Hello Everybody! Btr100 over here with the 7th chapter of my story, Ben 10: The Faction Returns...

So..if any of you were asking: Why did Ben not scan the Nemetrix Predators when he was 16? Or why he never got to scan the predators earlier? Well that's because Ben has a choice if he wanted to scan the predator or not. Don't worry, lots of other Nemetrix Aliens will be also Omnitrix Aliens in this chapter!

Peace!-Btr100


Ben is currently taking a nice walk at the park with Rook. Gwen and Kevin were busy with their relationship so they never managed to walk at the park with the two heroes. Ben just wanted to have some peace while there is no trouble going on in Bellwood while Rook felt the same as he was feeling overworked.

"So tell me Ben, are you feeling 'overworked' as you humans would call it?" Rook asked Ben.

"Yeah. Almost everyday, trouble will take place in Bellwood and we always have to stop it. Whether they want to destroy me or get the Omnitrix, they always have to attack Bellwood, but no one ever said that being a hero is an easy task." Ben replied.

"Yes. Helping fend off crime in the planet is not an easy task to do at all." Rook said, but then the Omnitrix started beeping and glowed yellow.

"Scan Mode? What's the Omnitrix scanning?" Ben asked, before looking at the Omnitrix, which is now glowing yellow.

"2 Uncatalogued Alien DNA Sample Recognized. Scanning..." The Omnitrix beeped. Ben and Rook waited for a few minutes before the Omnitrix speaked again.

"Anubian Baskurr DNA and Huntonotorian DNA scanned and recognized. Both DNA Samples available on Omnitrix Playlist." The Omnitrix beeped before the Omnitrix glowed green again, regaining its Active Mode.

"Anubian Baskurr? That's Zed's species!" Ben said to himself. "While a Huntonotorian are Khyber's race." Rook added.

"Which means they might be here somewhere." Ben concluded. Ben and Rook were correct, as Khyber and his dog were hiding behind a tree, completely invisible thanks to a device Dr. Psychobos made for him. He then turned off the Invisibility device on Zed, making her visible. Zed then growled before running towards Zed, changing into Buglizard on the way.

"Okay. If I were Khyber, where would I hide?" Ben asked himself and Rook. Rook's eyes then widened in horror.

"I supposed we get out of the way!" Rook said as he and Ben saw Buglizard charging towards them and they barely dodged her attack. Buglizard then growled at Ben, but Ben wasn't scared a bit and started to look at his Omnitrix.

"Okay Omnitrix, give me Heatblast!" Ben said and the Omnitrix core immediately popped out and Ben quickly slapped it, transforming himself into:

"Heatblast!" he shouted, before shooting a stream of fire from his hands that pushed Buglizard back, as well as hitting her directly in the face. Heatblast then fired some fireballs at her, while Rook fired multiple laser blasts. Buglizard was getting pummeled by the fireballs and laser blasts and she quickly pounced on Heatblast.

"Hey! Get off of me!" Heatblast shouted, but the Omnitrix symbol glowed yellow and fired off a yellow light that engulfed Buglizard for a few seconds. When it was done, the Omnitrix beeped:

"Buglizard DNA Sample scanned and recognized." The Omnitrix beeped before the Omnitrix symbol glowed green again. Heatblast then blasted Buglizard away using a fire blast from his feet, sending Buglizard flying into a bench. Buglizard then turned into Crabdozer and charged towards Heatblast.

"Okay then. Time to change into one of these rookies." Heatblast said, before transforming himself into:

"Buglizard!" he shouted before spraying fog from his mouth all over the place, blinding Rook and Crabdozer. Crabdozer then looked for Buglizard everywhere, but she was shot by an ultraviolet beam and was sent flying out of the fog and into the park fountain, getting soaking wet and also destroying the statue. Out of the fog, Chromastone and Rook came out and faced Crabdozer.

Crabdozer then charged towards Chromastone and Rook and Chromastone charged towards Crabdozer, but not before transforming himself into:

"Diamondhead!" Diamondhead shouted before firing multiple shards of crystals from his hands. The crystals managed to hit Crabdozer and even exploded on contact, sending Crabdozer back. The exploded crystals were then joined by Rook's laser blasts, forcing Crabdozer back even more.

(Diamondhead has his OV Appearance, but the belt is gone and the Omnitrix symbol on his chest.)

Diamondhead then stopped firing his crystals and charged at Crabdozer. Once he got near, he touched Crabdozer's crab legs, trapping them in a crystal prison. He then continued doing this, slowly trapping Crabdozer in crystal until only her head was left remaining uncrystallized, but before Diamondhead can trap fully Crabdozer, she transformed into Slamworm, breaking the crystal around her.

Slamworm then fired several acid balls from her mouth, but Diamondhead managed to dodge them all. Diamondhead and Rook then respectively fired diamond shards and laser blast that hit the insides of Slamworm's mouth, causing her to roar in pain. Then, the Omnitrix symbol on Diamondhead's chest glowed yellow and beeped.

"Uncatalogued Alien DNA Detected. Scanning..." The Omnitrix beeped. Slamworm the lunged herself at Diamondhead and Rook, attempting to eat them, but they both dodged and Slamworm dug the ground instead.

"Uncatalogued Alien DNA Sample Acquired. Scan Complete." The Omnitrix beeped and the Omnitrix symbol glowed green again. Diamondhead then transformed himself into:

"Armodrillo!" he shouted.

"Ben! Slamworm are the natural predators of the Talpaedans! Please transform into another alien form!" Rook said, but Armodrillo ignored him.

"Sometimes the predator becomes the prey." Armodrillo said before turning his hands into drills and quickly digging underground. After a few seconds, Slamworm erupted out of the ground with Armodrillo on her neck and Slamworm was attempting to shake Armodrillo off, but to no avail. Slamworm then transformed into Omnivoracious and Armodrillo lost grip on her, before slowly falling down, but unfortunately for him, the Omnitrix symbol glowed yellow again and beeped.

"Uncatalogued Alien DNA Detected. Scanning." the Omnitrix beeped.

"Oh not now Omnitrix!" Armodrillo shouted as he saw Omnivoracious took a turn and is now flying towards him and even he know that Omnivoracious are very fast flyers. He then tapped the Omnitrix symbol repeatedly.

"Come on Omnitrix!" Armodrillo shouted as Omnivoracious flew closer and closer to him. Then the Omnitrix beeped once again.

"Uncatalogued Alien DNA Sample Acquired." The Omnitrix beeped and the Omnitrix symbol glowed green again, allowing Ben to transform himself into:

"Jetray!" he shouted before firing three neuroshock blasts from both of his eyes and tail. The three neuroshock blasts hit Omnivoracious, sending her backwards. Jetray then fired more neuroshock blasts which all hit Omnivoracious and forced her backwards even more. Jetray then quickly flew towards ground. Omnivoracious then quickly gave chase.

When Jetray landed in front of Rook, he transformed himself into:

"Brainstorm! Rook, my dear friend, I suggest you use your Proto-Tool and attempt to strike the wings. I shall do the same with my electrokinesis." Brainstorm said to Rook. Rook nodded and they started firing electric blasts and laser blasts at Omnivoracious.

Omnivoracious managed to dodged majority of the blasts, but then she was hit by an electrical blast by Brainstorm, severely electrocuting her and sending her down. She then crashed down the ground causing some dust to fly and settle quickly. Unfortunately for the duo, this wasn't enough as Omnivoracious turned into Vicetopus.

"Hmm...according to my mental calculations, Vicetopus's weakness is fire. So.." Brainstorm said before transforming himself into:

"Swampfire!" he shouted before shooting a stream of flames from his palms, which hit Vicetopus by the face, causing her to roar in pain. She then attempted to crush Swampfire and Rook with one of her tentacles, but they barely dodged the attack. Rook then fired some missiles with his Proto-Tool turned into a missile launcher, with all missiles hitting Vicetopus by the face.

Then the Omnitrix symbol then glowed yellow and beeped once again.

"Uncatalogued Alien DNA detected. Scanning..." the Omnitrix beeped as Vicetopus turned her attention to Rook and was currently fighting him. Swampfire then attempted to shoot out flames but he couldn't, meaning that if the Omnitrix is in scan mode while as an alien, their powers will temporarily be neutralized.

"Come on Omnitrix. Now's not the best time." Swampfire said as Rook was sent flying by Vicetopus's tentacle, forcing Swampfire to hide in her rear.

"Uncatalogued DNA Sample Acquired." the Omnitrix beeped and the Omnitrix symbol glowed green again. Swampfire then got out of hiding and went back to action.

Swampfire then fired another stream of flames from his palms which then hit her by the face as well. Vicetopus then grabbed Swampfire and attempted to crush him, but Swampfire transformed himself into:

"Heatblast!" he shouted before heating the flames on his body, forcing Vicetopus to let go of him and roar out in pain. Heatblast then fired streams of fire from both of his hands which hit Vicetopus and caused her to roar in pain. Vicetopus then changed into Crabdozer and the flames were instantly rendered useless against her.

"Of course." Heatblast said, before transforming himself into:

"Vicetopus!" he shouted as he grabbed Crabdozer with one of her tentacles. Crabdozer struggled to get free but Vicetopus got a good grip on her. Crabdozer then transformed into Tyrannopede, and with her big size, was able to get free from Vicetopus's grip. Tyrannopede then fired a stream of silky web from her forehead that hit one of Vicetopus's tentacles.

Rook then blasted Tyrannopede with a missile, with Tyrannopede's attention now to him. She then roared and charged at Rook. Vicetopus then transformed himself into:

"Spidermonkey!" he shouted before hopping in front of Rook.

"Hey! Your not the only one who can shoot webs!" Spidermonkey shouted before slapping the Omnitrix symbol. His four arms were then put together, resulting in two muscular arms. His tail then disappeared and his two legs became muscular as well as his body. He then gained spider legs. Spidermonkey then became:

"Ultimate Spidermonkey!" he shouted before jumping high enough to reach Tyrannopede's face. He then punched Tyrannopede several times in the face, before giving her an uppercut and shooting webs from his mouth to her eye, blinding her. Ultimate Spidermonkey then punched Tyrannopede hard enough to send her crashing down.

Ultimate Spidermonkey then landed on the ground, waiting for his enemy to rise. She did and transformed herself into Mucilator. Mucilator then charged at Ultimate Spidermonkey, with Ultimate Spidermonkey doing the same. They then engaged in a short hand-to-hand combat, with Ultimate Spidermonkey gaining the upper hand. Their battle ended when Ultimate Spidermonkey pinned Mucilator down.

Then, the Omnitrix symbol glowed yellow and fired off a yellow light that shortly engulfed Mucilator. When it finished scanning Mucilator, the Omnitrix beeped.

"Larvalator DNA Sample Acquired." the Omnitrix beeped before thee Omnitrix symbol glowed green again. Ultimate Spidermonkey then punched Mucilator, knocking her out and reverting her back to Zed. Ultimate Spidermonkey then punched the Nemetrix on her collar, which then gave out red electrical sparks.

"Ben. You do remember the time when Kevin tried to pull out the Nemetrix from Khyber's dog right?" Rook asked Ultimate Spidermonkey. But then there was trouble, the Nemetrix kept giving out red electrical sparks before a burst of red light came out of it, sending the Ultimate Spidermonkey and Rook flying and also giving out red waves that shortened out the Omnitrix, forcing Ultimate Spidermonkey to revert into Spidermonkey and revert back to Ben.

The entire park was soon engulfed in red light and seconds later it vanished. Ben and Rook were sent flying into the park fountain. When they looked at where Zed layed unconscious at and saw Zed gone and presumably Khyber.

"Dang it! They managed to run away again!" Ben angrily said, before crossing his arms in anger. Rook put his hand onto Ben's shoulder.

"Do not worry. We shall capture The Faction someday." Rook said, calming Ben down a bit, but then the Omnitrix beeped again, this time while it was in its Active Mode.

"Master Control locked." the Omnitrix beeped.

"What!? How did that happen?" Ben asked the Omnitrix.

"Self-Defense Mechanism has restarted the Omnitrix." The Omnitrix replied. Good thing for Ben it had Artificial Intelligence.

"Do you think that red energy blast from the Omnitrix could have done more than expected to us?" Ben asked Rook.

"It would have killed us if it weren't for the Omnitrix's Automatic Self-Defense Mechanism." Rook replied.

"Access Master Control." Ben said and the Omnitrix flashed green, before beeping. "Master Control Accessed." The Omnitrix beeped, before the flash vanished. Ben and Rook then walked out of the park, having an entirely weird day. Now, even walks can be interrupted.

"You want to go to Mr. Smoothies?" Ben asked Rook.

"Yes please. I am dehydrated from fighting Zed." Rook replied.

"Tell me about it." Ben said.


And that's it for this chapter!

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Peace!-Btr100