Alright, well, We're gonna go back to Classic Ben. The reason as to why? Because I CAAAAAN! Yes. Clearly a great reason. Also, to those of you who asked "Why should Victini be one of Ben's alien? That's a Pokemon and this is a Sonic Ben 10 crossover." Well, I shall answer you.
The idea just kinda popped into my head one day. Kinda like the basis of this story, but that is something that we'll get into in the Author's Notes chapter when the story's all nice and done.
But, enough about that, back to the STORY!
Cosmo looked at Enoch as he pressed several buttons on the panel next to her. "M-Mr. Enoch... why am I h-h-here?"
"Well, little one, the reason as to why you are here is actually quite simple." Enoch responded as he typed on the panel, "We wish to figure out how your staff works."
Cosmo smiled at this, "Oh, well, if you w-want to know that, then j-j-just lemme off of this thing and give me m-m-my staff..."
Enoch looked back at her, his face making a look of... well, actually Cosmo couldn't tell what his face was making a look of, considering that it was behind his golden mask. He then spoke, "Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you?"
He began pressing buttons on the panel next to her as he spoke, "We let you out, we give you your weapon... and then you use it to take us all out, well little one, I'm smarter then that." And with that he pressed one final button on the panel. Above her, the death laser like machine whirred and glowed. Enoch spoke the words, "Rather then letting you get your tools and run away, I'm afraid that we're going to have to... pick your brain."
Out of it's sides came several small tools that looked sharp and dangerous, and also, for some odd reason, a cartoony hand that held a toilet plunger. Slowly, the sharp tools came down towards Cosmo. "I think that your meaning of that and our meaning of that, are different entirely!" She screamed.
"Our meaning of brain picking is interrogating some one to get information out of them," Enoch explained. A small, but absurdly sharp knife came very close to Cosmo's forehead. It looked so sharp that it looked like it could cut through metal as if it were hot butter. And it could. Oh, boy it could. "But I think that this works just as well." Enoch finished as he pressed a single button. Just then, a small control stick came up from the panel and Enoch grabbed it, controlling the small knife's movement.
She screamed bloody murder as the knife was just about to dissect her skull until a man in grey armor, with a silver mask similar to Enoch's, barged into the room, interrupting Enoch's concentration, "My lord!" The knife stopped just a centimeter away from Cosmo's forehead. Tears of fear were rolling down her cheeks.
"What is it?" Enoch asked.
"I've found out what this thing does! It's some sort of laser staff!" The man said as he held Cosmo's Avohkii staff in his hands.
"Laser staff?" Enoch said in response.
"Yes, see there's this little trigger on the staff, right on the blade..." The man pointed to the staff and indeed, their was a trigger. Actually, there were two, both of which were right next to each other. Cosmo saw which trigger that the man was pointing to and closed her eyes, tightly.
"And you see, if you hold it like a gun, it'll-" The man said as he held the blade in a similar fashion as Cosmo did earlier. He pulled the trigger, but something happened that he did not expect. Instead of the Staff firing off an energy beam, like he had wanted, It had glowed incredibly bright. So bright to the point that it actually had blinded Enoch and the other man, but not Cosmo, for her eyes were shut tight. But even then, light somehow shown into her eyes, but not to the blinding point of the other two.
Enoch and the man screamed at this unexpected event. The man dropped the staff in response. Enoch himself also stumbled backwards as a result, he hit the control stick controlling the knife near Cosmo's head and had brought it northeast of Cosmo's face, cutting off the restraint that held her hand. With her hand free, she grabbed the knife and pulled it over to her other hand, cutting the other restraint as well. She then sat up and used the knife to cut the restraints on her feet. When she was free, she threw the knife across the room and grabbed her staff. She ran towards the door and slammed it behind herself, making sure that it was locked in some way.
She was now in a long hallway, dimly lighted by overhead lanterns, with doors all along the sides. She looked down it in an attempt to find a way out. There was only one way that she could do it. She began to walk down the hall, her staff firmly kept in her grasp. Her breathing was slow, but quite loud. She was never in this kind of a situation before. At least not alone. She continued down the hallway, and before she knew it, she found something that intrigued her.
A door that was partially open, with blue light coming from inside it. She slowly looked inside the room and saw two men in front of a large number of screens, all of them with different images. It appeared that the two men were having a conversation.
"And then I just told him to go and hit the thing with a wrench." Said one of them in a deep voice with a British accent.
"Look, you can't just tell Matt to do that to her, do you know how much she means to him, Tom?" The other man said, who also had a British accent, although his voice was much lighter then the other man's. He then ate a few pretzels from a bag.
A few seconds of silence proceeded until the one called Tom replied, "Gareth, it's a car, it's not a woman, don't call it a she."
"Well, you're supposed to treat them like women!" Gareth replied.
Tom looked at him for a few seconds and replied, "I still don't know how you managed to marry Kari..."
Gareth threw the pretzel bag onto the floor as Tom spoke and then said, "These Pretzels are makin' me thirsty..."
"Did you order those new security cameras?" Tom asked.
"I-I-I did. It's just They-they-th-they aren't hear quite yet..." Gareth replied.
"Well when did you order them?"
"I ordered them last week, sheesh, Tom."
"Well, they should be here by now!"
Just then a bunch of static was heard. Gareth picked up a microphone and pressed a button, "Hello?"
"Gareth!" Said the voice that Cosmo found familiar, "Where is she?"
"Where is who, Enoch?"
"Where is the Alien?" Cosmo's eyes widened upon hearing this. They recovered from the blinding light of her staff!
"What alien?" Gareth asked.
"The alien we brought in today, you moron." Enoch responded.
"Wait, that was an alien? I thought that it was a random girl from the jungle who didn't have a nose." Gareth responded.
Enoch stayed silent until he slowly spoke in a dangerous tone, "Gareth... why did you think that we would just bring in a random jungle girl?"
"I was gonna ask you the same question, Enoch." Gareth replied. Tom then grabbed the mike from Gareth's hand and spoke to Enoch, "Look, Enoch, which room was she in?"
"She was in room #3.01, Tom."
"Oh, that explains it..." Gareth said, loud enough for Enoch to hear.
"That explains what?"
Tom sighed, "Some of the security camera's are outta whack."
"What do you mean, 'outta whack'?" Enoch said, his voice sounding quite upset.
"They're down" Tom said, bluntly.
"What? When were they down? Why haven't they been replaced?" Enoch said, anger being heard in his voice.
"Tom's been on my case all this week!" Gareth said, angrily, "Everyday, he's asking me 'When's the cameras getting here?', 'When's the cameras getting here?'! Flipping Today!"
"Look, Enoch, we're gonna go and look for the alien right now, okay. We'll get some of the other Knights in on this too. We'll have the whole place in lock down." Tom said in a reassuring tone.
"Alright," Enoch said, "But make sure that Ben Tennyson does not escape. I just got out of that stupid dream machine, and I want that Watch." Cosmo gasped quietly at this. Ben was here too?
"Yes, sir. Thomas and Gareth out." Tom said as he pressed a button. He and his comrade got up from their chairs and turned around, walking towards the door. The door that Cosmo was hiding behind. Cosmo's eyes widened as she looked at them. Quickly, she curled up at the corner of the doorway, and when the two humans walked through the door, it shmushed her against the wall as it came outward. The two ran down the hallway, with Gareth yelling comically, "There's an alien on the loose! There's an alien on the loose! Wheee Whooo! Wheee Whooo! There's an alien on the loose! There's an alien on the loose! Wheee Whooo! Wheee Whooo!"
The door slowly creaked away from Cosmo, whose face was smushed up against the wall, in a comical fashion. She pulled herself from the wall and shook her head. "I gotta get outta here!" She said to herself as she began to run away from the door. But as she ran, she realized something. Something that made her stop in her tracks.
What about Ben? She shook her head. She wasn't gonna go out of her way to try and save him! Of course not! Why would she? That boy was nothing more then a mean child who didn't deserve to be saved! But she then began to think about what his Grandfather would think if she told him that she was able to save Ben but didn't? She gasped to herself. What if he wouldn't help them get to the rendezvous? That would mean that war would engulf her entire planet. They would even be slaves to the Black Arms, or worse! But then she thought of something. She would just tell Magister Max and Gwen that she couldn't do anything about it! Of course! That's a good excuse! Her species wasn't the best at fighting, she could just get away from here and... lie. No. No, she couldn't do that. Not only would her conchous eat her away, but eventually the truth would slip out some time. Maybe not to his family, but to her mother, that's for sure. Her mother would never let her hear the end of that, and the guilt would eat her away, like a starving Black Arm. She shook it off. She knew what was also important. She was the destined heir to the Seedrian throne. She was the next queen! If she died trying to save him, then who would take her place? An entire species would be helpless if she were to die. She decided that her people were more important then some mean, human peasant and made a run for it. She would have to take the guilt, for her people's sake! She knew that this was the right thing to do in this situation. But was it, really? One more thought entered her head. One final thought that would be the deciding factor in this situation.
What if she was in his situation?
What if Ben was in her situation, prince of another world, his people more important then her, and he still came back to save her? Would he even do that?
She looked back at the room that Gareth and Tom were in and saw that it was wide open. She looked down at her hand and clenched into a fist. She knew what she was going to do!
She ran straight into the room and looked at the screens that the two were looking at before. While most of the screens showed something, some were actually fuzzy in black and white. She pressed a button and a green outline appeared outside of one of the screens. Sound began to come out of the speakers as well. She pressed another button and the green outline moved to another screen and different sounds came out of it. Through this, she was able to determine that these buttons allowed for sound to be on certain screens.
She kept on pressing random buttons, hoping to find out where Ben was. It wasn't until the green outline had passed a fuzzy screen that she was able to hear something that sounded like Ben. Well, similar at least. She listened to sounds from the speakers. it sounded like Ben screaming for his life.
"Ben!" She screamed. Unfortunately, Ben could not hear her. She was puzzled as she kept saying Ben's name in order to get his attention, until she remembered what happened earlier.
She grabbed the microphone that Gareth and Tom had earlier and pressed a button, then spoke into it, "Ben? Can you hear me?"
"Whah! W-Who's there?!" Ben said as he sounded like he was freaking out.
"Ben, it's me, Cosmo. I'm going to get you out of there? Where are you?" Cosmo spoke in as clear of a voice as possible.
"I-I-I don't know... AH! G-get away from me!" Ben screamed, "Back, you stupid-AH!"
Cosmo put her hand on the keyboard in front of her, and all of a sudden the screen changed. It looked like a bunch of straight lines, all connecting to each other, with all of the screens before, now connecting to the little boxes. It took Cosmo a bit to figure out what this was.
"Ben! I've found a map! You're in Room 1.09! I'm on my way, just hold on!" And with that, Cosmo ran off out of the room, about to go and save Ben from whatever, hideous fate that awaited him.
Unfortunately for her, the button that she pressed to talk to Ben was not a personal message thing like Enoch had used earlier. It was a P.A. system. So, basically, Cosmo had just spoke to all of the people inside of the base.
Tom, Gareth, Enoch and that other guy had just finished listening to the message over the P.A. Tom and Gareth themselves had also just goten to the other two.
"So, just as a wild guess, that was the alien you were talking about?" Gareth said.
Enoch responded to him by grabbing him by the throat and speaking in a calm, but firm, tone, "Go, and make sure that she does not reach Benjamin Tennyson!" Then, Enoch threw Gareth across the room, the only thing stopping him was the wall that he slammed into.
Tom and that other guy nodded and then ran off, intending to fill out Enoch's orders, while Gareth just laid on the ground, pretending to be dead as a practical joke.
Cosmo ran up to a door, "Here it is, Room 1.09. Oh, Ben, please be alright!" Cosmo readied herself for what she was about to see. She held her staff in a firm grip and got into a fighting stance. Slowly, she reached for the handle, and opened the door. She looked inside the room and she saw Ben, cowering in the corner, his knees up to his chest, shaking violently.
"Ben, you're okay. Thank goodness." Cosmo said as she ran in towards him. Though, she stopped dead in her tracks as she heard a screeching sound. She looked around the room to see what had made that noise. She was actually surprised to see what made the noise, as she never would have guessed that it was something like... well, that.
"Ben, what are these things?" Cosmo asked, not showing any state of fear, because, well, she just plain wasn't afraid of these things.
"W-w-w-worst a-a-animals on e-earth..." He replied. Cosmo looked at Ben, confused at back at the five creatures. "Well, what are they called?
They seemed to be some sort of large, blue, flightless bird, their tails very large and colorful. In fact, some would even say that they're downright beautiful. Ben said the name of this odd creature in a stuttery voice.
"P-p-peacocks..."
Cosmo looked at the strange fowl as it walked up to her, bobbing it's head back and forth. Cosmo looked upon the creature and said, "Well, they don't look dangerous, but given how you're reacting to them, I"m just going to assume that these things are one of the deadliest predators on the planet..." She slowly made her way towards Ben. She knelt down to Ben and grabbed his hand, "Come on, let's just get outta here, nice and easy..."
Slowly, the two eleven-year-olds made their way out of the room full of Peacocks. The birds did not seem hostile, but Cosmo didn't let her guard down, and Ben didn't stop shivering. Eventually, the two were outside the room and Cosmo slammed the door shut. "Whew, there we go..."
"Um... yeah, so, you have any clue as to where we are?" Ben asked Cosmo.
"No, sorry. All I do know is-" Cosmo said as she looked to Ben, her eyes widening to what she saw behind him.
"Hey, there they are!" Shouted Tom as he ran towards them with that other guy behind him.
"Forever Knights?" Ben said in response to looking at them. Cosmo looked at Ben with curiosity, "You know these guys?"
"Oh, yeah, they gave me, Grandpa and Gwen a lotta trouble last summer." Ben explained. He began to fiddle with his Omnitrix.
Cosmo looked at him, "Well, now's not the time to be checking up on what time it is, we need to get away from these-" Cosmo said as she looked at Ben fiddle with hit Watch, she was, like plenty of other times today, interrupted.
Ben slapped down on his Omnitrix's faceplate and began to transform before Cosmo's very eyes. Four pedunculated eyes came out of the sides of his head. Two large, thin wings came out from his back. Many other things happened as Cosmo looked as Ben transformed into a large bug-like alien, "Stinkfly!" He shouted.
"Aw, crud-baskets..." Tom said as he slowly backed away.
"B-B-Ben!? What happened to..." Cosmo looked on at Ben in shock, until a foul small came about, "Oh, what is that horrible smell?!"
"That's me. Sorry." Ben said as he had his new odd eyes look back at Cosmo. Quickly, he grabbed her and placed her on his back, "Here, first, let's get you outta here. I can handle these creeps alot better if I don't have someone to look after." And with that, Ben flew off through the hallways. As Ben flew through the halls, he shot gunk from his eyes at unsuspecting Forever Knights. Cosmo looked a little green as he flew. Well, more so then usual anyways.
After about five minutes of flying, Cosmo gagged. "Oh, no, you better not throw up on-" Ben said just before the Omnitrix started to beep red. Before he could finish his sentance, he transformed back into a human and the two flew towards a wall, and one Forever Knight. Ben hit the Wall, Cosmo hit the Knight.
"Ow, you stupid little..." The forever Knight muttered as it was reviled to be Gareth.
Cosmo tried to stand, but she could not at the moment, for she felt nauseous. "Hey, you're the little girl who Enoch said escaped." Gareth said to Cosmo, getting back to his feet. He picked her up to face level and said, "Well, when I show Enoch that I got you back, he'd better give me a Prrromotion!" Gareth said, rolling his 'R's.
Cosmo's cheecks puffed out and her face turned an incredibly dark shade of green, her eyes widened as...
"Arrgghh!" Gareth yelled as Cosmo did what we all know she did right in his face, "Ah, man, that's disgusting, Arrggh!" Gareth tried to run to the bathroom in order to get to a sink of wash of the... that, but unfortunately for him, he ran face first into a wall, and fell unconscious.
Ben slowly got to his feet, not seeing Cosmo just do... that all over Gareth's face. "Hey, you okay?" Ben asked her.
Cosmo burped, with a sick look on her face and then said, "Yeah, I'm fine..."
"Alright, good. Let's get outta here." Ben said as he walked down the hallway. Cosmo however did not follow. Ben noticed this about ten seconds down the hall. "Cosmo?" He said, looking behind himself. He noticed that there was a door where he crashed and that it was opened, but inside it was glowing red. He decided to go and investigate. He walked into the room and noticed Cosmo was in here, but that was not the only thing he noticed. "Hey, Cosmo, you comin' or..."
All on the inside of the room there seemed to be all sorts of purple, silver, and pink weapons, with the occasional golden armor piece and odd looking hoverboard.
"Whoa... What is all of this stuff?" Ben asked. He did not expect to hear an answer from where he did though.
"This is Black Arms Technology..." Cosmo said, her eyes widened with fear.
THERE WE GO! WHOOO! WHOOO! Alright, good to know that I was able to finish this chapter where I wanted to.
For those of you who don't know, (Which I assume is all of you) that last line is where the last chapter was supposed to end. Yeah.
Also, the second part of Showdown was AWESOME!
