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: Happy Valentines Day!!
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"Eureka!!"
With his small arms, Grey Matter lifted up an action-figure sized rifle gun. But it wasn't just any type of gun. This one was decorated with switches and levers and buttons and whatnot. Grey Matter smiled broadly at his new creation.
"Grey Matter, you are a superb genius. You have really out done yourself this time."
Upgrade, who was doing his homework before Grey Matter started making his prideful noises, looked up and said, "whatcha make this time Grey Matter?"
"This, my fine friend, is a very special type of rifle that deals with the power of love! Take note: it doesn't actually make love but it enhances the emotion of desire. The emotion of desire is in my opinion the same thing as love since love mates desire one another. This is the way it works: there is a keyboard at the butt of the rifle, you type in the name of the desired object and then aim it at an organism. After you shoot your prey with this gun, the prey's emotion of desire will be off the charts and he/she will soon be falling for your choice of object. I call it, the Love Gun!"
The sound of an animal chirping outside caught Grey Matter's attention, he looked to see that it was one of the local inhabitants of this planet, a bat-sized lizard with a large set of wings and proto-feathers all over it.
"Ah, my first prey!" said Grey Matter with an evil grin, he turned to Upgrade and said, "Say you want this Thornis (that was the name of the creature) to fall in love with a certain thing…say…an automobile! I type in automobile on here…then… I raise the rifle and then I shoot my prey!"
After typing in automobile, Grey Matter raised the rifle and shot at the Thornis, the rifle made a sound like a clarinet and then out shot a greenish laser beam. The beam landed squarely on its target and the wing seemed to absorb the laser. The Thornis squawked and flew off. Upgrade made a gasping sound but Grey Matter assured him.
"Do not worry!" he said with a light skip in his voice, "the beam took him off guard, he was only surprised by it, now watch my friend…watch the pretty birdie…"
Upgrade and Grey Matter leaned towards the window to see the Thornis land back down on the ground. It seemed dazed and confused by the way it was staggering around on the sidewalk. But then it steadied itself and did not move for a moment, then, quick to its claws, its head started swiveling around as if it was looking for something. The head quickly stopped moving and located what it wanted, its wings spread outwards and the lizard took off towards a direction of an automobile. The lizard landed on the automobile and began to caress the headlights with its head.
"SUCCESS!" yelled Grey Matter when he saw this. Now with an evil look in his eye he began to snicker maliciously, "heheheheheheheheeee…now let's go find some real targets."
Upgrade looked uncertain, "Uh, Grey Matter? Do you think it is wise to tamper with the laws of emotions? That's a pretty dangerous thing to do…"
"DANGEROUS?" said Grey Matter getting uncontrollably excited, "I'm a scientist damnit! I'm suppose to cross over boundaries, walk over great hills and go where no one has gone before! Now come on! Let's go cause some mischief!"
Upgrade looked at Grey Matter and then to his homework, fearing for Grey Matter's safety more than for his need to do homework, Upgrade agreed.
Once outside the dorm, Grey Matter suited up with a pair of sunglasses, sitting on Upgrade's shoulder, he said quietly, "help me find a potential victim."
Upgrade really did not want to do this but he said, "alright how about…"
Upgrade's eye scanned the view point, students were walking around heading to many different activities and classes, any one of these students could cause chaos if they were in "love" with something. His eye then saw Blizzard.
Blizzard and Upgrade had still not talked to each other since the incident in Sir Cannonbolt's room, the two personalities clashed so tremendously that they hated each other's guts. Blizzard was frustrated that Upgrade was the only man that she was not able to control and Upgrade was frustrated on how she dealt his own sex.
"Blizzard…" he said mostly to himself still looking at her.
"Blizzard eh?" said Grey Matter looking at the beautiful ice queen, "Muhahahahaa…everyone loves Blizzard what if Blizzard…loved me? HA! I would live like a king! Blizzard it is!"
Grey Matter was about to type in his name into the keyboard but then he stopped, "no…" he said, "what would really be funny would be that we would type in pastry…and that after we shoot her with the Love Gun…she would have an enormous craving for bakery goods! Imagine how many pastries she could eat!!! She would be fat by the end of this week! Muhahahahahahaha….that would put a dent in her life."
"No," said Upgrade.
"What? What do you mean no?"
"She-she doesn't deserve it."
"Please?"
"No."
"Hmph. Fine…"
Blizzard walked behind a building and she was out of sight.
But just as she was walking out of sight, round the bend of a nearby sidewalk comes XLR8 walking around wearing her same old dress attire, carrying the same heavy books.
"What if…" said Grey Matter, "we made someone else fall in love with XLR8?"
"Fine by me."
"Perfect! Let me adjust the Love Gun and then we'll shoot an unsuspecting male."
Grey Matter rose the Love Gun and aimed at a short, green alien with bug like eyes. He fired the rifle, and the rifle made that clarinet sound again and fired the greenish laser. The laser hit the alien squarely on the head and he fell down to the ground due to being surprised; he wobbled back to his feet again and seemed as dazed and confused as the Thornis once was. He then saw XLR8 and ran over to her.
Though neither Grey Matter nor Upgrade could hear what was going on, they saw everything as plainly as they could see the bright sun.
At first XLR8 did not notice the green alien following her, but after awhile, she swiveled her head slightly and saw that she was being followed. Quickening her pace and ignoring him, she continued on. However, she looked back and saw that he was still there, with swiftness, she stopped and turned around. She then asked him something but he didn't respond. She said something else and waited for his reply. This time, the alien began to talk slowly with an odd look in his eye. XLR8 looked offended by whatever he said and then looked paralyzed. She said something and the alien responded to her with the same dumb look. XLR8 now looked scared and she took off running as fast as she could. Chasing behind her was the alien yelling out, "Come back my pudding buns!"
"MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" laughed Grey Matter after viewing the scene, "It's fun to torture XLR8!"
"Are you done having fun yet?" said Upgrade.
"Not yet! There's still much prey to hunt out! Think of all the possibilities of the Love Gun! Sworn enemies will do our every whim, teachers will worship us like gods, we will live like kings!"
"Okay…now you're beginning to sound like Blizzard…"
"Ah, but she abused her power, and we will not do any such thing. We're using the Love Gun just for mischief."
"A Love Gun…is that what you have invented this time Mathew?" said a creepy voice.
Upgrade jumped causing Grey Matter to fall of his shoulder and onto the ground; he turned around and knew before even seeing her who that voice was.
"Hello Ghostfreak," said Upgrade warily.
"Good day Upgrade, good day Mathew," said Ghostfreak.
Grey Matter quickly stood back up and brushed himself, he tipped his head and said, "good day Penelope. And yes! This is my new invention! It's called a Love Gun! Simply put: it makes people fall in love with other people. It superbly works!"
"Can you show me?"
"Why yes! What you do is that you first type in the name of the thing that is going to be loved say…me…" Grey Matter typed his name into the gun, "and then you aim it at the victim and that unlucky fellow will have fallen in love with your choice."
Grey Matter suddenly accidentally pulled the trigger of the gun. The gun made a small clarinet sound and then it shot its greenish laser at Ghostfreak. The laser landed squarely on her chest. Grey Matter and Upgrade gasped at what just happened.
"Penelope!" said Grey Matter.
Grey Matter then realized that he typed in his name into the gun right before he shot it, his mind began to run at the thought of what was going to happen to Ghostfreak.
Ghostfreak blinked, she shook her head and said, "I'm okay Mathew do not worry, the gun must have not affected me."
"What?" said Grey Matter looking stunned, "but but…it should have worked…"
Grey Matter was thinking hard for why the gun did not work on Ghostfreak for the rest of the day but he could not figure it out.
He just didn't get it.