Hello Everybody! Btr100 over here with the 22th chapter of my story, Ben 10: The Faction Returns...
I give special thanks to jakevoronkov1 with his genius and amazing ideas coming to me once again! Thanks Jake! You might not see me but I am giving a thumbs up!
So to all you out there, you can thank Jake after reading this! This was his first idea...
Peace!-Btr100
In Ben's room, (which looked like his bedroom in his dimension but with some pictures of him and the Teen Titans bonding together.) Ben was checking out and putting out the old stuff in a box when the room was still empty. He was about to put the box in the Teen Titans basement, when he saw something under his bed.
He then took it out and looked at it. A picture of the Teen Titans, with a girl with blonde hair, wearing a black t-shirt that has the yellow T on it and brown shorts. Ben figured that the girl must have been an old friend of the Teen Titans. He also saw her hugging Beast Boy, meaning that she must have a crush on him, making the Omnitrix wielder smirk.
He then went out of the room and went into Beast Boy's messy room, where the green changeling was playing his video game.
"Hey Beast Boy!" Ben shouted.
"AHHHHH!" Beast Boy shouted, letting go of the controller, causing his character to stop attacking at the boss. The boss then shoot out an energy beam which killed his character. The words "GAME OVER" then appeared on the screen.
"Dude! You made me lose the game! I was about to kill the final boss!" Beast Boy shouted. Ben only chuckled.
"Sorry, but I was to ask you how you managed to attract a pretty girl with your childishness.." Ben said, while showing the picture to him. Beast Boy shouted in panic and grabbed the picture from Ben's hands, before throwing it at the window, breaking it and sending the picture flying into a bunch of bushes.
"Where did you get that!?" Beast Boy asked.
"Um...under my bed?" Ben replied.
"Oh I forgot...it was once her room..." Beast Boy said. Ben only facepalmed. No wonder it has a lot of girly stuff! Luckily, he was about to finish with the last box full of girly things. She forgot to pack many of her things before she left..
"Well who was she?" Ben asked.
"I don't want to talk about it..." Beast Boy muttered.
"Dude. Don't make me turn into AmpFibian. He can either shock you or read your mind. The second one will make it kind of boring, so just tell me. Who was that girl? How did you guys meet?" Ben asked once again. Beast Boy then sighed in defeat.
"Fine. Her name is Terra. We met like...3 years ago. (A/N: The Teen Titans dimension takes place three years after the series.) We met in a desert, where she was being chased by a giant scorpion. We were about to help, when she revealed her earth powers and defeated the giant scorpion. After she hanged out at us, we had a mission in the mines, but after Robin knew her secret, she ran away. She never came back after some months and she became a part of the team. We had a date and hanged out for a while until Slade came to interrupt us." Beast Boy said.
"Then..she revealed she was working for Slade after she ran away, because Slade promised to train her to fully control her abilities. After that, she betrayed us and then fought us after a couple of days. She easily defeated us and even nearly killed us, but we survived her attack and fought her again, this time winning. After a while, she realized her doings and fought Slade back, and she threw him into the lava of a volcano, but she also activated it, and because of that, she turned herself into stone just to save us." Beast Boy continued.
"That's not all. After we defeated the Brotherhood of Evil, we came back to Jump City and fought a white monster, but in the middle of a fight, I saw a girl who looked exactly like Terra. I ditched my friends to check if Terra was back, and she was! Her statue was gone. I tried to make the girl remember that she was Terra, but in the end, I gave up and helped my friends with the monster." Beast Boy said, ending his story.
"That's a sad story." was all Ben could say.
"I know. And even though you know now, there's nothing you can do to help me." Beast Boy said sadly, his ears flopping down.
"Hmm...maybe I can.." Ben muttered in such a low voice that Beast Boy didn't managed to hear.
Ben then walked out of the room and went into the Main Operations Room where he saw Robin and Cyborg playing a video game, Raven reading her book and Starfire making another Tamaran dish. Ben smiled. He once tasted one of Starfire's dish which looked awful, but thanks to him inheriting Grandpa Max's weird taste for food, he enjoyed it, much to the surprise of the Teen Titans and the delight of Starfire.
Thank you Grandpa's weird dishes. In fact, he started liking them when he was 17 years old..
He then went over to the flat-panel computer displays and turned them on, before checking for any signs of trouble arising in Jump City or in the rest of the world. He found no signs and he just founded normal criminals being arrested by the police. He also found no villains in hiding. He then smiled, before searching for Terra's name. The computer managed to find some results and he tapped on the first one.
It has all the information he is looking for. It even states that a girl that looks exactly like her is currently studying in Murakami High School. Ben smiled, knowing where to find his search. He then looked at the Omnitrix and pressed at the button, revealing the time, date and day. 9:46 am, Tuesday. Ben smiled, knowing it was a school day.
"Great. I can find this Terra girl and maybe help her remember her life as a superhero." Ben muttered, before running out of the room, with none of the Titans noticing since they were so busy with their activities.
He then went outside and he slapped the Omnitrix core, beginning the transformation sequence.
(A red line covered his hand and it turned into claws. The red line then started to run from his wrist up to his eye, and when it did, his eyes went full green and yellow wings started to form on his side, his legs growing thinner and he grew horns extending from his nose. On his sides, he grew gills and he also grew a tail. He then did a pose, before flying towards the screen.)
"Jetray!" the red, flying manta ray shouted.
"Luckily, I red the city map!" Jetray said, before flying towards the direction of Murakami High School. He got there in only a few seconds and he landed on the rooftop, before looking at a window. It was a classroom, full of students sitting down on their chairs, most of them looking bored as the teacher discussed something in front. He quickly looked away to avoid someone seeing him.
"Oh great. I flew here too early. I have to wait for lunch hour." Jetray said as he reverted back to Ben, and sitted in a corner.
Ben then waited and waited, fiddling with his Omnitrix and playing as Stinkfly for a while, shooting his slime blasts into the sky for practice, as he hasn't used the Lepidopterran for a while, usually relying on Jetray, Big Chill or Astrodactyl for his flying methods. After a couple of hours, he reverted back to Ben and pressed a button in the Omnitrix, showing the time.
"Okay. 12:27pm. Lunch must be at 12:30..." Ben said, before setting the Omnitrix down and waited for 3 minutes to pass by. Luckily, he managed to change the settings of the Omnitrix a few years in the past, making the Omnitrix capable of playing Earth songs. So, to pass the time, he played "Confetti Falling" by "Big Time Rush".
(A/N: What? I like BTR...)
Ooh-Oh...Oooh...
Celebration...Yeah..
All this talk about being in love...I can never get into the party..
Never Really understood what it was...
Like what's the big deal anyway?
Ben then remembered when he was young, he was always disgusted with girl stuff, thanks to Gwen.
Ooh..but I decided I should it a try..
The very moment that you gave me the invite.
I never seen anything like before.
Once you open the door.
See, I was like:
Those lines now made Ben remembered him having a crush on Kai on first sight. She gave him the invitation to the road of love...but then she was not interested in him, only interested in him as Blitzwolfer. Julie came to do it to him again, but a lot of arguments caused them to end it right there. Then there was Ester, and he finally made this one steady, thanks to experience.
Oh yeah yeah, don't get any better.
Oh yeah yeah, wish that this was forever.
Cause your heart calling, feels like confetti falling.
And it's a celebration, feels like a celebration.
Cause your heart calling, feels like confetti calling,
Down! Down! Down!
This lyrics practically describes his relationship with Julie when it was smooth and his relationship with Ester right now..
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!
The school bell then rang loudly, signifying it was time for lunch. Ben then stopped the song and returned the Omnitrix to its normal mode. He then put the Omnitrix down and he looked from up the rooftop, looking for a blonde girl with blue eyes.
He looked around, but because there were so many people, this was almost impossible to do! But then his mind changed when he saw a blonde girl with blue eyes, walking with two friends, a redhead and a dark colored skin girl wearing a ponytail. Ben then smiled, but then realized he needed to do one more thing.
Ben then took out his Titans Communicator and he looked at a picture of Terra he managed to acquire right before he flew towards Murakami School. He then compared the girl with Terra's picture and they both looked exactly the same.
"Yep. That's her." Ben said, before looking at the hundreds of people in the area.
"Looks like it's time to scare the butts out of people. Just like old times." Ben said, before the Omnitrix core popped out, and he slammed it back down, covering his body in green light and changing his body form, transforming himself into:
"RAAWWWRR! (snarl) (growl) (roar)" Wildmutt said as he roared loudly, before jumping from the rooftop and landing in the middle of the area, roaring loudly, his roar being enough to scare most of the students away while screaming like hell. Wildmutt then looked at the blonde girl, who was so scared that she was lying on the ground, slowly trying to crawl away, body shaking.
Wildmutt then walked towards her, but the girl, in so much fear, shouted:
"LEAVE ME ALONE YOU MUTT!" She shouted, before smacking Wildmutt with her Geometry Book, sending Wildmutt back, before throwing her large Math book at Willdmutt, which managed to hit the Omnitrix symbol on Wildmutt's collar, which forced Wildmutt to revert back into Ben when he was sent flying into a bush. Ben stood up quickly, before looking at the girl, who was clearly surprised.
"You're...a boy?" she asked.
"Well..yeah." Ben replied.
"What are you doing here!? What do you want!?" the girl shouted.
"Don't worry! I'm not here to hurt you! I'm here to help!" Ben said.
"I don't need any help! I don't wanna be in one of your crazy plans! You're just like that crazy green boy who believes I'm a part of his superhero team! I'm just an ordinary girl!" the girl shouted. Ben thought for a while. Beast Boy was telling the truth, he did saw this girl.
"In fact, we're friends. And I tend to keep my promises. No matter how far it gets." Ben said, before transforming himself into:
"Hypnotick!" the Psycholeopterran shouted, before flying close to the blonde girl, but because of his appearance, the girl was so scared that she tripped on her back and she was trying to get away, but Hypnotick kept coming closer to her.
"Relax...look into the red circles...It won't hurt a bit." Hypnotick said, before spraying red mist and flapping his wings rapidly, creating red circles behind her wings and the girl was forced to look at them and after a while, she was effectively hypnotized.
"Now...if i do this correctly, I can mesmerize the reward centers of her brain, which will make her see her memories and make her remember everything..." Hypnotick said, before going closer to the girl and he stared into her eyes, glowing green, with her eyes glowing green too.
Then, as Hypnotick looked into her eyes longer and longer, the more memories the girl remembers.
The day she was born in Markovia.
The day she was experimented on her and her brother Geo-Force, giving them their geokinetic/terrakinetic powers.
And it was also the same day she ran away from her family, in fear of hurting them with her new-found powers she cannot control.
The days of her living as an outsider, living a free life.
The glorious day she met the Teen Titans, her new friends.
That night when she told Beast Boy her secret.
The mission in the mines, in which she was defeated by Slade after losing control of her powers, Beast Boy comforting her.
And the night when Robin knew her secret, but Terra thought Beast Boy told them her secret, and ran away from the Teen Titans.
The day she came back to the Teen Titans, now managing to take control of her powers. After succeeding in a mission and getting over a rivalry with Raven, she now became an official member of the Teen Titans.
But then...she also remembered, the dreadful night, when she revealed that she had betrayed the Teen Titans and was working for Slade.
The day of her attacking the Teen Titans by surprise and defeating them, before freeing Overload, Plasmus and Cinderblock. Terra then once again fought the Titans, proving to be much more resilient than last time, but never the less, Terra managed to defeat them.
She also remembered the day the Titans defeated her on the day she and Slade finally took control of Jump City.
Then...Beast Boy convinced her to come back to the good side, and after a lot of battles and hours, she turned against Slade and threw him into the lava, obviously killing him, but as a result, she triggered a dormant volcano.
After a last goodbye, she turned herself into stone. To save Jump City. Making her indeed a True Teen Titan.
After a few seconds, Hypnotick's eyes turned back into normal green and he put himself into a good distance from her. A few minutes later, the girl's eyes turned back into their original color and she shook her head, before looking at where she was right now.
"My...my name is Terra...I live on Jump City...and..I...am..a Teen Titan!" Terra shouted as Ben reverted back from Hypnotick to himself. Terra then quickly hugged him almost immediately after he turned back into human, startling the young man.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! How can I ever repay you!?" Terra shouted happily as she practically crushed Ben while hugging him...
"Choking...not breathing..." Ben muttered, before Terra let him go, with Ben taking a very deep breath before putting himself at a safe distance away from Terra, thinking she's a little bit paranoid.
"Well...how bout you come back to the team?" Ben asked.
"I couldn't have said it better myself!" Terra said, before forming a piece of rock as a hoverboard and she flew away in the air, while Ben's body glowed green and he turned himself into:
"Jetray!" the Aerophibian shouted, before flying off along with Terra, towards the Titans Tower..
In the Titans Tower, everyone was already having lunch, everyone eating their own food since they said to each other that to avoid arguments regarding food in lunch or dinner or breakfast, everyone gets to cook their own food. Everyone was there except Ben, who was still outside.
"Hey...where's Ben?" Beast Boy asked.
"Woah Terra! Stop! You're going too fast!" they heard a voice. The Titans then looked to see a blonde girl, flying towards the glass window with a rock as a surfboard while Ben as Jetray was trying to slow her down, but to no avail and they both crashed towards the glass window, breaking it and Terra landed in the couch, while Jetray landed harshly in the kitchen counter.
"Ow!" Jetray said as he reverted back to Ben, before standing up again.
"Hey guys!" Terra said, waving a hello to the Teen Titans. The Teen Titans were very surprised, especially Beast Boy.
"TERRA!" all members of the Teen Titans shouted, before running towards her for a hug, with Beast Boy and Starfire gaining the lead. Beast Boy pushed Starfire out of the way, but Starfire then knocked Beast Boy away with a starbolt and hugged Terra tightly, the blonde immediately gasping for air. She still wasn't used to this..
"Friend Terra! How wonderful it is to see you again!" Starfire said as she hugged Terra tightly.
"Choking...not breathing..." Terra gasped as Starfire let her go, before she immediately gasped for air.
"Terra! How ya doing?" Cyborg asked.
"Cyborg! I'm doing great!" Terra replied as she fist-bumped Cyborg.
"Terra? Are you still going to school?" Raven asked, due to Terra still wearing her school uniform..
"Oh...I went to Murakami School after I lost my memory. The only thing I remembered is that I'm still in High School before scientists experimented on me and my brother, giving us this earth powers." Terra replied.
"How did you get your memory back anyway?" Robin asked.
"You can thank the handsome guy over there. I still don't know his name." Terra said, pointing towards Ben.
"The name's Ben. Luckily I put all of your clothes in the basement." Ben said, the latter statement being random.
"Ben? You brought her memory back?" Beast Boy asked.
"Yeah...now go on lover boy!" Ben said as he pushed Beast Boy towards Terra, with BB managing to stop himself, but getting relatively close to Terra. He blushed and he attempted to say a word, but Terra quickly hugged him.
"I missed you Beast Boy.." Terra said..
"I...I missed you too.." Beast Boy said as he returned the hug...
Jakevoronkov1! Y U SO GENIUS!?
The next chapter will be full of your second idea!
Peace!-Btr100
