green laser destroying the CPU and some of its circuit board in the bright green light.
The robot stops in place and crashes into the floor breaking into multiple pieces letting Akio easily get out and turn back to human.
Akio found Ben enjoying their victory.
"Nice work Tennyson," says Akio high-fiving Ben.
"Good work, sidekick," says Ben with a smile.
"Sidekick? If anyone's a sidekick it would be you," says Akio.
Later on…
"Wait! You don't have a place to live!?" shouts Gwen confused.
"Yeah, I don't have one," says Akio as Gwen leans in closer to Akio.
They sit at the table of the rust bucket while Ben and their Grandpa in up front, the Grandpa looks back at the two using the rear-view mirror; "I guess you're going to stay with us and Ben it seems like Akio will be able to teach you."
"I don't need a teacher!" exclaims Ben crossing his arms.
Akio smiles before looking back at Gwen; "So are you two brother and sister or what?"
"Cousins, I think I'd kill myself if I was his sister," says Gwen.
"It seems you're not that friendly with each other," states Akio looking at the two cousins.
"Yeah, he's an idiot," says Gwen narrowing her gaze on Ben.
"And she's a dweeb," says Ben frowning.
Akio sighs realising this will be one long trip.
The next day…
Akio was the first to wake up, he carefully got out of bed, showered, changed clothes and even made himself breakfast.
Also, he warmed up his body for the route of body aching exercises getting ready for the day ahead, consisting of push ups, sits ups, squats and a 10 km, after the exercises, he grabbed himself some homemade juice.
Thanks to the sizzling weather Akio removes his top to avoid catching fire, his chest was defined but had rugged scars etched into his flesh.
Gracefully, Akio falls to the floor enjoying the warm sunlight and relaxing winds that soothed his body; 'I should do this more often."
"Hey, Akio you u-" starts Gwen before noticing Akio shirtless, which painted a wide red blush across her face.
Akio slowly notices Gwen staring at him; "What's up Gwen?"
It took a few moments for Gwen to come to her senses; "Y-yeah, I'm good. Just er wondering if you are up."
Akio lifted himself off the ground grabbing his skirt and pulls over his body in a swift motion, Gwen's blush disappears partly but she is also sad that she couldn't see more.
"Oohh, Gwen's got a crush," whispers Ben in her ear.
"Shut up dim-wit!" yells out Gwen pushing Ben.
"Alright, calm it down," says Grampa Max.
Akio hears the yells in the background while taking his scooter off the back of the rust bucket, slowly he sets up the scooter preparing it for the journey.
"Where you headed to?" asks Gwen with a tilted head and curious eyes.
"Back to the crash site, see if there are any leads," says Akio pulling his gloves over his hands.
"Do you mind if I tag along?" asks Gwen with a pleading smile.
Akio couldn't help but smile; "fine but you have to ask your grandpa."
"Already did, let's go," yells out Gwen jumping onto the scooter.
"Alright, alright but first," says Akio placing a light blue helmet on top of Gwen's head.
Akio joined Gwen on the scooter and the two sent off with a thunderous speed with Gwen strapping her arms around Akio for safety from being swung off the scooter, they zipped down the vast open burning roads with the small roar of the scooter.
Within a couple of hours, the zipping of the scooter eventually found the dense and pact forest from the previous day.
Slowly, they make their way through the dense foliage and tail leaning trees until they found the rough ground and dug up dirt with the leftover remains of the carrying pod of Ben's new Omnitrix.
"Alright, time to search for it," says Akio swiftly placing himself off the scooter.
Helps Gwen with getting off the scooter and take the helmet off; "So what we trying to find?"
"Anything that gives up a clue to where the heck this is from," explains Akio placing himself next to the pod.
Without warning, Akio's watch quickly sparked with a white light that flashes as a new alien is shortly added to the set.
"The heck was that?!" shouts Gwen quickly pouncing towards Akio.
"If I were to have a guess, the watch found foreign DNA and then so I guess it scanned the Alien into the set, I would test it out. However…" stated Akio looking through the watch.
"What do you mean?" says Gwen before an ear erupting radio static blow up.
"Gwen, Akio we have a problem. An oversized one!" shouts Ben through the radio static.
"Like he said, there's a problem," says Akio picking himself up.
"Let's go!" shouts Gwen running to the scooter.
Akio slams his watch taking the form one a black and white with green lines running through the alien, with the watch on its chest; "Time to upgrade."
Akio goops onto the scooter quickly transforming it into a look-alike of the alien but in scooter form.
"The heck!" shouts Gwen shocked and confused.
"Hang on, it's gonna be a little rough," says Akio as the scooter blasts off down the road.
Suddenly, Gwen attaches her hands on the handles of the scooter in an attempt to stay on the scooter as it soars down the blank lonely roads.
By the time the scooter reached Ben and Grandpa Max, it seems whoever they were chasing was riding a dinosaur down the streets.
Akio now back to his human form quickly joins grandpa max racing towards the dinosaur, Gwen however, didn't like this plan; "Akio! How about we don't drive towards the giant dinosaur!"
"No need to worry about the dinosaur it's a mile in front," says Akio putting the pedal to the metal.
"Akio please! You better have a plan!" shouts Gwen hanging on for dear life.
Akio steadies the scooter giving the leverage the move his hand off the handles and aims his hand at the giant dinosaur, Gwen tightened her grip in a fear response.
Suddenly, a frozen ice beam cut through the air and clamps onto the dinosaur's foot stopping it in the middle of the road, Akio stops the scooter and quickly flicks through his set of aliens before stopping on one.
"Guess it's time to turn up the heat," says Akio slamming his hand down blooming up in a green light as Akio takes the form of Heatblast, a flaming alien with red brimstone covering his body and the watch logo on his chest.
"Stay here, Gwen," says Akio using his flames to fly towards Ben, "Ben, I need you to clear the area while I blast the dinosaur."
Ben slams his watch quickly becoming XLR8 and zooms around picking and grabbing people taking them to the outer reaches of the blast zone.
Suddenly, Akio sets a blaze all around the dinosaur keeping it from running away, while a man upon the dinosaur wave his arms around.
However, the dinosaur took no damage not even a hint of burn upon its flesh.
"The doctor is controlling the decay of the dinosaur!" shouts Grandpa Max.
"Ben get ready to catch him!" shouts Akio blasting the Doc off the dinosaur.
Quickly, Ben grabs the Doc before he slams into the floor while Akio destroys the device keeping the dinosaur alive and soon the dinosaur collapses in a bundle of bones.
"What have you done?! That technology was revolutionary and would get my reward!" shouts the wrinkled Doctor.
"Doesn't that sound familiar," says Grandpa Max looking at Ben who only looks down.
Akio and Gwen sit at the Rust buckets table, Akio relaxes as Gwen types away at her laptop, Grandpa Max spots the two in the rear view mirror; "Akio what did you find at the crash site?"
"Nothing, just DNA for an alien no leads or clues," states Akio not paying any attention.
Ben quickly jumps out of his seat turning towards the two; "And you haven't tested this out yet! Come on Akio live a little."
"I've been living for eleven years, which isn't a little dim-wit," says Akio glancing at the young boy.
"Now, now play nice. I have a plan for us soon," states Grandpa Max with a wide grin.
"What's that?" asks Akio looking at the driver.
"How do you feel about fishing?" asks Grandpa Max letting the grin expand even more.
Akio couldn't help but smile at the idea of just having a day to relax, his smile quickly spread a red blush to Gwen's face while she rapidly steals glances from him.
End of Chapter One
Author's note:
Boom! We're back in working order!
No more annoying school for me (Sparkey) and with my friend's personal issues biting the dust we're back with more frequent posts.
Sorry for the delay and hope everyone enjoys their summer!
Signed -
-Sparkey and Haru Videl