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: So…I tried out this new poll thingy and guess what? It worked! I made a poll about which of my characters in "How the Omnitrix came to be" you liked the best! Since there are so many of them, I can give you two choices to vote for! All you have to do is go to my profile, and at the top of it is a link to the poll! Please give it a try since I want to see which of my characters you like the best!

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"Ripjaws…"

Ripjaws eyes shot open, she looked around wildly, no…that voice…it can't be…

"Ripjaws…" the voice said again.

Ripjaws looked wildly around in the watery darkness. Her head swiveled in all directions by trying to locate it; she was hoping that it wasn't who she thought it was.

"I'm going to get you Ripjaws…" the voice said again, "and this time…you won't be able to stop me…"

"No!" Ripjaws cried, "keep away from me!"

Ripjaws then took off in a random direction, she swam with all her might, hoping she might lose the voice. However, it was no use for she heard the voice again.

"You can't hide from me forever…I'll be watching your every move, and when you let your guard down…I will strike!"

"Stop it!" yelled Ripjaws who clutched her head with her claws, "stop it!"

Ripjaws closed her eyes and opened them again, this time, instead of being in the water she was on dry land. Ripjaws blinked, this wasn't just any dry land, this was her home, planet Swampus.

Fungus covered trees littered the area giving it an old look to it. Vines slithered and tangled across the ground like groping fingers. The air was thick with humidity and bugs flew past her head at blinding speeds. She looked down at the ground and saw to her horror, her dead family. Suddenly, a strong gust of wind came by and the air smelt strongly of acid and blood. Ripjaws felt queasy, her stomach flip flopped and tears came to her eyes as she realized that she could do nothing to save her family. She didn't dare open her eyes again to see the carnage and horror that was brought down to her family. If she did she would break down and so she kept them closed.

"Come out and play Ripjaws…" the voice said again, "I want to have fun…"

"Shut up! Shut up!" cried Ripjaws.

"I haven't eaten fresh meat for a long time…fish can sooth my appetite for blood but it doesn't stand up to the soothing taste of red meat…blood…" the voice gave a small chuckle. Ripjaws spine quivered as she heard the voice laugh.

"Keep away from me!" she said.

"Yahahahaaaa…like I have a choice?...but just you wait Ripjaws…my time will soon come…"

"No…no…NO!"

Ripjaws was shaken awake, she gasped as she was thrown out of her deep slumber. It only took her a second that she realized that she was back in her lake, sleeping on the shore line. She looked around to see who had awaken her and she found a person with a mask over his face waving at her. It only took Ripjaws a moment to realize that this person was Blizzard in a scuba diving outfit. Swimming next to Blizzard was Grey Matter wearing an Upgrade-morphed scuba outfit. He too waved at her and then put his fingers up to his lips to make sure that she remained quiet. It then occurred to Ripjaws that her note that she sent to Wildmutt must have finally been received by her team. Grateful that they were finally here, she nodded her head and waved back.

Grey Matter and Blizzard did a quick check to see if the coast was clear and then nodded to Ripjaws. The two of them slowly swam upwards to the surface, Ripjaws followed them closely.

When Ripjaws broke the surface of the water, she discovered that the rest of her team was there, they were all busily looking for her water orb. It was here that Grey Matter took off his mask and said to her, "We haven't quite yet located the water orb yet but we know its general area. Penelope used a magic tracking spell to try to locate the water orb, even though she hadn't pinpointed it, she managed to find it in a small area."

Ripjaws nodded and turned her head back to the team.

As she was bobbing up in down in the cool water, she saw XLR8 hobble around with a cast on trying to look for the water orb. It occurred to Ripjaws just then that she hadn't seen XLR8 break her leg before, Ripjaws nodded to herself that she would help XLR8 as much as she could in return for her kindness in helping her out of the lake.

"Got it!" cried Four Arms.

Ripjaws smiled in happiness as she saw Four Arms holding up in the air her water orb. The pale moonlight reflected off of it giving it a deep sea glow.

Four Arms walked to the shore of the lake and handed it to Ripjaws. Ripjaws smiled that she was finally free from her prison and she took the orb into her hands. Already, she could feel the orb's power flowing through her. She took a deep breath and then, slowly walked onto land. As she was slowly walked up onto the dry land, she felt the waters slowly go below her chest, her waist, her knees and finally her feet. She breathed in the fresh air and was at last happy that she was free. Before she could say anything, Diamondhead said, "there's still the manner of where Ripjaws will be sleeping tonight. We can't hold her in the gym pool because Cuttooth will be able to reach her easier.

"I will take her in as my roommate!" said Stinkfly gleefully.

"Really Stinkfly?" said Ripjaws hopefully.

"Yes, yes I do."

Before Ripjaws could thank her, Stinkfly smelled her and said, "whoo! But first, your going to have to take a shower! You smell like dead fish!"

Ripjaws gave a sheepish smile and said, "…sorry…"