A/N: i know it's dimension in the series but i think labling it as a universe is more correct
Universe 23
Ben, Rook, and Ship were currently in the middle of catching Heatbat's thugs, they along with their leader had been involved in a number of heists involving alien technology varying in grades from really low tech to high tech. Right now they had caught them stealing from three different area's at once in 3 different locations in Undertown, Ben (who was currently Diamondhead) had caught a group of five stealing from Pakmar's Gadget emporium. Needless to say he once again ended up ruining Pakmar's business by accident while capturing the criminals; the criminals now being almost fully encased in diamond were struggling to get free. "Alright guys let's make this simple, what is Heatbat up to this time, he's had you dolts make these thefts all week, he's obviously making something now what is it?" Diamondhead demanded
"ha as if we'd tell you" Sweet-Eels said
"hey Pakmar you've got anything in here that'll make these guys talk"
"no, you ruin everything, again!" Pakmar said as he tried to push one of the Diamond encased thugs out of what remained of his business "Pakmar wants you all out of Pakmar's store, now!"
"okay, okay relax I'll have the Plumber's compensate for your store" Diamondhead then picked up two of the aliens and dumped them outside before getting the rest. Once they were all outside Diamondhead turned his arm into a blade and had it at Sweet-Eels's throat "talk or else" he said and made a tiny cut for emphasis
"look he never tells us any of his plans, he just tells us to steal the things he wants, I swear!"
Diamondhead then absorbed the diamond back into his body leaving only a thick ring around his torso pinning his arms to his sides, he then did the same to the others before turning back to normal and activating his communicator "hey Rook how are you doing?" Ben asked
"I have captured and restrained all of Heatbat's henchmen as well as interrogated them but none of them know about his plan"
"yeah same here call the Plumbers to come and pick them up and meet me at Pakmar's store"
"will do Ben" Rook said before Ben changed communicators
"Ship, have you had any luck getting them to talk?" "ship, sh ip ip sh shi p sh hip ship ip...ship, shipship"
"yeah same with me and Rook, contact the Plumbers to come and pick them up and meet me at Pakmar's store"
"ship Ben" Ship replied and Ben cut the com link.
After about 10 minutes the Plumbers arrived to take the criminals away and Ship and Rook met Ben at the rendezvous point "great work guys, it's a shame they didn't have any information on Heatbat's latest plan" Ben said
"yes I do have to admit that out of all of the criminals we've faced during our short time together Heatbat appears to be the most intelligent"
"yeah that's actually what makes him more dangerous, well Rook I have some other things planned so take the rest of the day off and enjoy yourself"
"are you sure Ben?"
"positive (looks down at Ship) coming on little guy lets go" Ship the coiled like a snake around Ben and reformed on Ben's shoulder
"ship" it said while pointing ahead Ben laughed and flew off leaving Rook behind.
Later
What Ben really had planned was finding an elusive 23rd Mr. Smoothy store with Blukic and Driba that for some reason kept jumping from one place to another and disappearing and reappearing constantly. Thanks to his flight and super speed Ben was able to get to the locations a lot faster than he would if he was using a car or some other type of transport, but every time he got close it would disappear. Finally Ben came to a stop, now slightly winded, and leaned against a wall okay this is starting to get really annoying" Ben said
"Ben maybe you should stop for a bit and rest for a bit" Driba suggested
"yeah you've been running and flying non-stop for 2 hours straight" Blukic added
"for once that's a good idea" Ben said before he fell back and found himself in a Mr. Smoothy store "um did that just happen?" he said as he got up and walked further in, as soon as the door closed the Mr. Smoothy disappeared. Ben saw two aliens at the counter one looked like a cow and the other looked like a chicken, after a bit of complaining the two left, as they did the group saw that the two aliens looked like they were sucked into a light of some kind.
"That was a cross universal sunburst aura!" Driba exclaimed
"no it wasn't" Blukic added
"yes it was"
"not a sunburst, more of a pinwheel shape"
"a pinwheel aura! That's worse" they then heard weird noises followed by grunting
using his x-ray vision Ben was surprised to see Professor Hokestar having a lot of trouble with a machine "this ought to be good for a laugh" Ben said as he headed towards the back room.
"you infernal contraption, why must you fail during business hours" Hokestar said angrily
"well well Professor Hokestar, what are you up to this time?" Ben asked with his arms crossed and a sly grin on his face
"why Ben Tennyson, welcome to my place of business"
"you opened a Mr Smoothy that moves from place to place?"
"whaaat, no, no, no, no, no, my boy, behold, and hopefully endorse a Mr. Smoothy that exists in every universe at once...just as soon as I can get this warp field generator working"
"so it's a Mr. Smoothy that goes from place to place"
"were not moving between places we're staying in one place while rotating through different universes, this is a universe skipping Mr. Smoothy" Driba said
*bang* "not anymore it isn't" Blukic added
Ben gave a sigh "okay Ship Brainmatter me" Ship then merged with Ben's arm and in a flash in Ben's place was a grey Brainstorm with Grey Matter's eyes and sharp fingers replaced Brainstorm's claws "okay lets see what we've got here" he said, he then opened it up and blew the smoke away "uh huh, defiantly second hand...leaky diodes, frayed wires, warp drives shot, yep from what I can tell you got this out of a scrap yard, frankly you're lucky this thing didn't blow up the second you started it" Brainmatter said
"can you fix it my boy?"
"not with what we currently have, and even if I could it would still be highly unsafe to use, so until we can get a new one this shop ain't going anywhere"
"well then lets discover where we've been stranded, and let us hope that we have the only Smoothy joint"
"not so fast Professor Hokestar, if someone comes in here and sees you there's probably going to be a lot of trouble (looks at the warp field generator) hmm yeah that'll work, Professor Hokestar may I borrow your hat for a moment?"
"why of coarse my boy" he then handed Brainmatter his hat, pulling several parts out of the generator he made a weird ring like device that he put within the lining of Professor Hokestar's hat
"here put this on" Hokestar did what Brainmatter said and in a flash he looked like a humanised version of himself with his lower arms disappearing there "as long as you keep wearing that hat no one will know you're an alien" Brainmatter said before he turned back to normal.
"I must say my boy that is quite some clever thinking you did there" Professor Hokestar said while patting Ben on the back
"thanks, well let's see where we're stuck, hopefully its semi-advanced" Ben said and they all headed to the front.
They peeked out the front door and looked "looks like Bellwood" Blukic said
"look there's even an alien making trouble" Driba said as a large solid built alien wearing armour was causing destruction
when it's helmet retracted Ben was shocked to see "Tetrax! Why the heck is he attacking" Ben said
"well we are in another universe, maybe he's bad in this one" Blukic suggested
"maybe, but I can't let him-"
"move it yokel, stick a fork in yourself alien scum, your toast"
"no way" Ben said as he began having flashbacks from when his soul was stuck in Discord's head
"attention! Attention! Ben 23 has found another evil alien threat, which hero will our champion turn into?" flying loudspeakers said
"this must be a universe that closely parallels our own" Professor Hokestar stated
"so that's my counterpart in this universe...I wonder why he's younger?" Ben said
"okay you off-world hater you're about to get beat by (presses down on his Omnitrix) Freezelizard!" Ben 23 said
"Freezelizard, seriously?" Ben said, the five of them then watched Freezelizard and Tetrax fight. After a semi-decent fight Freezelizard threw a water tower on top Tetrax and landed on top of it, turning back to normal as he landed "you guys try and keep a low profile, I'll see if he knows anyone with alien tech" Ben said before he took Ship off of his shoulder "Ship I want you to do something very important for me"
"ship"
"I want you to make sure the wonder twins don't do anything stupid okay?"
"ship, ship" Ship said giving a salute.
As Ben walked up to his counterpart he saw the water container split in half as Tetrax freed himself "crud" Ben said he then selected an alien and pressed down on his Omnitrix and turned into Fasttrack.
Fasttrack then shot towards Tetrax only for him to disappear "hold it alien!" Ben 23 called out
"hmm?" Fasttrack replied
"did the intelectuaries send you?"
'this could be my only chance to fight another Ben'
"yeah they sent me here to kick your butt"
"you're just like Fastcat so I'll just fight one speedy alien with another"
"let me guess you're going to turn into Speedyquick?"
"...yeah, how did you know?"
"call it a hunch"
"alright then (activates his Omnitrix and presses down on it) Speedyquick!"
"bring it" blue blurs appeared all over the street with the occasional image of Fasttrack hitting Speedyquick. Thunderous booms were heard as the two blurs kept striking each other, everyone watched as the two blurs broke off and stopped about 100 meters from each other to reveal a confident looking Fasttrack and panting Speedyquick "are you getting tired?" Fasttrack called out
"not *pant* a *pant* chance" Speedyquick stated now completely out of breath
"then prove it" Speedyquick clenched his teeth and he shot at Fasttrack with Fasttrack doing the same, the two speedy aliens met in the middle and struck each other with Speedyquick jabbing Fasttrack in the side of the face and Fasttrack kneeing Speedyquick in the stomach. Speedyquick slowly backed away while holding it's stomach in pain while Fasttrack hadn't even flinched at Speedyquick's jab. Everyone held their breath as their hero turned back to normal and straightened up, the pain in his stomach having subsided greatly "quick fact kid I wasn't even trying, if I wanted to I could have beaten you in the first 5 seconds" Fasttrack said as he walked up to the slightly scared Ben 23 and stopped in front of him before sticking out his hand and smiling.
Ben 23 was unsure of what to do first this alien scum beats him badly in a fight and now he's acting like nothing happened, slowly he reached up and grabbed the aliens hand "good fight by the way, however your fighting technique could use a bit of work" Fasttrack said
"uh thanks?" Ben 23 said
"sorry about the beat down, I was just testing you"
"for what?"
there was then a bright flash of green "to see which Ben was stronger" Ben replied before letting go of his now shocked counterparts hand
"whoa! You're me!"
"kinda, I'm you from another universe"
"that is so awesome!"
"I know right"
Meanwhile
Business had actually picked up at store 23 within the 10 minutes Ben had been gone Hokestar had already had 15 customers with more still coming in, in the back room however because Blukic and Driba had tried their hand in trying to fix the warp field generator Ship had now formed a cage around them "oh come on Ship let us out we won't touch it again we promise" Blukic said
"ship, ship" Ship said in a firm tone
"well do you think you could at least get us a smoothy each?" Driba asked
"shi ip, ip sh hip ip ship, Ben, ship ip" Ship stated angrily
"awww" the two Galvan said in union while hanging their heads.
Back with the Ben's
The two Ben's entered a Mr. Gyro with people greeting them happily, though nearly all of the greetings were going to Ben's younger counterpart "Ben 10 huh? I'm thirteen better than that the richest most famous guy in the world, I'm basically in charge" Ben 23 said as they arrived at the counter
"yeah not quite the same set up in my universe"
"that's too bad, you'd really like being the world's greatest hero"
"well I am considered the world's greatest hero but with the paparazzi, awards, constant autograph signings it just gets too much and I'd wish they'd just let me try and live my life normally"
"whoa, that's deep" a tray of merchandise and food was placed in front of them "hey this is my guest, load him up" Ben 23 said to the cashier
"so all of this comes with a meal?"
"pendants, poster, bumper stickers, t-shirts, hamster cages, stuffed gyro's oh and a pocket watch *crunch* huh?" Ben 23 saw his counterpart holding the now half eaten pocket watch
"meh I've had better" Ben said and he ate the rest of the watch
"dude, you can eat watches"
"*gulp* I can eat anything thanks to my special teeth" Ben replied as another tray was placed in front of him, he and his counterpart then grabbed their trays and Ben followed his counterpart.
Once they were seated Ben 23 spoke "okay I've gotta know is everyone in your universe a cyborg with diamond teeth?"
"no just me, and my teeth aren't made of diamond they're made of Duranite which is about 300 times harder than diamonds"
"so what happened to you?" Ben gave a sigh and told his counterpart what happened "wait so who's this Azmuth who saved you?"
"he's the creator of the Omnitrix or as you would call it the Hero Watch"
"so a group of evil aliens saved your life?"
"tell me something is every human on Earth bad?"
"no"
"exactly, only a small percentage is, and it's the same for aliens only a very small percentage of aliens are bad the rest are good"
Ben 23 gave his counterpart an unsure look before changing the subject "so what else can those robot parts do?"
"my eye has a scope, as well as X-ray vision, I have jets in my feet that allow me to fly, and I have a multitude of different gadgets in my fingers" Ben said as he activated all of the gadgets
"so cool" Ben 23 stated.
Later
The two Ben's were now standing out the front of a huge building that happened to be Ben 23's, on the front of the building it had a huge sign with the silhouette of an alien on it that said 'who is alien 24' "a little mystery, a little sucker bait, who is alien 24"
"hey that looks like Feedback"
"whoa great name I was gonna call him Plug man"
"of course you were"
"...hey I may be young but I know sarcasm when I hear it"
"Freezelizard, Fastcat, Speedyquick those names are so lame and unoriginal"
"oh yeah, and what would you call them?"
"in order Arctiguana, Fasttrack, and XLR8"
"...wow those are good names"
"thanks"
*BANG* they turned around and saw a robbery happening "hey you should tell me the names of the rest of your aliens so mine can sound better"
"yeah you should put a pin in that" Ben then jumped over the railing
"hey we've got cops for things like that" Ben 23 called out
"well you can't just let them get away" Ben called back before he bolted after the car
"just hold them off until I can get the camera's" Ben 23 then pulled out a small device and began rapidly pressing buttons on it. Ben on the other hand easily passed the car and then stopped in front of it he then stuck one hand out and stopped the car in its tracks causing the front to cave in and all the air bags to go off, the driver and his accomplice held up white flags, surrendering. "That was totally amazing!" Ben 23 exclaimed as he came up to Ben
"thanks, just showing how strong I am"
"you're about as strong as Handy Man"
"big red alien with four arms?"
"yeah, what do you call him?"
"Four Arms"
"nice, so now what you just wait for the cops or something?"
"yeah, or the Plumbers"
"Plumber's? Why you break a toilet?" this left Ben stumped
Meanwhile
"It's a good thing you knew where to use the neuro pinch on him" Driba said while looking at the now sleeping Ship
"yeah and I'm sure Ben won't mind if we try to fix the warp field generator" Blukic added and the two continued working on the generator. Once they were sure it was fixed they closed it up "there that should do it" Blukic said as he held up a remote
"fire it up Blukic" Driba said and Blukic pressed the button a whirring sound was heard and they gave a high five "we just proved that we're smarter than Ben" Driba said before the generator began hissing, smoke burst out of any hole on it, sparks flew out of it, and it began to glow
"uh-oh" they said in union.
As Professor Hokestar finished serving another customer Blukic and Driba burst out the back door carrying Ship "run it's gonna blow!" Driba said scaring all of the customers out of the store, the four aliens made it out just before the whole store blew up, unfortunately Professor Hokestar's hat had been knocked off in the process revealing his true self.
Professor Hokestar got up and glared at the two Galvan "what did you two nincompoops do! And why is Ben's pet asleep" he shouted
"in order, we tried to fix the warp field generator but we unfortunately made it blow up, and the second one I used a neuro pinch on Ship so he'd let us go" Blukic explained, seeing scared people talking rapidly on their phones Professor Hokestar realised what was happening, he then turned back to Blukic and Driba
"do you also realise that you've blown our cover! For all we know the authorities could be on their way right-"
"freeze!"
"now"
"put your hands where we can see them!"
"remind me to throttle you two if we make it through this"
it was at this point that Ship woke up "Ship?" it then saw the destroyed Mr Smoothy "Shiiiiiiip!" looking around it saw police with their guns drawn, helicopters in the air, and Professor Hokestar, Blukic and Driba
"blame them!" Professor Hokestar hissed out, acting fast Ship engulfed the three aliens in a huge black and green ball which then morphed and changed into it's armour form with Hokestar in side and Blukic and Driba in green containers on its shoulders, it was at this point the police opened fire but the bullets just bounced off, Ship then flew off as fast as it could while saying Ben's name as helicopters started to give chase.
Back with the Ben's
Ben was currently turning into different aliens and was comparing their names to Ben 23's alien's names "Vomit Man"
"Upchuck"
"Mr. Monkey"
"Spidermonkey"
"don't know him"
"Mole-stache"
"Eye Guy"
"yeah I couldn't think of a better name for this guy ether"
"Tiger Man"
"let me tell you something Ben Tennyson from a another universe, Tiger Man is the lamest name that Rath has ever heard!"
"jeez calm down, I get it my Ben aliens names aren't that creative" Rath then turned back into Ben as his counterpart pulled out a device and began rapidly pressing buttons on it and started to walk off while Ben followed him "hey my agent says we should do a team up. I'm thinking reality show we've both got evil aliens to catch and Ben aliens to do it with"
"you know there's a little more to it than that"
"sure there's the intelectuary too, always after your Hero Watch"
"Ben, remember earlier when I said only a small percentage of aliens are bad?"
"yeah?"
"well where I come from aliens aren't automatically considered bad, some of them live in town, heck nearly all of my best friends are aliens, even my girlfriend is"
"whoa mind blown...wait your girlfriend is an alien, eww gross"
Ben frowned "and what's so gross about having an alien for a girlfriend, are there not mixed race relationships all over the world"
"well yeah"
"so what's the difference about being in love with someone from a different planet" Ben 23 just stayed silent "exactly, and just to put aside any further claims of grossness (he then made a hologram of Ester) this what she looks like"
"well I suppose she looks normal enough"
"good" and he ruffled the hair of his counterpart.
The two heroes heard a whooshing sound they looked up and saw a blue missile headed straight towards them "oh crud" they said *BANG* smoke now covered the area as Sevenseven, wearing a blue armour, landed on the road.
Cameras and the speaker flew into the area and made the announcement of another alien attack, as the smoke cleared a blue Cannonbolt could be seen protecting Ben "nice reflexes" Ben said
"thanks" Rollaway said before he curled up and rolled straight towards Sevenseven.
Thanks to Sevenseven's reflexes and agility he was easily able to avoid Rollaway before sending him skidding with a few well placed shots, Rollaway finally came to a stop at Ben's feet "don't worry little guy I'll help yah, lets see" Ben selected the right alien and pressed down on his Omnitrix turning into XLR8 "I'll beat him and you go in for the finishing blow" XLR8 said before he shot at Sevenseven. XLR8 ran circles around him while constantly jabbing him, he ended the assault with a tail whip to the back making Sevenseven tumble along the ground, Rollaway took this as the signal to finish it. Rollaway shot forward and rammed into Sevenseven sending him flying down the street and crashed through the wall to a building at the end of it, both Ben's then turned back to normal and walked up to each other "not too shabby" Ben said
"thanks you...hey what's that on your arm?" Ben 23 asked Ben looked and saw a device was clamped around his arm with a count down on it
"oh shit!" Ben then leapt back a fair distance before the device exploded
"BEN!" Ben 23 exclaimed while everyone who had been watching the camera's gasped.
When the smoke cleared Ben 23 could see his counterpart on his knees with a look of agony on his face as his whole arm and a bit of his torso had been blown off by the bomb, Ben 23 couldn't hold it back anymore and he threw up at the gruesome sight "yeah that's an understandable reaction, good thing I can do this" Ben said and in a flash he was now in his Anodite form, his arm was still missing but a new one quickly grew in its place.
Ben 23 spat a few times and then wiped his mouth with his handkerchief "you can turn into an alien without your Hero Watch!"
"yeah this is called an Anodite, I'll explain later though" he said and he pointed to Sevenseven who had now been joined by Tetrax and a familiar looking suit
"I have a whole new level of questions for you"
"as I'm sure you do" Ben said before he turned back to normal and revealing that his arm and torso were as good as new before he stepped forward "I call dibs on Sevenseven" he then walked over to his intended target
"hey aren't you going to turn into an alien" Ben 23 called out
Ben ignored his question and continued walking until he was standing in front of his target the two locked eyes and before Sevenseven could react Ben punched him right in the stomach causing him to fall to his knees "now we're even" Ben said
"those attachments of yours they are Galvanic are they not?" the one in the suit asked
"yes they are and I take it that you're Azmuth" a hatch on the front of the suit opened up to reveal the tiny Galvan inside
"I take it that you've met another version of me from where you come"
"indeed I have" Ben said as he put his hands out and Azmuth jumped out on to them
"could you take me over to your counterpart"
"sure" Ben replied and he walked over to Ben 23 who was currently confused over the sudden turn of events.
"Ben, this is Azmuth the one who I told you about earlier" Ben said
"you're the one who made my Hero Watch?" Ben 23 asked
"it's called an Omnitrix" Azmuth said before he leapt onto Ben 23's arm and took the Omnitrix off
"hey"
"you're rich and you haven't killed anyone yet kid, stop while your ahead"
"don't be hate'n its mine" Ben 23 went to grab the Omnitrix back but Azmuth just hopped off onto the ground.
"It was meant for your grandfather"
"...y-you knew G-Grandpa Max?" Ben 23 started to strain out
"yes sadly it arrived too late he was already gone...are you alright kid?" he said as he noticed the far off look in his eyes which were starting to tear up rapidly, Ben 23 then fell to his knees and began crying hard. Azmuth looked at Ben wondering if he had an answer for the sudden outburst of emotions, Ben looked at Tetrax and motioned for the camera's up above, getting the hint he fired several diamonds at them causing them to explode.
Ben kneeled down next to his counterpart "Ben, something happened didn't it?" Ben asked
Ben 23 nodded "my whole family was killed by aliens searching for my Hero Watch" he said
Ben and Azmuth were surprised by this new piece of information, they then both realised something "so that's the reason you think all aliens are bad?" Azmuth asked, Ben 23 just nodded as tears continued to fall, Ben then gave his counterpart a comforting hug with Ben 23 returning it tightly
"I just miss them so much" he said quietly
"of course you do merchandise and endorsements are no substitutes for family" Azmuth stated, Ben was about to add more when he heard his name being called out
"oh no" looking up everyone saw a black and green robot being pursuit by and being shot at by several helicopters the two Ben's quickly got up as Ship landed "let me guess the wonder twins tried to fix the generator and turned it into a bomb?"
"ship" Ship then turned back to normal
"yes, thanks to these two our cover was blown" Professor Hokestar said
"*sigh* I should have tied them up, well looks like we're stuck here now"
"so I take it these are good aliens" Ben 23 asked as tears still slowly trickled down his cheeks
"yes they are, but before any introductions are made you'd better talk to your people" Ben said gesturing to the fact that they were now surrounded by police
"sure" Ben 23 replied wiping the last of his tears away "it's okay officers, they're all good with me so you don't have to worry about them"
"he didn't call you evil aliens" Ben said
"it's a start, I take it similar events happened in your universe?"
"no all of my family is still alive"
"that's good to know, here I'm sure you'll know what to do with this" Azmuth said before handing the Omnitrix to Ben
"there you all shouldn't have any trouble walking around freely" Ben 23 said
"here I believe this belongs to you" Ben then handed his counterpart back their Omnitrix.
Ben 23 took the Omnitrix and put it back on "so what should I do now?" Ben 23 asked
"start acting your age and act like a true hero"
"how do I act like a true hero?"
"I believe that these guys could assist you with that"
"don't worry kid, we'll help you out" Tetrax said while helping Sevenseven to stand
"well now that most of the important stuff is taken care of what's this about a broken generator?" Azmuth asked
"a warp field generator, it was in an almost unfixable shape when we got here, and now that its gone we're stuck here" Ben explained
"I may be able to obtain one within a week or so, if you have the patience to wait that long"
"I'm fine staying here for a week as long as I can go home at the end, are you guy's okay with that?"
"well my boy it seems as though we don't really have a choice" Professor Hokestar with Ship, Blukic, and Driba nodding
"and you guys can stay with me at my place" Ben 23 said
"and where exactly is your place?" Ben asked.
The group now found themselves standing in Ben 23's 3 story penthouse "my word you certainly have done very well for yourself my boy" Professor Hokestar said as he looked at the very spacious floor they were on
"thanks, I was thinking of moving back into my original house in a few years and rent this place out to rich people" Ben 23 said
"that is a very smart thing to do" Ben said
"so guys make yourselves at home oh and don't worry if you damage, break or make a mess it can all easily be fixed" Professor Hokestar, Blukic, and Driba instantly headed off to explore. Ben 23 then turned to his counterpart "so I've gotta ask, why do you have a mini Techno-Bubble on your shoulder" assuming he meant Ship he replied by telling him on how he got Ship in the first place, once he was done he handed Ship to his counterpart. Ben 23 held Ship out in front of him "I guess he's kinda cute" he said before Ship coiled like a snake around his arm and then around his body with its head now in front of his face "uh what's he-" Ben 23 was cut off as Ship's tongue came out and gave his face a huge lick on the face "okay cuteness fading rapidly" Ben laughed as Ship reformed on Ben 23's head before leaping off and onto Ben's shoulder
Ben then put Ship down on the ground "go and enjoy yourself little guy I need to have a private word with my counterpart" Ship nodded and bounced off "let's go to your room and I'll tell you everything you want to know" Ben 23 nodded and gestured for Ben to follow.
Once they were in Ben 23's room which was about 5 times bigger than Ben's room with a king sized bed, huge flat screen TV, blue carpeting that had 'BEN' in huge black letters on it, shelves lined the room that had toys, pictures, medals, trophies, and movie props lining them, but the main feature of the room would had to have been that the walls were golden.
"Welcome to my room" Ben 23 said
"just out of curiosity are these walls made of real gold?" Ben asked
"they're covered in an inch layer of 24 carat gold if that's what you mean"
"yeah you're loaded, anyway about that form you saw me take..." and Ben explained the events that had occurred about how he managed to turn into an Anodite as well as the powers he possessed while in that form. Once he was done it was Ben's turn to ask questions "hey if it's not too much to ask could you tell me what happened to your family?" he asked
Ben 23 took a deep breath and exhaled "okay here's what happened..."
Flashback
It was the beginning of summer and an 8 year old Ben Tennyson had just been released from school to enjoy his summer, today he and the whole Tennyson family were currently at Bellwood National Park having a family reunion, Ben and his cousins were all playing with his Grandpa Max. The kids were currently running about while he tried to catch them, unfortunately he wasn't as young as he used to be and had to take a rest, the kids then gathered up and discussed what to play now "how about hide and seek" Gwen suggested
"okay but you're it!" Clyde said and he as well as the rest of the kids ran off into the surrounding forest to hide while Gwen covered her eyes and started counting.
Ben had soon found himself in a clearing and was rapidly looking around trying to find a good hiding spot, as he looked around he spotted a large hole, curiosity getting the better of him he walked over to the edge of a hole when he looked in he got a curious look on his face "what is that?" he asked as he saw a large golden ball, the ground beneath his feet then gave way and he fell into the hole. As he got back up he saw the weird looking golden ball open up, Ben peered into the ball and saw "a watch?" as he reached in to grab it, it leapt up and clamped onto his left arm "ah get it off, get it off, get it off" he said as he flailed his arm about before trying to yank it off but it wouldn't budge. Ben's scream had alerted the other kids who began quickly headed in the direction they had heard him scream from.
"Ben! what happened!" Ken asked as he and the other's arrived to find Ben climbing out of the hole
"I don't know! First I found a gold ball and then this thing grabbed onto my arm and won't let go!"
"don't worry lets go to your parents they'll know what to do" Ben nodded and the group headed back to where all of the adults were.
As soon as they left the clearing however two objects crashed into the clearing making them stop and turn around they watched from behind trees as the dust cleared to reveal two large round spheres, a hatch opened up on each one and an alien came out of each one, they were both wearing armour with weird weapons on their wrists, one of them looked like a normal man with spiked up red hair and green skin and the other one who was almost twice as tall as his friend looked lizard like with red bumpy skin, the two walked over to the now empty pod and looked inside of it "ah blignar someone took it" the green one said
"don't worry it just landed a few hours ago so whoever took it couldn't have gotten very far, I saw an area in that direction that seemed to have a populous, maybe they went there" the red one said
"sounds good, let's go" and then they both flew off
"those aliens must be looking for that thing on your arm Ben" Ken said
"I think they're going to where our parents are" Gwen said
"yeah we'd better give that thing back to them, they also might know how to get that thing off your arm" Ken said before they headed back to where their parents were.
As they walked Ben began fiddling with the watch now on his wrist until the face of it popped out "wow" he said making everyone stop and look at him, he could see the shadow of a figure now on the face he then pushed it back down and in a bright flash of light now standing in his place was a tall monster made out of green crystal "whoa what happened to me!"
"Ben that watch turned you into a monster!" Gwen said looking up at him "or an alien"
"come on lets...hey do you guys hear screaming?" Ken asked
"and explosions?" Clyde added
"lets go!" Ben said and the group headed towards the sounds.
When they arrived they all screamed at the sight in front of them, nearly everyone was dead; parents, uncles, aunts, older cousins all lay on the ground dead with ether holes through their bodies or their heads were missing. They could see the two aliens from before standing in the middle of the gruesome sight, the tall red one was currently holding their Grandpa Max up by the front of his shirt. Unfortunately for the kids their screams had alerted the two aliens "well, well what do we have here?" the shorter one asked
"judging by the fact that that petrocapian has that symbol on it's chest I take it he has the Omnitrix (turns his head to Max) well looks like we don't need you" the tall one said as he put his weapon on to Max's chest
"wait Coon I want him to see me use these brat's as target practice first" the shorter one said
"okay but make it quick Irill" Coon said as Irill aimed his weapon at them while Coon made Max watch
"kids run!" Max shouted before Irill fired 3 beams at the kids two of the beams disintegrated Ken and Clyde's heads and the last one tore through Gwen's torso killing her instantly.
"Am I a good marksman or what?" Irill said before blowing the end of his weapon
"well I hope you enjoyed the show gramps" Coon said
"leave my grandpa alone!" Ben shouted as he charged forward, Coon rolled his eyes and shot Max through the chest and hurled him to the side before Ben punched the alien hard in the stomach causing the front of his armour to shatter like glass "you monster! you monster!" Ben repeated over and over as he pounded the tall red monster hearing crunches with every punch as he shattered it's bones. Ben was now on top on the monster punching its face in further and further with every blow, as he made the final blow his green blood covered right hand turned into a spike which he pierced through the dead aliens head and into the ground.
Ben then got off the corpse and turned to the now frightened Irill "look lets talk this through mate, how about this I'll go back to my home planet and you'll never see me again" Irill bargained
"no" Ben then raised his hands and as if on instinct he fired a barrage of crystals at Irill that ripped him to shreds. As soon as Irill was in shreds a beeping was heard and Ben turned back to normal, looking around at all of the death he fell to his knees and cried harder than he ever had in his life.
Flashback End
"and that's what happened" Ben 23 said
"dude, I'm so sorry" Ben replied
"i-it's fine I've learned to live with it and now I have to learn to tell good alien's from the bad ones" Ben's face then lit up as what could possibly have been his greatest idea yet.
Ben then stood up and activated his Omnitrix "now Ben if you ever see the silhouette of the alien I'm about to turn into on your Omnitrix don't turn into it" he said as he selected the right alien and pressed down on it, and in a bright flash of light in Ben's place was Alien X.
Inside Alien X
Ben now found himself floating in front of two familiar faces "oh great he's back again, what is it you want this time?" Bellicus asked
"well seeing as how you're heartless and couldn't care less about what happens to people I'm going to direct my vote straight to Serena (turns to Serena) Serena I'm currently in another universe and I found out that the Ben in this universe had his whole family killed the day he received his Omnitrix so I vote that we revive every family member who was killed on that day in the room he and I are currently in" Ben said Serena looked unsure at that
"seconded" they both looked at Bellicus wide eyed
"motion carried" Serena said in surprise.
Outside Alien X
Ben 23 was observing Alien X, he hadn't said anything or moved an inch since he transformed "if turning into this alien means I become a statue then I'll never turn into it"
"Seconded! revival of Tennyson family, motion carried!" Alien X finally said and in a flash of light Ben 23's room was filled with all of his relatives who had died the day he got his Omnitrix, alive and well this was followed by a second flash and Ben was back to normal
"wha, wha, wha" Ben 23 said in shock
"I used Alien X to bring your family back to life" Ben said before he cleared his throat loudly getting their attention "attention all Tennyson's you may be confused at what's happening so I'll give you the abridged version you were all massacred by two bad aliens 5 years ago but thanks to me you have now been revived you are all currently in this Ben Tennyson's bedroom, as you can see he's become quite successful" Ben announced
"the last thing I remember was that horrible alien killing Gwen Ken and Clyde" Max said
Ben 23 broke down once again before he bolted over to his mum "mum!" he said as he gave her the tightest hug imaginable while crying tears of joy
"who are you?" Max asked Ben
"I'm him from another universe" Ben replied
"another universe? I find that a bit hard to swallow"
"like the fact you've been dead for five years"
"good point, we really need to get this whole thing sorted out"
"that we do, we should head to the lounge and don't worry about the 4 aliens out there, they're harmless" Ben said and he flashed his Duranite teeth making Max recoil slightly.
Later
After several hours and a few demonstrations with the Omnitrix's the Tennyson family had caught up on the situation though they still found it weird that they had been dead for 5 years, for them it had been like one moment they were being killed by two aliens and the next they were 5 years into the future, they had also been greatly put off by Ship, Professor Hokestar, Blukic, and Driba. Ben 23 had also revealed that he had kept his family members homes under lock and key to prevent anyone from breaking in and stealing as well as to prevent any of their stuff being tossed out. the family was greatly impressed at how well Ben 23 had done by himself, the family had also thanked Ben greatly for what he had done for them especially Ben 23 who had wanted to give Ben anything he wanted but Ben kindly declined saying that he had all that he needed at home.
1 week later
It had been a whole week since Ben and his friends had arrived in universe 23 and Azmuth had finally been able to obtain a warp drive generator which had been installed in a new Mr. Smoothy that Ben 23 had had made to replace the destroyed one "how in the world did you manage to get this thing built in under a week?" Professor Hokestar asked in amazement
"well when you have an unlimited budget and different people working on it 24 hours a day you can get little things like this done in no time" Ben 23 said proudly
'it's 3 times its original size' Ben thought to himself "well we'd better be going now" Ben said before his counterpart hugged him
"I am never going to forget what you've done for me"
"you're welcome" Ben replied as he hugged him back.
As they let go however their left arms were suddenly drawn to each other until their Omnitrix's popped out and the faces stuck together "what's happening!" Ben 23 asked
"I have no idea!?" Ben said as blue and green sparks began flying everywhere. Ben tried pulling the two Omnitrix's apart but they wouldn't budge, the sparks got more and more wild until a burst of blue and green energy sent the two heroes flying back, Ben 23 was caught by Tetrax while Ben crashed into the wall of the new Mr. Smoothy. Ben got up and looked at his Omnitrix and saw it rapidly spinning through the different aliens until it stopped on a familiar looking one with the circle turning blue "no way" Ben said he then pressed down on his Omnitrix and in a flash of blue light he was now "Feedback! But how? I thought the Omnitrix couldn't take in anymore Conductoid DNA and why is my front blue?" he then looked at his counterpart and walked over to him "hey can you turn into this guy?" Ben 23 looked through his Omnitrix and found the right one before pressing down on it and in a flash of blue another blue Feedback was standing in his spot
"dude this is so weird" Ben 23 said
"yeah"
"I believe I know what happened" Azmuth started getting both Feedback's attention "because this Ben's Omnitrix lacked Conductoid DNA, my Omnitrix filled the void and replaced it with a copy of its Conductiod DNA sample" he explained
"makes sense" Ben said before he as well as his counterpart turned back to normal Ben then smiled "thanks for that bro, continue doing the right thing and you'll be as good as I am someday"
"I will"
Ben then headed into the Mr. Smoothy where Ship, Professor Hokestar, Blukic, and Driba were waiting, he gave one final salute through the window and the store disappeared. The 23rd Mr. Smoothy reappeared in an old parking lot that hardly anyone used "let me guess as soon as you stock up you're headed straight back to universe 23 right?" Ben asked Professor Hokestar
"indeed, a universe without a single Mr. Smoothy is just a gold mine of opportunity" Professor Hokestar stated
"alright just try not to get stuck there (looks at Ship, Blukic, and Driba) come on guys we'd better go inform everyone that we're still alive" Ben said and with Ship on his shoulder and Blukic and Driba in his arms he headed to Plumber HQ.
Meanwhile
At Plumber Headquarters Max was extremely stressed out, his grandson had been missing for a whole week and there hadn't been a trace of him anywhere in the galaxy, it was as if he had just disappeared without a single trace. The last anyone had heard from him was that he, Ship, Blukic and Driba had gone searching for a 23rd Mr. Smoothy store but according to their GPS's there was only 22 Mr. Smoothy stores in Bellwood. After a long day he was getting ready to head home, as he waited for the elevator to come down hundreds of possibilities of what happened to Ben played through his head. When the doors opened his eyes widened in shock as he saw Ben standing in front of him "grandpa!" Ben exclaimed and he hugged him tightly
"Ben where have you been!" he asked as he hugged Ben back
"I've been stuck in another universe for the past week, sorry to worry you, I just had no way to contact you"
"it's fine I'm just so glad you're alive"
"I'm glad you're alive too"
"pardon?"
"nothing, I'll explain later" Ben said and he continued hugging his grandpa.