Hello Everybody! Btr100 over here with the 8th chapter of my story, Ben 10: The Faction Returns...
After that big Ben, Rook vs Zed battle at the last chapter, I decided that this will be a long story, with chapters not important or very important to the story's progress.
Peace!-Btr100
Ben and the gang were relaxing in the beach. As always, children were playing, lots of teenagers sunbathing and lots of people swimming the fine ocean. Gwen is sunbathing, Kevin is swimming while Ben as Ditto and Rook were playing volleyball.
Ditto split himself into 7 so there will be four players on his side and four players on Rook's side (Rook + 3 Dittos). Ditto then volleyed the ball to Rook, who then volleyed the ball to a Ditto on Ben's right. They were playing a game with no technical rules and Rook was having great fun. A Ditto on Ben's right behind then sent the ball flying into a Ditto on Rook's left, hitting his head.
"Ow!" All the Dittos said together. (Splixons really took the "The fall of one, the fall of all" quote quite literally.)
"Maybe using Ditto for rule-free volleyball is not a good idea." main Ditto said as he merged himself altogether and transformed himself into:
"Echo Echo!" Echo Echo said before duplicating himself into seven again. Three of the Echo Echos then ran over to Rook's side. The main Echo Echo then readied to volley the ball over to Rook.
"Okay...in three...two...one..." Echo Echo said but he was rudely interrupted by a laser blast, sending him, the other Echo Echos and Rook flying into different directions. Majority of the other Echo Echos went into the sea, the main Echo Echo crashed into an umbrella, while Rook was sent flying near Kevin.
"What was that?!" Kevin asked as Gwen, Rook, Kevin and Echo Echo to run over to the volleyball spot, where the attacker landed. It was a Techadon Robot.
"A Techadon Robot?" Echo Echo asked himself.
"Again? (groans) Why don't they ever give up?" Kevin asked.
Then a voice was heard from the Techadon Robot. It was Dr. Psychobos.
"Hahahaha! Now that I, Dr. Psychobos, have m-m-managed to control the entire Techadon Factory! N-N-Now, using my upgraded T-T-Techadon units that is locked on to the O-O-Omnitrix, there is nothing you can do to stop them all! And I have improved their A-A-Artificial Intelligence and n-n-now, you cannot hide your p-p-precious little Omnitrix!" Dr. Psychobos said, before the Techadon Robot started firing lasers.
Echo Echo and the gang managed to dodge the lasers and they started attacking back, with the local people screaming like they're in hell and running away as fast as a cheetah.
Echo Echo then duplicated himself into five and fired some sonic screams at the Techadon Robot, causing its body to crack. The Echo Echos then made their screams until the Techadon Robot broke into pieces.
"Come on Ben! We didn't even get to do anything!" Kevin exclaimed before four laser blasts nearly hit them, but they managed to get out of the way. This caused large amounts of sand to fly. When the sand settled, there stood four Techadon Robots.
"There. You get to kick some robotic butts." The Echo Echos said before the team charged towards the Techadon Robots.
The Echo Echos then duplicated themselves into 20 and their combined strength was sufficient enough for their tackle to send the Techadon Robot backwards. They then dogpiled the Techadon Robot and quickly fired up their sonic screams which quickly destroyed the robot, sending multiple robot pieces flying everywhere.
"Thank you headphones!" one of the Echo Echos said, causing the other 19 Echo Echos to facepalm.
Gwen fired some pink mana blasts at the Techadon Robots she was fighting. The robot stumbled back at the blasts but managed to endure the blasts. Gwen then fired more mana blasts, but the Techadon Robot decided to counter with some laser blasts. Gwen then created a pink shield to protect herself from the blasts.
"Kemo Char!" Gwen shouted as she fired multiple pink blasts of mana from her hands and hit the Techadon Robot. The Techadon Robot then fired a missile but Gwen dodged out of the way.
"Tempestus Impaetus!" Gwen chanted, as a powerful lightning bolt came from the sky and hit the Techadon Robot. The lightning bolt shortened out the robot's systems but the lightning bolt kept electrocuting the robot until the Techadon Robot exploded, with Gwen creating a mana dome around herself to protect her from the explosion.
"That was...easy." Gwen said, a bit confused.
Kevin absorbed a nearby rock and with his concrete form, turned his hands into maces and punched the Techadon Robot he was fighting. His blows managed to send the Techadon Robot back. The Techadon Robot then countered with some blows that sent Kevin flying into an umbrella and was sent rolling in the sand.
The Techadon Robot then attempted to slam Kevin unconscious, but Kevin managed to dodge its blow and countered with his own blow using his mace hands. He then turned his left hand into a rock sword and stabbed the Techadon Robot in the chest, shutting its systems and defeating it.
"Doesn't this things ever give up?" Kevin said.
Rook is currently fighting his Techadon Robot in a sword-to-sword combat, with Rook using his Proto-Tool as a sword and the Techadon Robot using its sword that is equipped in all Techadon Robots.
So far, they have proven to be equal in swordsmanship, but with Rook's experience, he seems to be getting the slight upper hand against the Techadon Robot. He then decided to quicken his sword swings which caused the Techadon Robot to have difficulty in countering Rook's blows, eventually getting hit, sending the Techadon Robot back.
Rook then turned his Proto-Tool into an bow and fired 3 arrows at the Techadon Robot, all three hitting the Techadon Robot in the chest, but it wasn't enough to fully penetrate through its armor. The Techadon Robot then fired some lasers but Rook dodged and ended their fight with one quick sword slash to the robot's head.
"Okay my dear teammates, the Techadon Robots are destroyed and our work here is done." Rook said as Echo Echo merged himself back as one and reverted back to Ben. Then, their Plumber Badges started beeping. Rook, Gwen and Kevin took out their badges and the badges showed a holographic image of Bellwood, with 2 red dots. One in the middle of the city, and one near the bridge.
"Two troubles at the same time?" Kevin asked himself.
"Then its best to split up. Kevin and Gwen will take the middle of the city. Me and Rook will take the bridge." Ben said.
"Okay. But how will we get there?" Kevin asked Gwen.
"Don't worry. I can teleport us to the location." Gwen replied.
"And we'll take the Proto-TRUK." Ben said.
"Can we please not take the middle of Bellwood or the Bellwood bridge to our possession, because that would be illegal." Rook suddenly said.
Ben, Kevin and Gwen just facepalmed.
Ben and Rook then climbed aboard the Proto-TRUK and they flied away towards the bridge, while Gwen and Kevin prepared to teleport to the center of Bellwood City.
"Okay. Eo Recedentia!" Gwen chanted as a mana dome appeared over Kevin and Gwen and in mere seconds, they were out of sight.
Gwen and Kevin were then teleported to their location, but when they did, hundreds of Techadon Robots were around them, destroying buildings, cars, and other public properties. The Techadon Robots then noticed the superpowered couple and all of then turned their attention to them. Not long after, some of them charged towards Gwen and Kevin while others fired multiple laser blasts.
Kevin then absorbed the road cement and with his concrete form, turned his hands into maces and charged at the charging Techadon Robots. They then clashed, with Kevin literally ripping the robots' heads off by punching them until their heads popped out. He then managed to destroy some Techadon Robots surrounding him by lifting one of them, and using it as a club that effectively destroyed it and the other robots.
Meanwhile Gwen used a spell that duplicated herself into ten and all of them fired mana blasts and discs at the Techadon Robots attempting to blast them. They managed to destroy some Techadon Robots but more and more robots just kept coming.
"Interdamato Laborator!" All Gwens chanted as all of them fired a bright yellow heat beam from their hands that managed to hit and destroy some Techadon Robots. The Gwens then dodged some laser blasts coming from the attacking Techadon Robots.
"Meena Goh!" All Gwens chanted as they all fired a focused beam of heat that managed to destroy some Techadon Robots. They then continued doing the spell, destroying more and more robots in the process, as well as burning up the streets and causing some cars to explode.
While the ten Gwens were destroying the Techadon Robots, a laser blast hit and destroyed a Gwen, disappearing in thin air. The 9 Gwens then looked around to see a big Techadon Robot standing big and tall. It was about to fire another laser blast when a steel sword suddenly popped out from its chest area.
The robot then felled down with its systems shut down. The Gwens looked to see Kevin in his steel form, his left hand in the form of a sword, standing in victory and replacing the robot's place.
"No need to thank me honey!" Kevin said. Gwen just smirked before they turned their attention to the remaining robots, which are still willing to fight the couple.
"I wonder how Ben and Rook are doing?" Kevin asked Gwen and her 8 duplicates, as they faced off against the Techadon Robots...
Meanwhile...
Ben and Rook, both in the Proto-TRUK flew their way to Bellwood bridge, where the Techadon Robots were causing destruction on the bridge, destroying cars, ripping off lamp post and scaring people off the bridge. Some of the Techadon Robots noticed the Proto-TRUK and they flew towards them, before firing their lasers.
Rook quickly noticed this and evaded all of the laser blasts, with Ben removing his seatbelts and opening the door.
"Okay Rook! Hold the Techadon Robots in the sky! I'm going to go for those on the bridge!" Ben shouted to Rook as he looked at his Omnitrix and he quickly thought for an alien to choose.
"Okay Omnitrix. Give me NRG!" Ben said and the Omnitrix core immediately popped out and Ben quickly slapped it and his transformation sequence began.
Ben's body and clothes turned red and he was now made out of radiation and heat. The Omnitrix symbol then appeared on his waist and his belt and his two straps, a belt, two wristbands on both arms and two knee braces on both legs immediately appeared seconds after the Omnitrix symbol appeared. The Omnitrix glowed and it formed his containment suit, ending the transformation sequence.
"NRG!" he shouted before jumping out of the ship and skydiving down towards the bridge.
NRG then fired some nuclear blasts which destroyed some nearby Techadon Robots flying in the air and also destroyed some Techadon Robots on the bridge. Some Techadon Robots from the air tackled NRG and sent him crashing into some other Techadon Robots, cars and was sent crashing into a lamp post.
"Hey...Get off..Of..ME!" NRG shouted as he let out a burst of hot nuclear blast which sent the nearby Techadon Robots flying and destroying the ones dogpiling him. NRG then fired more nuclear blasts and it melted the robots that were hit.
All of the Techadon Robots charged at NRG, while firing their lasers. NRG easily shook off the laser blasts and blasted some of the Techadon Robots, melting and destroying them. NRG's hands then glowed red as he channeled heat in them, before punching some Techadon Robots, his punch slightly melting them but effectively destroying them.
NRG was then started to be dogpiled by the robots. The robots then dogpiled him until NRG was completely covered, but then, a huge burst of heat and radiation destroyed almost all of the robots in the bridge and because of fuel in vehicles, destroyed almost every car and truck in the bridge.
The suit was left lying in the streets, opened, but in the air, NRG in his true form is floating and smirking at the destroyed army of Techadon Robots.
"HaHaHa! Suckers! You cannot beat NRG in his true form!" NRG said as he fired a two nuclear blasts at both sides of the bridge, which exploded on contact at destroyed every Techadon Robot in the bridge, but also destroying a big part of the bridge and also seperating it.
"Heheehe...My bad..." NRG said, before seeing destroyed robot parts falling from the sky. He then looked up to see the Proto-TRUK firing missiles at the Techadon Robots around it. After it destroyed the last one, the Proto-TRUK landed on the bridge and so did NRG, returning to his suit and reverting back to Ben.
"Okay. The Techadon Robot army attack on Belwood Bridge is finished. Now what?" Ben asked.
"I suggest we help Gwen and Kevin in their battle against the army of Techadon Robots." Rook replied.
"You don't need to." a voice said as Ben and Rook turned around to see Gwen and Kevin behind them.
"We took care of those stupid robots, thanks to sweetie helping me, and me helping her." Kevin said smiling.
"Aww..thanks Kevin." Gwen said, before the couple kissed lips to lips. Rook was sweetened and touched, while Ben was about to puke (really bad)
"You know, even though I'm 23 years old, I still want to puke at this moment." Ben said.
"Why is that Ben?" Rook asked him.
"Because all of their times they kissed, from college, Gwen's graduation, marriage and other countless days, I resisted the urge to puke. Now, all of the puke inside me wants to get out in disgust." Ben replied before transforming himself into Upchuck and firing an explosive ball of liquid that hit a lamp post. He then reverted back to Ben soon after.
"Now...I am fine." Ben said.
But suddenly, without Ben's thinking or warning, the Omnitrix suddenly transformed him into Water Hazard.
"Okay Omnitrix, why am I Water Hazard?" Water Hazard asked himself as he looked at himself. But then, his question was answered when a laser blast hit Water Hazard and one laser hit Rook, sending them both flying into a destroyed car. Gwen and Kevin looked to see Khyber jumping from his repaired ship and firing laser blasts.
Gwen protected herself and Kevin from Khyber's blasts with a mana dome. When Khyber landed, he was hit by several orange laser blasts, before being tackled by Water Hazard.
"Why are you here Khyber?" Water Hazard asked before he was thrown off by Khyber.
"The Techadon Robot army have failed us, so I have come to destroy you myself." Khyber said before whistling loudly. Zed, who was in the ship, jumped off, before transforming herself into Omnivoracious and flying over and tackling Rook.
"Good girl. Keep Tennyson's pathetic friends company. I'll deal with Tennyson myse-" Khyber said, but was interrupted as Water Hazard tackled him and was sent flying into the other side of the bridge and crashed into a fire hydrant, causing water to splash all over Khyber. Khyber stood up and blasted Water Hazard with his laser gun, forcing Water Hazard backwards.
Water Hazard then transformed into Heatblast and fired a stream of flames but Khyber dodged the attack. He then fired several fireballs which hit Khyber, but felt very little pain. Heatblast was surprised, and decided to turn up the heat of his flames and fired a fire blast which exploded on contact and sent Khyber flying into a restaurant where he crashed into some chairs and into the counter.
"Okay Khyber, this is not the time of eating. After all, I don't even know what you eat!" Heatblast teased, before getting blasted by Khyber's bomb, sending him flying into several buildings before crashing into a Mr. Smoothy store.
"Is that a time of taking a sip from your favorite beverage Tennyson? Come on out and fight!" Khyber shouted as he walked over to the Mr. Smoothy and looked at the mess. He was then sent flying by a green laser blast, sending him rolling in the streets. Khyber stood up to see Eatle charging towards him.
Before he can do anything, Eatle tackled him with his large horn and sent him crashing into several buildings, stores and even a bank, before throwing him off and sending him flying on top of a car. Eatle then turned into Four Arms and punched Khyber and the car with both of his left fists so hard, that both of them were sent crashing into several houses of Undertown.
Four Arms then lifted Khyber and threw him out, with Khyber crashing into the 'ceiling' and was sent crashing into the streets, forming a crater around him. Four Arms then jumped so high that he managed to reach Khyber's location and landing just in front of him.
"Say bye bye Khyber!" Four Arms said before transforming into Humungousaur and was about to finish him off, but Khyber regained consciousness and blasted Humungousaur with his rifle before quickly running away.
"Your not getting away that easily!" Humungousaur shouted before slapping the Omnitrix symbol and evolving himself into Ultimate Humungousaur. He then fired several missiles, all which Khyber and sent him tumbling.
"Okay Khyber. You might have faced a Vaxasaurian but have you faced an evolved Vaxasaurian? I'm sure you didn't." Ult. Humungousaur said before firing several more missiles, but Khyber managed to dodge them all.
"I may not have faced their evolved forms, but I like to see their similarities with their unevolved forms." Khyber said before wearing his brawling gloves and charging towards Ultimate Humungousaur.
"Are you really going to do that?" Ult. Humungousaur said before swinging his mace tail at Khyber, sending him flying towards the bridge. Ultimate Humungousaur then reverted back to Humungousaur before transforming into Terraspin and flying towards the bridge.
When Terraspin landed, he saw Zed unconscious, and Kevin, Gwen and Rook standing fine and okay. He also saw Khyber laying unconscious on the ground.
"Everyone still in one piece?" Ben asked.
"Yes. And we also called the Plumbers to arrest Khyber and his dog." Rook replied.
"But first, we have to remove the Nemetrix from Zed. There's no telling if any of the Galvan Plumbers can deactivate that." Ben said as he walked over to Zed and touched the Nemetrix. Then, while the Omnitrix glowed red and the Nemetrix glowed green. Then red and green static electricity started to form on the Omnitrix and the Nemetrix and the Nemetrix started rapidly showing silhouettes of the Nemetrix aliens while the Omnitrix started rapidly showing holograms of the Omnitrix aliens.
"Oh man. That is so not good." Ben said before a green and red wave threw him towards Gwen, Kevin and Rook. When they all stood up, they looked at the Nemetrix, which is still there, but is black, meaning it was deactivated. It then glowed red again, meaning it restarted during the Omnitrix-Nemetrix synchronization.
Ben then looked at his Omnitrix which then glowed green and morphed into a new shape. It became thicker and its faceplate changed from square to hexagon, just like the Nemetrix. The side buttons were still in their positions, but a green button just like from the Prototype Omnitrix was also added.
"Okay. I hope it still works like this." Ben said before touching the faceplate, showing the holographic circle. He then stopped the wheel on the image of Humungousaur and he pressed the green button, which then revealed the Omnitrix core. Ben slapped it and he transformed into:
"Humungousaur!" he shouted. "Okay. It still works that way." he said and just in time as Khyber and Zed regained consciousness.
"Old friend. Retreat." Khyber said as he activated his jetpack and Zed turned into Omnivoracious. They then flew towards Khyber's ship and they flew off. Seconds later, Azmuth teleported into the scene.
"Well. Ben Tennyson. I see you are still doing well with the Omnitrix. From 16 years old to 23 years old. I see that the Nemetrix and the Omnitrix has synchronized." Azmuth said.
"Synchronized?" Ben asked.
"Yes Ben Tennyson. Now the Omnitrix has all the useful features of the Nemetrix. The Nemetrix self-defense mechanism may enhance the Omnitrix's Self-defense mechanism. You can turn into all 1,000,909 predatory species of the Omnitrix aliens and much more. As such, the Omnitrix recalibrated to sport in the some of the Nemetrix look." Azmuth replied.
"Nice! This will be very useful." Ben said as he looked at the recalibrated Omnitrix.
"The recalibration did not restart some of the modes in the Omnitrix but it did add a security system that will block Alien DNA that are far too risky for your choice, just in case you mistransform. And if your asking, it will be your fault if you mistransform." Azmuth added.
"Good day Ben. Keep doing the right thing." he finished before teleporting away.
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"You h-h-have failed me again K-K-Khyber!" Dr. Psychobos on a holographic television said as Khyber drove his ship.
"From now on Khyber, I will be the one who will be hunting Tennyson as a trophy." Malware said, before the hologram disappeared.
"Errr.." Khyber groaned as he flew over to the abandoned part of the forest.
And...that's that for Chapter 8!
Hope you liked it!
A review would be very much appreciated.
Peace!-Btr100
