Warrior of the Omnitrix Alien Force
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BenxHarem
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''Normal Speech''
Inner Thoughts, Dialogue, Musical Lyrics, or reading passages from books and scrolls.
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A government official, a general in his forties with a balding spot covered by his hat was in a government facility. The time frame was that of the fifties.
"You sure this thing is going to work? You're time machine has cost the US Government a pretty penny doctor," The man the general spoke to was a scientist of fair complexion, dark hair and eyes who was standing in front of a large hole made out of quartz crystal.
"This device is hardly a time machine in the sense of a vehicle. But a sub-atomic drill designed to bore a tunnel in the fabric of space time, as for cost. I think the alleviation oh untold human suffering throughout history is ample justification, general."
The general gave his response, "It will also give our red buddies overseas something to think about."
"And to answer your first question. There is only one way to know," the scientist said as he pulled a lever and the machine whirred and a swirling vortex of energy appeared.
"Are you sure we're safe doctor?" his assistant a younger man with auburn hair asked.
"I'm not certain of anything Hugo, but the chrono magnetic field should protect us," the doctor answered.
"Doctor. I'm frightened!" his assistant told him.
"Have a gumball, it'll calm your nerves," the scientist told him holding up a bag as his assistant backed up and the machines started to go haywire and objects began to be sucked inside and the scientist was next and a giant shadow appeared and roared.
Ben and Gwen found themselves in the same parts of this experiments several decades later. Rumors of a monster sighting was the kind of thing that Ben and Gwen would investigate to make sure it was DNAlien or rogue alien invaders up to something nefarious.
The first clue that something was wrong was the fact that the burn like marks they were investigating. What set them off that something wasn't right was the fact the bird and lizard bones were fossilized.
That was when they encountered it. A blue and black creature that looked like a mass of striped energy segmenting in an endless loop.
And with their first encounter of the creature proving fruitless thanks to it being impervious to their attacks the only thing they could do was research the materials on the base to get some sort of idea what was going on.
"These films are really corroded," Gwen softly murmured as she sat down at what passed as an advanced government computer of that era. "But it looks like this base was built for something called Project Paradox."
"The desert far away from the population would give them the sufficient privacy for the research." Ben noted as he stood behind his girlfriend as she accessed the computer. "A miracle this thing is still working."
"His name is censored, whoever he was his paradox theory was the basis of some kind of experimental tunnel through time." Gwen kept going until the sound of disturbance outside drew their attention. They arrived to see several machines sucked into a portal as if frozen by time.
"That thing's been here too," Gwen said looking at the trail in the ground.
"Only a single trail….either it came here and vanished or it was born here," Ben remarked as he tracked the trail from the portal to the doorway they came from.
"It's back," Ben instantly went into sage mode and readied himself for a fight. Ben leaped through the window shattering it in the process and readied himself only to see the scientist from the photo that Gwen found only that he hadn't age a day.
"Aah the days before you were Lord Ben. That takes me back, or is it forward?" he asked himself. "It's so hard to tell Ben, have we met?"
"How do you know my name?" Ben asked him. The only people who should know his real name were those who knew he lived a double life or well triple at this point.
"Have we met yet I suppose the question was," the man corrected his statement.
"The scientist from the photo. He hasn't change at all in fifty years," Gwen uttered heavily as she arrived outside to back up her boyfriend.
"Oh it's been much longer than that. Gumball?" the man asked.
"No thanks. Who are you?"
"You just read my file. I was hoping you could tell me, it slipped my mind several hundred years ago," he answered in a flippant matter.
"Centuries ago?" His accompanied blink resulted in the man disappearing before his very eyes. "What the…?"
"By the way you wouldn't have happened to have seen a space time anomaly anywhere have you? About yay big, incredibly destructive and virtually unstoppable? No. I must have been thinking of another moment, ta ta." Before Ben could even demand answers the man once more blinked away.
"So how do we handle this?" Gwen asked Ben who began to ponder.
"The way he moves. Its like a space-time ninjutsu technique, only at a much higher level than ones I've seen in terms of movement. If he is unaging and can travel through space casually I don't think we can catch him," He held up the Omnitrix. "…well not unless I unlock some kind of time alien and who knows how long that would take."
"Well how do we get answers from him? This guy is obviously connected to that strange creature."
"If he knows me like I claim the best way to catch him off guard is to pull of something way out of character for me." Activating the Omnitrix he turned into Inferno. Holding up his hands he formed several flame balls and sent them flying into structures causing detonations that caused multiple explosions rattling the area.
"As expected of my astute young friend." Inferno and Gwen both jolted and spawn. There was the scientist behind him. Inferno let out a low growl. Someone, anyone being able to sneak up on him made him uncomfortable. "I figured if enough racket was made he would show up," the man said as the creature appeared.
"What is that thing? If you know of me, by the way you speak then we've had dealings beyond this creature right?" How calm this man was indicated while this creature was an issue it wasn't danger to the world level.
"What can you tell us Mr…..Paradox?" Gwen asked him.
"Paradox, yes that will do, that will do nicely," Paradox said. "I'll tell you my story in a way you can understand with a beginning, middle and an end, let us begin in the middle," he told them as his pocket watch glowed. "Los Soledad was built entirely because of my ingenious theory. A time tunnel made of quartz crystal allowing us to visit past and future events," Paradox explained.
"Even for a genius messing with the mechanics of space-time is dangerous. It looks like some factor went wrong in the experiment and everyone involved got effected heavily by it." Ben noted.
"You don't know the half of it. Some tiny miscalculation on my behalf caused a rip to be created in the fabric of reality. I was hurled into the event horizon. I must have spent one hundred thousand years there. I didn't age or eat or sleep. I just existed," Paradox said.
"At first I went mad of course. But then after a few millennia I grew bored and became sane very sane. I began to learn. I now have total understanding of the space time continuum. Allowing me to travel anywhere and anywhen I want," Paradox said closing his pocket watch.
Ben felt a sharp pain in his heart. Just the thought of someone with that kind of knowledge. That kind of power as an enemy. It wasn't something he could completely comprehend, but since the man seemed to be an ally he relaxed.
"I'm sensing a but…"
Paradox walked toward a chalkboard and the couple soon found themselves in a room. "You see I recently discovered that some kind of extra dimensional creature is going to wreak havoc across the universe," he said.
"Well with your abilities what makes this particular monster different from the others?"
"This foe unlike the thousands I have fought before came into existence the moment my experiment went array," Paradox said drawing on the chalkboard.
"This creature hasn't been here for fifty years. We'd know about it," Gwen said.
"Time is a river. It flows and bends, fifty years ago I set of a depth charge in this river accidentally. The creature I released was sent through time to your present doing this to your future," Paradox said as he drew lines over the river he had drawn on the board.
"But all it's doing is messing up an old military base. Why not leave alone?"
"That's a question for the man on the moon," Paradox answered.
"And that is?"
"Me," Paradox answered and his voice echoed as they now stood on the moon.
"The moon…but how are we not suffocating?"
"The moon in your future to be precise," Paradox told him. "Good question, hardly the point though," Paradox told him. "Imagine what the earth would look like in two hundred years' time with that creature running around all over turning anything it touches to dust. For those with no imagination look up," he said and the couple looked up to see the earth aged severally and it looked dead.
"I understand now. Not stopping that creature makes the reality above us our only future." Gwen grimly responded.
Paradox told her. "Not a pretty sight is it. What are you doing here?" Paradox asked another Paradox in front of the others.
"I'm allowing myself to witness the full extent of my failure," the other Paradox answered.
"A parallel of yourself? Yep things went from uugh time travel to pass me the brain bleach."
"Young Ben in time will develop the knack to understanding of trans-temporal meta-physics you'd be wise to make use of his assistance."
"What should I do?" Paradox asked.
"Not what I did. Obviously, but you must hurry. Time is running out," the other Paradox said as his pocket watch glowed and the group appeared back at Los Soledad.
"Alright so what do we do?"
"It should be here any minute," Paradox said as the time creature appeared. Transforming back into Inferno the pyroknite launched a stream of flame only for them to fizzle out upon contact, then Paradox threw gumballs at the creature and it stopped.
"They hit it?" .
"Doesn't it turn everything to dust?" Gwen asked.
"Gumballs last a long time, look under your desk at school. Now watch out!" Paradox shouted and Inferno blasted himself out of range and Paradox jumped and grabbed the creature.
"Let go! He'll age you to dust!" Gwen told him.
"I exist outside of time. But I can still feel the eons passing by," Paradox replied as Inferno turned back into Ben.
"Paradox send us back to the accident, now!" he told Paradox and they were transported fifty years into the past. "Gwen we need to hurry to the lab hurry," he told her. "And you keep that occupied," he told Paradox.
"Keep it occupied!? I'm a time traveling hero! I don't keep things occupied!" Paradox told him as he ran off to the lab with Gwen where they saw the experiment about to begin.
"Why would it use a phone? Then it goes to a police station then the dorms, that time monster didn't act like some unfathomable monster, it acted like any normal person would do in an emergency if…"
"…if they found themselves in an abandoned military base," Gwen completed his thoughts as the time machine turned on and Ben saw the assistant Hugo elbow a console by mistake.
"The assistant," Ben said as Paradox was sucked into the time vortex and Hugo clung onto a console for dear life. Ben shot forward and buried his hand through the solid forward and grabbed the assistant's wrist.
"Who are you! How'd you even get in here!?"
"Trust me. You're better off not knowing! Gwen the portal!"
Gwen's hand flickered to life with mana as she clutched onto the door. Firing a mana blast Gwen destroyed the portal resulting in the time creature turned into Hugo and the streams of time interweaving to correct itself.
"Hugo! Of course, were it a snake it would have bit me," he said as the couple walked back. "Don't look so smug, I would have figured it out eventually," he told them.
"You had centuries apparently." Ben noted as he and Gwen suddenly phased back into their correct timeline.
"I have to admit it, I am impressed. All the time I spent in the event horizon and it never occurred to me the accident was not my fault."
"What happened to your assistant?" Gwen as usual showed her concerned.
"I lived my life," everyone turned to see Hugo fifty years older.
"Hugo! How are you?" Paradox asked shaking his old friend's hand.
"You look the same, and I haven't seen you in fifty years," Hugo said.
"Well I haven't seen you in a hundred thousand years," Paradox told him. "But you don't look all that bad. How was your life?"
"A good life. I am sorry about the experiment, it got ruined because of me, I never got to time travel," Hugo said.
"Would you still like to?" Paradox asked him.
"Yes. I'm not afraid anymore," Hugo said.
"Marvelous. What say I give you a behind the scenes look at eternity," Paradox said opening his pocket watch and a portal opened up and both walked into it.
"At least he has company," Gwen noted as Ben walked over and pulled her into a hug. As for as adventures go that was a pretty standard affair all things considered.