Interconnected Forms
By Norcinu
A/N: My apologies guys for making this late, I thought I posted it last Sunday! Well, I've been having major family problems and going through quite... eventful things this week. So I'm very sorry to say that chapter 4 will be delayed. By one week which makes it the 1st of December. First lateness and now delay, sorry guys, just a hard time. It'll get better...
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Chapter 3; First encounters
But what was it? And what's that creaking sound?
Creeeeaak…
Something in it moved, then some part of it twitched. It sounded like something in the debris was trying to move but couldn't. A policeman walked out of his vehicle and the other opened his door, them both being curious themselves. The first one took out a torch, flashing it at the van sized being even though it was pure daylight. Ben could make out its head and a bit of its body shape. It was like some cross between a stealthy fox or wolf, maybe a robotic kangaroo, a jet plane, it was really weird looking and hard to recognize and describe.
"Matt, you may want to call for back up. I have no idea what the hell this thing is…" Ben overheard the conversation with the police of the first car.
"Ok sergeant, right away…" The one in the car replied.
The policemen in the other car were out of Ben's line of sight but it didn't look like either of them got out of their car. But something shinning caught Ben's eye and he looked up at the sky behind the being.
PYUUU!
"BEN LOOK OUT!" Max yelled, instantaneously reversing the RJB in top gear. The mechanical being on the ground also switched itself on and jumped to its thin feet, thrusting itself into the cliff wall as a huge blast of light zoomed past it. The shot hit the first police car, blowing it up into flames along with those two policemen. It melted the wheels on the second police car and threw Ben back, who regained his footing. The RJB was luckily unharmed.
Ben gasped, such a sudden blast blow away the lives of the policeman just like that. He clenched his fists in anger and looked towards where the shot came from but saw nothing. He scanned across the clear skies and saw another being, mechanical and gigantic, like the one against the cliff, but this one was more blocky and jet like. It also looked a little more menacing and threatening, armed with alien firearms. Ben slammed down on the Omnitrix, his skin becoming hotter and hotter into molten lava and his head set on fire.
"It's time to heat things up and burn some metal!" Heatblast said, ready to melt these beings into smoldering piles of slime, but before he could do anything the metallic being in the smoky debris started moving again. It was slow and creaky, taking a few steps into the middle of the road, next to the second police car which had its doors and wheels melted, confining the policemen inside. Heatblast struck a fighting pose as the being towered his size by twofold.
"HEATBLAST!" He heard from Gwen, shouting from the side door of the RjB, "DON'T MAKE ENEMIES!!" Heatblast acknowledged not to 'shoot first and ask questions later' so he ran towards the being, intending to get close to it.
But the being became savage, letting out a high hissing sound, stopping Heatblast from getting any closer than several meters. He dived out of the way as the being's long sword-like arm it pierced through the middle of the second police car and with aid of its other hand, the police car was lifted off the ground and flinged off the road, exploding suddenly as it passed over the canyon's edge. Those policemen were inside that vehicle too.
Heatblast realized there was some sort of fight going on between the two beings and he wasn't included in it… yet. They must have been aliens, unaware of the humans they've just killed, but he'll make them aware. He stood up tall, glancing at the wolf-looking one who looked back down at him with expressionless eyes. Heatblast was about to make a move, but just stood there, not knowing what to do next. Who was bad and who was good? Who should he takes sides with?
"GIVE YOURSELF UP NOW," A loud booming voice came from the robot alien hovering towards them. Its voice was low and electronic-like but nearly sounded female in a way "…and your life will be spared." It quieted as the being drew close to the edge of the road. Heatblast saw the features of this alien. It was twice the size of the other being making it four times taller than himself, and it looked like some advanced military jet… or something.
The smaller being only made a weakened roaring sound. Something like shrieking brakes, making Heatblast flinch from that horrid noise.
The larger robotic being stepped onto the road, "Captivity isn't so bad. But it's better than dying slow and painfully isn't it?" The being took out a huge cannon-like gun from behind its back and pointed it at the other robot, "Or would you rather end it now?"
Heatblast caught on to this threat and concluded who was the bad one. "Why don't you pick on someone with more firepower?!" He said, jumping to the air and shooting out a stream of fire from his hands.
"Huh?!" The giant robot leaped away from the hot flames. "What is the meaning of this?!" It called out, flying back into the air, "A flaming bag of flesh?!"
Heatblast followed, surfing the air with flames trailing behind, "The name's Heatblast. And it's molten lava F-Y-I, T-Y."
Gwen rushed out of the RjB towards the wolf-looking being with the RJB nearby as Heatblast battled out with the robot in the sky. "Hey! Are you alright?" She said, calling out to it. It looked weak, slouching over as if it were about to fall. Its head twisted towards Gwen. She came to a halt and raised her hand, "Tutela Vis Obex!!" She called out, just in time.
The being tried crushing her with its spear-like arm but her just made force field prevented it. Luckily she's been continuously learning magic spells even if school was taking up a lot of her life. The pressure of the being's attack was getting harder and harder to uphold and Gwen started to feel a declining sensation in her force field, it was just too big and too strong.
But it withdrew its arm and took a step back suddenly, as if scared of her. She knelt down to gain her breath, confused on such a sudden change of action. A howl of engines was heard and she looked up, seeing the ends of the robot's feet lighting up like jet exhausts.
She saw it was going to run away and she raced towards it, "NO WAIT!" she called out, but had to shield herself from the exhaust heat. Her voice was silenced by the roaring engines and in moments the being sped off too quickly along the road.
Max ran towards her, "Gwen, are you alright?" He said, having to park the RjB away for safety.
"I thought… it was possible to gain a new ally…" She breathed out.
Meanwhile with Heatblast and the other being…
"A Pyronite…" the robot muttered, recognizing Heatblast's species and dodging another one of Heatblast's jets of flame.
"So, you're an alien too?" He asked, dodging another lazily aimed bullet from the robot, "You're a lousy shooter by the way."
"Well you're not my object-" The robot glanced down at the street and saw its original target, missing. "SLAGGIT!" The robot damned, cursing with a strange word.
Heatblast let out a chuckle of ridicule only to be interrupted by some weird beeping sound coming from the robot.
…
"There was some interference…" The robot said, replying to some in built communication link Heatblast couldn't hear, "…Suspected intrusion; Omnitrix holder."
Heatblast hung his mouth open from the accurate comment but listened into the robot's conversation.
"Except-" The robot cut itself off. "But-!" It cut itself off again, "Norci-"Another beep was heard and the robot clenched its fists in frustration. It glanced back to a confused Heatblast, "Watch yourself human. Your existence with the Omnitrix just got yourself on my hit list." Then suddenly a purple portal grew out of no where behind the being.
"Hit list?" Heatblast repeated, "So are you gonna have mafia after me now?"
The robot was silent, probably perplexed at the word 'mafia'.
"No. You're not registered as a priority." It replied.
It hovered backwards and melted back into the swirling portal that closed after it. Heatblast was then alone drifting in flames in the middle of the sky.
"The Omnitrix isn't a priority?"
He jetted back down onto the road with Gwen and Max jogging to him, "Yet that… that being was?" He continued to murmur. The thought of that missing girl entered his head again and that blurry picture of her watch.
Heatblast laid his hand on the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and in a flash he turned back to fourteen old Ben. Over the years Ben's learned how to revert back into himself without having to wait for the Omnitrix to time out. This, however, was the only thing he's learned to do. So the master code hasn't been unlocked still, no new aliens either but he'll get there eventually.
"Ben!" Gwen called out, running over to him, "Did you find out who those robots were?"
Ben was still in thought but snapped out of it, "That big jet-looking one is after that wolf-looking one. I didn't get any names or alliances though, but that big one is after the Omntrix…sorta…"
Max ran over to them, his old age making him a little slower than Gwen, "What do you mean by 'sorta'?"
"They said it wasn't on the priority list…" Ben turned to see where that grayish-blue one once was, "Well you see, that bigger one was really after the smaller one but I think the bigger one is working for someone else who now wants the Omnitrix but wants the smaller one first, before the Omnitrix…" He blurted out, sounding a little incomprehensible from his 'this one/that one' references.
"So not one name?" Gwen asked again.
"Oh…" Ben tried to remember, "That jet one said something like er… Norcee? Nori? Errr…" The robot was cutting itself off so it was hard for Ben to distinguish many of the words. "Was either the name of its boss or that one that ran off…"
The three stood there for a while, thinking about the information Ben gathered, until the sound of firefighter sirens and police sirens were heard in the distance. Max spoke up, "Let's get going. We can discuss it on the way to the gas station." He said, getting into the RjB along with Ben in front and Gwen on the back seat.
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Roughly five minutes later of discussing while driving…
"Maybe that smaller robot was a criminal and that larger one was some law enforcement?" Gwen suggested. "Or one being a bully and the other being a victim?"
"Hmm…" Ben said, scanning the sky from the front seat. He wanted to find out more about them, maybe get into another adventure. He looked at Max, wondering about what his thoughts were about this. Well, more like what they were going to do about it.
"So what do you think is going on?" Ben asked him. They've discussed and tossed around some ideas about those two giant robots but they haven't come to a conclusion on what they were. And Max hasn't quite said a word in the whole conversation.
"I think…" Max stated, keeping his eyes on the road, "That we've just gotten ourselves in a middle some other world fight and should try to keep ourselves out of it before we have someone like Vilgax after us again. We don't know who or what we're dealing with and we can't put any innocent lives at risk. You saw what happened to those policemen…" The three were now silent after that comment. Ben felt horrible that he couldn't of helped stop those casualties… he looked back out on the road.
But then Ben spotted something sprawled on the side of the track near the bushes…
"GRANDPA STOP THE RV!"
End of Chapter 3.
Next time on chapter 4! The chief character will be introduced, but is she what Ben thought she was?
A voice on the other line picked up. A young teenager, peppy, "Hello?"
"Natalie?" The girl spoke in, "It's Charlie. I'm good."
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