Note: first fanfic, will improve as I go along, I have been a gamemaster on my past RP site so the action should be good, and I do not own Ben 10 or anything that is remotely like Ben 10.

AUTHOR'S NOTE OF GLORY: This chapter was so long that I had to split it into three parts. So this first chapter won't be as good as the next one but hey…sue me. I dare you to. By the way…METALSEDRAMON!

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Down, down, down the hallway went. With its cool, white painting and its low celing, the hallway presented itself in a most peaceful way. If one didn't know where one was, one would suspect that they were in a buisiness building of some sort.

As if walking to a funeral, the students plus one sensei were walking in a solemn like way. With their heads slightly pointing down and their movements slow and cautious, one would think that they were going to take their final exams.

Four Arms coudn't blame them. Everyone was hoping that they would have really great fighters on their team and what do they get?

A girl who is so uptight she would make a tight rope look loose, an amphibian who is the size of a squirrel, an animal, a pervert, a feminist, a doctor, a dork, an ice queen, a cross dresser, and a shy girl.

Some team I have, thought Diamondhead.

Four Arms looked at the students with an inquiring look on his face he thought,

Wonder what I can do to make these guys feel optimistic?

Four Arms looked up ahead to see the Diamondhead. An idea struck Four Arms and he pushed his way to the front of the line. He quickly stopped in front of Diamondhead who stopped everyone else.

"Hey Diamondhead!" yelled Four Arms, "WHO WANTS A HIGH FIVE!"

Four Arms held out of his hands. Diamondhead looked at him like he was an idiot and closed his eyes slowly, he opened them quickly back up revealing that they changed color.

"I DO! I DO!"

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU! WHO WANTS A HIGH FIVE!"

"I DO! I DO!"
Diamondhead and Four Arms quickly gave each other a high five and gave each other a hug. The students looked at them in disbelief.

Diamondhead? Giving a high five?

Diamondhead turned to them and gave them a quick bow.

"I suppose my counterpart did not tell you who he-or I-really was. The Diamondhead you see right now is Yin, the Diamondhead you saw ten minutes ago was Yang. I-or we- have a severe problem of having a split-personality! But that's okay! Because…I'M THE FUN ONE! YAY!"

The students were puzzled of what they saw and heard. Grey Matter though spoke up.

"Well that's cool! I'm glad that our leader is as odd and unique as we our! It would have been boring if we just had a serious, perfect leadee!"

All the students, except XLR8, nodded in agreement. Diamondhead had a look of utmost joy on his face.

"You accept my personality disorder! FRIENDS!"

Diamondhead quickly gave everyone an enormous group hug. When he let go he said,

"Friends! We must battle forth! With the smell of triumph in the air, we shall capture the flag! Whose with me?"

All the students, except XLR8 once again, screamed in excitement.

Diamondhead turned around to see that a door was in front of him. He nodded a happy nod to the students and opened the door.

The students plus one sensei entered the room and were almost surprised to what they saw. The room was a very large circular room with a very high ceiling. The walls were curved in such perfection that a geometry buff would have been proud. The floor had the appearance that it was made of hard steel and had the strength to hold up 16 elephants…maybe more. In the middle of the room was a large, circular body of water. This water in return surrounded a little island.

And on the island was a blue flag, this flag was propped up so that it was standing straight up. The blue flag revealed the words "WATER."

"There it is!" shouted Diamondhead.

"Let's get it!" yelled Heatblast.

Diamondhead, Heatblast and Four Arms ran forward towards the flag, they were about to jump the circular water way when a chilling voice stopped them.

"I wouldn't do that if I were yoooooooouuuuu."

Suddenly, the water began to churn violently. Mini waves splashed onto the sides of the floor as the water became even more chaotic. Finally, a long, serpent like head rose above the water. Its mechanical like head was moving upwards like a cobra would raise its head just before attacking. It grinned a robot grin as if to say "you look rather tasty today."

Four Arms, Diamondhead and Heatblast looked at the large serpent monster in awe.

"Er…good day," said Four Arms.

The grinned grew even wider now the machine monster looked more like a crocodile than a snake.

"Good day," it said.

"Er…may we have the flag?"

"No."

"Oh…okay…I guess we have to fight you for it, right?"

"Correct."

"Okay…may we ask what your name is?"

The serpent monster rose even higher and its grinned somehow got even longer.

"They call me SEAN. Serpent Engineered Aerodynamic Nuffsaid."

"Hello Sean," said Four Arms waving one of his hands, "I guess that means you are a machine, right?"

"Correct. I was built by intelligent mechanics to fight against the students in the Water Trial. My main purpose is to guard this flag."

"Is that all? Don't you want more in life?"

"Well, I actually want to be a painter, but-"
"CAN WE FIGHT ALREADY!" yelled Heatblast. Heatblast then jumped in the air and pulled back his fist to punch Sean in the jaw. However, the machine serpent quickly pulled back his head and Heatblast missed by a mile. Instead of hitting metal, he hit air and fell to the ground.

"OW! What the hell! Fight me!"

Diamondhead found his chance while Sean was distracted. He jumped over the circular river and ran to the flag. However, Sean saw him and quickly grabbed him with his tail.

"You got to be quicker than that!"

He then threw Diamondhead to a wall. Diamondhead slammed into the wall and fell to the ground with a large clatter. However, he quickly got back up and said, "You got to do better than that to defeat me."

Wildvine ran forward to and stood as proud as she could.

"Fear not my students! Your Sensei shall destroy this monster!"

Wildvine was knocked out in less than one minute. His now limp body laid against the wall in a lifeless manner.

Heatblast held up his hands and shot fireballs at Sean. Sean easily ducked them and dove into the waters.

"Where'd he go?" said Four Arms who was peaking into the water.

Suddenly the water churned violently and Sean shot out of the water. His open mouth grabbed Four Arms and lifted him high up in the air.

"AHHHH! Help me!" Four Arms screamed.

While Heatblast was trying to get Four Arms down, Diamondhead turned to the rest of the students and said: "Get the flag! We'll hold this creature off."

The students looked at each other and nodded. Each of them took off in different directions. Only Grey Matter and Upgrade stayed behind.

"I'm going to see if I can open this door!" said Grey Matter, "Protect me if anything happens!"

Upgrade nodded and didn't move away from Grey Matter.

After dropping Four Arms to the floor, Sean saw that the other students were running towards the flag. With a flick of his oil-like tongue he said,

"I don't think so! Minions!"

The panels of the circular wall opened up just then. Shooting out of them were many robots that looked like sharks with wings.

"Meet my minions, I call them the Sharkopaths. They're able to communicate to each other superbly and they have a strong desire to kill things.

The Sharkopaths stopped the students in their tracks. They looked at the mechanical monsters with a slight agitated look on their faces. The Sharkopaths made several blinking sounds and zoomed off in different directions.

"Grrrr…god damn machinesss," said XLR8.

She raised one of her legs and held it out in front of her. Some of the Sharkopaths zoomed to her with their jaws wide open. XLR8 raised her leg and started kicking them as fast as she could.

However, the Sharkopaths were faster than her. Every time she tried to kick one it would dodge it easily. Five of them were surrounding her now and began to zoom in closer like buzzards do when enclosing towards a fresh carcass.

"DAMN YOU! WHY DON'T YOU DIE!" she yelled still trying to kick at them.

Ripjaws meanwhile jumped into the water intending to swim towards the flag. However, seven Sharkopaths followed her into the blue waters. When Ripjaws found out that she was being chased, she began to swim as fast as she could through the waters trying to shake them off. She had to dodge SEAN's whip-like tail from time to time in order for her not to be captured. However, the Sharkopaths were getting nearer…and nearer…

Up above, Stinkfly and Blizzard were also running towards the flag. Like graceful dragonflies, they dodged any oncoming attacks from the Sharkopaths and circled around the water to see if they can get the flag from behind.

However, as they were running, the water began to churn violently. Stinkfly and Blizzard knew that that can't be good so they prepared themselves to attack whatever was going to come out of the waters.

Suddenly, coming out of the waters were two large robot creatures. One of them was a crab and the other was a lobster. They clanked their gigantic claws as they climbed out of the water and crawled towards Blizzard and Stinkfly.

Stinkfly turned her head towards Blizzard and said, "Hey ice queen! Your good at destroying relationships…are you good at destroying giant robots?"

Blizzard gave her an evil look and said, "Don't test me Fly. I'm as good as a fighter as you are with your mouth."

Stinkfly smirked, "tough words for a dainty princess. Alright, let's make a bet. The first one to take down their robot will get three pounds of chocolate from the other. Deal?"

"Deal."

They briefly shook hands and faced their opponents.

Blizzard held out her hands and had a concentrated look on her face. Ice began to form from her right hand and began to grow and take shape. When the ice was done morphing, it took on the form of a long, curved sword. Blizzard took the handle with her right hand and held it out in front of her like a samurai. She faced the oncoming crab and said, "Beware sea monster from the deep! I am Blizzard! I have trained in the art of sword fighting for many years back at my home planet. I shall cut you in half!"

She ran forward and slammed her sword onto the hard shell of the crab. Since the armor was stronger than her sword, the sword shattered and fell to pieces.

"AHH! My sword!" she screamed.

The crab raised one of its claws and slammed it down to the ground making it rumble. The ground trembled as if a large earthquake was happening. Blizzard fell to the ground on her behind and was about to get up when a shadow loomed over her. She looked up and saw that the crab raised its other claw above her. With a slight pause in its movement, it hurled the claw to the now screaming Blizzard.

Stinkfly was having the same luck as Blizzard was, when Stinkfly spat her acid on the lobster, the lobster continued to attack her as if nothing happened.

"Damn it!" she yelled, "that armor is too damn thick!"

She then shot her glue substance at the legs of the lobster. The substance grabbed hold of the legs and the floor and stayed firmly put.

"HA! Try to get out of that one!"

Instead of resisting the substance, the lobster aimed one of its claws at Stinkfly. It then shot a jet stream of water at Stinkfly. Stinkfly gasped as the water hit her squarely on her face. She then fell to the ground due to her wings being wet. Cursing, she tried to get airborne again but with no luck. She turned her head at the lobster to see that it broke free of his bind and was slowly walking towards her.

"Oh crap," she said.

Only Wildmutt was doing the best out of all of them. He was so fast and agile that he would be able to keep one step ahead of the Sharopaths and one jump ahead of their jaws. Jumping from wall to wall, to floor to floor he clawed, bite and kick the Sharkopaths into oblivion. When he landed back to the ground he smiled a faint smile and attack them once more.

Four Arms, Heatblast and Diamondhead meanwhile were having much trouble with their opponent. Every time one of them attacked, SEAN would easily dodge it. SEAN seemed to be enjoying himself. And after he dodge an attack he would return to his constant swaying, a sway that most resembles that of a python would sway to a charmer's flute.

It occurred to Diamondhead that SEAN was like a cat and they were like mice.

He was playing with them.

After throwing Heatblast to a nearby wall, SEAN quickly grabbed Four Arms with his tail and lifted him high in the air.

"I'm tired of playing games with you," said SEAN, "I'm going to kill all of you now. I'm sorry, I had so much fun. I wonder how long you can last with out any air?"

He squeezed his tail around Four Arms tighter and tighter around his chest. Four Arms' face was turning a different color. It grew bluer and bluer as he grew weaker and weaker.

"NO!" yelled Diamondhead.

Diamondhead raised his hands and shot diamond shards at the tail. The diamond shards zoomed through the air and neatly cut the tail in half. Four Arms made a large gasped for breath and fell through the air. Diamondhead made a leap of faith and grabbed Four Arms in mid-air. Diamondhead landed softly on the ground and put Four Arms back down.

"You okay Four Arms?"

"Wheeeze! Yeah…I'm okay."

Diamondhead looked at SEAN with a look of pure seriousness through his steel colored eyes.

"Alright SEAN! Enough playing games! Let's fight for real now!"

SEAN looked at his now missing tail and back to Diamondhead again. With an evil look on his face he said, "with pleasure."