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: You'll probably hate me for what the secret is but oh well.

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"You! You know how to defeat me? HA! That's a riot!"

Grey Matter smugged, "tis a riot. At first when you all were fighting, I thought we were going to lose…however…as I analyzed the situation, I discovered that we were missing a very important element."

"What?" said a bewildered Diamondhead.

Grey Matter smiled, "teamwork."

SEAN gaffed, "teamwork?"

"Yes, teamwork. As a newly formed team we are unorganized, unprepared and utterly stupid. We want to fight our opponent single handedly with no help involved. We want to shine in glory as we step on the head of our enemy."

Energy seemed to be pulsating out of Grey Matter as he was speaking this, he commanded the floor and his audience as he was speaking.

"But if we work together…we can win! For this is the theme of the Water Trial! Teamwork! For if we are united…we shall conquer and win! Friends! Watch as Diamondhead, Penelope and I help show you the power of teamwork! Ready Penelope?"

"Ready!"

Ghostfreak started doing some complex motions with her hands, she then clapped her hands and something odd happened.

SEAN was paralyzed.

"…What!...how…did…dis…happen…?" he said through his lock jaw.

Grey Matter gave a wink and said, "this, my sea monster friend, is the power of magic! For Penelope is a sorceress in-training!"

"…WHAT!"

"and a good one at that may I add."

"…You…can't…defeat…me…minions!"

The Sharkopaths turned their attention towards Grey Matter, Ghostfreak and Diamondhead. With a snap of their jaws, they came racing through the air at them. Grey Matter turned to Diamondhead and said, "at my word, fire your diamond shards at SEAN's head. Got it?"

"Uh…sure…"

Grey Matter faced forward and grinned his evil grin once again.

"Show time."

As one of the Sharkopaths zoomed above his head, Grey Matter quickly jumped high in the air and grabbed onto the jaw of the creature. He quickly climbed into the creature's body and began to tamper it. After precisely sixteen seconds, Grey Matter found the controls to the Sharkopath. He grabbed the controls with his bare hands and peering out of the eyes of the creature he said, "PARTY TIME!"

With delicate ease, he zoomed through the air shooting down any Sharkopaths that were in his way. The more he shot down, the more maniacal he became.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! DIE BITCHES! DIE! DIE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THIS IS JUST LIKE A VIDEO GAME! DIE!"

Diamondhead scratched his head, "is he okay?"

"Oh, he is just having fun that's all."

Grey Matter twisted the controls around so that his Sharkopath faced SEAN. Putting the pedal to the metal, he zoomed towards the still paralyzed SEAN.

"…WAIT…STOP!"

"Ready Diamondhead?" shouted Grey Matter.

Diamondhead raised his arms and said, "ready."

"HERE WE GOOOOOOOO!" shouted Grey Matter, and with quick ease, he escaped his Sharkopath which was still heading towards SEAN's face.

"…NOOOOO!"

The Sharkopath blew up in SEAN's face, right when it did Grey Matter shouted, "NOW!"

Diamondhead unleashed a horde of diamond shards at SEAN while the robot was blowing up in his face. The shards pierced through the smoke and lodged themselves at the bewildered SEAN.

When Grey Matter landed on the ground he said, "Okay Penelope, let him go."

Ghostfreak clapped her hands and the magic shut itself off. SEAN wavered for a moment on the spot, then he fell to the ground with a large THUD!

"Oh my gosh it worked!" shouted Diamondhead as he looked at the fallen SEAN.

Grey Matter smile, "this is a resort of teamwork! SEAN is able to withstand single attacks but he can't handle combinations of attacks! Though he is fallen, the battle isn't over yet!"

With that, SEAN gave a groan and raised his head, shaking off the rubble he said, "You damn frog! I'll teach you to mess with me!"

He lunged forward at Grey Matter with his jaw wide open. He was about to strike Grey Matter when he was stopped by four hands.

"…WHAT! Who did that?"

"I did!" shouted Four Arms, "Now Heatblast!"

Heatblast pointed his finger at SEAN, he then fired a fire beam at SEAN's eye. The beam went zooming through the air and onto SEAN's eye. SEAN screamed in pain as he swung his head back up causing Four Arms to fly through the air.

"AHHH! Oh why did my creator give me pain!" shouted SEAN.

Heatblast turned to Ghostfreak and Grey Matter, "we got wormy under control, take out those damn Sharkopaths and get to that flag!"

Grey Matter nodded and he took out a small wrench out of his pocket.

"Let's do this Penelope!"

"Yay! Capture the flag!"

Meanwhile, at the other side of the room, XLR8 slowly crawled her way towards the still unconscious Ripjaws. She began to nudge her with her unharmed hand.

"Ripjaws…? Ripjaws…"

Ripjaws slowly blinked and opened her eyes.

"W-what happen?"

"You almost died, that'sss what!" said XLR8.

Ripjaws blinked again and said, "Who are you?"

"My name isss XLR8, but that'sss not important right now. The important thing isss, are you alright?"

Ripjaws rubbed her head and said, "…yeah…I think so."

"Good. Now ssssit here and be bait."

"Be what?"

But before she could get her answer, XLR8 zoomed off in a random direction. Wondering what she meant by that, Ripjaws sat there on the spot doing nothing.

It wasn't long before she caught the sight of several Sharkopaths. When they saw that she was still alive, the quickly zoomed in to kill her. Ripjaws' eyes grew real big as she the menace.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no…"

As the Sharkopaths got closer, her heart pulsated faster. Right when the Sharkopaths were about to strike, XLR8 zoomed in out of no where and quickly kicked all the Sharkopaths into oblivion. Before Ripjaws realized what happened, XLR8 zoomed of again.

Needless to say, this happened quite a few times.

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Blizzard and Stinkfly, who were still in the claws of the crab, were watching the fights happening. Blizzard looked at Stinkfly and said, "Hey Stinkfly, wanna take down these two food specials together?"

"Hmmm…normally, I don't work with anyone…but I guess I can let it slide this once."

"First we have to get out of these claws, think you can do it?"

"Easy."

Shifting positions so that her body was in a good spot, Stinkfly had her legs press up against the wall. Using all the strength she had, she gradually opened the claw so that there was enough space for her to fly out. She then buzzed up her wings and quickly flew out. Meanwhile, Blizzard began to make the surrounding air cool down to an extremely low temperature. The result was that all the gears slowed down until they were frozen in place. The claw was so frozen that when Blizzard kicked it from the inside, that it fell into pieces. Blizzard landed softly on the ground and looked back up at the sky to see Stinkfly in the air. Forming her ice sword in her hands, she said,

"Stinkfly! I want you to spit acid on the back of the crab!"

"But the armor is too strong for my acid!"

"Just do it!"

Stinkfly didn't know what this chick was thinking about but she did it anyway. Mustering the deadliest acid she could make, she spat her poison substance on the shell of the crab. Blizzard then jumped up high in the air and with her sword pointing down, she rammed it down the acid covered part of the shell. With the extreme force of the sword and the strength of the acid. The sword went right through the shell and into the circuits of the creature. Blizzard quickly jumped off the crab just as it was short circuiting. When she landed, the crab blew up and fell to pieces.

"Now for the lobster! Stinkfly! Pick me up!"

Stinkfly swooped down and picked up Blizzard, she then flew back up to the air and faced the lobster. The lobster meanwhile, threw the knocked out Wildmutt to the side and prepared to fire a water bullet. When it was done charging up, it fired the water bullet at Stinkfly.

However, Stinkfly nimbly dodged the bullet so fast it was scary.

"HA! You have to do better than that to defeat me! Oof! Blizzard…you're heavy!"

"I'M NOT FAT!"

"I DIDN'T SAY YOU WERE FAT!"

"BUT YOU WERE IMPLYING I WAS FAT!"

"GOD DAMNIT I DID NOT SAY YOU WERE FAT! NOW CAN WE PLEASE DEFEAT THIS MONSTER?"

Blizzard grumbled and formed a sword in her hand. Taking it in her right hand she said, "fly towards that creature at your fastest speed!"

"WHAT! YOU WANT US TO GET KILLED!"

"JUST DO IT!"

Stinkfly thought it was a crazy idea but what other plan did they have? Resting briefly on the wall right by a green button, she sprung forward at the lobster. Gathering speed as she descended, she closed her eyes in hope that she wont get splattered.

Blizzard raised her sword and screamed, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

She then sliced her sword down just as they were about to hit the lobster.

Stinkfly waited for the impact to happen but it did not come. Opening her eyes, she saw that she was still flying.

"What! How did this happen?"

Blizzard smiled, "we cut the lobster in half that's what."

Stinkfly slowed down and turned around to see that she was right. The lobster was split right down the middle. Each side was on the floor.

"Well I'll be a son of a bitch," she said.

Blizzard smiled.

Meanwhile, Ghostfreak was having the time of her life.

"Watching Mathew fight makes my heart skip a beat every time he does something brave…sigh…he's soooo handsome."

Apparently, this was not the feeling that was traveling through Grey Matter this instant. Right now, he just wanted to dismantle everything in site.

"DIE! DIE! DIE! THIS IS FOR UPGRADE…AND THIS IS FOR UPGRADE! HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Sigh…so romantic."

Ghostfreak's eye saw the flag that was still standing there in the middle of the room. She looked around the room and thought, since no one is getting that flag…I might as well get it.

Calmly, she began to float forward through the air, not needing to dodge any oncoming attacks since they just go right through her. She floated over the waters to the little island that was right in the middle of the room. She looked around and was about to pick up the flag when she saw something happen.

A lone Sharkopath was racing towards Four Arms with its jaw wide open. Four Arms so far hasn't saw it yet because he was busy fighting SEAN. Realizing she had to do something, Ghostfreak did some complex hand motions and then she clapped her hands. Right before she did that, Four Arms screamed when he saw the Sharkopath and he held up his hands to protect his face. When Ghostfreak clapped her hands, the robot blew up right in front of Four Arms' face. Four Arms lowered his hands and said, "thanks for saving my life Ghostfreak!"

"Saving your life? No my friend…I merely stalled it from its final destination. For in the end, all of our lives are meaningless and we can do nothing about it."

"Er….well…thanks for stalling my death!"

"Anytime."

With that out of the way, Ghostfreak bent down and picked up the flag.

Instantly SEAN knew that someone captured the flag, turning his head around, he saw Ghostfreak and the blue flag that was held in her hands.

"WHAT!" he screamed.

"Hey meathead!"

SEAN turned around to see Four Arms and Diamondhead looking up at him. Smiling, green-eyed Diamondhead said, "this is the beginning of your end SEAN! Shoot him Heatblast!"

SEAN closed his eyes but nothing happened. He opened them to see that Diamondhead and Four Arms had jumped in the air and were pulling back their fists. Not reacting fast enough, SEAN was punched on the head so hard by the two of them, that he slammed to the ground with a large BAM!

For awhile, SEAN was unconscious, but when he came too, he saw XLR8 standing right in front of him. With her leg raised behind her she said, "thissss if for almost destroying my arm!"

She then kicked him on the nose with the might of ten elephants. This kick was so powerful that he was thrown right back up in the air. He wavered there on the spot like a drunk who had one too many. He was dimly aware of Diamondhead shouting, "Blizzard! Freeze the water!"

Blizzard placed her hand in the water and using all the power she could muster, she froze the water and with it, the giant sea serpent in place.

"Now Ghostfreak! Paralyze SEAN with your magic!"

Ghostfreak gave the flag to Grey Matter and said, "hold this for a minute please."

She then did several complicated movements with her hands and then clapped them.

SEAN was now paralyzed.

"Stinkfly! Cover SEAN's head with your flammable poison!"

"Right!"

Stinkfly then flew over the head of SEAN. She then covered his entire face with poison.

"Four Arms! Heatblast! Come here!"

Standing right by a red button, Heatblast held out his hands and said, "just like we planned right?"

Diamondhead nodded.

Holding out his hands like he was holding a large ball, Heatblast made a fireball. Its perfect roundness and intensity of heat was a thing of beauty for Heatblast. Then, Diamondhead placed his hands around Heatblast's fire ball and formed a sphere of diamond around it. The fire still shone brightly through the diamond walls. Diamondhead took the sphere of diamond and gave it to Four Arms.

"You know what to do with it."

Four Arms looked at the sphere and said, "what should we call it?"

Diamondhead paused for a moment. He then said, "The Shard Bomb."

Four Arms smiled, "Shard Bomb eh? I like it."

He carefully took the Shard Bomb and walked right in front of SEAN. Looking at the Shard Bomb and back up at SEAN he thought,

This, for some odd reason, reminds me of dodge ball.

"Heheheheheheeee…AND YOUR OUT!"

Pulling back his arm, he heaved the bomb forward with all his might.

The bomb sky rocketed through the air at an incredible speed. When the bomb hit SEAN's face, the diamond shattered to pieces and the fire came into contact with the flammable poison.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!

The force was so powerful, that shock waves were formed from the explosion. Everyone was pushed back a little as the waves hit them. The noise was so loud it was deafening. When the smoke cleared, Blizzard said, "look!"

Everyone looked to see that SEAN no longer had a head. He was head-less.

Ghostfreak clapped her hands and the headless sea serpent fell to the ground with a large thud.

Wildvine woke up.

"Ohhhh….what happened?"