The Song of the Emerald Hero

by berserkerzero7

Ben sacrificed himself to destroy Malware and expecting the afterlife waiting for him. But found himself in a world similar to his own. Now Ben faces Noises and really beautiful girls with skimpy battle armor. Ben can only do what he does best, "Its hero time!". And where is Paradox when you need him!

9. Chapter 8

I don't own Ben 10 or Senki Zesshou Symphogear. All are owned by their respected creators and publishers.

(Grey Matter)

Chapter 8: A new enemy, Durandal's awakening.

"Genjuro-kun shouldn't we pull out?" Ryoko said while retrieving the case that held Durandal from the wreckage. "There's a chemical factory up a head of us and it's practically a huge pile of dynamite, if we continue, the Durandal…"

"I know!" Genjuro yelled from the com. "But the Noise have only attacked your escorts and not you which means they are being controlled by someone. If they want to get their hands on Durandal, our best bet is to settle this somewhere dangerous.

"Got it." Ben said. "Ryoko take cover somewhere. Tsubasa, Hibiki get ready." The two girls nodded, Tsubasa took out her relic while Hibiki readied herself.

"Imyuteus Ame no Habakiri Tron"

"Balwisyall Nescell Gungnir Tron"

The two are now equipped with their Symphogears and they took fighting stance right besides Ben. "All right guys, let's show these overgrown jelly beans who their messing with!" The three charged at the opposing army of Noise while the rest of their comrades watched their fight from a distance.

(Grey Matter)

"Captain, it seems the Noise had beaten us from the surprise attack." One of the Captains men said while observing the fight from a distance with his helmets enhanced visor.

"Hmmm, it's probably the work of that Finé woman." The captain said gaining the attention of the rest of his team.

"How should we proceed sir?" one of his men asked.

The captain pondered. Encountering Finé was not out of their expectation. Either she is behind this or not, their mission still stands.

"Our objective still takes priority men. Kill all the Noise and anyone else who will get in our way, UNDERSTOOD!"

"YES SIR!" they all saluted and got ready to begin.

(Grey Matter)

Bavarian Illuminati HQ:

The three top brass of the Bavarian Illuminati watched Ben, Hibiki and Tsubasa's fight with the Noise.

Saint-Germain was silently watching the fight, but for the other two, they were pre-occupied on what Saint-Germain had told them of Ben and Animo.

Cagliostro and Prelati were still trying to come to terms on what Saint-Germain had told them earlier on. The very idea of Ben and Animo were from a different reality

If they heard it from someone else besides Saint Germain they would have just laughed, it as a bad joke. But when they thought about more, everything about them fell into place. It had explained a lot about them.

Cagliostro gazed at Prelati at her left. To any other her emotionless expression would have given them the idea that she was unfazed of the information. But she knew better. After being with her for centuries, she knew that she was as troubled as she was.

She sighed before returning at the screen. "In the end Ben Tennyson is another obstacle ahead of us. No matter what, we would follow Saint-Germain to death."

(Grey Matter)

Back with Ben and his team. The battle was going smoothly, too smoothly for Ben's liking. He was thankful that it was just the normal Noise that had attacked them and not Animo's super charged Muta-Noise. He had to admit that Tsubasa and Hibiki might not handle it well for now. He is considering training them a bit more to be ready if they did encounter them again.

Curling himself again, he bulldozed through the group of Noise in front of him. A form like Cannonbolt that could punch through concrete with ease, crushed and ripped the Noise like paper.

Even as he remained curled up, he noticed that Tsubasa and Hibiki were slowly being surrounded even though they were fighting the Noise with little difficulty.

He launched himself like a bullet and decimated the Noise's from their backs. The two noticed Ben's arrival and the two leaped to Ben. He uncurled himself and Ben began to speak.

"There to many of them. We will be just wasting time if we just keep fighting. We need to get Ryoko and the relic to a safe area."

"But we can't just leave the Noise like this!" Hibiki said, not understanding the point of Ben's decision.

"I know Hibiki, that's why one of us would need to take Ryoko to a secured location."

"Who would take the professor, Ben-kun?" Tsubasa voiced out her question, understanding that Ben's suggestion was the best course of action.

"Hibiki would have to take her."

Said girl eyes widened at the mention pf her name. "You want me to take Ryoko-san, Ben-kun?"

Ben nodded at her. "Yah, me and Tsubasa can handle the Noise in large groups, so you have to take her Hibiki."

Hibiki was unsure for a moment, but in the end followed Ben's request. "Alright Ben-kun. I won't let you down." She determinedly said and dashed off too were Ryoko was currently at.

"I hope you know what you're doing." Tsubasa voiced out while raising her blade at the remaining Noise.

"Come on Tsubasa don't you trust my intuition?"

She looked at our alien hero with half closed eye's. "Ben-kun, please tell me one time that your plan had went without a hitch."

He was about to answer but stopped midway when he recalled some of his plans from his past most notably the one when Psyphon and his cronies' attempts to escape from Plumber HQ's cells.

Psyphon was threatening to use the bases Null void projector to suck in not only the base but also the entire city of Bellwood. In short, he took the city as his hostages.

He had come up with a plane to sneak in to the facilities power core and shut off the power to the Null void projector. When he and his team was successful on shutting it off, Psyphon and his gang showed up and revealed that it was his plan on tricking them on shutting off the power core and along with it the other layers of security that prevented them from escaping.

"Huh…" he said to Tsubasa while his eyes kept from looking away from Tsubasa's gaze. "Well… come on Tsubasa nothing could possibly go wrong." His eye twitched.

Tsubasa just sighed, leaving the matter knowing his answer already. "Fine, but we better hurry and re group with the rest.

"Y-yah!" He nodded with a stiff nod. In truth, Ben was panicking inside. "Why did I just tempt the universe of all times?! Hibiki, Ryoko be careful!

(Grey Matter)

As Hibiki and Ryoko ran towards to where Genjuro and the rest of the convoy, they were met with no Noise resistance at all. It would have seemed that all of them were fighting Tsubasa and Ben.

This had frightened and relived Hibiki at the same time. On one hand, she was constantly worrying for her two friends fighting the enemy. The other was she was thankful that there were no opposition and she can safely lead Ryoko and the Durandal to the safe zone.

Even so, she still believed on Ben's plane and she would see this through and return to fight with him and Tsubasa.

"Hibiki-chan, look out!" She abruptly stopped when she heard the panicked voice of Ryoko.

"What?!" Hibiki cried out in shock when suddenly a bunch of Noise appeared right in front of her. "Where did they come from?"

"We meet again brat!"

Both Hibiki and Ryoko turned to where the voice came from and to their shock, it was Chris, clad in her Nehushtan Symphogear while holding the same cane she used to summon the Noise.

"The Solomon's Cane!" Ryoko said in shock while looking directly at the silver cane Chris was holding.

Chris jumped off from the building and landed in front of the two with the summoned Noise at her back. "Now it's time for me to pay you back from back then Hibiki Tachibana!" She raised one of her chain whips and swung it towards Hibiki and Ryoko.

Hibiki's eyes widened and instinctively pushed Ryoko out of the way. Not having enough time to dodge the chained whip snared at Hibiki's arm and Chris viscously pulled her with much force that she crashed through one of the buildings.

Chris once more repeated her action and released Hibiki mid air. She skidded on the ground and she and crashed hard on the ground.

Hibiki groaned while picking herself up. She visibly didn't have any injuries thanks to the Symphogear, but that still left her a bit dizzy from the trashing she got.

She heard footsteps and saw Chris was slowly coming at her with the Noise following suit. Shacking off her dizziness she took fighting stance with hesitation on her face. She didn't want to fight Chris, but she can't let her gain the Durandal relic. Not when Tsubasa and Ben was relaying on her with the mission.

(Grey Matter)

"Sir the Nehushtan wielder has arrived and is engaging with Hibiki Tachibana." One of the Captains men informed him of the sudden change of situation.

"What? Why didn't they inform us of this?!" The captain growled at the new. With the new added variable, it would seem that they were at a bind. "It's already hard enough dealing with Tennyson and the gear users and now this!"

"What do we do sir?"

The captain stared at the ground for a moment. It was such a good fortune that Hibiki separated from Ben and Tsubasa and thought she would be the easy first target.

Now with Chris in the picture and the army of Noise at her side it would be difficult for them, even with the new tech.

"Where is that package the egg heads sent?"

"Right overthere sir." His 1stLieutenant pointed at the large metallic case.

"Good I want you all to capture the Durandal and Tachibana." He said while walking towards the case.

"What about you sir?"

He knelt down, opened the case, and stared at what it contained.

"I'll deal with Tennyson and the little idol."

(Grey Matter)

Back with Ben and Tsubasa, the two were easily decimating the Noise.

Ben, now transformed as Swampfire was unleashing torrents of fire, while he was carefully avoiding the gas tank in the vicinity.

While on Tsubasa's end she had transformed her blade to its larger variant and unleashed wave after wave of energy slashes, destroying the Noise and as well as the paved ground.

Everything on their side was going smoothly and the only worry they have is if Hibiki and Ryoko had escaped safely.

Ben was about finish with the batch of Noise he was facing until he felt Tsubasa had leaped towards him.

"It seems we are about done her Ben-san." Tsubasa said while heaving a sigh of relief.

"Yah we can finally head back with Hibiki and the rest." Ben replied while tossing one last fireball towards the remaining Noise. "And that should do it." He said while reverting to his human from.

"I wonder who had sent the Noise. Since they were the normal variants it's safe to say that Animo has no involvement in this." Tsubasa deducted while Ben have a node at her.

"Yah I agree. In addition, it is not Animo's style on hiding in the shadows. He likes to come with a big entrance and monologue first before attacking."

Tsubasa giggle a bit at Ben's explanation. "You really have been doing this for a long time."

"Heh that's an understatement." He laughed a bit with Tsubasa before continuing. "Well let's go before-." He stopped mid way along with his eyes widening. It was only thanks to his years of fighting that even for a fraction of a moment he had notice a glint from one of the towers He saw someone aiming at them.

He did not give another thought. Out of instinct, he dived towards Tsubasa in order to avoid whatever was coming at them. "Tsubasa get down!"

"Ben-san?!" Tsubasa gasped at Ben's sudden action.

He had gotten her and himself out of the way in time. The ground they were standing previously on exploded. However, it appeared to be not caused by some concussive projectile, missile or any of the likes. It was as if something extremely dense had struck the ground along with a lot of force that had blown both Ben and Tsubasa away from the epicenter.

"What was that?" Tsubasa groaned while she and Ben stood up and massaging their heads from disorientation.

"I don't know but were going to find out any second now."

As Ben had said, the Captain had jumped off the roof he was on and landed right in front of them. His tri-goggled eyes glowed menacingly at them. On his arms appears to be wearing large gauntlet like weapons that bared some similarity with Hibiki but a bit sleeker in its design with teal light pulsed through it.

"Mind telling us who you are buddy? Or are you just going to keep quiet and keeping the silent and deadly type." Ben said mockingly, trying to rile up the Captain.

"Hmph, I have nothing to say to you Tennyson. I only came here for few things."

"And what would that be?" Tsubasa said while griping her bladed tighter while inching a bit closer.

Ben sensing Tsubasa's action readied his right hand to activate the omnitrix. Not caring what he would get.

The Captain raised both his hands; his gauntlets glowed brighter at his action. "The relics that your girls wield, Durandal and of course the most sought after item in the world… your omnitrix!"

At his answer the two heroes eyes widened. Ben's face grew serious. "Dude you have no idea how wrong you are." Ben activated the omnitrix and swiftly cycled through the selection screen. "Get ready Tsubasa!"

"Right!"

He slammed the omnitrix core and the signature flash of green appeared and Ben had taken another form he had not used since he arrived on this universe.

The form was some short of a bulky, a heavy, oven-like suita handle on the head and the shoulders have bolts, there are three more bolts on each hand, and two on the chest along with three grill holes on its helmet that acts as its eyes. The omnitrix settled on its chest.

This form is NRG. The omnitrix DNA sample of Prypiatosian-B from the Andromeda Galaxy.

"NRG! Oh NRG, is G.O.O.D!" Ben exclaimed with a Russian accent.

"Is this really an alien form?" Tsubasa asked in curios tone. Wondering what kind of alien would evolve in to such a form.

"Uh, kind off, I'll explain later."

"I hope you two are done!" The Captain began the gauntlet weapons hummed with power and he trusted it forward sending a large pulse. Thanks to Tsubasa's agility, she was able to leap away from the attack. Ben on the other hand, thanks to his bulkier from he just barley rolled out of the way. "Because I'm in a rather tight schedule.

Tsubasa dashed towards him and proceeded to attack. She was quite shocked that the man in front of her was able to keep up with her. It would seem he was much skilled then she anticipated.

Tsubasa was half-right. The captain was indeed skilled in hand-to-hand combat. His years of training had made him in to well season veteran. Yet it was no small thanks to the advance AI programmed with in his suit, which gave him a better chance with someone like Tsubasa.

"God damn it, this brat is good!" The captain internally said. Impressed that even in her age she was worthy to be called a veteran.

"Tsubasa move!" The recovered Ben yelled out to his partner. Tsubasa did so without looking back at him and once she leaped out of the way

The Captain was stunned briefly by Tsubasa's sudden redraw all and staggered. Due to this, he was not able to see the incoming beam of condensed radiation. The beam had hit and an explosion fallowed, sending the Captain flying and crashing to a nearby wall.

It was only thanks to his suit that he had survived the attack, the crash and the radiation of the attack. He brushed off the dizziness and stood once more.

"Give it up!" Ben said while he and Tsubasa slowly walked towards him.

"Don't resist anymore! You can't take both of us at the same time!"

The Captain scoffed at her threat. Of course, he won't back down. He was more terrified at what his bosses will do to him then what Ben and Tsubasa would dish out to him.

"Sorry miss idol, but surrender is not an option for me."

Ben sighed. He had hope he would give up and save him and Tsubasa the trouble. "Well can't have your way all the time. Let's wrap this up Tsubasa." She gave a silent node and readied her sword.

The Captain reevaluated his situation. He want prideful enough to see he was outnumbered and out mach. He needed a way to separate them. Then an idea pops in his mind.

"I couldn't agree more Tennyson. I need to hurry and meet up with my men." He said making the two widened their eyes at him.

"Wait you're not alone?!" Tsubasa said, while the Captain smirked behind his helmet.

"Of course I'm not alone. In fact my team should be with the Gungnir brat and that girl with the Nehushtan relic."

"Even the Nehushtan wielder!" Tsubasa once again said in shock, not expecting another party involving.

Ben clenched his armored hand, seeing that the situation was going towards the Captains favor.

An explosion accrued from a distance making everyone turn to its direction. Tsubasa and Ben stared in shock while the Captain's grin widened. It came from where Hibiki and Ryoko were heading.

"So what's it going to be you two?" the Captain said with confidence.

"… Damn it. Tsubasa-." Ben was about to speak, but as stopped by Tsubasa.

"I know Ben-kun. Go, I can handle this."

Ben stared for a bit, but reluctantly agreed it was the best option. "Alright, be careful." He said then started to run to Hibiki and Ryoko's location.

"Now this would make thing even for me." The Captain taunted Tsubasa, but it did little to her.

"Enough lets finish this." She said and her blade pointed at the Captain.

The Captained just laughed while his gauntlets pulsed with power.

(Grey Matter)

Back with Hibiki and Chris. The two was still duking it out. While Chris tried to actually fight, Hibiki did the exact opposite. She dodged blocked but never once tried to deliver an attack to Chris, only to the Noise.

"Damn it, fight back you coward!" Chris yelled in frustration. She couldn't understand why she wouldn't fight back.

"I won't! We don't need to fight! Were both humans we can talk this out!" Hibiki once again pleaded to Chris for a peaceful resolution.

"Are you still babbling about the bull shit! She said while whipping her chains towards Hibiki that she was able to roll out of the way in time.

"Damn it, stay still!" She cried out in frustration, still delivering her attacks Yet Hibiki continued to dodge trying to find an opening to stop Chris without hurting her.

"GRR! You lot,surround her right now!" She barked her order to the Noises behind her. They obeyed like machines and entrapped Hibiki, leaving no way for her to escape.

"Eh!" She said in confusion, seeing the current situation that she had nowhere to go. "I have no choice!". She took a fighting stance and was ready to pounce at the nearest Noise, but Hibiki would not get the chance.

At the exact moment, the team that the Captain sent had arrived and had startled the three women.

Currently the three were bewildered at their sudden appearance, asking themselves who they could possibly be.

"Who the hell are you guys supposed to be?"

The squad didn't say a word, they answered by raising their rifles. The two gear users had assumed that they were going to fire at them. Chris didn't feel threatened at all since bullets won't even harm the Symphogear, but Hibiki after learning from Ben to always expect the unexpected raised both her gauntlets in defense.

They opened fired, yet it was not metal bullets that came out, but super-heated plasma. What's more it didn't hit the two as they expected but had struck down the Noise.

A momentary silence came as the three shocked women stood in stunned silence.

"Wh-what?" Was all Chris could say.

"They… they…" Hibiki was in the same state as Chris.

"They destroyed the Noise?!" Ryoko was the last one to react, but one could tell she was the one who was most surprised.

The squad now aimed their rifles at Hibiki and Chris making the two eyes widen. They fired and the two blocked by instinct.

For the moment, their Symphogear were able to withstand the barrage, but their armor could not completely filter the heat they were receiving and the two gritted their teeth form the heat.

"Don't screw with me!" Chris cried out lashing one of her chains towards the firing squad.

Not expecting the attack, the squad stopped their firing and scrambled in order to avoid the attack. Majority of the team were able to avoid it in time but two were hit and was thrown back and crashed to a wall.

Chris smirked for at least getting some of them, but her eyes grew in shock once again witnessing the two getting up. "What how are you still able to move!?"

"Hmph! Well it is all thanks to this suits little lady! Its-!" One of the squad members began to boast and almost slipped secret information, but another member stopped him.

"Shut the hell up man! You know these shit is top secret!"

He just shrugged off his comrades warning before re-aiming his rifle back at Chris. "Sorry girly, but I guess you'll have to find out on the other side."

The team resumed firing. Chris could have tanked the attack once more, but after receiving damage from their laser bullets she would not take that chance.

She leaped out of the way and landed a few feet from them. She then lashed out her chain whip towards them while gathering energy to deliver her attack.

"Nirvana Gedon!"

"Shit!" One of the squad members yelled out in panic. All of them tried to evade but unfortunately one of them was to slow and his entire right arm was hit.

"AHHHHH!" he cried out in pain. Feeling his entire arm was melting off.

"He's been hit!"

He writhed in pain on the ground while a pool of blood was forming.

"Oh no…" Hibiki stared in horror. Even though he was the enemy, she could not help but feel worry towards the man.

Chris cringed a bit at the result, not expecting the damaged he would have received.

"Keep firing and get the Durandal!" One of them shouted and the rest fallowed. They began to shot once more. A set was aimed at Chris and another was aimed at Hibiki, forcing the girls to dodge and parry the incoming projectiles once again.

Suddenly the man's suit started to beep and a sound like a pressurized injection was heard. The hole that was once his ram closed up and the man seemed to relax after wards.

"Good the medic system of the suit is working." One of his teammates said in relief, seeing the build in medical system was operating normally.

"Get him behind us and keep firing!"

"Who are they?" Ryoko said to herself. She was still in shock that those men's weapons were able to eliminate the Noise, leaving the fact that they were wielding energy based weapons which to her knowledge humanity would not achieve such feats for another century or two.

"Ryoko!"The commander said over the com's. "What is going on!?"

"Were being attacked by a third party. I don't know who they are but they are dangerous for sure."

"How so?" He asked, worrying what kind of enemy they were facing.

"Genjuro-kun… their weapons can destroy the Noise."

Silence was heard over the com's. The commander was still trying to understand what Ryoko had said to him. "But… Ryoko-kun that's impossible…"

"I know, but I can't dismiss what I have seen with my own eye's Genjuro-kun."

"Who are they engaging right now?" he asked, wanting to know the situation further.

"Hibiki and the Nehushtan girl are fighting them right now."

"What about Tsubasa and Ben-kun?"

"I don't know. Since they are not here yet it's safe to assume that they might be fighting with another squad right now." She explained making Genjuro pause for a bit.

"Alright stay putt for now. I'll try to get in touch with Ben-kun and Tsubasa."

"Heh you don't have to tell me twice."

(Grey Matter)

As for the boy in question, he was still in his NRG form and sprinting towards Hibiki and Ryoko's location.

"Please be alright you two!" He said to himself while picking up his pace.

"Ben-kun can you hear me?" his omnitrix beep while receiving the call from Genjuro.

"Genjuro?!"

"Ben-kun listen to me Hibiki is currently being attack by an unknown group and the Nehushtan girl." He explained making Ben stop on his tracks.

"What? Even that girl is here?!"

"Where are you and Tsubasa now?"

"I'm heading to their location now, but Tsubasa is fighting someone right now." He explained while piecing together that the one who attacked him and Tsubasa is with whoever is attacking Hibiki right now. "Most likely they are in cahoots with one another."

"Alright, please hurry. I don't think Hibiki will last much longer." With that, he ended the connection.

"Damn it! Hibiki please hang on for bit longer!"

(Grey Matter)

Back with Hibiki and the rest the fighting was still raging on with Hibiki knocking out one of the squad members and Chris taking out two members.

"Please stop this already I don't want to hurt anyone of you!" Hibiki pleaded to the enemy, but it only fell on to deaf ears.

"Everyone."The commander said through their communicators.

"Sir? What is it?" one of them replied, still firing their rifle.

"We don't have much time. I could not take both the idol and Tennyson at the same time. Therefore, I tricked him and now he is heading your way." He explained gaining an alarmed expression from his team.

"So what is your orders sir? We are pinned down right now." He asked the Captain, unsure how to proceed.

"Which of the objective can you acquire?"

"I doubt we can capture Hibiki Tachibana." Be explained while his gaze turned towards Ryoko, more specifically the case that held Durandal right behind her. "But the Durandal is another story sir."

"Then get it and extract immediately. I can't hold off the idol any longer."

"Yes sir!" He then cut off the line with the commander. "Alright everyone lets-." He was not able to give the order when one of his men interrupted him suddenly.

"Damn it… enough!" one of them suddenly stopped shooting and threw his rifle to the ground. "You, Hibiki Tachibana, me and you right now!" he said to Hibiki while taking fighting stance.

"Wait you idiot stop!" Yet his plea wasn't heard. His teammate rushed towards Hibiki and began his assault. "Damn idiot… everyone continue firing at the other one!"

As they resumed fire he nudge at the nearest of his team to him. "Listen while he distract them hurry and grab the case behind that Ryoko scientist." His companion nodded at the order and proceeded to sneak into one of the building and to find an opening towards the Durandal and Ryoko.

Hibiki was still hesitant on fighting another human being. Therefore, she only retaliated with her strength held back.

"Come on girl fight back!" He cried out in frustration on the Hibiki holding back on him.

Yet still Hibiki held back. She knew very well that she needed to fight and escape with Ryoko. Still she could not bring herself to fight another human being. Therefore,she continued to hold back and to find an opening to escape.

Unbeknownst to the rest the one soldier who snuck out of the fight was already a few feet away from Ryoko and the case holding Durandal. He slowly approached her and readied one of his grenades.

He activated it and once he was near enough to be caughtat the blast range he trough it right at her. He tossed the grenade and it hit the ground and rolled at Ryoko's side. She had heard its beeping and turned her gazed at it. He eyes widened and the grenade exploded.

Everyone had stopped and stared at the smoking spot.

"Ryoko-san…" Hibiki whispered in shock. Staring at the spot that Ryoko was standing on.

"Hurry, grab the case!" one of the men yelled out to his comrade. AT his word, he sprinted towards the case and he didn't waste a second and grabbed their prize.

"I won't let you!" Chris cried out and sprinted towards the soldier.

The team smirked at their victory, but it was short lived then their sensors detected two different spikes of energy. One was coming from Hibiki and the other was at where Ryoko was.

"What the hell?" One of them said, not understanding what they were picking up.

One of them turned to Hibiki and was shocked at what he was seeing. She was literally flickering from her normal state and a black form with menacing red eyes. "What the heck is she!?"

He turned to the second source and once again, he was rendered speechless.

The smoke was clearing and there standing was Ryoko, unscratched save for the hair clips that her holding her hair were now gone, letting her long hair fall down naturally, but what surprised them the most was a barrier of energy was enclosed around her.

"Ryoko-san!" Hibiki said in relief and joy while running towards the scientist. The flux of power from her was also fading.

"Phew, that was rather close." Ryoko spoke with her usual cheery tone while waving her hand to clear the smoke still surrounding her.

Suddenly the case that held Durandal started to beep and flash red making the soldier carrying it stop abruptly. "What the- it's beeping?"

"It can't be…" Ryoko spoke while staring at the case and then turned her gaze to Hibiki.

Then bursting out of it, the Durandal is now floating above him. The sword has the appeared to be made of aged silver. It was in a form of typical western swords that left not much of an impression of a legendary sword.

"The Durandal…" Chris said in awe while the soldier right below it was standing and just staring at the floating sword.

"Hibiki-chan, hurry and grab the sword!" Ryoko said to the dazed girl.

"Ah, right!" She began to leap towards the sword alerting everyone.

"NO YOU WON'T!" Chris said while leaping towards the sword herself.

"HURRY, GRAB THE STUPID THING!" The commanding officer of the squad yelled out his order. The stunned soldier was brought back to his senses and like the other two, leaped to the was a race to who would reach the sword and by some miracle Hibiki was the one who had grasped it first.

As she touched it, an orbed of light manifested and expanded. The sensors that the suits of the squad were going haywire alerting them something big was coming.

Once landing on the ground, the swordglowed a bright gold light that exploded to a large pillar of light.

(Grey Matter)

Back with Tsubasa and the Captain the entire area that they were fighting was completely decimated by their fight.

By the state of the two it could be easily seen that Tsubasa was the one dominating the fight. She only retained small bruises while the Captain was on his knees, panting heavily and some parts of his armor were broken apart. The weapon gauntlet that he was using was nearly completely broken, with one of the gauntlets was gone and the other was falling apart.

"Give up. I won't continue fighting at your current state." Tsubasa said while relaxing her from, seeing that he could not fight back.

"Heh, like hell I'll listen to what you say little miss idol. I'd rather die than surrender myself."

Tsubasa narrowed her eyes at him. She slightly understood the resolve of the Captain, but even so, she has a duty to bring him back for questioning. She started to walk towards to apprehend him, but abruptly stopped when she saw a large pillar of light from the distance.

"What the…" she said in surprise.

The Captain saw this as a chance to escape, he activating another function of the suit. A plum of gas burst out of his suit and spread around the area.

"Wait!" Tsubasa was startled at first, but regained her composure she rushed towards were she believe the Captain was last on, but unfortunately he was long gone.

"I messed up…" She said dejectedly, blaming herself for that moment, she was distracted. Seeing no point in staying she dashed off towards the source of the pillar of light hoping that Hibiki, Ryoko and Ben were safe.

(Grey Matter)

Hibiki was once again flickering into that dark shadowed monstrous form of hers. Her eyes kept flashing blood red and she was clenching her teeth like she was holding in her pain.

Then with a flash of gold, the sword Durandal began to peel away. Now Durandal appearance has change to a more sublime form.

Now it looked like to be one large blade that was connected to its hilt. The blade itself appearance to be made of gold with blue intricate lines run across it.

"RRRAAAAGGGHHHH!"Hibiki growled like a savage animal her gaze then turned to Chris and the squad. She roared and she prepared to unleash Durandal to them.

"Squad do you read me?"

The com's of the squad came to life at the Captains sudden call.

"Sir? The girl, Tachibana she…" He tried to explain, but was cut short by the Captain.

"This mission is a failure, retreat now at designation two." He gave his order and the squad followed without question.

Chris stood and stared at Hibiki and Durandal. Her sights turned to Ryoko and her eyes widened at the expression she was giving. It was as if she was witnessing a miracle.

She gritted her teeth in sham and frustration. "Even if I retrieve Durandal… it won't…"

Due to her musing, she did not realize that the squad behind her had tossed grenade at her, but it was not an explosive. What came out was a glue like substance that had covered Chris's legs and seconds later hardened, trapping her in place.

"What!?" She cried out in confusion. She turned to the squad that was retreating.

"Sorry girly, but it would be better if you're out of the picture." One of the squad members taunted her before scurrying away to his retreating team.

"Damn it!" She tried to break free, but the substance stayed true. Her sight turned to incoming attack and all she could do was stare in horror. Is this it?! I'm going to die!?" Her mind flashed with the memories of her parents, of the war that took them away from her, of the hardship she had endured when she was taken to a prison camp and turned to a slave.

She realized that she had achieved nothing. She still was not able to change anything. "I… don't want… to die!" She screamed internality. "Fine, Mom, Dad, please HELP ME!"

She then felt something rammed straight at her and freeing her in the process. When her eyes saw who had rammed at her, she gasped and her eyes widened at who it was.

"You…" It was Ben, still as NRG.

He just arrived now when he saw Hibiki's attack that was so close to Chris. He didn't hesitate on his action. He dashed towards the stunned Chris and pushed her out of the attacks way.

For Ben he didn't have enough time for himself to dodge. So he took it point blank and he was engulfed by the pillar of a split second, Hibiki's dark visage flinched at the sudden entrance of the alien her.

"BEN-KUN!" Ryoko cried out at Ben's action. Her voice filled with genuine worry.

The light of the attack vanished and a large plume of smoke was left on its wake, no signs of movement from within the smoke.

"Why did he… do that?" Chris slowly said, baffled on Ben's action on saving her. She did not understand why he had done that. Wasn't she the enemy? Yet knowing that he still did it without hesitation. "I don't get it."

Hibiki feel to her knees, her grip on Durandal ceased and the sword fell to the ground and she slowly reverted to normal. 'What happened?" She said groggily, her head was having a migraine. She could not remember much after she grabbed the Durandal.

Her gaze then turned to Ryoko and she saw that she had a shocked look and staring at the plume of smoke in front of her. "Ryoko-san what happened?" She asked the stunned scientist.

The question brought her senses back. She looked at Hibiki, not sure how to bring the news to her. "Hibiki-chan… you… Ben-kun…"

Hibiki did not understand what Ryoko was trying to convey to her. "Why is she looking at me like that and what does Ben-kun have to do-."Then a rush o memory came to her. She remembered she swung the pillar of light and in front of it was a strange being with bulky armor. "That was Ben-kun?"She said in realization. Both her hands began to shake and slowly she hugged herself, her body trembled at the realization. "What have I done…?"

Tsubasa arrived and saw what had happened. She saw that the three were staring at the plume of smoke. "What happened…?" She then walked towards Ryoko. Noticing her approached she looked at Tsubasa the same way she looked at Hibiki. "What happened professor? Where is Ben-kun? He should have reached here first." Again, she asked and Ryoko found herself speechless. "Ryoko-san, please tell me."

"… Ben-kun, he… to save the Nehushtan wielder from the pillar of light, the attack form Hibiki-chan due to her going berserk. He rammed her out of the way. It was already too close for him to dodge and he…" She was able to explain to Tsubasa, but did not dare finish.

Tsubasa was horrified. She turned towards Hibiki. She was still on her knees, but now hot tears fell from her eyes after hearing Ryoko's explanation.

She turned to where Chris was. She still was on the ground while staring at where Ben took the attack in shock.

Her gaze turned to the ground, her hands clenched in frustration and despair. "Again… just like back then… first Kanade and now Ben-kun."

"Tsubasa-chan?" Ryoko called out to the Sentinel, when she noticed her walking towards the plume of smoke.

"Damn it…" She began softly. "GET OUT OF THEIR BEN TENNYSON!"

"Tsubasa-san?" Hibiki said after hearing Tsubasa's sudden yell.

"ARE YOU THAT WEAK AND COUDNT TAKE AN ATTACK LIKE THAT!?" Tears began to form on Tsubasa's face, but she continued. "YOU HAVE DONE THE IMMPOSSIBLE EVER SINCE YOU WERE TEN YEARS OLD. SO GET UP BEN!"

She stopped and cached her breath, but she never tore her eyes away. They waited and waited. Then finally, they saw movement from within.

"No fucking way…" Chris said in shock and disbelief. "He actually survived that!?"

Ben, still in his NRG form walked out from the smoke. Tsubasa and Hibiki smiled in joy and relief at the sight of the alien hero. Ryoko felt the same, but she kept her composure and only gave a soft smile.

Then the omnitrix began to beep loudly and for the first time the girls saw the alien device flash red. With a flash, Ben was reverted to his human form and he fell to the ground unconsciously.

"Ben-kun!" Both of the girls cried out in worry and dashed towards the fallen hero.

"Ben-kun please hang in there!" Hibiki pleaded to the unconscious hero. She knelt at his side and she held him in her arms. Yet the alien hero did not respond to her plea. "Ben-kun!"

Chris stood up and stared at the three for a while. She gave Ben a hard look before leaping over to a building and disappeared from sight.

Ryoko, seeing that Ben needed medical attention, called Genjuro for a med team. Finishing her call she stared at the three teens, Tsubasa and Hibiki's desperate cries to the alien hero continued until the med teams arrival.

(Grey Matter)

"Sir I'm sorry to report this, but I'm afraid the team we sent to retrieve the three objectives was a failure." A man in his late forties, wearing a military uniform holding a tablet that showed the detailed report of the captain and his men's mission on retrieving the Durandal, the Omnitrix and the Symphogears.

"Hmmm… that's disappointing." The man, who appears to be in charge said with concealed anger.

"Wh-what are your next order sir?" The man said with slight hitch when he felt the anger in the rather calm sounding voice.

"Get those men back state side and be de-brief with the next operation. I'll set their punishment aside for an another time."

"Yes sir." With those final words the man left the room with slight quick pace.

The boss gave a tired sigh and rubbed his forehead with the coming headache. "Damn fools, they couldn't even handle a bunch of children. Omnitrix or relics they are just children!"

He raged. If only they know, what Ben had faced and accomplished then they would have realized sending a single squadron with advance weapons would do very little.

Relaxing a bit, the man typed a few keys on his key board and the computer screen lite up showing a man wearing a white lab coat.

"Doctor how goes with the current project." He said while the doctor responded with much enthusiasm.

"Swimmingly sir! This thing we found on ground zero at Zwei Wing concert. It's truly a marvel of science!" He replayed enthusiastically, not caring that he was talking to his superior.

The boss only nodded and letting the man continue.

"This symbiotic life form has showed us technology and knowledge centuries, no millennia's ahead of use. With a few more research we could even achieve faster than light travel sir!

Not only that we also decrypted schematics of a weapon that could destroy a target in the genetic level sir!"

The boss raised an interest brew at the man's revelation. "Really now? That is quit a find doctor." For once, he was pleased with the finding. With this, his political grip might grow if they were able to build such a weapon.

"Devote all efforts on encrypting that blue print professor and I want a proto-type ready ASAP." He ordered and the professor nodded vigorously before cutting communication.

He stood from his chair and leisurely walked towards the window. He watched as military personnel doing their duty. However, what he was interested on observing were the soldiers equipped with the same armor and weapon that the squad he sent to Japan.

He could only smile at the good fortune on finding that strange life form. It held within it the unfathomable technology that if they could extract everything ensures a seat of power in the white house. It would also shift the entire party to his side and finally disband the party that favored the heretical technology

Thinking of it, he could only laugh in joy and his laughter echoed within the room.

(Grey Matter)

It took him quite a while killing all those organic machines on the moon, but now he was on this universes earth. Moments ago he had access this worlds internet and with its primitive security system he had easily gathered all this world recorded data. Its history and what they know of the organic alien machines.

What he found was these BETA, 'Being of extraterrestrial origin that are the adversary of the human race.' as the natives of this earth had called the organic machines. He actually was amused with the name.

He also took a look with its history. Nothing save for the BETA were different compared to Ben primes earth. For a few key events like Japan withdrawing from the axis power in World War2, which lead the Americans, dropping the bomb at Berlin instead at Hiroshima. In addition, the space program was far ahead, the first problem landed on mars, and the first contact with the BETA happened and so on and so forth.

He brushed off the trivial information in favored of these Tactical Surface Fighters or TSF's. It would seem that these giant mecha fighters replaced what would have been jets like with majority of earths other versions would have. It was intriguing but not impressive what so ever. But this energy source they called the G element might prove useful later on.

Leaving those subjects for a later date he teleported to a military base in Japan called Yokohama base. This base in particular is interesting due to the information he had gathered that this base holds what the natives of this earth called Alternative IV.

On what he could gather, the Alternative planes were made in order to communicate and study the BETA.

The first of the Alternative plane was Alternative I, which was finding a way to understand the BETA by analyzing their language and ways of thinking. Yet it ended in failure.

The second plane, Alternative II was to capture and subsequent dissection and analysis of BETA specimens. Many lives were sacrificed for this to come to pass, and all that came of the research done on the samples was the conclusion that the BETA are carbon-based life-forms and had very little in common between its different strains.

The third plane, which he found amusing and disgusted, was Alternative III. Started due to the 1973 BETA invasion of Earth, its purpose was finding a way to understand the BETA using individuals with Extra-Sensorial Perception. Since the Esper's powers only covered a limited range, they had to enter the hives themselves in order to get thought readings from the BETA. Because of this, the survival rate of the Espers was only 6%. All attempts to communicate with the BETA through the use of thought projection failed, being ignored completely by the BETA, and all they managed to get through readings was the information that the enemy did not see humanity as life forms.

The forth and current plane was Alternative IV. Started in 1995, its official purpose was finding a way to understand or communicate with the BETA through the use of the so called 00 Unit. It also had a secret objective of setting up an anti-BETA intelligence network, gathering data on the layout of each Hive and the deployment and distribution of BETA within them. He couldn't find any information on what the unit is.

The last plane, that would begin if Alternative IV fails is Alternative V. Also known as Operation Babylon, it was first proposed by the US military in 1996 as a fallback in case of Alternative IV's failure.

100,000 people were to be selected and allowed to flee Earth through the use of migrant spaceships, while the rest of humanity stays on to fight the BETA to the bitter end, using a large number of G Bombs. The immigration ships were not really expected to survive: this was simply something added on to the plan in order to get the UN to agree with it. Regardless, when it is executed at the end of Unlimited, the ships do manage to find their way to a habitable planet.

This plan was to him was the most logical and optimal of all the planes. He has no doubt that the humans of this earth would perish in this pointless struggle. They were still a Type zero civilization and through his experience the creators of the BETA was at least a Type three civilization. They have no chance at all.

He sighed at their stupidity, but left the thought for another time.

He proceeded through the entrance of the base. The guards posted outside were standing still and didn't not react at his sudden appearance. It was because he froze time earlier on. He didn't want to be bother with the rabble of the base.

He strode without any concern. He passed through hallways, some barracks and he had passed through the field outside. He saw, what he had assumed cadets doing some drills. He passed through the hanger and saw a lineup of TSF. He shrugged and continued to walk until he reached a double door leading to what he guessed was an office.

He opened and saw the mess and clutter that covered the office. He survived the area to see if anyone was inside before reverting time back to normal. He entered and began looking around.

He saw some papers scattered on the floor. Taking interest, he picked it up and saw what appearance to be jumbles of equation. To any average intellectual individual it would be nonsense to them, but to him, who had come in and out of time streams and alternate time lines, he knows these are some short of quantum equations.

He laughed in amusement. Whoever made this is smart, but still an infant compared to him and the time walker. Not to mention she is way off track.

"…n-chan…"

He then heard something. Placing the papers back, he turned his sight all over the place finding the source.

"…chan…"

He heard it again and it would seem to be coming from the room locked by a large heavy bulkhead. He touched the called barrier feeling its hardened materials. His eyes darted to it control panel, immediately hacked the terminal, and successfully opened the bulkhead.

Once open he saw what the room contained. It was dimly lit, many tubes littered the room and all were connected to the one objet that lighted the room.

It was a containment of some short with blue liquid inside it, but that was not what caught his attention. It was the brain, a human brain inside the container. He tilted his head in mild interest.

For what he could tell, it was the source of the voice, or thoughts that he had picked up earlier. He walked towards the object and placed a hand on its surface and a sudden flood of memory entered his mind. "I see you are…"

He then jerked back when he heard the bulkhead doors and he saw it was a girl, a rather small girl.

"Who are you?" was what the girl said to the visitor.

(Grey Matter)

Well guys sorry for the long wait, but I bring you the next chapter of this fic.

I won't make excuses. RL got in the way on me writing fanfics. The only time I had to write was between lunch break and my breaks are rather short.

And due to this the fic had suffer for that. I feel that the fight scenes are rather sloppy. I will revise this within the future.

In addition, I'm planning to either update one of my Kamen rider fic or start to make one chapter of my Ben 10x Highschool DXD fic. So I might not make the next chapter for a while.

So with that said berserkerzero7 signing out.