Wait a sec, I updated? MIRACLES!
Alright, there we go, it's done. Now it's time to update this sucka! How long has it been, like a wee-IT'S BEEN A MONTH?!
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Okay, well. I got some explaining to do.
All seriousness, I'm sorry that it's taken so long for me to update. I wanted to get back onto a sort of organized chapter... thing. Basically, I wanted to get everything done in a chapter, and not post what little I've gotten done at the point in time. Once again, I'm sorry, but look on the bright side, this is by far the longest chapter that I've posted. It's like, four times as long as my longest chapter. So, now, I'm coming up to some good news, some bad news, some great news, some horrible news and some chocolate news. Probably not gonna tell you in that order.
The good news is that if everything goes well in my mind, then there's only three more chapters left in this entire story.
The bad news is that there will be long spaces of time in between chapter postings. Hopefully not as long as this chapter's posting, being honest I didn't really touch this thing for over two weeks due to several different factors. Life, Minecraft, Procrastination. Mainly that last thing. But I worked the rest of the time.
The great news is that because of both the bad news and the good news, chapters should be much longer then normal. Maybe not as long as this one, but you'll never know. Heck maybe they'll be longer.(Oh, please, no...)
The chocolate news that I have M&Ms and am eating them as I type this sentence out.
And the horrifyingly Awfully bad news, the news that will probably make you cry in a corner and scream things about the world ending is no, you can not have any. These M&Ms are mine! Mine!
So, yeah, thank you all for being so patient (Or at least I assume being patent. You didn't bug me about it, I assume that you were patient) with me, And I hope that this chapter satisfies you.
And as fr the actual chapter, I think that it's TIME FOR A CHANGE OF PACE!... In our story. So, this time, we're gonna come back to Classic Ben and see what he's doing. Also, thank you, "Rules of Engagement"! Thanks to you, so much of this story could not have happened! In particular, things that happen in this chapter. Thank you, so much!
Gwen slowly came to. As her eyes flickered open, her mind flooded with the memories of what had just happened to her, Ben, Grandpa, Earthia and Cosmo. She gasped and sprang up from her bed. She looked around and realized that she was in the rust bucket. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Grandpa Max seemed to be driving the Rust Bucket.
She got up from her bed and started to walk to the front, wondering if she dreamed up the whole thing that happened. When she got up to the front of the vehicle, Max noticed her, "Hey, kiddo. You okay?"
"Yeah, but, where's-" Gwen couldn't finish her sentence as she was interrupted by the coo of something in the passengers seat. She looked over and saw the Black Arm that they had hit with the RV earlier.
She screamed as she saw it, looking right at her. This startled the Black Arm and it started screeching in response.
"Whoa! Whoa! Easy, easy..." Max said, shouting over it's screeches. He rubbed it's head in an attempt to calm it down. It seemed to be working, as the Black Arm was silently cooing in satisfaction.
Gwen looked at this with a face of confusion. Max noticed this and said to her, "It's alright, Gwen. He's not gonna hurt us... I think."
Just then, Earthia's moans could be heard from in the back of the RV as she awoke from her slumber. "What happened?" She asked, groggily as she rubbed her head.
"We were knocked out by some sort of gas bomb. We have the Black Arm that we hit in the front seat here. He doesn't seem to be hostile." Max explained to Earthia, who had a bit of trouble taking this in, coupled with her still groggy self.
"Um, Grandpa?" Gwen asked, "Where's Ben?"
Max just gave her a worried look and responded, "I wish I knew."
Back with Modern Ben, he had just finished a few Drakons in what appeared to be the thrown room of the castle. Rook had the teal-haired seedrian in his arms, after catching her from falling.
"Are you okay?" Rook said, letting her down from his arms.
The girl nodded to him as she stood. She looked over to Cosmo and ran over towards her. "Cosmo!" She said with joy, her arms wide open. Cosmo looked at her and smiled, "Galaxina!"
The teal-haired seedrian named Galaxina laughed with joy as she embraced Cosmo. She smiled warmly as she spoke, "Oh, I'm so glad you're okay, Cosmo."
"Not anywhere as glad as I am too see you're okay, Galaxina! I would have thought that the Drakons would have sent you to their home world by now." Cosmo said, a few tears of joy flowing out of her eyes.
Gakaxina parted with Cosmo, ending her embrace and said to her, smiling smugly, "Well, those pesky fish can't get me! It's hard to take me down!"
Cosmo laughed at this and replied, "Oh, Galaxina, you're so silly."
Ben, Rook and Julie looked upon the events with Cosmo and Galaxina, all of them wondering what was going on. Well, Ben was anyway, "Uh... Cosmo? You wanna introduce us to your friend?"
Cosmo looked at him and said, "Oh, yes. This is Galaxina, my older sister."
Galaxina smiled at the three and said, "Pleased to meet you all."
Ben shook his head quickly and made a face of confuzzlement, "Wait. Older sister?"
Cosmo nodded.
"Last time we met you said that you were next in line for the throne."
"That's right. I don't see what the confusion here is."
"Well, if you have an older sister then why isn't she the next in line for the throne?"
Cosmo looked at Ben with confusion, "Older sister... in the... What are you talking about?"
Rook walked up next to Ben and started to explain, "Ben, on Greengate, the youngest is the one who is destined for the throne."
Ben looked up at Rook, "What? Why?"
"Several reasons. The main one is so that if any mistakes are made with raising the first born, then the parents learn from their mistakes with the next born."
"What if the kid of the King and Queen is an only child?" Julie asked, walking towards them as well.
"If the king and queen have only one child, then that child is the one for the throne. It's simple." Rook explained.
"Yeah, you don't do that on your planet?" Cosmo asked Ben.
"Nope. Usually, the oldest guy is the one who becomes king, or queen, or... whatever."
"... Humans are weird." Cosmo said to him.
Galaxina cleared her throat. Cosmo looked back at her and said, "Oh, right. Galaxina, this is Ben Tennyson, with his partner Rook and his girlfriend Julie."
Galaxina looked at Cosmo, then looked back at Ben, "Ben Tennyson? The Ben Tennyson?"
Ben smiled smugly upon hearing her reaction to him, "Yep. The Ben Tennyson. I'm sure you've heard of me, y'know. Saved the Universe a couple hundred times. Can turn into over a million aliens..."
"Incredibly Modest..." Julie said, in a sarcastic tone.
Galaxina walked up to him and inspected him. "Wow, you look... both exactly what I was expecting you to and not at all what I was expecting you to." She said.
"Uh... is that a... compliment?" Ben asked.
Cosmo interjected, "When I left Greengate to get help, I was a bit worried that Ben wouldn't have time for us, what with, you know... being a famous hero and all, but he's here now. And he's gonna take down these Drakons!"
Galaxina's smile grew and she said, "Really? You're going to help us?"
Ben smiled and lifted both of his hands behind his head, "Yeah, I'm a hero, it's what I do."
"Oh, thank you Ben 10!" Galaxina exclaimed. She grabbed Ben's head and placed her lips upon his. Both Ben's and Julie's eyes widened at this. After about three seconds, she parted from Ben's lips."Hey!" Julie marched up to Galaxina and pushed her away from Ben. Cosmo and Rook looked at them, the latter debating in his head weather or not he should intervene, the former giving a look of confusion.
"Just for your information, Ben is my boyfriend!" Julie said to her.
"Um... Okay? What does that have to do with anything right now?" Galaxina asked.
Julie's expression changed from one of anger to one of... well, what would your face look like after a girl just locked lips with your boyfriend and pretended she didn't know what was going on?
"You just kissed my boyfriend! That's what!" Julie said in an angry tone.
At this, Cosmo's face change from a confused one to one of realization.
Galaxina however, just gave a confused look at Julie. "'Kiss'? What is... 'kiss'?"
Ben realized what was going on right after Galaxina said that.
Julie looked at her with puzzlement, "What? What you just did to Ben! That's what a kiss is!"
"A kiss is... Oh, I see, you have a different name for it then we do... but, I still don't get why you're so angry." Galaxina replied.
"It's because it has a different meaning on their planet, Galaxina!" Cosmo shouted at her sister.
Both Galaxina and Julie looked at the princess. "What?" "Different meaning?"
Cosmo nodded, "Yes. I found out the last time I went to earth."
"What does it mean on their planet, Cosmo?" Galaxina asked.
"The same thing as a cheek nuzzle."
Galaxina eyes widened and her face became a bright shade of red. She quickly looked back over to Julie and said in a quick manner, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no! I didn't mean anything like that, Julie. I wasn't trying to steal him from you! I swear! I... Oh, man, I feel so stupid..."
"Uh..." Julie said.
"Kissing someone means to give them their deepest gratitude to them here." Cosmo explained, "It's kinda like-What did you say you did on your planet to thank someone, Ben? Give them a card or something?"
"Something like that..." Ben responded.
"Are you serious? A kiss just means 'thank you' here?" Julie asked in disbelief.
"It is true. Quite odd, but true." Rook confirmed.
Julie just stared back at him. She then went back to Galaxina and looked at her, "O...kay. Wait, then what do you do instead of kissing here?"
"Cheek Nuzzling." Cosmo answered, "It's when you nuzzle into the person you like's cheek. It's a sign of great affection here."
Upon hearing this, Ben's eyes widened and began to blush a bit. Luckily for him, no one saw this, as Rook pulled out his Proto-Tool and fired at the wall. Oddly enough, a thud to be heard on the other side as the blast hit the wall, leaving only a black scuff mark on it. Then about a second after the blast subsided, a Drakon Prosecutor came out from behind. "Die, Seedrian Scum!" He yelled as he fired the gun in his hands. It didn't hit either Cosmo or Galaxina. Nor did it succeed in making contact with Ben or Rook. Julie, on the other hand, was shot and sent flying all the way back to the other side of the room, crashing into the wall, the only visible thing being smoke.
"Julie!" Ben shouted at the top of his lungs.
"What? A Human and a Revonnahgander? What are they doing here?" The Drakon asked in shock.
Just then a bunch of green lines glowed in the smoke, all of them forming a sort of pattern. Quickly, something flew out and slammed into the Drakon, sending him crashing into the wall. Whatever hit him then slammed him up against the wall and ripped off his head from his body. He was then taken out of his exo-suit's head and got a good look at who just done that. A human girl who looked like she was cosplaying as a Galvanic mechamorph, "Yeah, I did that, you stupid fish."
"Julie!" Ben smiled as he ran up to her, "Thank goodness, you're okay."
Julie smiled in a cocky way, "Well, duh. Ship took most of the blast for me and bounced it off."
"Ship, Ship!" Ship beeped at Ben.
Ben rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, "Right, sorry. I'm not used to Ship's armor being so unbulky."
"Why is this Drakon's armor red instead of green?" Rook asked. Julie and Ben both looked at the armor and indeed it was red.
"I dunno, Rook. Hey, Fish-face, why is your armor red instead of green?" Ben asked the Drakon in Julie's hands.
A bunch of shivering whimpers were heard in the background. Ben looked behind himself to see where they were coming from. Galaxina's eyes were widened to the limit and was indeed making those whimpering noises, as if she was incredibly afraid, "Please... No..."
"Galaxina?" Ben said to her.
"Sister?" Cosmo said to her. She began to shake her arm, "Sister, what is wrong?"
Galaxina blinked an looked at Cosmo, who's face was a mixture of worry and curiosity. She looked around and saw that everyone else was also looking at her, "I think we need to go outside..." She then ran out the door. Ben looked at Julie and she looked at him. The two nodded at each other and followed Galaxina, being followed by Cosmo and Rook.
"Black Arms Tech? You mean, their weapons?" Ben asked Cosmo as he looked around the large room.
Cosmo nodded and replied, "Yes. These are the tools that they use to reap destruction on my people..."
Ben, not quite sure how to respond to such a statement, simply said, "Uh... okay..."
The two were silent as they looked upon the vast collection of weapons. Cosmo eventually asked, "What are they all doing here? Did the Black Arms team up with these weird men in armor?"
"Probably not. I've dealt with the Forever Knights before. They don't team up with other people, they usually just steal alien tech." Ben explained.
Cosmo gasped and then said, "That's what that Black Arm was doing..."
Ben looked at her with a confused face, "Uh... What?"
Cosmo turned to Ben, "That Black Arm, the one that hit the vehicle we were in earlier... It was a scout looking fort he weapons. The Forever Knights stole them and it was looking for them."
"Uh... Yeah! Yeah, I totally knew that. I was just testing you to see if you could figure it out." Ben said, pretending that he figured it out before she did. Cosmo gave him with a disproving look.
"Anyways, we should probably get rid of all of this stuff. No telling what could happen if the Forever Knights kept it all." Ben said, getting more serious.
"Yeah. But I don't think that we can get rid of it all." Cosmo said, worried.
Ben started to smile, "I know just the Tetramand or the job." He then dialed up an alien on his Omnitrix.
"I don't think we have time for a Tetramand to come all the way out-" Cosmo said as Ben lifted up his hand and slammed down on his watch.
His shape began to change. He grew large and white. He had gained natural, yellow armor plating on his back, shoulders and the backs of his arms. The symbol on his watch was now on his forehead. Ben got a good look at himself and said, "Or Cannonbolt. Cannonbolt works too."
Cosmo walked up to Ban and asked, How did you do that?"
"It's kinda a long story. I'll tell ya later. Right now I'm gonna wreck these weapons. You may wanna step outside." Ben explained, walking to the center of the room.
"But you're an Arburian Pelarota. They don't fight very well. That's one of the reasons why they're extinct." Cosmo explained.
"Well, maybe they're extinct because they don't know how to rock 'n' roll! Ben explained. Ben then curled up into a large orange ball and started to roll around the room at a fast pace. This caused him to smash into the walls and, more importantly, the weaponry in the room, destroying it in thee process. Cosmo, now seeing what Ben was doing, quickly ran out of the room and into the hallway. She quickly closed the door so that way Ben wouldn't shoot out of the room and hit her or something.
Ben rolled around the room, smashing almost every thing inside it. All of the weapons in it were being crushed by Cannonbolt's heavy weight. He did this or a few minutes for two reasons. First, he wanted to make sure that he destroyed al of the weapons well enough. Second, causing mass destruction of an enemy's weaponry is a lot more fun then you'd think.
Cosmo stood outside the room as Ben destroyed the weapons. Cosmo sat outside the room as Ben destroyed the weapons. Cosmo paced outside the room as Ben destroyed the weapons. Basically, she did a few things as Ben destroyed the weapons. He was taking a while. She was back to sitting as she heard moaning. She looked over and saw the forever Knight, Gareth, waking up from unconsciousness.
"Aw, man, what the flip happened last night..." Gareth said as he got up. He looked around and saw the seedrian girl, who was slowly getting up and backing away from him.
"You! Aw, man, I remember now. You're the little bugger who..." Gareth said before smelling himself, "Aw, man, I still smell like that! Aw, that stinks! Agg!" Just then a large smashing sound was heard from inside the room.
"Hm? Aw, yeah! The weapons vault! Just you wait you little weed! Imma get a laser blaster and then I'm gonna-" Gareth yelled as h opened the door, not expecting a giant, rolling ball to come flying out and hit him. Cannonbolt sent him flying down the hall, along with himself, until he slowed down and changed back to Ben. Ben slowly got up from the floor, while Cosmo ran up to him.
"Hey, Cosmo, are you okay?" He asked her.
"You guys can't use my nights source code, Nryyaaaaa..." Gareth said, in a dazed and stupid voice.
"I am, but I'm not sure about him..." Cosmo said.
"Well, look, I just took care of the weapons, now all we have to do is get outta here." Ben said to her.
"Good. Now do... whatever it is you do that turns you into things and get us outta here!" Cosmo said to him.
A sweat dropped down on the back of Ben's head. He put his hand behind his head and replied, "Uh... yeah... about that. I kinda... have to wait for the Omnitrix to recharge before I can turn into another alien."
Cosmo looked at him with a face that said the word that she said to him, "Really?"
Galaxina was currently outside, looking at the sky in horror, "No... please, no." She said to herself.
Ben ran out the door to Galaxina's side.
"Galaxina, what's the-" Ben said to her before seeing what she was looking at. His eyes widened upon what she saw, "Whoa."
Up in the sky were at least three large, red ships. All of them looked as if they were ready for battle. Or, rather, a Curb Stomping. Quickly, Julie, Rook and Cosmo rushed outside. They, too, saw the large warships.
"Th-they're here. The Drakons are here..." Galaxina said with fear trembling in her voice.
"Wow, those ships are huge." Julie said in amazement.
"Yes. Clearly the Drakons are ready for battle." Rook said.
Ben looked upon the ships. These things were gonna wipe the Seedrians off of the face of the universe. The Drakons they faced were just some random Mooks. These were the big guns. If these guys started to fire their guns, then they'd win the war and start to take over the rest of the galaxy. But Ben wasn't gonna have that. He was Ben Tennyson, for crying out loud! He's saved the universe several times before! From the Highbreed, from Aggregor, from Daigon. Heck, these guys are a piece of cake compared to the other threats he's dealt with.
"And so are we." Ben picked up from where Rook spoke. He placed his hand on Galaxina's shoulder and said, "Don't 're gonna take care of these fish-faces."
Galaxina smiled a bit, "Thank you." She didn't know how, but she knew Ben was going to win this. As stated before, He was Ben Tennyson.
Just then, a dark gray-almost black, male seedrian came running out the door. Unlike Cosmo and Galaxina, he had two, fairly long branches on his head. "Ma'am, sir, Q- Princess Cosmo?!"
Cosmo looked at the seedrian with a smile, "Hello, Admiral Narcissus."
"Admiral Narcissus, how did you get out of the prison cells?" Galaxina said to him. He looked at her and said, "I was able to escape by draining the Drakon Prosecutor's suits and having the wall destroyed. I freed all of the other prisoners as well."
"You drained them? How?" Rook asked.
"That is on a need to know basis." The Admiral addressed Rook.
"And these three here need to know. They're here to help us out with this war, Narcissus." Cosmo explained.
Narcissus looked at the three before him. He wasn't too sure what or who they were, but he decided not to question, instead taking the royal's word for it.
"Alright. I was able to drain the guard's suit by activating a tanker that was in the prison cell. They brought it down to destroy them and If I had not done so before they were properly ready, they would have destroyed the other prisoners." He explained.
"What kind of tanker was it?" Galaxina asked him.
"One of those Chaos Blasters." Narcissus explained.
"Chaos Blasters?" Julie asked.
"It's a tanker that they use in big space battles. They've used them to take down our ships before, but they must have a large amount of Chaos Energy powering them, otherwise, it's just a big heap of junk."
Ben smiled at this. He had an idea.
"Hey, Narcissy-or whatever your name is-how many of those tanker things are in this city?"
Currently, Cosmo and Ben were sneaking around, trying to get out of the base. This involved the two trying to stay up close against walls, and crawling on the floor a lot. Eventually, they came to a large, dark grey door. Ben knelt down and slightly opened it.
He looked inside and saw that it was a large room full of several vehicles and many Forever Knights, all of them walking around. There was also a large opening in the room that led to outside, presumably for the vehicles. Ben looked back at Cosmo and whispered, "Alright, our ticket outta here is in there, but we gotta be careful. The place is crawling with Forever Knights."
Cosmo nodded. Ben crawled into the room on all fours and Cosmo followed. She looked around, wondering how all of the forever Knights ot up from the floor so quickly considering Ben said that the room was crawling with them. Ben crawled behind a sort of jeep-like vehicle and hid behind it. Cosmo did this as well. The two looked around, making sure no one saw them. Luckily, no one did.
"We're surrounded." Cosmo said in a worried tone.
"Don't worry, I'll get us out of here." Ben said as he moved to the door of the jeep. He carefully climbed up into the Jeep. He looked at the wheel and all of the buttons on the dash panel. Cosmo could be seen in the corner of his eye, climbing in on the other side of the vehicle.
"Darn. No keys. Why couldn't the forever knight be morons?" Ben said to himself. Cosmo looked around the room, sunken down in her seat to make sure no one saw her. She saw four forever knights over on the other side of the room having a conversation and saw something near them. It was small, but maybe, just maybe...
"Are those the keys?"She whispered, pointing over to what she saw. Ben looked over there and, low and behold, there were indeed keys over by those four forever knights.
"Yeah, it is!" Ben said to her. He slowly started to get out of the jeep until Cosmo held his arm. He looked over at her and she said, "I'll go and get them."
"No, I'm the hero here. I'm the one who goes." Ben replied.
"But you're also the one who knows this technology better then me. If I get caught, I'll throw you the keys and you can drive off and get help." Cosmo explained.
"That's not gonna happen." Ben said.
"How do you know?" Cosmo asked.
"Because I'm the one whose gonna get the keys." Ben said as he jumped out of the vehicle.
"Ben! Ben!" Cosmo whispered at him. He did not listen. Cosmo simply sank down into her seat, just to make sure no one saw her.
Ben slowly crawled across the room to the four knights. It was a miracle that no one saw him. He heard the conversation that the four were having, but he payed not attention to it, as he needed to get the keys. It sounded like they were talking about video games or something. He lifted up his hand to grab them, but the man there placed his hand right next to the keys without noticing Ben.
Ben whispered to Cosmo, "I got the keys!" Cosmo's eyes were widened to the max and she pointed to Ben. Or rather behind him, considering that one of the forever knights was behind him and he grabbed Ben. "Gotcha!" He yelled.
Ben struggled to get out of his grasp but could not. "I'm glad I paid for those child grabbing lessons." said the man who had Ben in his grasp in his dull voice.
"Ah! Lemme go, you stupid-" Ben shouted as he struggled. He held the keys in his hand tightly. The man holding him tried to get them out of his hand, but had no success.
Ben lifted his leg up and brought it back quickly on the Knight, but it did not hurt him, for he was armored. Cosmo was worried now. Ben was in the grasp of that forever knight, and it wouldn't be long until she would be captured too. She looked around in a panic and saw something that caught her attention in the back of the jeep. It was a blaster gun of some kind. Cosmo quickly grabbed it and did the first thing her instincts told her to do.
Ben struggled to get out of the Forever Knight's grasp, but could not. At least not until a gun was literally thrown at his head. "Agh!" He screamed in pain as he let go of Ben, who ran over to the jeep. Ben jumped up into the vehicle and jammed the keys into the ignition.
The jeep did not start up. It sputtered as Ben turned the key, "Come on... please work!" Cosmo looked at the Knights as they held up their blasters and fired at them. "Those things can shoot! Aw, man, if I knew that I wouldn't have thrown that one!" She said in fear.
Ben continued to try and start the engine, with no success. The Forever Knight continued to shoot the two, missing each time they fired. Just then out of the doors they had come through earlier, Enoch, Tom, the other guy and a bad-smelling Gareth walked through the door. Enoch saw the two children in the jeep and pointed, "Get those two! They will pay dearly for what they have done!"
"Enoch! Cosmo yelled after she turned to look to see who spoke. Just then, the jeep finally started up. "Yes!" Ben said, smiling. He floored it and the jeep flew off outside the Forever Knight Base.
Both Cosmo and Ben screamed, But Ben's scream was more of a "Whooo-hooo!" as opposed to Cosmo's "Aaaahhhh!" The two drove off far away from the base.
Enoch stood there, looking at the dust cloud that they left behind. "Sir, I shall take our squadron out after them right away!" A man who sounded under his twenties yelled.
"There will be no need for that Ted." Enoch said.
Ted looked at the other Forever Knights and said, "Um... O...kay?"
Enoch looked at Ted with a look of... well Ted couldn't tell, but he assumed it was annoyance. "They just ran off in one of our own vehicles. We have a cloaking device on it. We'll let them run off, get away, think themselves to be scot-free... And that's when we'll strike." Enoch said, sounding incredibly dangerous and clenching his fist as he sad that last sentence.
With that, he walked back into the hallway he came from, allowing silence to take place once again, until Ted asked, "Did you really have child grabbing lessons, Ryan?"
The man who had Ben earlier, whose name was apparently Ryan, looked at him and said, "No, it was a joke."
"Mommy, what's going on?" A young seedrian girl asked her mother.
"We're going away for a while sweetie." The mother responded in a rushed and slightly scared tone.
"Where are we going?" The child asked.
"Somewhere, sweetie. We just need to-" The mother could not finish her sentence as a Drakon Prosecutor pushed down the door. The woman looked at him with a face of horror as he spoke, "Alright, come on, let's move. You two are coming with me."
"Sweetie, run away." The mother whispered to her child.
"But, mommy-" The child said before her mother continued, "Listen to mommy and run away."
The child looked at her and nodded. She then ran behind her mother, to the back door. Unfortunately, the Drakon saw this and pointed his staff at her, "Hey! You stop!" He then fired a laser beam at the child. It appeared to hit her, dead-on.
"No!" The mother screamed, tears flowing down her eyes.
"Alright, come on! There's no point in fighting!" The Drakon yelled as he grabbed her hand, but she jerked herself away and fell to the floor.
"Oh, so we have a resister here. Well, in that case..." The Drakon pointed his staff at her face. Her scared, horror-filled face. "This won't kill you, but it'll make you wish it did." The Drakon said sadistically. He was about to fire it until, in the fraction of an instant, a Kineceleran appeared in front of him. He was also holding the little girl that the Drakon shot earlier.
"Hiya!" Ben said, his voice vibrating in XLR8's voice, "Hey, we kinda need to borrow your suit, think you could help out? Great!" Ben then jabbed the confused Drakon in the face, not only breaking his face plate, but horribly injuring the Drakon fish inside. He turned around and handed the little Seedrian girl to her mother.
"Mommy!"
"Sweetie!"
The two embraced each other warmly, with tears still flowing down the mother's cheeks.
"Glad I could help!" Ben said. The then grabbed the Drakon and screamed, "See ya later!" He ran off, dragging the Drakon prosecutor behind him.
Ben ran down the streets of Oakfeild, dragging the Prosecutor down the street in a slightly comical fashion.
"Hey, Rook, Julie, Cosmo," Ben said through a communicator he was now holding, "How's your search going?"
Julie flew through the air, holding a couple of Drakon Prosecutor suits in one hand... somehow. "I just got two suits, and from the looks of things, I'm getting a third one." She said to the others through ship's communicator. She held her fist towards the ground and a large, grappling-hook type thing popped out of her suit's arm. It fired and grabbed a Drakon Prosecutor on the ground that was terrorizing a couple of seedrians.
Julie then used the thing on her arm to bring up the Drakon. He came up to the girl and noticed the other two Drakon suits in her other hand. He pulled out his staff, ready to manipulate gravity to make it to heavy for the girl to fly. However, Ship fired a small beam of energy at the Drakon's hand from his eye, causing him to loose his weapon.
"It also looks like we have a prisoner." Julie said through her communicator.
Rook held his communicator up to his mouth, "That is great Julie." Just then a blast shot right next to the rock he was hiding behind for cover. "Though, I cannot say the same for me."
"Come on out, Revonnahgander!" Shouted one of the Drakons. There were at least ten of them, all of them holding a Drakon Sword. Rook tried to think of a plan. He held his chin while a few of the Drakons made their way towards the rock that he was hiding behind. He smiled as an idea popped up into his head.
A Drakon finally made his way to the rock Rook was behind. With his suit's massive strength he picked up the rock over his head. Rook looked right at the Drakon as he held his Proto-Tool. He aimed it right at the Drakon's faceplate. He pulled the trigger and a long rod popped out of it, striking the Drakon in the face. This caused the alien to fall over, dropping the rock in his hands. It almost landed on another Drakon right behind him. Rook then reached for something on the Drakon's person quickly.
All of the Drakons raised their Swords and aimed them at Rook. Rook, however had what he needed from the Drakon he had just rendered unconscious. His staff.
"Let us hope this works!" Rook said, raising the staff up high and then slamming it down on the ground. By doing this, Rook had modified the gravity in the area so the the Drakons were so heavy that they could not even stand. The all collapsed on the ground, their metal exo-skeletons barely surviving the massive gravity that Rook had modified.
Rook took his communicator up to his mouth and said, "Scratch that. I now have at least ten."
"Ten? Good job their Rook. Just got my fourth one here." Julie said through the communicator.
"Only ten? Ha!" Ben said as he came to a sudden halt after dragging the Drakon across the city. He threw the metal heap with a fish inside on the top of a very large pile of other Drakon Prosecutors.
"I think I might've beat you to it by about, oh... fifty." Ben said into his communicator.
"Now, Ben, this isn't a competition." Said Cosmo through the communicator.
"Doesn't mean we can't turn it into one." Ben stated through Cosmo's communicator.
A laser flew past Cosmo's head. "D'oh, I missed!" Shouted a Drakon.
"Eat Avohkii, fish-face!" Galaxina shouted as she fired a beam of light fro her staff at the Drakons.
Narcissus had gotten some of their Avohkii staffs back from the Drakon vault where they kept all of their weapons. The three were now inside the vault, in a shooting battle against some Drakon Prosecutors.
"Come, now, Cosmo! Take your Avohkii staff and help us!" Narcissus told her, firmly.
Cosmo nodded. "Galaxina, give me some cover." She said to her sister. Galaxina nodded to her. Cosmo crawled out in the middle of the room, making sure to keep behind and underneath her sister.
"Don't let them get that staff!" Shouted a Drakon Prosecutor.
"I've got this!" Said another one as he lifted up his staff and slammed it on the ground. Galaina started to float up in the air along with Cosmo. In fact, almost everything in the room started to float up. Narcissus, various weaponry that was on the floor, even a few downed Drakons here and there.
"Haha! Got 'em now!" Laughed the Drakon who changed gravity as he pointed his sword up at the two seedrians. Others began to lift their swords at them as well.
Galaxina started to fire at them. She could not hit them for the life of her, which, unfortunately was about to be the case. Narcissus also shot at them, but there were more of them then there were of the Seedrians. Cosmo looked below her and saw the Avohkii staff. She reached out for it and...
"Got it!" She shouted in triumph. The next thing she felt was an incredible amount of pressure on her body. She fell to the ground like a rock. Followed by Galaxina, who was now on Cosmo. She felt like an incredibly fat chick falling on top of a midget. With her being the midget. The Drakon seemed to have altered Gravity once again, only instead of making them lighter, he made them heavier. Much, Much heavier.
"Hahaha. It looks like we got both Princesses here." The Drakon smiled at them, evilly.
"Yes," The Drakon held up a communicator of his own and started to speak into it, "Prepare the Celebratory feast! We've just captured the two Princesses of Greengate, and are heading to Drak now."
"I don't think so." Said a quick voice from behind them. They turned and saw XLR8 outside the door. "What?! Where did you come from?!" Shouted a Drakon Prosecutor.
"Maybe you should try destroying the communicator that your enemy had before you announce your big plan. Just a thought." Ben told them. He ran right into the room... only to fall face first to the ground due to the expanded gravity in the room.
"Okay, maybe that wasn't the smartest idea..." He said as he struggled to get up.
"Hahaha... It appears that your own demise is at hand, Kineceleran." Said a Drakon, walking up to Ben. He picked him up the head and held him face to face-or in the Drakon's case, face to entire body, "Your trail in the Arena of Judgement will be most entertaining to Emperor Ko-Dorr, whilst he feasts in victory over the first world concurring of our New Empire."
"There's... Just... One Problem... with your, Hrk, little... plan..." Ben said, strained from the intense gravity.
"Oh? And what is that, Puny Creature?" The Drakon asked, smiling evilly.
Ben held out his claw and quickly slammed the Omnitrix symbol on his chest. He glowed green and his form changed. He was now a large, blue, Jellyfish-like creature, with six tentacles. He turned into AmpFibian! He pushed one of these tentacles into the Drakon's chest, though it seemed to just phase through it instead of actually hitting him. Ben then sent many pulses of lightning through his Exo-skeletal body and fried the suit's mainframe. The Drakon Prosecutor fell to the ground in a crumpled heap while AmpFibian flew up in the air.
"What? How is he flying? The Gravity in this room should be making him fall like a rock!" Exclaimed one of the Drakons.
"Don't Know! Don't care!" Ben said, with AmpFibian's bubbling voice. He then pointed his tentacles at the Drakons and shot out beams of electricity, frying the fish's suits in the process. After the Drakons fell to the floor, some of them moaning in pain, Ben flew to the ground and picked up one of their staffs with his tentacle and slammed it on the ground, turning the gravity back to normal.
Cosmo, Galaxina and Narcissus slowly got up from the ground, still sore from the intense pressure that was upon them for at least a minute. "You all okay?" Ben asked.
"I think so..." Cosmo said quietly, clutching her head.
"Yeah, we're good." Galaxina answered.
Narcissus walked over to the heaps of wreckage and picked up a Drakon Sword that one of the Drakon's dropped when Ben fried them.
Just then, Julie began to speak through the communicator that Cosmo left on the ground.
"Guys, get out here. Now!"
Ben nodded to the three and he flew out of the room, being followed by Cosmo, Galaxina, and Narcissus.
When the four were out in the hallway, Narciuss said, "Hold up, I've got an idea!" And slammed the Drakon Sword on a wall. This caused the gravity in the hallway to be shifted. Now, everyone fell forward down the hall, making the three seedrians sped through the halls to get to their destination faster.
Julie and Rook were currently outside the castle, the former still wearing Ship as armor. There was a very large pile of Drakon Prosecutor suits and a very large tanker next to them.
AmpFibian flew through the wall to them while Cosmo, Galaxina and Narcissus flew past them down the hallway. Seeing them pass by Julie and Rook, Narcissus hit the staff on the ground and Gravity returned to normal for the Seedrians, though they had gained enough speed to skid down the hallway.
"Alright, guys, what's the problem?" AmpFibian asked.
Julie pointed up at the ships coming towards the city. They were closer then before, and they all seemed to have their cannons out. And pointed directly at the city.
"Oh, never mind." AmpFibian said, his voice sounding as if it were bubbling underwater.
"The Drakons are ready to fire, and we are hopelessly out-gunned." Rook said.
"We have this thing." Ben said as he floated over to the large tanker.
"I am not sure if we have enough Chaos energy in order to even power this thing, let alone take down a giant warship." Rook said to him.
"Lemme, see..." Narcissus said, breathlessly as he walked out of the castle, followed by Cosmo and Galaxina. Screaming really took a lot from your lungs. Narcissus walked up to the machine and sat in it's seat. He pressed a bunch of the buttons on it's control panel and a couple of large cords popped out of the back.
"You use those to get the energy from the suits. From what I understand on the energy, you should just be able to put them on top of the pile of suits and it should drain them." He explained.
Julie nodded. She took the cords and walked them over to the pile. They all started to glow green as the cords drained the energy from them. Narcissus looked intensely at a gauge on the machine. It seemed to be going higher while the suits were being drained.
"Do you believe that we will be able to take down these ships?" Rook asked the man.
"If we get enough energy, yes." Narcissus explained. He remembered what this thing had done before in space. Well, not this particular one, but another one just like it. He was able to use it to take down one of their ships in space. But it had drained all of the energy from the tanker and there wasn't any left after it fired, basically making it an unloaded weapon. It had just reached the point where he guessed that it had enough energy to take out a group of Drakonian Procecutors when...
"They stopped glowing." said Julie.
"What?!" Narcissus asked in disbelief. He looked at the pile and none of the Drakon suit were glowing. He looked back at the gauge with his eyes widened.
"We do not have enough power to take down the ships?" Rook asked.
"No! This isn't enough to take 'em out!" Narcissus yelled at Rook.
Cosmo and Galaxina looked upon him in horror, "What?!" They both shouted in unison.
"There's no hope now. We're doomed..." Narcissus said, clutching his head. Rook looked up at the ships pondering what to do in this situation, While Julie did so, but by looking at the ground and holding her chin.
"Not quite." Said the bubbling voice of AmpFibian, "I'll just go up there and shock them all down to size."
Cosmo looked up a him with sorrow, "Ben, I don't think even you're able to take down an entire ship all by yourself..."
"Maybe he doesn't have to..." Said Julie, who just had an idea. An idea that could work and, besides Ben rushing up there and trying to take down the ship, was their only plan. It was also the only decent plan they had.
"Ship, do your stuff." She said to her pet.
"Ship!" said the little Galvanic Mechamorph. Ship jumped off of Julie's body, now done acting as her armor, leaving her with the clothes that she was wearing before she had left Earth. The little creature then jumped on to the tanker and began to fuse with it. As he did this, he began to upgrade it as well, by doing numerous things, such as enlarging the main cannon, adding four smaller cannons on the sides, making it quite larger, making it more sleek and less bulky then before, just basically making it look all around better then before, along with making it black with Green strips in a pattern around it.
Ship's single round "eye" appeared on the control panel and glowed as he spoke, "Ship!" Every green line started to glow as the little Galvanic Mechamorph spoke. The machine charged up energy as Ship spoke. The machine then fired an incredibly large energy blast right at the ships in the sky. So large that it made the tanker itself seem like a little toy in comparison. Ben, Cosmo, Galaxina, Rook and Narcissus looked in awe, while Julie just smiled at her pet.
The large beam of energy flew through the sky, until it hit the first ship. Actually, it didn't stop there, it pretty much went right through the large ship, engulfing it in light. The beam of death flew through the ship and on to another one, with the result being exactly the same. It finally made it's way to the last of the three ships. Guess what it did? If you said, "Completely vaporized the ship" your guess is much better then that guy who guessed "Bend the fabric of Space-Time in order to make an Angel Panda that looks exactly like Richard Nixon." The beam flew right through all three of the ships from beginning to end and the beam shot out into space. The beam probably didn't hit anything, but if it did, it was probably a purple moon, and really, who likes those? Ship's beam of energy died down until there was nothing firing from the machine. The six of them looked up in the sky to see no giant ships in it.
"Holy flagnog..." Narcissus said quietly to himself. Ship separated from the very large machine, going back to his normal form, "Ship! Ship!" He jumped into Julie's arms and cuddled into her.
"That's a good boy, Ship. Way to go!" Julie told her pet as she held him. Ship cooed in response.
"Well... That worked." Ben said with AmpFibian's bubbling vocal cords.
"Yes... it did." Cosmo said, dumbfounded.
A panting sound came from behind them all. Ben and Cosmo looked behind themselves to see what the sound was coming from. Standing there, hands on his knees, looking down, was a yellow male Seedrian. He panted in between words, "Ma'am... There's... a... There's a... Hold on... Ah... so... tired..." Everyone else now looked at him.
"Zelkova?" Cosmo said, looking upon the clearly tired seedrian. The man looked up to see where the voice was coming from.
"Cosmo?!" He yelled in response to seeing her. He looked at her, and then turned his eyes in the directions of the others. He rubbed his eyes. He removed his hands from his eyes and looked again, just to make sure he wasn't crazy.
"Is it you?" He asked her.
Cosmo nodded, "Yes, Zelkova, it's me."
"B-but... how? We all... thought you were dead..." He said in the same tone as any normal person would say that sentence in.
Cosmo's eyes widened in response to hearing this, "Dead?"
"Yes! Your Pod blew up in space!" Zelkova said to her.
"... No it didn't..." Cosmo explained, bluntly.
"Yes, it did!" He shouted.
No it didn't."
"Yes, it did!"
"Obviously, it didn't Zelkova." Narcissus responded in a fed up tone.
"Then how come we saw an Escape Pod blow up?" Zelkova asked.
"We sent all of the escape pods out, you moron. Obviously, the Drakons blew up one that she wasn't in." Narcissus explained, "I swear, sometimes I wish you were as smart as my looks are good."
Zelkova looked at him and looked back at the others. "Who are these people?" He asked.
"They are friends of Cosmo's. She went to Earth to get them for help, and here they are." Galaxina explained.
Cosmo looked at him with a look of commencement and curiosity. He obviously was panting earlier to get somewhere fast. Her curiosity got the better of her, so she asked, "Where were you off to in such a hurry?"
Zelkova looked back at her, "I was looking for the Queen. I have good news and bad news."
"Unfortunately, Mother isn't here right now, Zelkova." Cosmo said to him. Galaxina looked at her, as did Narcissus, the former with a look of sadness on her face, the latter a face of curiosity.
"Tell us, Zelkova, we're the ones who'll handle it." Galaxina said, looking back at Zelkova.
"Alright, bad news, three Drakon ships are headed this way right now. If we-" "Already done." Narcissus interrupted.
"What?"
"We already took care of that. The Galvanic Mechamorph in the human's arms just blew them up." Narcissus explained, pointing his thumb at Julie.
Zelkova looked at Julie's pet, in her arms, "Ship."
"O...kay. Than that leaves only good news." Zelkova said.
"Which is what exactly, Sir Zelkova?" Rook asked.
"We have a bunch of Drakons in the prison bay. We're going to interrogate them to get information. From what I know, they hold vital information that could end the war." He explained, with redundancy.
"Great! Come on guys, we're going to get that info and stop this war!" Cosmo shouted with joy as she bolted past Zelkova. Ben looked at Julie, as did Rook, while Julie looked at Ben. The three nodded and followed her into the castle.
Galaxina looked at the ground in sadness, staying right where she was.
"You haven't told her?" Zelkova asked.
Galaxina shook her head, "No..."
"Now's probably not the best time to give the princess that sort of news. Wait a little bit, Zelkova." Narcissus said in concern.
"She's going to find out eventually." He responded, bluntly.
Galaxina looked to the ground. A single tear fell from her eye. She walked past Zelkova and said, "I'll tell her after the War is over. Right now we should go and help them out. Drakons are tough nuts to crack." And with that she ran down the hall after the four. Narcissus and Zelkova looked at each other and nodded. They rushed after them immediately afterwards.
Inside a fairly large, grey, bricked-up room was a very large fish tank with about five Drakons inside it.
"No matter what, we must not tell these weeds the plan." Said one of the Drakons in the tank.
"Well, I know that. What do you take me for, an imbecile?" Replied another Drakon, this one with a gruff voice.
"I must say this to remind any of you who've forgotten what happened the last time someone cracked under these conditions." The first Drakon explained.
"I remember what happened the last time." Said another Drakon. They four others shuddered, a task not thought to be possible for any sort of fish. They didn't experience it, but they were told the horrible stories by one of the escapees of that night. They were all captured by the enemy, who wanted the information of a surprise attack from their fleet. Most of the Drakons were strong, knowing that the leader would kill them in horrible fashions if they squealed and escaped. The enemy told them that they would keep them safe from the leader's tyranny of punishment. So, one of them squealed. After they had all of the information, the squealing Drakon was sentenced to be deep fried and buttered by the chef. That one Drakon was able to escape because the Fleet came earlier then they had expected and rescued him. When the Drakon got back, he told the other Drakons of the monstrous actions by the echindas, the race they were concurring at the time.
"Indeed. And I guarantee you that the Emperor would have done something far worse to him. All of you must be on your fins, no squeals." The first Drakon explained.
The four others all spoke in unison, "Right!"
Just then the large, grey door in the room slowly opened up with a loud, screeching noise as it scrapped across the concrete floor. The apparent openers of the door were four seedrians, two male, two female, a human girl, a galvanic mechamorph, a male Revonnahgander, and an Ampiri.
"I know who the four weeds are, but who are the others?" Said a Drakon in the tank.
"I know what they are. A monkey, a blob, a cat, and an Ampiri." said one of the others, "Be careful of the Ampiri. Do not think about the plan, at any time."
The eight looked at the Drakons in the tank. They all seemed to be talking to each other, however, no one seemed to hear what they were talking about, only hearing muffled noises coming from the tank. Well, the seven heard muffled noises, Ben as an Ampiri, heard them all just fine. Odd.
"Alright, here they are." Zelkova said to the others.
"Perfect. Whatever information they have will help us win the war." Narcissus spoke in a tone of excitement.
"Yeah, but the real question is how will we get it out of them?" Galaxina asked.
"First we need to know what they say." Cosmo said as she walked up to the tank of water. She opened up the top of it and reached her hand in it to grab a Drakon and pull it out. That way, they'd be able to understand it better out of the water. This didn't work, as the first thing that a Drakon did was bite her hand hard.
"Ah! Get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off!" She screamed in pain as she pulled her hand out of the tank and waved it around in hopes of it letting go of her arm.
"Cosmo!" Ben said in AmpFibian's bubbling voice.
Rook and Galaxina ran towards Cosmo and grabbed the fish on her arm. They started to yank it off, but the fish would not let go of her arm and she screamed in pain even louder. Rook pulled out his Proto-Tool and it changed in shape slightly. He then jammed the Proto-Tool into the Drakon and it tased the fish with it's taser, causing it to scream in pain. It let go of Cosmo's arm, but she was still trying to fling it around so when the fish let go it was flung back into the fish tank along with the other prisoners. When it swam up to the others, it spoke to them, saying words that no one else but Ben could understand, but Ben didn't pay too much attention to them as he rushed over to see if Cosmo was hurt.
"You okay?" He asked her.
"I think so," Cosmo said, holding her now hurt hand. Galaxina pulled her one hand away from it to get a better look at it. Other then bite marks, it seemed to be okay.
"You'll be fine, just try not to pick anything up with it." She told her.
"How will we get these fish to talk?" Zelkova said.
"We can't even understand them." Narcissus replied.
Ben's eyes widened, "What?" He said looking towards the others.
"We can't understand them. Their voices are muffled by the water." Galaxina said to him.
Ben looked at the Drakons as they spoke to each other, and then back at everyone else, "I can hear them just fine."
"You can?!" Zelkova said with a shocking tone in his voice.
"Yeah." Ben replied.
"How?" Narcissus asked.
"I think it is because he is an Ampiri." Rook explained.
"Ampiri?" Zelkova said to him.
"Oh, right... Ampiri..." Ben said, looking at his tentacles.
"Wait, doesn't that guy have electric powers?" Julie asked Ben.
"Yes, Julie. In fact..." Rook said, starting to remember what he learned about the species during his days at the Plumber academy, "by using their abilities over the electromagnetic spectrum, Ampiri's can read electrical pulses in the minds of any life form, which can be used to read their thoughts!"
"Wait, really?" Cosmo asked.
Rook nodded to her.
"This is great! Ben can just go in there and read their thoughts to get the information from them!" Cosmo shouted with joy.
"I can?!" Ben said in astonishment, "...Uh, yeah, I mean... Of course I can. I just need to... y'know get them to think about it... so, yeah.. give me a few minutes."
Ben flew up and into the tank. He was now submerged into the tank with the other Drakons. Rook, Julie, Ship, Cosmo, Galaxina, Narcissus and Zelkova all watched what was happening in the tank. It seemed that Ben and the Drakons were talking, but no one understood what they were saying. Which Zelkova pointed out, "I can't understand them."
"Of course you can't, they're underwater, moron." Narcissus told him.
"Well, excuse me for saying something I noticed, you self-loving seedrian." Zelkova said to him.
"I do not love myself."
"Oh, right, so all of those comments about how handsome you are are from someone else?"
"I only say what is true."
"Shut up you two, We don't wanna distract Ben from the Drakons." Cosmo said, wanting to stop the two from fighting.
"Actually, I highly doubt that Ben could hear us through he water and the glass of this tank." Rook interjected, leading Cosmo to give him a look that simply said 'really?'.
Whilst they were having their conversation outside of the tank, Ben was conversing with the prisoners.
"Greetings, uh... fishy... guys. I am here to... find out your plan... and I can read minds! So, you might as well just spit it out." Ben told them.
The five Drakons just stared at him, some with angry looks, others with nervous ones.
"So, yeah, just spit it out for me. I don't wanna waste anyone's time here."
"We ain't telling you the plan. Not after the last time this sorts thing happened." Said a Drakon with a gruff voice.
"Oh, really? Well, uh, what happened?" Ben asked.
"You tell us! I'm the one thinkin' you're the one who reads minds!" Shouted the Drakon.
"Oh, um... right..."
One of the other Drakons raised his brow in curiosity. He wasn't acting very confident in this situation.
"OP!" Said another Drakon, this one with a more worried look on his face.
"What?" Ben said to him.
"I-I just thought about the plan!" He shouted.
"You did?" Ben said to him. He looked around at the others, who were all looking at him suspiciously. "Uh, I mean... yeah! Of course you did... so, if you'll excuse me... I'll just... be on my way!"
"Waaiiitt a minute." Said the lead Drakon in the cage. He swam up to Ben's face and looked him right in his eyes. Ben did the same thing, but he looked more nervous, while the Drakon looked more intrigued.
"You don't know how to read minds, do you?" The Drakon told him.
The other four looked at each other curiously.
"What?! Of course I do." Ben said in resentment.
"Then what's our plan?" He asked him. The other four looked at him with eyes of suspicion.
"Uh... well, it's... Uh..." Ben could not answer them. If he said the wrong thing then they'd know him for a fraud, but he didn't know the actual answer. So the end result was...
"Ha! You can't read our minds! HAHAHAHA! Hey, guys, check it out! An Ampiri that can't read minds!" He shouted to his comrades.
The others laughed along with him. "Hahaha! You can't get into our heads!" "Our victory is assured now!" "Hahahaha!" "I like Potatoes!" How that last one knew what a potato even was Ben had no clue. But that was not his concern right now. What was his concern was getting the plan out of these five fish freaks.
"So what if I can't read your minds! I'll just shock the information out of ya!" Ben said as he raised his tentacles and they began to spark with electricity. Unfortunately, this was sort of an empty threat as the Omnitrix timed out and Ben went from an Ampiri to a human. Ben imminently held his breath as he was now functioning with actual lungs instead of gills that could breath both air and water.
The five looked at him with evil faces. "Get him!" The lead one shouted. Not that Ben could tell, now they just sounded muffled by the water. They then darted towards Ben with their mouths wide open, their very sharp teeth showing. Ben knew what was coming, so he swam upward out of the tank. Unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough and some Drakons had actually bit him in several different places. "Ahh!" He yelled as he jumped out of the water. He landed on the hard concrete floor while some Drakons had bit him and were still biting him.
"Ben!" Cosmo shouted.
Ben coughed up some water before he spoke, "I'm okay!"
Julie had walked over to Ben and offered her hand to him. He took it and she helped him back to his feet. "Gah!" He shouted as the Drakon on his arm bit down harder. He began to shakes his arm much like Cosmo did earlier. Unlike earlier, he let go relatively quickly.
Another one growled as he tried to bite down hard on his leg. It didn't have the same reaction though as was biting down on Ben's Pants instead of the actual leg. Rook had made his way over to Ben and pulled off the fish, throwing it back in the tank. "Ow!" Ben shouted as the last one had bit down his hardest. He looked behind himself and the last Drakon had his teeth on Ben's butt. Both Rook and Julie grabbed the fish and started to pull it off. However, this one was holding on as if for dear life, much to Ben's suffering.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" Ben shouted in pain as the two tried to pull off the fish. The fish had finally let go of his rump and was thrown back into the fish tank.
Cosmo walked up to Ben, "Are you okay, Ben?
Ben started to rub his butt while he answered the question, "Besides the fish trying to take a bite outta my butt, yeah."
"Did you get the information?" Asked Narcissus.
A sweat dropped off of the back of Ben's head, "No, sorry. I couldn't get them to think about it."
"Great. Now what are we gonna do?" Said Zelkova.
"We're going to have to get it outta them somehow, so I say we take them to the torture chamber." Said Narcissus, pounding his fist into his hand.
Cosmo and Galaxina winced at this. They thought that torture was in-humane-er, in-seedriane for anyone. So Cosmo spoke up, "I don't think we should do that, Narcissus. Torture is not something that I want to inflict on anyone, even these Drakons."
"I agree. Torture is barbaric. But if there's no other way then..." Galaxina trailed off. Cosmo looked at her sister with a look of sadness, but eventually sighed in defeat. A slight pinging sound was heard in the room. Ben looked down to see that his Omnitrix had recharged.
"Wait. Let me try one thing first." Ben said as he dialed on his Omnitrix and slammed down on it's faceplate.
"Hahaha! Did you see the look on his face?" Laughed a Drakon.
"Yeah, he was all, 'aw, crud!' Hahahaha" Laughed another Drakon.
"And to think, he didn't know how to use his powers. We'll win this war for sure!" Said the leader Drakon.
"Oh, really?" Said a deep, gruff voice. The Drakons looked up and saw a head of a creature that was grey, with green eyes, a light-green antennae with a little light on the end, and a very large row of teeth.
"Piscciss Volann!" It's a Piscciss Volann!" Shouted a Drakon. The other Drakons swam away from the creature, but he proved to be too fast or the lead Drakon as he grabbed him and pulled him out of the fish tank.
The lead Drakon gasped and flopped around in the air, while he was being held in the air. He looked around to see the seven beings that entered the room before, save for Ben, who was now Ripjaws.
"Let go of me, Volann!" He shouted to Ben.
"Alright, Drakon, talk." Narcissus said to the fish, "Tell us what you know."
The Drakon laughed, "And what if I don't?" To this, Narcissus snapped his fingers and Ben opened up his mouth, his very, very dangerous mouth, and held the Drakon over it, slowly lowering his hand.
"I think you'll know the drill, fish-face." Narcissus told him.
The Drakon looked into Ben's maw, the one he was slowly being lowered into, and started to... laugh?
"Hahahaha... hahahahahahaha... Hahahahahahaha!" His insane laughter caused everyone to look oddly at him, including Ben, who had shut his mouth to look at him.
"Hahahaha... You actually believe that I will fall for such a Bluff?" The Drakon said to them. Everyone in the room's eyes widened, save for Narcissus, who simply look angrily at the fish, 'darn... he figured it out.' He thought to himself.
"Hahahaha, even if you weren't bluffing, I still wouldn't tell you. I'd much rather die as a Loyal soldier then as a traitor to my kind. And besides..." The Drakon trailed off. Galaxina heard a weird ping noise behind them, so she turned around to see what it was. Her eyes widened in response to what she saw.
"The cavalry has arrived..." The Drakon said evilly.
"Warp Ring!" Galaxina shouted. Everyone looked at her and then quickly to what she was looking at. It appeared that a very large, golden ring of energy was fading into existence behind them.
"They're calling in reinforcements! This is the info you were trying to hide, you stupid fish!" Narcissus shouted.
Zelkova spoke, "Be on your guard, we don't have any idea what's going to-" He wasn't able to finish his sentence. The energy of the ring became solid gold and something came through the ring, almost as if it acted like a portal. That's because it did. And it seemed like this portal opened up at the bottom of a sea as Water began bursting out of it at an intense pressure.
In a few seconds the entire room was flooded, save for the little bit of air left in between the ceiling and the water. The four Sedrians, Rook and Julie all swam to the last bit of air that they could get. They all tried to catch their breaths before they spoke to each other.
"Is everyone alright?" Narcissus asked.
"I think so..." Galaxina answered.
Cosmo looked around with wide eyes, "Where's Ben?"
"Do not worry, Cosmo, He is a Piscciss Volann. They can breath underwater." Rook answered her.
Meanwhile, underneath the water, Ben switched out his legs to a tail in order to swim better. He looked around and saw that the Drakons in the tank were escaping.
"Hey!" He shouted to them. He darted towards them and caught two of the prisoners. He looked at the other two, who were not that far ahead of him. He reached out his hands to grab them, but something unexpected happened. Something had tackled him and slammed him into the wall behind him. He looked at his attacker and was surprised to see what it was. A Drakon in a suit with only arms and a few underwater jets. The arms seemed to be quite beefy. Well, as beefy as bionic arms can get, anyways. There seemed to be three others behind it too. Ben noticed that one of them swam upwards to...
"Cosmo!" He shouted under the water.
The Drakon grabbed Cosmo's ankle and pulled her under the water. She screamed before she was submerged in the water.
"Cosmo!" Galaxina screamed.
Rook took in his breath and swam under the water to try and get her.
Ben saw the Drakon swimming towards he portal with Cosmo by the ankle. Thinking quickly he opened up his jaws and bit down on the Drakon's robotic arm, shattering it in the process. Now that the Drakon was no longer holding him, he darted towards the other Drakon with Cosmo in his grip. Unfortunately, another Drakon with bionic arms grabbed him by the throat and slammed him on the ground.
Rook, seeing his partner in trouble, pulled out his Proto-Tool and switched it to a bow. He aimed it at the Drakon holding down Ben and fired two energy spears at the Drakon, impaling the robotic composites of it in the process.
Ben quickly swam out of the ruined robots grip and towards the Drakon with Cosmo. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the last Drakon swimming towards him, readying a strike to his face. Fortunately, Ben slowed down enough so that when it tried to punch him, it missed, as it was aiming where his face was going to be, not where it was. Ben bit the arm off of the suit and dashed towards Cosmo and the Drakon. The Drakon fled into the giant golden ring along with Cosmo, but Ben wasn't gonna give up that easily. He extended his arm to grab her. However, the ring lost it's tangibility, becoming nothing more then just golden energy. With that, the water in the room poured out the doorway that the ring was blocking and flooded the hallway. Eventually, everyone was able to get back on their feet, thought the wet floor didn't help out with this. Ben turned back into his human form, seeing no point in continuing to be Ripjaws with no water around. Rook stood up and offered his hand to Julie, who accepted it and got up.
"Cosmo!" Galaxina shouted. She looked at the golden energy of the Warp Ring before it faded away. "No..." She said quietly to herself. Tears formed in her eyes. Her sister... her sister was... gone. "No!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. She burst into sobs of sorrow. Her sister was now in the hands of those... monsters.
Narcissus and Zelkova looked at her with piteous faces. Julie and Rook did the same. Ben, however, looked at where the ring was and gritted his teeth. Dry, evil laughing was heard in the room. Ben looked down to see the source of the laughter coming from a single Drakon, lying on the floor, struggling to breath.
"Hahaha... You've lost... You've all lost."
Galaxina looked at him with anger, "You...You! You Monsters!" She ran towards the Drakon and held it by the... throat? Fish don't have throats, what was she holding him by? Regardless, she was holding the Drakon with a mixture of Sadness and Rage on her face, "You Monstrous Drakons! Bring her back! Bring my little Sister back!" Her face lost it's rage and dipped into sadness, as did her voice, "Please... Bring her back!"
"Hahaha... Even if I could, it wouldn't do you any good... The fleet is on it's way now..."
"Fleet?" Ben asked the Drakon.
"Stop!" Shouted another Drakon, this one across the room, "Do not tell them... about the plan... Emperor Ko-Dorr... will have our gills..."
"We will not... make it... in these conditions... I wish to see... their horrified faces..." The Drakon in Galaxina's grasp gasped.
"What is your plan?" Julie asked.
"The Fleet... Of Drakon ships... They're coming... to insure our victory over this pathetic planet... Your species will be enslaved... and as long as one ship makes it... You'll be doomed... They have a Warp Ring on every ship... One that's directly hooked up to one back on Drak... Once it's opened... millions of our kind will enter... and take over... we will have won... Hahahaha..." The Drakon continued it's murderous laughter.
Galaxina looked at it with tears of anger and sorrow in her eyes. She shut them tightly, not being able to look at the maniacal fish.
"Not if we stop it."
Galaxina's eyes shot open upon hearing this. She looked up to who spoke those five words, which was Ben.
"Hahahaha... what makes you think... you'll stop them?" The Drakon asked Ben.
"Simple. I'm Ben Tennyson. I've saved the Universe from The Highbreed, Aggregor, Daigon, Vilgax, you name it, I beat it. I think i can handle a bunch of sentient fish with some battle ships." Ben told him. He turned and looked to Julie and Rook and said, "Besides, I'm not alone. Got my Partner, Girlfriend, her dog."
"Ship."
"And there is no doubt in my mind that we'll win." He finished.
"You will... never win... you don't have... a way to win... Human..." The Drakon gasped.
"We'll just see about that, fish face." Ben told him. He then put his hand on Galaxina's back, "Don't worry, we'll get her back. I promise." Ben removed his hand from Galaxina's shoulder and walked out of the room. "Come on guys. We gotta get up and out now if we're gonna win."
Rook followed Ben. Ship jumped back into Julie's arms and she followed him.
"So, do you have a plan?" Rook asked Ben after catching up to him along with Julie.
"Surprisingly, yes. It involves you three, Echo Echo, Heatblast, Crashhopper, and Fasttrack. I'll give you the details on the way up." Ben explained.
The three exited the room, leaving the three seedrians, and the Drakon prisoners in the room.
"Please..." Galaxina muttered to herself.
"Hahaha... they're going... to loose..." Said the Drakon in her grasp. Galaxina looked angrily at him. She brought back her fist and punched the fish square in the jaw.
"Ow..." moaned the Drakon, "I'll be honest here... I expected to suffocate by this point... darn you really good gills..."