Alright, I've decided to stick with Modern Ben and Classic Ben for the terminology of the two Bens. I'm sorry that the last chapter seemed like a filler one. In reality, it actually wasn't, because it was the chapter where Ben meets Cosmo for the first time.
Kinda important, but I do apologize that that last chapter was short and just covered that one scene. I just felt like I needed to post something, and I didn't want to work on Fistrick yet. Don't worry, that'll be this chapter. But enough of that. Welcome to chapter four.
"Fistrick?" Ben said as XLR8.
"Yep. It's me, bro. So what do ya think of my Drakonian Procecutor?" He responded, most likely referring to the giant robot he was currently riding. It was large and bulky. It's forearms were much larger then the Upper Limb. It's hands were quite large too. It's legs were actually quite large and bulky. It's shoulders were quite large in comparison to the rest of it. Fistrick was in the pilot's seat, which was locate in the center of it, himself being protected by a large glass sphere. It was orange and Black in coloration, but it also seemed to have been painted recently.
Ben turned back into himself and retorted, "Well, actually, it's kinda cool."
Julie looked at Ben and back to Fistrick, "Kinda stupid, breaking into Plumbers HQ, don'tcha think?"
"Well, it would be... if I didn't have this baby." Fistrick responded as a the robot's shoulder opened a hatch and a missile flew out of it, into the ceiling.
"Yeah, I can see that." Ben said as he fiddled with his Omnitrix to turn into an alien. He slammed down on the watch's faceplate and turned into Crashhopper. "But, let's see if it can take what it can dish out." He responded, Crashhoper's voice tingling with cricket noises. Ben jumped at Fistrick's robot and rebounded off of it's shoulder, doing minimal damage to it.
Rook pulled out his Proto-tool and started to fire at Fistrick, followed by many other Plumber officers. Ben landed on the ceiling and bounced back down to Fistrick, whose robot was actually not taking that much damage from all of the blasters. He landed in between the robot's large shoulders and started to try and rip open the robot. Unfortunately for Ben, Crashhopper's only ability was to jump and land, and it did not have the amount of strength to rip the robot apart. It was at this point that giant metal saw blades extended out of the robot's gigantic shoulders.
"Whoa! Didn't see that coming." He said to himself as he jumped out of they way of the blades that were trying to cut him in half. He landed on the ground, away from Fistrick's giant mechanical monster. Plumbers tried to shoot him, but there efforts were futile, as the machine merely shrugged them of as if it were nothing. Ben jumped at Fistrick and try to knock it off it's balance by hitting it's leg. That worked as well as trying to put Sonic Generations into the Sonic & Knuckles game cartridge, trying to get Sonic Generations & Knuckles.
Ben continued to try to attack the robot, but unbeknownst to him, and most people in the fight, a seedrian came through the doorway into the main room of the Plumbers HQ.
It was Cosmo! But she was gripping her arm in pain. She looked at what everyone was fighting and gasped, "A Procecutor?! What's that doing here?" She noticed that everyone was trying to fire lasers at the robot, and she decided to be of some assistance. She saw a blaster on the floor. Most likely one that someone dropped. She picked it up and examined it. She then gripped it in her hands and tried to aim it at Fistrick's robot. She readied herself, aimed... and pulled the trigger.
Now if she was only holding it not backwards, then she would have actually hit the robot instead of hitting someone behind herself. He wasn't dead, but he made one of the most hilarious screams possible.
"Sorry!" she apologized, looking behind herself.
Meanwhile, Ben had actually rebounded himself off of the wall that he was sent flying to by Fistrick's robotic fist... Only to be grabbed by it and being slammed against a wall.
"Nice try, bro. But what do ya say we end this fight?" Fistrick taunted within his metal machine of destruction doom, and... more doom!
His robots arm actually began to transform. It's fingers clung together and a giant drill was pulled out of the robots forearm. It began to spin at an alarming rate, and it seemed to be headed right for Ben's face.
"Ben!" Julie and Rook screamed. Not in unison, more like a second after one another.
Fistrick smiled evilly as his drill was mere inches from Ben's face, but a thunk was heard as a blaster hit Fistrick's glass cockpit. His drill stopped spinning and he looked over to see where the blaster was thrown from. As did Ben. Cosmo stood there looking at Fistrick in anger, "Leave him alone, you big bully!" She screamed.
"Cosmo?" Ben said, his voice tingling with the sound crickets make.
"A Seedrian?" Fiustrick retorted, "Well, isn't today my lucky day." And with that, Fistrick threw Ben across the room, sending him crashing into a wall. He then bean to walk towards Cosmo and spoke, "You'll fetch me a hefty price when I show you to the Drakons." Cosmo's eyes widened at the mention of the word Drakons. "Heck, maybe, they'll give me an entire army of these things. I'll make a fortune, and I can keep this one for myself."
Ben laid in the rubble of wall, his from returned to that of a normal human. "Okay, Ow." Ben said as he got up from the rubble and rubbed his head. He opened his eyes noticed that Fistrick was walking towards Cosmo. "Cosmo!" He said quietly. He looked down to his Omnitrix and started to select an alien, "Come on, Omnitrix, give me something good..." And he slammed down on the faceplate.
Cosmo slowly tried to back away from Fistrick's robot's giant hand. Unfortunately, she was frozen in fear.
Fistrick reached his and out to grab the girl before him, but then a giant, brown dinosaur-like creature with green eyes had punched Fistrick's giant robot.
"You stay away from her!" The dinosaur-man had shouted at Fistrick. He then looked down at Cosmo and asked, "You okay?"
Cosmo was hesitant to respond, but she noticed that the dinosaur had a green sash across his chest containing the Omnitrix symbol. "Ben?" She said in surprise. Humungousaur changed back into Ben immediately after she spoke, "Yep." Then a grinding metallic sound was heard. The two looked and saw that Fistrick's robot was slowly getting back up, despite all of the Plumbers shooting at it. Ben started to dial his Omnitrix. "Let's see if this thing can handle a little Water Hazard!" Ben said, about to turn into a Orishan.
"Ben, wait!" Cosmo interrupted. Ben stopped his hand before pressing the faceplate, "What?"
"I've seen this type of robot before." She explained.
"Really? Perfect, tell me which alien to go and I'll kick his butt!" Ben started to redial, looking down on his Omnitrix with a smile.
"Feedback."
Ben's eyes widened and his mouth curled into a frown upon hearing this. Feedback. That was a name that he hadn't heard in a while. "Um..." He said, awkwardly, "Any reason as to why I should go with Feedback?"
"That thing's weak to electricity, why else would you to use Feedback?" Cosmo explained.
Ben looked back down to his watch. He couldn't use Feedback, but he did know who he was going to use. He slammed down onto his Omnitrix and began to transform. He grew yellow fur all over his body, save for his hands, feet, and head, which had black fur. He also had yellow, lightning bolt themed, horns.
"That's not Feedback, Ben." Cosmo said bluntly.
"I know, It's Shocksquatch, eh." Ben said in Shocksquatch's Canadian accent.
Fistrick got to his robot's feet and saw that Ben had turned into a different alien, "Heh, you shoulda stuck with the Dinosaur, Bro." He began to run towards Ben and Cosmo.
Shocksquatch began to run towards Fistrick as well. Fistrick threw down a punch towards Ben, but Ben jumped up before the robot made contact with the ground. Ben then quickly punched the air towards Fistrick. A jolt of Lightning shot out of his fist and struck the robot. When Ben landed the robot was crackling with electricity. Fistrick pressed a button within the cockpit. The robot's arms transformed. One was the Drill from earlier, the other was now mounted with many sorts of Blasters and weapons. There was, comically, a small slingshot being used by two small cartoony hands, but this was rather small and no one noticed it. "Smile for the camera, Bro." Fistrick said as he pointed his gun-arsenal towards Ben.
Shocksquatch looked upon this and smiled in a smug manner, "Well, okay, but you don't mind if I pose, eh?" Shocksquatch began dodging the many energy blasts being fired at him and looked cool while doing so. Little did Ben see that as he dodged, Fistrick was getting closer. When Ben finally noticed, it was too late, as Fistrick had brought his robotic hand back and flung it towards him, swatting him against a wall.
The robot had jumped up into the air as Ben was getting up from the ground and had brought it's foot upon the Gimlinopithecus. "Arrrgghh!" Ben screamed in pain.
Fistrick had lifted up his robotic foot and grabbed Ben's nearly unconscious body. He had then slammed him against a wall and held Ben there while he lifted up his other hand, which was still a drill.
"Oh, no. Ben!" Cosmo shouted in distress. She saw another gun and dove for it. She got up and began the position herself to throw the gun, like earlier. The only difference between now and then, is that Rook stopped her.
"Cosmo, trust me. Ben has him right where he wants him." Rook explained.
"Any last words, Bro?" Fistrick said, before pointing the drill at Ben.
"Not really, eh." Ben said in a tired voice. The bolts on his neck then sparked with electricity. Quickly, his entire body began to spark with electricity, "Bet, that's mainly because I ain't goin' down to you." And with that Shocksquatch became cloaked in electricity. And he screamed with power. His body's powers spread to the robot, as it became enveloped in the electrical attack.
"SYSTEM FAILURE! SYSTEM FAILURE!" The robot's computer screamed as Ben electrocuted the entire thing. But not Fistrick. He was not getting electrocuted. "Ah, so yur not taken to my powers? That's okay, eh. After all, what are these for!" And with that, Ben curled his fingers into a fist and punched into the robot's cockpit, also hitting Fistrick in the process.
While the battle at the center of the attack was going well for Ben, the same could not be said for the rest of the Plumbers base. Lightning was blasting off all over the place, hitting several pieces of Plumber technology. Rook and Cosmo looked around in awe at this. But Cosmo noticed something that Rook, or any of the other Plumbers did not.
The Lightning blasts seemed to be striking things in a path.
Each time it struck something, it would strike again near that object. Cosmo was able to piece together where the blast would strike next. And she acted before that strike would happen. She ran towards where she could predict the next lightning bolt would strike.
Julie watched in awe as Shocksquatch electrocuted the robot. But it was the thing that happened next that took her by surprise. Cosmo ran right in front of her and was quickly struck by the excess energy from Shocksquatch.
"Aaaaahhhh!" Cosmo screamed in immense pain as she was struck.
The lightning attack died down and Cosmo's screams of pain became whimpers. The robot was smoking. It's hard drive fried by Ben. It fell to the ground in a large mess of metal. Shocksquatch stood over it, still crackling with electricity. Until he turned back into Ben. He looked at Fistrick, who was knocked out by the blow to the face that en gave him, "And that's why you don't mess with me."
He looked around and saw what had happened to the Plumbers base. It was wrecked, but not unfix-able. It was at this point that he noticed Cosmo, standing in front of Julie, her eyes squinting shut, and crackling with electricity.
"Oh, no... Cosmo!" Ben yelled as he ran towards her. Julie looked at her when the event died down and saw her body, crackling, "Oh, my goodness!"
Rook ran over towards them as well. Cosmo eventually couldn't take it anymore and collapsed. Julie was able to catch her before she hit the ground. Her eyes slowly opened to see Ben running towards her and Julie right above her. She smiled at the fact that they were both okay.
Everything ran well after the lightning attack by Shocksquatch. Cosmo healed up quickly enough, Plumbers had been working on the thing that the robot broke, and Fistrick was now in a cell below the main deck.
Rook had been assisting in helping fix some things, along with Blukic and Driba. Cosmo was hanging out around the main room of the HQ. No one knew where Ben was. Julie, however, was a different story. She walked up to Cosmo, who greeted her with a friendly, "Hello."
"Hey, Cosmo. Are you okay?" Julie asked her.
"Fine. The real question is if you are."
"Yeah, I'm fine. uh... thanks, by the way."
"No problem." Cosmo smiled and a few seconds of silence followed until Julie spoke, "um...so, how is it that you know Ben again?"
"Hm? Oh! I met him when I was about 11. You see me and My Mom-" Cosmo explained before being cut off by Ben, "Hey, Cosmo."
"Hi Ben." Cosmo greeted.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just telling Julie about how we met."
"Okay. Cool. I'm just glad that you weren't fried by my electrical attack. Sorry about that, by the way." Ben said, scratching the back of his head.
Cosmo giggled, "It's okay. It's a good thing I'm a plant, otherwise I'd be as toast as it Julie would've been."
"That doesn't make a lot of sense. If you're a plant, the wouldn't that mean you're more flammable by lightning?"
"It's because She's a Seedrian." Rook explained as he walked up to the three, "Seedrians can resist electricity to an incredibly well extent."
"You're right, Rook. Wow, didn't know that your Partner was so knowledgeable about aliens." Cosmo said.
"Yeah. You know that brings up a question..." Ben said to her, "How'd you know that electricity was the weakness of that robot Fistrick was piloting?"
Cosmo looked down to the ground in sadness and said, "Actually, it's partly the reason as to why I'm here."
"Really?"
"Yes." Cosmo said in a sad tone. She lifted up her head and explained why she was here in a stern voice, "My people are currently in a war. A war with an alien race called the Drakons."
"Drakons? I have never heard of the species." Rook said, curiously.
"That's because they're in the next galaxy over. But they're, like, right on the edge of it." Cosmo explained, "The Drakons and my people are currently at war and I thought... I thought..."
"Thought what?" Ben asked.
"I thought maybe you could come and help us, Ben."
A few seconds of silence followed this, until Cosmo spoke.
"But, I can see that you're too busy with your job being a hero down here. I'm sorry, it was foolish of me to think that you wouldn't be busy. I'll leave imme-"
"I'll go." Ben interrupted.
"What?"
"I'll go. I'm not just a super hero here on Earth. I've saved the entire universe, like, a bajilion times." Ben said.
"He's over exaggerating." Julie whispered.
"But he has saved the Universe." Rook finished.
Cosmo looked at Ben, tears slowly forming in her eyes, "Oh, thank you, Ben!" Cosmo sprang towards Ben and pulled into a big hug, crying tears of joy into his shoulder, "Thank you, Ben! Thank you sooooo much!" This surprised Ben a bit. Julie looked at the two of them with a weird look that Ben could not decifer at the moment, most likely due to the fact that Cosmo was hugging him.
"Hey, no need to cry. It's what I do." Ben said as he pulled Cosmo from the hug.
"Hey, you guys wanna come too?" Ben offered his teammates.
"I would love to go and see Cosmo's home planet. I hear it is beautiful." Rook explained.
"Julie, we could use your help too." Ben said to his girlfriend.
"You guys just want a ride from Ship." Julie said.
"That's... not the only reason." Ben said, trying to watch his words carefully.
Cosmo giggled a bit at this. Ben smiled. As did Rook.
"Then guys, pack up your bags. We're going to space!" Ben said, pointing at the sky.
A few seconds passed by as awkward silence took place until Rook broke it.
"But I do not have any bags."
Ben looked at Rook with a look of impatience.
"Let's just go." And with that, Ben, Rook, Julie and Cosmo exited Plumbers HQ.
UUUUGGGHHH! IT! IS DONE!
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I wanted to include a part with Classic Ben, but this chapter's long enough as it is. So the next part, We'll get both of these stories in gear and into the adventure!
I'll be honest, this took me all day to write. But I've finally gotten it done.
And yes. This episode takes place before "Showdown Part 1 and 2." No, it secretly take place in between "Showdown Part 1" and "Showdown Part 2." Ah, Sarcasm, how I love you.
And if you've noticed, I've put a bit of pokemon logic into this, by having Cosmo survive the Blast of an electric type attack. It still did a lot of damage, but she didn't die from it.
Also, am I the only one to see some resemblance between Shocksquatch and Electivire? Probably. Just another reason to love that guy. And I will be putting more poekmon logic by types in the future of this story. Or rather, the past. Or maybe- You know what, never mind. You'll see what I'm talking about the next time I post.
Feel free to give me Feedback. no not the alien, your opinions on the story or chapter. Actually, on second thought, you know what, send me the other Feedback instead. I don't care about your opinions, send me my very on Conductoid!
Ah, How I love making jokes.