Ultimate Alien
Ben was now sitting at home on the couch with Gwen and Kevin watching TV while Ship happily sat in his lap "so Ben how's the new arm treating you?" Gwen asked
"surprisingly I think it's even better than my old one" Ben said as he flexed his new arm which looked exactly the same as the old one.
"I still don't get why you didn't have them install any weapons in your new arm" Kevin said
"because my super strength and the Ultimatrix are all I need" Ben stated
"yeah but still"
"besides what would I need a blaster for when the gadgets in my fingers are just as useful"
"oh yeah a lighter (thumb), a universal key (index finger), a pen (middle finger) a healing laser (ring finger), and a taser (little finger) are so much better than a weapon that can take out a whole army with one shot" Ben responded by jabbing Kevin in the side with his taser making him leap out of his seat
"oh yeah it really is so much better"
Ship then leapt out of Ben's lap and into Gwen's sensing a fight about to break out "cut it out you two" Gwen said as Kevin got Ben in a headlock
they broke up as Gwen changed the channel showing a picture of Earth "the aliens are already among us" a distorted voice started before a clip of Wildmutt appeared, the three heroes eyes widened with Ben and Gwen's mouths slowly opening as a clip of Swampfire appeared "strange creatures with unbelievable powers, aliens are real, but that isn't the amazing part. This is. All of the creatures you've just seen are actually alter egos of one man. His name is Ben Tennyson" the voice said as multiple clips and pictures of Ben's aliens appeared on the screen with the final picture being that of Ben leaving Burger shack holding a bag of chilli cheese fries and a red highlighted circle around the Omnitrix on his cybernetic arm
"oh crap" Ben groaned out.
2 days later
Ben was steamed, for 2 days straight he had seen nothing on TV but him as one of his aliens causing destruction in some kind of form and the paparazzi hadn't been any better they were like a swarm of locusts eating away at his life. Looking through the wall with his cybernetic eyes x-ray vision he could see the reporters still on his families front lawn "okay that's it I'm putting a stop to this" he said as he got up off the couch with Ship jumping up on his shoulder.
As soon as he opened the front door he was blinded by bright lights with reporters asking him random questions "do you have a statement?" one of them asked "yeah I do" he then looked at Ship
"Ship, battle armour"
"Ship" Ship then turned into it's battle armour form while Ben activated his Ultimatrix and selected the right alien before turning into
"Eye Guy! Destroy every camera!" he said and he and Ship fired weak lasers at nearly every camera causing the paparazzi to quickly leave once they were gone Eye Guy and Ship high fived before they both turned back to normal. Ben picked up Ship and placed it on his shoulder "come on little guy lets go to Undertown, lord knows I'm not going to get any peace up here" he said he then closed his front door and used his teleporter to get down to Undertown.
He arrived in the center of Undertown and looked around as usual aliens were buzzing about selling/buying things, a young Kineceleran came up to him surprisingly holding a picture of him smiling "are you Ben Tennyson?" she asked excitedly
"yes I am"
"can I have your autograph please?!" she asked bouncing up and down
"sure" he then stuck up his middle finger and the tip of it opened up and a pen popped out he then wrote 'Ben 10' on it and handed it back to her she squealed in joy and disappeared in a blur "that was odd" he said before heaps of aliens began asking for pictures and autograph's as well as the younger kids asking to pet Ship, which Ship enjoyed. Ben had to admit that he preferred this type of attention than most of the negative attention he was receiving 'upstairs'. By the time everyone had cleared out Ben realised that 2 hours had passed "wow time flies when you're pleasing the public" he said as Ship climbed up on him "come on little fella, lets go to the Black Hole, maybe Barking can tell me why the sudden rise of interest in me" he said and the two headed towards the Black Hole.
It took Ben 4 times longer than usual to reach the Black Hole due to people still asking him for autographs and pictures, when he finally arrived he saw the place was pretty full but luckily his favourite spot was still empty. Sitting down at the bar Barking quickly came up to him "ah Ben Tennyson, my favourite customer the usual for you and your pet" he asked
"you know it" Ben said happily and Barking walked off. He came back shortly with two large cups one filled with Grats and the other filled with green plasma, Ben payed for the drinks and began drinking while Ship made a straw-like appendage extend from its face into its cup.
When Ben was half way through his first cup he motioned for Barking "what's up Ben?"
"I was just wondering what's with the sudden interest in me down here?" he asked
"well two reasons actually one would be that nearly everyone here just learned recently that you stopped the Highbreed invasion and the other would be that you are a hero on Earth"
"but I stopped the Highbreed months ago"
"well Earth is a bit more isolated so we just recently got the news"
"well that explains it, I thought it would have been the fact that I killed Vilgax" he said which made the whole bar go silent
"you killed the Space Demon Vilgax?" an alien next to him asked
"yep I disintegrated him with a Techadon Mark 10 Photon Bomb" Ben said quiet proudly everyone then began cheering at this
"kid by tomorrow you're going to be 10 times more famous than you currently are" the alien on the opposite side of him said while patting him on the back. Ben was now beaming at this he then chugged the rest of his Grats before ordering another one by the time he finished his third one he was about to order when a flash of pink appeared behind him turning around he saw Gwen (in her Anodite form) and Kevin
"surprise, surprise, and here we thought you were somewhere else" Kevin said
"hey guys what's up?" Ben asked
"I've been doing some research and I found out who the guy was who blabbed your secret, I was thinking we pay him a visit and give them a piece of our minds"
"sure I'd like to thank them"
"thank them, for what?"
"for making me a celebrity down here" Ben said with a huge grin "I was signing autographs and being in pictures for 2 hours"
"come on super star lets go" Gwen said, Ben picked up Ship and he walked over to his cousin and friend before they disappeared in a pink flash.
After they arrived at the right address which happened to be an apartment complex they entered and began climbing up a dimly lit staircase, when they reached the fifth floor Ben walked up to the right door and was about to knock when Kevin grabbed his hand "are you crazy we can't just..." *knock**knock* "Gwen!" Kevin exclaimed as he absorbed the metal on Ben's arm.
The door unlocked and opened slightly revealing a woman's face, she then closed the door and undid the chain before fully opening it "oh you must be friends of James...JIMMY!" she said
"I'm coming mum" a young voice said before a boy no older than 10 appeared. The boy had light-brown hair and black eyes, while he wore a green hoodie with a white 10 in a black circle on the left side while wearing a white shirt underneath as well as olive green pants
"that's the guy you were worried about?" Gwen questioned
"Ben Tennyson!" Jimmy exclaimed "I'm Jimmy Jones, great to meet you" and he happily shook Ben's cybernetic hand.
When they entered Jimmy's room they were taken back at how many pictures of Ben's aliens he had and how he linked them all to Ben "well someone's a fan of me" Ben said as he looked at the pictures
"I'm a huge fan of yours" Jimmy said
"if you're a fan then why did you blow his secret?!" Kevin demanded before he picked him up Jimmy by the front of his shirt "do you have any idea what he's been through since you blabbed"
"I-I-I"
"put him down Kevin or else" Ben said firmly Kevin rolled his eyes and dropped Jimmy on his bed Ben then walked over to the bed and sat down next to the badly shaken Jimmy "okay tell me, why did you post that video?" he asked
"well, I run a website" Jimmy started as he got up and then sat down at his computer "I collect pictures of aliens that people have taken all over the world.
I noticed that a lot of them came from Bellwood, so I started sorting the pictures. Lots of them were wearing this symbol" he said while pointing to the Omnitrix symbol
"and you pieced together Ben's identity from the same symbol on his arm" Gwen added
"yeah. I found stories all over the internet about how you've helped people and saved the world. I just thought everybody should know how cool you are"
"Jimmy I know you meant well, but by revealing Ben's secret, you've made it harder for him to help people"
"I'm sorry. I thought you'd like the fame. You know, all the attention and money?"
"well the attention up here isn't as great as it is in Undertown" Ben said
"Undertown? Where's that?"
"it's an alien city underneath Bellwood" Ben explained
"a secret city" Gwen added with annoyance
"oops"
"it's okay I won't say anything, but could you possibly take me there?"
"as long as not one word of it goes on your website" Ben said and Jimmy nodded
"ship, ship" Ship chirped happily
"whoa, I thought that thing was just a toy!" Jimmy exclaimed
"nope he's real" Ben said as he took Ship off his shoulder and handed it to Jimmy
"wow he looks like your alien Upgrade"
"yeah long story short he's the "offspring" of a Galvanic Mechamorph, the same species Upgrade is"
"um guys I think we're getting a little sidetracked here, Jimmy why don't you show us what you've learned" Gwen said
"oh right sorry" Jimmy said before he continued "I've got pictures of a lot of your alien forms - Humongousaur, Goop, Shocksquatch and my personal favourite Rath"
"yeah I think Rath is the most amusing out of all of Ben's aliens" Kevin said casually
Ben then noticed a picture of an alien he had never seen before "where did you get this one?" he asked as he held up the picture
"I thought it was you"
"no I've never seen this guy before"
"well then it just showed up a few months ago. All of the sightings have been in Orlando. Hang on I've got some video" he said before he pulled it up. They all watched as an alien wearing some kind of red armour shot water from its hands at two soldiers knocking them away before it sprayed the camera making it go to static
"no sound?" Ben asked
"I was lucky to get the pictures. It's top secret" Jimmy explained
"any place in particular it's been sighted at the most?"
"the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station"
"then that is where we're gonna go" Ben said as he picked up Ship "I'll be back tomorrow to take you to Undertown" Ben said as he activated his teleporter Gwen and Kevin then grabbed onto his vest "Cape Canaveral Air Force Station" he said just as Jimmy grabbed his cybernetic hand again to shake it.
The four of them reappeared inside a hanger where a rocket stood in the middle "it was great having you here Mr Tennyson" Jimmy said before he realised that they weren't in his room anymore "whoa how did you do that!" he exclaimed
"ah crud, I need to take you back" Ben said before he heard "freeze!" they looked and saw that they were surrounded by 10 soldiers holding guns "well this is a warm welcome" Ben said before an explosion shook the room they all looked and saw the same alien they had seen in the video walking through a hole in the wall it just made. The soldiers then turned their full attention to the alien and began shooting at it but the bullets just bounced off of its armour, it quickly disposed of all of the guards with a blast of water each "okay guys its hero time!" Ben said Kevin absorbed the concrete floor, Gwen changed into her Anodite form, and Ben tried activating his Ultimatrix but the face just glowed yellow before it said "uncatalogued DNA detected. Function not available. Please stand by" "what the?" Ben said
"so that's the thing that lets you turn into any alien?"
"yeah it's supposed to" Ben said as he slapped his Ultimatrix again but it just said "Function not available. Please stand by"
"I think that alien is causing it not to work" Jimmy said
"hmm you might be right" Ben agreed he then looked up and saw Gwen and Kevin fighting against the alien. Kevin was smacking the alien around with his mallet shaped hands, with one solid hit to the face he sent the alien flying into a wall, as it got back up it was hit with a barrage of mana blasts courtesy of Gwen. Streams of water shot out of the smoke but Gwen easily dodged them, when the water stopped she fired a beam of mana into the smoke and pulled out the still struggling alien Gwen then swung her arm causing the alien to slam into the roof before free falling.
"hey Tennyson heads up" Kevin said as he swung his arm and hit the alien in Ben's direction only now realising that Ben hadn't transformed yet, Ben shoved Jimmy out of the way before he punched the alien in the face straight into the ground and pinned it down.
The Ultimatrix then popped out and a yellow beam wiped over the alien "Unknown DNA sample acquired. Scan complete" the Ultimatrix said before it turned green
"do you yield?" Ben asked
"I yield" the alien groaned out Gwen then made some mana cuffs that held the aliens arms behind its back, Ben then got off of its back and Gwen pinned him down with a mana ring around his waist before both she and Kevin turned back to normal.
"that was so cool" Jimmy said now barely containing himself, Ben gave Jimmy a smile, he then saw that the soldiers had now recovered and were back to having their guns pointed at them
"stand down men, they've caught the true target" a man who looked like a military general said as he walked up to them "Ben Tennyson, I've heard quite a bit about you recently, mostly negative but I know what you've truly done in the past" he then looked at the downed alien "as for you we're going to have a little talk to you about stealing" he said as two soldiers picked the alien as Gwen released the mana ring on him "would you kids mind coming along we might need some persuasion if he doesn't want to talk" the man said the three heroes nodded and they began following the man.
The man introduced himself as Colonel Rozum, and now he the 3 heroes and Jimmy were now in an interrogation room "alright alien tell me what are you doing here and why have you been stealing from us?" he demanded, the alien stayed silent.
"how about we start with a name" Ben said in a bit more of a polite manner
"I am Bivalvan" he finally said
"okay then and where do you come from?"
"I come from a small planet in what you call the Andromeda Galaxy"
"Long way from home" Kevin stated
"about my first question, why are you here?" Colonel Rozum asked, Bivalvan paused and his eyes narrowed, Rozum's hand slowly moved to his gun
"I'm sensing some hostility between you two have you met before?" Gwen asked
"I don't know the full story but a being on Earth who goes by the name Colonel Rozum is not to be trusted at all" Bivalvan stated
"well will you tell me why you're here?" Ben asked
"I was kidnapped, along with four others, by a monster named Aggregor. We managed to escape him but crashed here on your planet"
"where are the other's?" Jimmy asked
"I don't know. We were separated"
"Four aliens that aren't in the Ultimatrix, that's pretty cool"
"okay and what about all of the thefts" Kevin asked
"I was using those parts to repair the escape pod we arrived here in so that I could go home"
"I'll take you back home if you tell me where the parts you took are?" Ben said
"really? You're not lying?"
"I give you my word"
"alright there's an underwater cave just off shore everything I took is there and installed into the escape pod"
"well that's all I needed to hear, take him away" Rozum said
"what! But I told you what you wanted to know!" Bivalvan stated as the two soldiers grabbed him under his arms
"yes you did" Ben said as he locked eyes with the soldiers "so let him go or else" Ben stated as he moved over to them, the soldiers then raised a gun each at him
"back off kid" one of them said
"you think I'm scared of your little toys?" and in a blur Ben grabbed the barrels of each gun and crushed them shut. "now let him go before this gets ugly" Ben stated the two soldiers let go of Bivalvan and Gwen released the mana cuffs from him. Ben activated his teleporter "what planet do you come from?"
"I come from Orisha" Bivalvan replied
"planet Orisha" Ben said and they disappeared in a green flash.
Gwen moved Kevin and Jimmy back as Rozum stood up "alright you three have got-"
"Abeo Exorior" Gwen said a pink dome surrounded the three and they disappeared before he could finish his sentence, leaving him furious.
On Orisha
Ben, Ship and Bivalvan were now on a sandy beach having just teleported there "ah my home, thank you for bring in me back Ben Tennyson, you really are the hero you have been labelled to be, I also apologise for the thefts and the people I hurt"
"don't mention it, you okay to make it home from here?"
"yes I should be fine thank you" he said before he began walking into the water until he was completely gone from sight
Ben then activated his teleporter and said "Gwen Tennyson" and in a flash he was gone.
Back on Earth
Ben now found himself back in Jimmy's room "so I take it things got a little hairy after I left" he said casually
"yeah good thing Gwen knows a teleportation spell" Kevin said
"that was the most amazing thing that has ever happened in my life!" Jimmy exclaimed
"yes you certainly did have quite the experience of which you cannot tell another soul about" Ben said
"my lips are sealed Mr. Tennyson"
"good well we should probably get going now, I'll take you to Undertown tomorrow" Ben finished as he activated his teleporter Gwen and Kevin grabbed onto his vest and he said "home" before they disappeared in a green flash
"he is the absolute coolest" Jimmy said with a huge smile on his face.
Meanwhile
In the underwater cave a man holding a spear stood in front of the ship Bivalvan had been fixing "you can try, but no one escapes me" the man said in an eerie tone before he started searching the ship.