Hello Everybody! Btr100 over here with the 11th chapter of my story, Ben 10: The Faction Returns...

This is for jakevoronkov1 as his late birthday present! Captain Nemesis and Will Harangue returned last chapter right? Well, Hope AKA Charmcaster is going to be the next one to return to the spotlight!

Peace!-Btr100


A week after the arrest of Will Harangue and Captain Nemesis AKA Overlord AKA Carl Nesmith, Ben and his team wanted a single day without an alien attack or someone who hates their guts attacking them just to kill Ben or take the Omnitrix or both. Now, Ben just want to be raided and killed in a stampede of his crazy fans. (Who are much more crazier than Beliebers and Directioners!)

But today, their beautifully normal day of hanging out at Mr. Smoothies is once AGAIN interrupted..now Ben just want to give his Omnitrix to Gwen and see if she likes to be the target for all evil aliens and bad guys and see how many years she can survive with it.

Gwen, Kevin was then shown to be sent flying into a truck full of empty boxes, while Rook was sent flying into a lamp post.

Ben as Big Chill was thrown into a car, but he easily flew back up. The scene then changes to Khyber and Crabdozer walking towards him. Crabdozer then transformed herself into Hypnotick, causing Big Chill to transform himself into:

"Rath! LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING KHYBER THE GREATEST HUNTSMEN IN THE GALAXY! RATH IS GOING TO DESTROY YOU AND YOUR PATHETIC DOG!" Rath angrily shouted, before tackling Hypnotick so hard that they were both sent flying into another car. Rath then threw her and she was sent crashing into the Mr. Smoothies window and then crashed into the counter.

Rath then angrily ran towards her, lifted her, before throwing her out of the Mr. Smoothies store, sending her crashing into the Mr. Smoothies logo, was sent skidding on the parking lot before crashing into multiple cars, crashed into a lamp post, before finally crashing into a fire hydrant, effectively reverting Hypnotick back to Zed.

Rath then jumped out of the store and landed in front of Khyber.

"Listen up Khyber the Huntsmen! Get your butt outta here! Or Rath is going to force you to!" Rath angrily shouted.

"What if I don't want to?" Khyber asked, before getting a hard punch to the face from Rath, before kicking him on the stomach, forcing him down. Rath then punched him several times, each punch cracked the ground more and more. When Rath is going for another punch, Khyber then showed the unusual ability of shooting lasers from his eyes, before tossing Rath off of him.

"Let me Tell you something Khyber the Huntsman! Lasers just make Rath MAD!" Rath shouted angrily, before punching him two times in the face again. His third punch managed to send Khyber flying into a car. Rath then grabbed a car and slammed it on Khyber, before grabbing Khyber and tossing him into another car.

Rath then grabbed the large Mr. Smoothies sign and slammed it on Khyber several times until the sign was heavily dented and Rath slammed the sign into Khyber and the car with all of his angry might, even managing to crack the ground.

"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU SHOOT RATH WITH LASERS!" Rath angrily said before reverting back to Ben and he then ran over to his teammates.

Gwen, Kevin and Rook were then all starting to regain consciousness as Ben ran over to them.

"You guys okay?" Ben asked his teammates.

"We are fine Ben." Rook answered. But as they were helping each other and asking about their condition, Khyber then tossed the Mr. Smoothies sign with minimal to no effort off of him. When the sign landed on the parking lot, it caused a loud CLANK and the gang turned around to see Khyber getting up and cracking his knuckles.

"I love to chat right now Ben Tennyson. But I did not came here to make you my trophy. I have came here for the Anodite female." Khyber said, before tossing a smoke bomb in front of the team, causing large amount of smoke to cover the gang. Khyber ran in the smoke and Gwen's voice was heard.

"Hey! Let go off me! AHHHHHH!" she shouted just as Khyber jumped out of the smoke, with an unconscious Gwen on his shoulder and her spell book in his hand. He then whistled loudly, with Zed hearing it and instantly regaining consciousness, before following Khyber on his escape.

Ben, Kevin and Rook then got out of the smoke and ran towards Khyber and Zed's direction, with Kevin running the fastest.

"GWEN! DON'T WORRY HONEY! I'LL RESCUE YOU!" Kevin shouted as he ran very quickly, quicker than both Ben and Rook. Ben then transformed into Swampfire and ran as quickly as he can, outrunning Kevin and Rook and chasing Khyber.

Khyber learned a lot about magic and can even read runes, despite not being a magician, sorcerer or a person who would even care about magic. He quickly flipped the book until he found the page he was looking for. He smirked but continued running as he began to read the specific spell he was looking for.

"Via Esporow Via Esprolixas Capti Capters Few Sonmow Lenton Oway On Respicklas Lokis Lusses Via Astendus Ocultes Ienwuar!" Khyber shouted as loud as he could. Swampfire, Rook, Kevin, Khyber and Zed stopped right on their tracks as a blue glow began to shine in front of Khyber.

"Wait. That spell...Khyber STOP!" Swampfire said as he run as quickly as he can towards Khyber and the large blue glow.

But it was too late, a blue burst of energy then came out as a blue wave that managed to reach the entire city, sending Swampfire, Kevin and Rook flying towards multiple cars, buildings, and lamp posts. The blue flash then blinded the entire population of Bellwood. All except Khyber.

And when the blue flash ended, there stood the gigantic Door to Anywhere, along with a large crater that were once buildings of Bellwood city. Khyber then chuckled and smirked as he walked in front of the gigantic door and said the magic words:

"Yahwahtacsip." Khyber said. Magical glowing runes then appeared at the Door as the Door opened for Khyber. Khyber then entered Ledgerdomain and the doors began to close slowly.

(A/N: In this story, magic users can still open the Door of Anywhere using the Yahwahtacsip password. Khyber managed to open it because the true name changed back to Yahwahtacsip at the last second.)

Ben then transformed himself into:

"XLR8! Hang tight Rook and Kevin! I'm going full speed!" XLR8 said, before running at full speed. He, Kevin and Rook managed to enter Ledgerdomain as the Door finally closed with a big BANG! XLR8 then immediately stopped and reverted back to Ben. The trio of boys looked around and saw Ledgerdomain kind of...changed.

It still had its pathways, but it was wider, and with lots of sharp stones in the way.

"Just to be safe." Ben said, as he slapped his Omnitrix core, transforming himself into:

"Manadite!" he shouted.

"Well now Ben, since your an Anodite now, where's Khyber headed?" Kevin asked. Manidite's eyes then glowed purple for a few seconds, before reverting back to its original white color.

"Okay. Khyber's headed for Charmcaster's castle and he probably used Gwen to track the castle." Manadite answered.

"Why would Khyber possible need in Ledgerdomain? From what I know, the most powerful artifact in Ledgerdomain is.." Rook said, but was interrupted by both Manadite and Kevin.

"He's going for the Alpha Rune." both Manadite and Kevin said.

"Maybe Psychobos has another invention that probably needs the great power of magic and mana." Manadite said.

"Then let's go! We haven't got all day, just who knows what Khyber is doing to my wife?" Kevin said, as the trio walked forward. (In Manadite's case, flew forwards.)

Khyber is currently walking towards the path where Charmcaster's castle is located, with the redhead on his soldier regaining consciousness demanding him to let her go, with Zed constantly barking and barking, but despite the noise, Khyber just kept walking forward.

"Let me go you hunting scum!" Gwen shouted, but Khyber ignored her and Zed barked at her yet again. Gwen then tried to use her Anodite powers, but she couldn't and was greatly surprised.

"Can you not see the power-neutralizing collar on your neck? The only thing you'll be able to have is mana sensing and that's pretty useless in battle." Khyber said as he, Zed while carrying Gwen kept walking forth.

But then, as they walked, lots of stone creatures came out from under the ground and they were covered in pink lines in the design of a rune. Gwen immediately realized it as Charmcaster's stone creatures, meaning that they are getting closer.

Khyber was left unamused and not frightened as Zed turned into Crabdozer and she easily bashed the stone creatures into little pieces and their attacks were rendered useless against her harder stone-like body. After destroying all of them, she reverted back to Zed and they continued on their way.

Meanwhile, Ben as Manadite, Kevin in his stone form and Rook were fighting Charmcaster's stone creatures themselves.

Manadite punched some of the stone creatures he was fighting and effectively broke them and he destroyed some stone creatures with purple fire blasts which either quickly melted some of them, or exploded on contact. When he saw a stone creature charging at him, he grabbed it tightly and absorbed its mana, before throwing it into several other stone creatures and firing several fire beams from his hands which crystallized the stone creatures it hit. He then finished off his assault with two purple laser blasts from his eyes which destroyed two Stone Creatures.

Kevin, as usual, relied on brute forms and punched several stone creatures into pieces with his left hand turned into a sword and his right hand turned into a mace. He then lifted a stone creature with ease and threw it into several stone creatures. He then saw a stone creature about charging at him, but a single kick from Kevin was enough to send it flying into the abyss.

Rook fired multiple laser blasts at several stone creatures, effectively destroying the ones that were hit. When he saw several stone creatures charging right at him, he turned his Proto-Tool into an energy lasso and destroyed the oncoming stone creatures with it. When a stone creature managed to land a punch on him at the back, he turned his Proto-Tool into a sword and sliced the Stone Creature into two, and ending the battle, since that was the last stone creature.

They then continued on their way.

After a few minutes of walking, fighting off some stone creatures along the way and easily fending them off, Manadite's eyes glowed purple again momentarily.

"Okay guys we're close." Manadite said.

"Hey isn't Charmcaster's castle...like 60 ft. Humungousaur huge? We should be able to see it in this area." Kevin said.

"That would be the case if I said "We're here."" Manadite said, before his eyes glowed purple again, before gasping in shock. Kevin and Rook looked like it wasn't good news.

"Ben? What is the matter?" Rook asked his partner in his Anodite form.

"We need to hurry, Khyber's nearly there! Who knows what he can do with the Alpha Rune?" Manadite replied, and with that, Rook and Kevin ran towards their destination as fast as Manadite's flight, as he was the one most concerned, both with the Alpha Rune and his cousin.

Meanwhile...

"Just what do you want with the Alpha Rune, Khyber?" Gwen angrily asked as she was being held captive in Khyber's shoulder. Khyber just smirked while Zed barked and barked again, with Gwen growling at their once guard alien dog.

"You have no need of the knowledge you seek." Khyber said.

After a few steps forward, Khyber and Zed looked up to see Charmcaster's very large castle. It looked the same as it was in "Couples Retreat" episode but it was much more wider and had a thick wall and a large stone door for protection. But as Khyber and Zed arrived in their destination, they were met with several Stone Creatures and multiple Palorfangs.

(A/N: Charmcaster duplicated her Palorfangs off-screen as I know there is only one.)

"Enough of this foolish games." Khyber muttered, before whistling loudly.

Zed then transformed into Tyrannopede and with her large size, stepped on several stone creatures which broke them into little pieces. Tyrannopede then shot a stream of sticky silk and it hit and effectively trapped a stone creature and due to the silk rope being connected to the cocoon the stone creature was trapped in, Tyrannopede swung the Stone Creature into another one, effectively destroying it, before throwing the cocoon at a Palorfang.

The Palorfang shook off the attack and roared loudly, before firing a stream of flames from its wide mouth. The stream of fire hit Tyrannopede, but due to Tyrannopede's rock hard body, she easily shrugged it off and transformed herself into Vicetopus.

Vicetopus then grabbed several Palorfangs with her many tentacles, and one by one, she threw them into the abyss until there were no more Palorfangs in the area. She then did the same with the Stone Creatures until every guard was thrown off the abyss. She then destroyed the large door blocking their way before reverting back to Zed.

Khyber then threw Gwen aside, before continuing their way towards Charmcaster's castle.

"Since we are at our destination, I have no need for your pathetic assistance." Khyber said as he and Zed walked towards the entrance inside Charmcaster's castle.

Khyber and Zed then walked towards the large door that would lead inside Charmcaster's castle. Khyber then looked at Zed. Zed nodded and she transformed herself into Crabdozer. Crabdozer then rammed herself into the door, causing a small crack, but also causing a loud BANG!

The bang was so loud that Charmcaster was rudely awaken from her nice night's sleep. She then snapped her fingers, changing from her night clothes to her normal outfit and the Alpha Rune swinging in her neck, the treasure that Khyber was hunting for all day.

Crabdozer then bashed the door again, but failed once Again, only causing to make the crack bigger...AGAIN. Crabdozer then charged once again towards the door, only to be blasted away by a pink energy wave that was enough to send Crabdozer flying and crashing into the fountain statue and landed in the water, and was also effective enough to revert her back into Zed.

The pink energy wave was also enough to force Khyber down, but he easily managed to stand up again and dusted his shoulder, the pink energy wave not doing much to him. He then looked up to see Charmcaster at the entrance, with the Alpha Rune around her neck.

Khyber smirked. At last...his journey to Ledgerdomain has almost came to an end.

"Hello pretty boy. What brings you to Ledgerdomain?" Charmcaster asked, a bit angry and her hands glowed pink with magical energy.

"I came for the most precious and powerful object in Ledgerdomain. The Alpha Rune. And I'm going to rip it out from your lifeless body." Khyber violently answered, before firing his laser from his eyes. Charmcaster then countered this with a magic energy blast from her hands.

The attacks then collided, with Khyber pushed back a little bit because of Charmcaster's abilities being enhanced with the Alpha Rune with Ledgerdomain powering up her abilities combined. Khyber's lasers were then eventually overpowered by Charmcaster's blast, hitting him and knocking him unconscious.

"Well that was easy." Charmcaster said, before a certain redhead manages to capture her attention.

"Gwen?" Charmcaster asked.

"Charmcaster! Please! Get this power neutralizing collar off of me!" Gwen shouted as she attempted to remove her collar, but to no avail, only shocking her as part of the collar's self-defense mechanism. Charmcaster then ran towards her.

"Don't worry Gwen! I'll take that thing off of you! AHH!" Charmcaster shouted as she was suddenly trapped in red force-field webs. Charmcaster's body then glowed purple, effectively melting the web and turned around to see Terroranchula facing her with a disturbing face.

"Oh...now there's a rip-off of Ben here and she's a dog. How adorable." Charmcaster said as she fired a purple electrical blast from her hands and it managed to hit Terroranchula, electrocuting her and forcing her to transform into Vicetopus, who was immune to electrical attacks, making her species a reason why they were the predators for the Cerebrocrustaceans.

When Charmcaster's electrical blast proved to be useless against Vicetopus, Vicetopus then grabbed Charmcaster with one of her tentacles, squeezing her slightly, but was enough to give her loads of pain.

"AHHHHH!" Charmcaster screamed as she was squeezed by Vicetopus and she can't concentrate on using her powers to get free.

"Charmcaster!" Gwen shouted.

Meanwhile...

Several Stone Creatures were then shown to be sent flying into the deep abyss of Ledgerdomain. The camera then shows a Stone Creature blasted down by a purple fire blast, melting it after the attack was over. Several explosions were then seen and pieces of the stone Creatures were then shown to be sent flying.

Manadite then threw another Stone Creature at the abyss, before firing purple lasers from his eyes which hit a nearby Palorfang and crystallized it. Kevin, with his cement form and his hands turned into maces, punched each Stone Creature attacking him so hard, that they were crushed into little pieces. Rook, using his Proto-Tool as a sword, sliced each Stone Creature he faced into two.

Manadite then crystallized the last Palorfang, ending their fight with Charmcaster's security guards. Manadite then flied fast before seeing Gwen in the distance, attempting to remove her power-neutralizing collar. Kevin and Rook then managed to catch up, with Kevin hugging his wife.

"Okay guys. You two can do that later, but right now we have to get that collar off of Gwen and get out of here." Manadite said as he walked over to Gwen. He then held Gwen's collar and in mere seconds, the collar disappeared into thin air.

"Okay. Now let's get out of here!" Manadite said, but Gwen grabbed his arm, preventing him from doing anything else.

"No. We have to help Charmcaster first. Khyber's after the Alpha Rune and we're not going to let this place crumble into pieces!" Gwen shouted, before hearing Charmcaster's loud voice shouting:

"LET ME GO YOU FREAK!" Charmcaster shouted and the group turned around to see Vicetopus roaring in pain as Charmcaster shot purple lasers from her eyes, which were strong and powerful enough to force Vicetopus to let go of her and force her to change into Buglizard.

"Alright. But if she can handle herself, then this will be all a waste of time." Manadite said before transforming himself into:

"Shocksquatch!" he shouted as he ran quickly on all fours towards Buglizard. Buglizard was then about to pounce on Charmcaster and jumped high in the air, only to be tackled by Shocksquatch and they were both sent flying towards the castle entrance.

Khyber then regained consciousness and stood up, before looking to see Buglizard flying towards him. Before he can even do anything, Shocksquatch and Buglizard were sent flying into him and the three aliens were all sent flying into Charmcaster's castle and crashed into several pillars, tables and crashed into the wall.

Shocksquatch then got up and grabbed a table, before slamming it on Buglizard, effectively breaking the table. Buglizard roared loudly at Shocksquatch, but before she can attack, Buglizard uppercutted her with an electrical fist so hard, that Buglizard was sent flying through all the rooms in Charmcaster's Castle, before flying through the floor of Charmcaster's bedroom which is on the top floor.

Shocksquatch then fought Khyber. Shocksquatch wrestled him down, but Khyber's strength was sufficient enough to match Shocksquatch, but Shocksquatch got fed up with the fight that his right fist sparkled with electricity, before kicking Khyber, sending him down. Shocksquatch then punched him so hard that the floor cracked.

Shocksquatch then jumped and flew all the way up using his electricity as jet propulsion. Once he got into Charmcaster's room, Buglizard pounced on him and forced him down, with Buglizard on top. Shocksquatch then electrocuted Buglizard and threw her off of him. Buglizard was then a meter near the window that has a nice view of the front yard.

Shocksquatch then tackled Buglizard so hard that they both broke through the window and was now plummeting down towards the ground. Shocksquatch then electrocuted Buglizard before letting go of her. Buglizard then crashed into the ground, the ground making a crack as she did, then Shocksquatch slammed down on her, causing a large amount of dust to fly.

When the dust settled, Buglizard reverted back to Zed and because of the good shock Shocksquatch gave her, her blue and black fur became all black and she was knocked unconscious.

Shocksquatch was then blasted from behind by Khyber with his laser eyes, sending Shocksquatch flying into the fountain. Shocksquatch then stood up again, but he was panting from greatly overpowering Zed as Buglizard.

Khyber then blasted Shocksquatch with his laser eyes again, sending Shocksquatch out of the fountain and in front of Gwen, Charmcaster, Kevin and Rook, but he managed to shake off Khyber's attacks and stand up again.

Gwen and Charmcaster then both looked at Shocksquatch and the trio nodded.

"Mercuta Verditis!" Gwen shouted as she fired a pink energy beam from her hands enhanced by Ledgerdomain, Shocksquatch fired an electrical blast, and Charmcaster fired a pink energy beam from her hands. The two pink energy beams and the electrical blast combined and the combined attacks hit both Khyber and Zed and causing a large amount of dust to fly.

When the dust settled, Khyber and Zed were unconscious.

Gwen and Charmcaster cheered while Shocksquatch just reverted back to Ben.

"Okay girls, while they're still down, we should really get out. Like..right now." Kevin said.

"But what about the Alpha Rune?" Gwen asked Charmcaster. Charmcaster was then suddenly surprised by Gwen's question. Like she wanted to...make her come with them.

"Wait..are you asking me to...come with you?" Charmcaster asked.

"Of course!" Gwen replied happily. Charmcaster was surprised.

"So you forgave me...for trying to kill you?" Charmcaster asked again.

"Yes!" Gwen said while giving her a joyful hug. Charmcaster smiled and returned the hug. Once they let go of each other, Charmcaster removed the Alpha Rune from her neck and with a snap, a purple wave then appeared in all of Ledgerdomain and Charmcaster put it back on her neck.

"What did you do?" Kevin asked.

"I had to give Ledgerdomain half of the Alpha Rune's power so that even with Alpha Rune outside of Ledgerdomain, it will still be in one piece. Now let's go." Charmcaster said as the Door to Anywhere appeared in front of them. The Door then opened and revealed Ben's backyard. The team then went out of Ledgerdomain and the door closed, leaving Khyber and Zed behind.

In Earth, specifically Ben's backyard, Gwen invited Charmcaster a room in their place, and she happily accepted the offer, still being sleepy since in Ledgerdomain, when it's night, it's day on Earth and Vice Versa.

As Gwen, Kevin and Charmcaster walked towards Gwen's house, Charmcaster has a lot of thoughts in her mind.

"I can't believe it. They actually forgave me. But...I don't want sympathy. I just want justice and redemption. I am truly sorry for what I've done. I need to fight with you to redeem myself." Charmcaster said in her thoughts...


And that's that for this chapter...YAWN...

Make sure you...(snores)

Peace!-Btr100