It was in the middle of the night.
Kevin was driving his car quite fast. Kevin hit the breaks when he got behind a slow moving truck. "Come on, come on! Move it!" said Kevin. Then he started to honk his car horn. But the truck didn't drive any faster. "Oh, that's how it's gonna be?" Kevin pressed a button on his car. Then it started to transform into battle mode. He was locking on to the truck.
"Kevin!" said Gwen a little angry at him aiming at a truck.
"What?"
"Anger management! Appropriate response?"
"Yeah, okay. No missiles." Kevin turn the cars battle mode off and it returned to normal. "We're going off-road!" Kevin drove to the right getting of the road. The ride started to get bumpy. As Kevin passed the truck and got back on the road. Both Ben and Star were in the back seat coughing weakly.
"I don't think I'm going to make it." said Ben
"Me either." said Star
"Hang in there, you two. We're almost there." said Kevin as he increased the speed of his car.
"Look! There it is!" said Gwen. Then Kevin turned into a Mr. Smoothy's drive-thru.
"May I take your order?" asked the voice over the intercom.
"Two Mango-blueberry with extra Echinacea, stat!" said Kevin
Then both Ben and Star sneezed.
"You better make them doubles." said Ben
"I agree." said Star
"Okay, come on you two. It's just a common cold."
"There's nothing common about this cold, Gwen." said Ben
"Yeah. It's epic." said Star. Then Ben and Star sneezed in there hands.
"That's disgusting. Use a tissue." said Gwen as she passed back the box of tissues.
"Thanks." said Ben and Star as they each took a tissue and started to whip there hands.
"I think it was your fault Ben. That Star got sick."
Early in the morning that day.
Ben was laying in his bed not feeling so good.
Then Star came into the room. She heard Ben coughing and sneezing. "You don't sound so good." said Star
"I think, I have a cold." said Ben in a weak tone
"Well don't worry. Because I know a healing spell. That may or may not work."
"You don't sound to sure."
"Well it was a spell I read about but didn't fully understand it. But I think I got the jest of it. I was hoping Glossaryck would help me with it. But then he and the book got stolen. Releasio Demonius Infestica!" A beam came from Star's wand and started to make Ben's body glow. Then the glow faded. "Do you feel better?"
"Not really." Then Ben coughed again
"I guess the spell was a dude." Then Ben's body started to glow again. Then a beam fired and hit Star.
"Are you okay, Star."
"I don't feel so good." Star said in a weak tone. "I-I-I ah-choo! I think I magically gave myself your cold."
Back in present
"Here you go, you two." said Kevin as he passed Ben and Star the smoothies. "An old Levin family cure."
"Really? Smoothies?" asked Ben
"This is your family cure?" asked Star
"Nah. The smoothy is so you two will be able to choke down the real cure." said Kevin as he opened there leads and pored a liquid into it. He put the leads back on. Then both Ben and Star started to drink the smoothies. "It's bitterroot. They call it that because..." Soon Ben and Star's mouth puckered shut. "Anyway, it's good for a cold. Also, it's supposed to ward off bear attacks. Drink up you two." Then Ben and Star started to make mumbling sounds. "What?" Kevin asked confused
"They say they can't. There libs are puckered shut." said Gwen
"You could understand that? You should be a dentist." Then they heard the sound of an engine as a bright light flew over them. "We got company." They all exited the car as a ship landed down a few feet in front of them. Then someone in a familiar suit exited the ship. The helmet of the suit lowered reviling it was Tetrax.
"Tetrax!" said Ben as he walked up to him. "Good to see - ah- ah-choo! Sorry." Then Tetrax lifted Ben up into the air. "Come on, man! I apologized for sneezing on you!"
"Ben Tennyson, give me Chromastone!" said Tetrax. Then Tetrax tossed Ben to the ground. Gwen and Kevin helped Ben up.
"What do you want with Chromastone?!"
"Use the omnitrix now! Give him to me!" Tetrax grabbed Ben's arm that had the omnitrix on his wrist. Tetrax activated the omnitrix and set the diel to Chromastone.
"Hey, wait! Don't!" Then Tetrax hit the omnitrix. "Diamondhead!"
"You're not Chromastone!"
"Yeah, I tried to warn you. But you - you - you ah-choo!" Ben sneezed out some crystal shards. The crystal shards hit into a truck.
"Didn't you hear Gwen? Use a tussue." said Kevin
"I don't think a tissue would have helped." said Star
"I sense Chromastone within you. Where is he?" asked Tetrax
"If you'd lighten up for a second, I'd explain." said Ben
"Let me explain it to him." said Kevin. Then he attacked Tetrax, but he was pushed to the side. Gwen tried attacking Tetrax, but she too was pushed to the side. Star aimed her wand at Tetrax. Then she sneezed and fired a blast missing Tetrax, bouncing of a mirror and hitting her and sending her to the ground. Tetrax pulled out a device.
"What are you doing?"
"What must be done!" said Tetrax. He hit Ben with the device. It started to make Ben vibrate.
"I... don't... feel... so... I'm... coming... apart!" Ben said as some pieces of body fell off him.
"Stop. Ah-choo! You're hurting him!" said Star
"And for that, I am truly sorry." said Tetrax.
The pieces of Dimondhead fell off reviling Chromastone. Tetrax then toss Chromastone away from the device.
"Ben? Are you okay?" asked Star
"Not Ben." said Chromastone
"He's right. He's Chromastone. I'm Ben." Ben said his head still in tack on the ground.
"How..." said Gwen confused
"Like I ever understood how this works."
"Is it time?" asked Chromastone
"Very nearly." said Tetrax as he pulled out a red crystal. He stabbed it into Chromastone. Chromastone absorbed the crystal. Then the purple crystals over his body turned red. Chromastone started to glow red.
"It is done. I go now to fulfill my destiny." Then Chromastone flew up into space.
"I didn't know Chromastone could fly." said Ben
"He can do far more than that." said Tetrax
Then Gwen made energy rope around Tetrax. "Why don't you tell us all about it?" asked Gwen
"After we put me back together?" said Ben
Kevin tried his best to put Ben back together. "Okay, that's pretty much all of you." said Kevin
""Pretty much"?"
"It's all we could find." Kevin picked up the omnitrix symbol and started to put it on Ben.
"Wait. What are you gonna do with that?" asked Gwen
"Change him back."
"We don't know what'll happen if it transform when I'm in pieces like this." said Ben
Kevin hit the omnitrix symbol and a bright green light started to shine. "Doesn't matter. Eventually, it's gonna time out anyway."
"You better hope this works Kevin, or ah-choo." said Star
Then the light faded and Ben was back to normal. Ben started to pad himself to make sure everything was were it was supposed to be.
"Everything where it's supposed to be?" asked Kevin
"Ah-choo! Just like before. How does a silicon-based life-form get a cold anyway?" asked Ben
"I've never hade one." said Tetrax
"From touching doorknobs. Doorknobs and keyboards are covered with germs." said Kevin
"That wasn't what I - never mind." said Ben
"What do we do with Tetrax?" asked Gwen
"Let him go. He's about to start explaining himself, right?"
Gwen released Tetrax. "I'm sorry I upset you, Ben. This was the only way I could redeem myself." said Tetrax
"For helping Vilgax?" asked Gwen
"For betraying my people. For it was I, and I alone, who sold Vilgax a sacred crystal with unlimited power. A power he used to destroy my home planet, Petropia. Because of my own selfishness, I was cursed to wander the universe alone the last of my kind. But recently, I discovered a chance for redemption. You see, neither Vilgax nor I understood the true nature of the crystal. Since the beginning of time, our people's memories and DNA have been encoded into the crystal's molecular lattice."
"So it's a backup drive for the whole planet?" asked Gwen
"And everyone who lived there. Yes. Once I understood the truth, I stole it back from Vilgax and brought it here to Chromastone, who was created to be the guardian of the sacred crystal. He will carry it back home. And when our solar system's three stars are in a rare alignment, he will channel the crystal's limitless power to regenerate Petropia and its people."
"You could have just told us." said Ben
"Yeah, it would have made this so much easier." said Star
"There wasn't time. The stars are coming into alignment even as we speak." said Tetrax
Then Ben, Star, Kevin and Gwen noticed what looked like a shooting star. "Is that shooting star part of it?" asked Gwen
"Shooting star?" Tetrax asked a little confused. He looked up and saw the shooting star. The shooting star changed direction and crashed right near them. "That's no shooting star! That's..."
Then Vilgax came out of the smoke that he made from his landing. "Vilgax." said Ben surprised to see him hear on Earth.
"Where is my crystal?" asked Vilgax demanding an answer.
"Maybe I should have stayed in bed after all." said Ben
"Same here." agreed Star
"You stole from me, Tetrax. Give me what is mine, and your death will be quick." said Vilgax
"Get behind me." said Tetrax as he got in front of them. He made a thick wall of crystal. But it didn't take Vilgax long to destroy it.
"Fool!"
"I'll handle him." said Ben as he activated the omnitrix and hit it. "Way Big! Aw, man! Stupid omnitrix." The Ben relived he was Humongousaur. Ben pulled a light pole out of the ground. "Get ready to rumble, Vilgax, 'cause Humongousaur's gonna - gonna - gonna -"
"He's going to blow." said Kevin
Star, Kevin, Gwen and Tetrax took cover. Then Ben sneezed and coved Kevin's car in snot.
"Gesundheit." said Gwen
Then Kevin noticed his car. "You are so washing that." said Kevin
Vilgax charged at Ben. Ben started to swing the pole around to try and hit Vilgax, he dodged. Then grabbed the light pole out of Ben's hands and tossed it to the ground. Vilgax throw a punch but Ben grabbed his hand with his the two were the struggling. Star pointed her wand at Vilgax. "Narwhal Ah-choo!" said Star as Naewhal made of snot thanks because she sneezed at the end of her spell. And thanks to her sneezed she missed Vilgax and hit Kevin's car exploding and covering it in even more snot.
"Seriously again."
"Sorry."
Gwen fired a beam at Vilgax and he was surrounded in a sphere. Vilgax fired his laser eye and destroyed the sphere. Ben and Vilgax continued to fight each other. Kevin tried to help, but he was quickly knock to the side by Vilgax. Tetrax fired some crystals at Vilgax. The crystals just shattered as they hit him. The next wave of crystal that was fired at Vilgax was knock away by Vilgax.
"We can't beat him like this! Fall back and regroup!" said Tetrax
Star, Kevin and Gwen started t fall back. Ben hit the omnitrix and changed into a different alien. "Jetray!" Ben flew up into the air and fired his eye beams at the ground. This caused dust to form. As the dust cleared Vilgax had his shield dome up. Then dropped it.
"Cowards! There's nowhere you can hide from me!" said Vilgax
"It's almost time." whispered Tetrax as he saw some star come in alignment.
Ben continued to fired lasers at Vilgax. Vigax had his shield up to block the lasers. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a -" Then Ben notice Vilgax starting to fly towards him and tackled him. They started to head towards the ground.
"I'll squash you like the insignificant insect you are!" said Vilgax
Ben kicked Vilgax and got free from his grip. Ben started to fly away, but Vilgax was right behind him. "Flying's no fun if everybody can do it." Ben tried to lose Vilgax. But he kept right on Ben's trail. Then the omnitrix timed out and Ben returned to normal. He started to fall out of the sky. "Aw, man." said Ben
"I got you Ben!" said Gwen as she made a energy slide. That brought Ben to the ground safely. Vilgax started to fire his eye beams from the sky. Gwen quickly put up a shield. The shield was holding of Vilgax's attack.
"I've got an idea. Keep him busy." said Kevin. He ran for his car and got in. He started the car, then two bubbles formed in the back of the car and popped. He also use the window shield wipers to clean of some of the snot off it. The car's engine started to rev up. He started to drive towards Ben, Star, Gwen and Tetrax. Who were dodging Vilgax's eye lasers the were still being fired from the sky.
"The crystal, Tetrax! There is no escape for you!" said Vilgax as he kept firing his eye lasers. Kevin then drove in on his car. Vilgax started to fire at Kevin. He dodged the lasers. Kevin pressed a button on his car and a smock screen started to come out. He started to drive around Ben, Star, Gwen and Tetrax. This mad it hard for Vigax to see them. Vilgax started to fire his eye lasers randomly thru the smoke. But he kept missing. "Fools! You're just prolonging the inevitable!" He flew down to Kevin's car. And then ripped one of the doors off. Vilgax then noticed that they weren't in the car. And couldn't see them anywhere else. So he toss the door away in anger.
They escaped through the sewers and ending up in a building in town.
"See? Told you I had a plan. I've got another one, too." said Kevin
"Do you ever have a plan that doesn't involve crawling around in the sewers?" asked Gwen in a whisper
"You're welcome. And stop whispering. We're half a mile away from where Vilgax is looking."
"Good point. Even with his superhearing, he can't pick us out all the people talking in the desert." said Ben
"Ah-ah-choo!" said both Ben and Star as they sneezed. Kevin, Gwen and Tetrax look at Ben and Star.
"Oh, come on. What are the odd that he -" asked Star right before Vilgax blow a hole into the wall.
"Give me the crystal!" demanded Vilgax
"Will this do?" asked Tetrax as he grow a huge wall of crystal. Vilgax broke through it easily and knocking Tatrax back. "I can't hold him back!"
"Bet I can!" said Ben as he activated the omnitrix and hit it. "Echo Echo!" Ben duplicated himself into five copies. "Ahhhhh-choo!" All the copies of Ben sneezed and send a sound wave. That send Vilgax flying back. Then Ben returned to normal.
"You did it." said Tetrax
"Thanks."
Vilgax got back up and hit the ground making it shake. Vilgax ran up and quickly picked up Tetrax. "I'll only ask once more. Where is my crystal?" asked Vilgax
"You'll never find it!" said Tetrax
"Yeah, 'cause that Chromastone dude took it halfway across the galaxy." said Kevin
"Really?" asked Vilgax
Then Gwen elbowed Kevin in the stomach. "Ow! Too much information?"
Vilgax let go of Tetrax and started to fly away.
"Nice going, motormouth." said Ben
"Yeah, good job there." said Star
"Oh, come on. How's he gonna find him in the whole universe?"
"I have to stop him." said Tetrax as he got up.
"We're going with you." said Gwen
"I wouldn't argue with her." said Ben
"There's really no point." said Kevin
They made there way back to Tetrax's hip and entered it.
"I wonder if Star and I should be flying with a cold?" asked Ben
"Don't worry about it. In space, no one can hear you sneeze." said Kevin
The ship then started to take off. They soon made it to Petropia.
"Petropia. I never thought I'd see it again." said Tetrax as they flew across the planet.
"But where's Chormastone?" asked Gwen
"Look down there." said Ben
They saw that Vilgax was beating up Chormastone. "That doesn't look good." said Star
"We better hurry." said Gwen
Tetrax increased the ships speed.
Vilgax knocked Chromastone to the ground. "Any last words?" asked Vilgax
"I must... save... my people. Have mercy!" said Chromastone
"Mercy? Never heard of it." Then Vilgax snapped the horn right off of Chromastones head. Chromastone let out some groans. Then Tetrax ship started to land.
"No! Give it back." said Tetrax as he ran out of the ship as it opened. He started to fire crystals at Vilgax.
Vilgax brought up his shield to block the crystals. "You bore me, Tetrax." Vilgax aimed the crystal at Tetrax. Vilgax fired a beam from the crystal. The beam trapped Tetrax in red crystal. "That fool! Using all of the crystal's power just to reassemble a dead world. All this for nothing!" Then Vilgax tossed the crystal on to the ground. Then Vilgax started to fly away. Ben, Star and Gwen ran up to were Chromastone was.
"I'll show you "nothing"! Come back and fight!" said Ben
Kevin morphed his had into a hammer and started to smash the crystal that Tetrax was in. It only took Kevin three swing to free Tetrax. They walked up to Ben, Star, Gwen and Chromastone.
"The crystal?" asked Tetrax
"It's dead." said Ben
"And Chromastone?" But no one said anything. "Then all is lost."
Soon CHromastone moan as he started to get up. "No. The Stars are still aligned. There is still time." said Chromastone. Soon there was a high pitched tone. Then the crystal on top of Chromastones head grow back. "But... I'm too weak to continue. Ben... please." Then Chromastone broke of his horn and gave it to Ben. Once the crystal left his hand Chromastone disappeared.
"What are you supposed to do?" asked Kevin
"I don't know." said Ben as he activated the omnitrix and hit it. Ben was then transformed into Diamondhead. "But Diamondhead does." Ben started to head towards the top of the mountain. Ben almost fell a few time, but at the end he made it to the top. Once there he held the crystal up and the crystal shined brightly.
"He's done it!" said Tetrax
Then the people of Petropia started to return. Once Ben got down from the mountain he retuned back to normal. Then Star ran up and hugged him.
"Good job, Ben. Everyone on th planet is alive again!" said Star
"Not everyone." said Ben
"Yes, Ben - everyone." said a familiar voice.
Ben looked where the voice came from and saw Chromastone.
"Chromastone... you're alive!"
"Not Chromastone. He is still in your omnitrix. I am Sugilite, guardian of Petropia." said Sugilite
"I think this belongs to you." Ben said as he gave Sugilite back the crystal. Sugilite took the crystal from Ben and placed it back on top of his head.
"I am in your debt, as are all crystal sapiens." The crowed started to cheer.
After a while Tetrax returned Ben, Star, Kevin and Gwen back to where he picked them up.
"Thanks for the ride home, Tetrax." said Ben
"Yeah, I forgot to grab the dimensional scissors, when we left the house earlier." said Star
Tetrax didn't know what dimensional scissors were. But he did really care. "It's the least I can do, Ben." said Tetrax
"Well, we don't want to hold you up. You must be anxious to get back to your friends." said Gwen
"I am. But first, I have a score to settle with Vilgax."
"Are you sure that's such a great idea? I mean, he's pretty much invulnerable." said Ben
"Maybe. Maybe not."
Author notes:
First yes I know that spell that Star used to try to cure Ben's cold. That I gave Marco a monster arm. I decided to use it like it was supposed to be a healing spell.
Guest: you will have to wait and see.
Dragon storm: I think you mean great not grey, and thanks. I like the idea of that but I might do it a little different if I do decide to write it. By that I mean what the person dose with the wand. Oh I forget who suggested a contest for the cover art for this story but, I could have the winner of that be the one to name this villain. That's if people are up for it.