It was just a normal day on the campus of Bellwood Academy. The sky was clear and blue, the sun shining. The new hero walked down the campus path, carrying his bag full of books. The last few days have been normal for him. No alien invasion, not much criminal activity. Just a boring day full of classes...great.
"I will do literally anything to get out of this crap." Colby whispered to himself with a groan. He looked down to the sports watch on his left wrist, and sighed. He said he would only use the Omnitrix if needed. After all, he still had no idea what else the thing could do. "Or I could just deal with it."
"Well, someone woke up on the bad side of sanity this morning." he heard a familiar voice, seeing Ashley walk backwards to his side. A smile on her face.
"Hey, you're the one walking backwards." he replied with a smile back, before sighing.
"Is it because of our date?" the orangette questioned, crossing her arms. "I enjoyed myself. Didn't you?"
Colby shrugged. "Me? Yeah, definitely. My wallet? Not so much." he joked, receiving a light punch to the shoulder.
"You didn't spend that much!" she said with a small laugh.
"I know, but hey, I didn't that much money to begin with." Colby replied with a shrug. "I'm just hoping something, anything, happens today. It gets boring being normal."
"Can't blame you there." Ashley turned her body forward to see where they were walking. "So what class you going to now?"
"I am going to a lecture on history." he explained blatantly, waving his free hand around as he did so.
"A lecture on what history?" the orangette quizzed, leaning forward to get a better view of his expression.
"...history..." the dirt blonde slowly replied, averting his eyes in several directions.
"Oh, wow. Those are some pretty crazy events in 'History'!" she gasped sarcastically. "Are you sure you can handle all that 'History'?"
"Yeah yeah I can handle it." the young male simply said with a chuckle. "But thank you, for that much generosity." he added with sarcasm, before walking away.
It was actually kind of nice. Ever since his date with Ashley and his first big fight, everything was going well. He didn't even need to transform...except whenever he had a bunch of things to do, in which he would turn into Ditto and do everything at once. Other than that, he never had to use the Omnitrix.
He continued to walk down his path with a small smile. Birds chirping and flapping away in the sky, until...they stopped chirping and flapping. It wasn't like they disappeared or flew away, because when the dirt blonde looked up they were still in the sky. It was like they were...frozen in time.
"What the?..." he began, nothing short of babbled from the sudden stop of everything in his world. He turned around, and saw that all the students that were walking along the school grounds were...frozen. All of them, frozen. He turned his attention to the watch attached to his wrist. "Did you have something to do with this?" he shook the device, and soon yelp when he received an actual response.
"No. I did this." spoke a grumbly voice. The teen, quickly turned to the direction of the voice, and his jaw dropped. Standing just across from him was a small foot tall...frog looking man, in a green and black robe like suit. "Colby Carsen, you are coming with me."
"Wait, who are you?" the dirt blonde asked with a raised brow and a look of terrified confusion. He didn't expect a small frog to come and take him away today. In fact, not a lot of people do.
"I am Azmuth. Creator of that device you wear." he pointed to the wrist watch on the teen's left wrist. "It is incredibly dangerous in your possession. I have come to take it back."
"But why? I'm not doing anything bad with it." Colby stated, but the Galvan didn't care.
"Evil or not, that device is a danger to all in anyone's hands." Azmuth replied in his grumbly tone. "Give it to me, so that I may dispose of it properly."
Colby just looked down on Azmuth, squinting his eyes as he shook his head. "No. I'm not handing it over."
"If you will not willingly hand it over, then I will have to take it." the Galvan stated, stepping further.
"I'm not going to fight you for it." the dirt blonde said. "But understand that I need this."
"To what, young Carsen?"
"To save the world."
To this Azmuth nodded, stroking his beard in thought. The Galvan then looked up at the young adult with his hands behind his back. "Is that what you think? Truly?
"Truly." he nodded back. That was when both he and Azmuth were covered in a shining light, strong enough to blind a human in an instant. Colby kept his eyes shut as he felt himself float up, and flailed everywhere. "What's happenin-" he disappeared completely off the face of the Earth.
"-Ing?!" Before the young adult knew it, he was face down on the floor while the rest of his body was craned by a floating chair. He let out a groan of pain, swinging his legs around so the rest of his body met him on the floor. "Ugh...What was that?..." he slowly got up from the floor. "Why did you do that?..."the dirt blonde looked down with his eyes closed, rubbing his head. "And why would you do th-"
"Colby Carsen! Human Male of Terra!" a mighty voice shouted. It was a tetremand, with an eye patch over one of his eyes, in a furcoat. Beside him, a line of eight other alien creatures sitting in a court. One of these beings being Azmuth.
"What the?..."
"You are hereby charged with possession of a dangerous weapon." an Ectonurite stated with a hiss.
"As well as the revival of an extinct race." said a female voice, as a female figure with the skin of a galaxy, with three fins on her head and temples. She spoke with no mouth, her voice echoing.
Colby stared in a mixture of surprise, confusion and fear as he stared at the line of aliens. "What?...What's happening here?!"
"Your trial."
By that point, the dirt blonde dropped his jaw in shock. It took a few seconds for him to absorb that prior knowledge. "Hold on! Is this about the Omnitrix?!" he shouted up at the court of aliens.
"Yes, precisely." the first thinker answered, nodding his head as he did.
"What did I do wrong again?! I saved quite a few people with it!"
"What was wrong was the mere possession of the Omnitrix!" the tetremand slammed his fist down on the table above the human.
"You were in possession of level 26 technology, on a planet that is barely allow level three technology." the ghost alien stated with a hiss in his voice.
Colby had to blink a few times to understand what they were talking about. That didn't work, so he just shook his head and holding up his watch wielding wrist. "Does anyone want to tell me what this even is?! Maybe give me a guide, a handbook on how it actually works?!"
To this, the Galvin sighed and stepped forward from his spot on the table. "That device is know as the Multimatrix. In it is the DNA sample of all known extraterrestrial species in two whole galaxies. As well, it contains a DNA Decryption feature."
"DNA Decryption?" Colby questioned, before he remembered what the watch said about the DNA Encryption. "It was the thing I turned into, right?"
"If you're referring to the Inferite transformation, then yes." the Petrosapien of the court replied.
Colby took a look at the Petrosapien, before something in his head clicked. "Wait, that rhino guy I fought! He said something about Petrosapiens being extinct!"
"This is true. They were once an endangered species." Azmuth stated.
"Once? So that means they were brought back too! Why are you getting on my back for this, yet he's still around?!" the dirt blonde pointed at the Diamondhead.
"The Petrosapien race was not fully extinct, and as well were brought back without the help from a different species."
"That makes no sense!"
"Silence!" the Celestialsapian voice echoed, and the arguing quickly stopped. "This is not a discussion of the Petrosapien race! This is your trial, Colby Carsen."
"Then where's my lawyer? The jury? Anything that gives me at least a chance at being innocent?!" The dirt blonde rose from his seat with the look of annoyance.
The extraterrestrials looked at each other, then back at the boy.
"Oh, don't tell me you guys don't have a system for this..." Colby pinched the bridge of his nose.
"He has a point." Tetrax stated with a shrug. "He is human. He only knows human customs."
"Yeah! It's rigged!" The Multitrix wielded shouted.
The galaxy skinned female tapped her chin, before speaking. "I see. In light of this situation, a change will be made. You will be provided a lawyer. You have three Earth hours to go over your case with him."
Colby sighed to himself. "Thanks, I guess..." he said scratching his head.
